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  • The Pacific needs to upgrade regional intelligence cooperation

    Strengthening regional partnerships can help Pacific intelligence capabilities overcome rising challenges. The Pacific should establish a centralised intelligence hub alongside or through the expansion of the existing Pacific Fusion Centre to deliver greater intelligence capabilities ...
    The StrategistBy Mary Kalola
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  • There goes the neighbourhood, there goes my loafer

    So, a funny thing happened last Friday. I had just dropped a couple of tabs and I was lining up side four of Tales from Topographic Oceans when out of nowhere I had this incredible vision.It got me so damn excited I wrote the whole thing down and put it ...
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  • Chipping away at National’s gang-patch ban

    National's racist gang-patch was clearly intended to humiliate gangs and allow them to be punished for being seen in public, and police have taken on that mission with enthusiasm, attacking funerals and kicking in doors to seize banned clothing (meanwhile, they've also abandoned domestic violence and mental health callouts, in ...
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  • The Coalition of Chaos: Democracy Be Damned

    The New Zealand coalition government, a Frankenstein’s monster of National, ACT, and NZ First, has once again shown its utter contempt for our democracy. This time it's the Ministry for Regulation, who didn’t even bother to read thousands of submissions on the Regulatory Standards Bill, a piece of legislation so ...
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  • Assault From All Sides

    The majority of the 23,000 submissions for the Regulatory Standards Bill consultation weren’t even read.According to Marc Daalder1 David Seymour said ‘there just weren’t that many’ worthwhile ideas in the submissions.But how does he know when his new $76 million Ministry, with some of the highest paid public servants in ...
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  • National’s Blogger David Farrar Smears Senior Doctors

    Right-wing blogger David Farrar, the National Party’s go to spin merchant, has been at it again with another smear job, this time targeting New Zealand’s senior doctors. His latest hit piece, as dissected by Ian Powell on Scoop, is a textbook example of how to prop up a failing government’s ...
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  • Climate Change: Now what?

    When National came to power in 2023, one of its first acts was to repeal all useful climate change policy. When they finally released their amended emissions reduction plan, it relied on a single project using a fantasy technology for the bulk of its reductions. And now, that project has ...
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  • Fiscal starting points

    Not that long ago, New Zealand’s fiscal balances looked pretty good by advanced country standards. Sure, the fiscal pressures from longer life expectancies were beginning to build – as they were in most of the advanced world – but in absolute and relative terms New Zealand still looked in pretty ...
    Croaking CassandraBy Michael Reddell
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  • Jack Tame vs. Chlöe Swarbrick: Q+A’s Double Standards

    Jack Tame’s Q+A interviews are often a litmus test for political discourse in Aotearoa, but his recent frost-fest with Green Party co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick exposed a troubling bias that contrasts sharply with his kid-gloves treatment of other politicians, such as ACT’s Brooke van Velden in prior appearances. The disparity in ...
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  • Ensuring Australia’s defence through complex interdependence

    Australia’s defence thinking is based on outdated grand strategies. Adopting a complex interdependence grand strategy could create robust connections with many countries, enhancing national resilience to strategic, economic, technological and societal shocks. Specifically, Defence would ...
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  • Govt announces fixing mess it probably created…

    ..Yesterday (18 May), Ministers Simeon Brown and Matt Doocey released statements announcing $164 million over four years to “expand” urgent and after-hours healthcare services throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.Minister Brown said:“This means 98 per cent of New Zealanders will be able to receive in-person urgent care within one hour’s drive of ...
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  • Turning the Page

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  • Taking back political sanity in Aotearoa can be done, but don’t underestimate the work ahead

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  • 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #20

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  • Nikki ‘Noboats’ Willis has 200+ Guests turn up at her Electorate Office

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  • Privileges Committee delivers racist decision

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  • Judith Collins – Arsehole Of The Week

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    The Jackal
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  • Coalition’s Climate Chaos: Selling Out To Big Polluters

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    The Jackal
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  • Hope and Dreams

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  • As big as our problems are, the possibilities are bigger

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    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
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  • Has this country’s media lost its collective mind?

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    Frankly SpeakingBy Frank Macskasy
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    Skeptical Science
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  • A return to Nature.

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    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
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  • National Has Increased The Child Suicide Rate

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    The Jackal
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    The StrategistBy Raelene Lockhorst and Henry Campbell
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  • Catholic Theology on the Economy

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    PunditBy Brian Easton
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  • Making fact briefs available as videos on Youtube

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  • Maybe Little should actually win the election first?

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    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    3 days ago
  • Showcasing the economic benefits of AUKUS—today

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    The StrategistBy Cameron Hendrix
    3 days ago
  • Friday 16 May

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    NZCTUBy Jack McDonald
    4 days ago
  • The Haka. The Cheering. Then The Bite.

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    Mountain TuiBy Mountain Tūī
    4 days ago
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    The StrategistBy Michael Pezzullo
    4 days ago
  • Why Hasn’t Nicole McKee Registered Her Firearms?

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    The Jackal
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  • The Hoon around the week to May 16

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    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
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  • Your Place

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    Nick’s KōreroBy Nick Rockel
    4 days ago
  • Bernard’s Pick ‘n’ Mix & Daily Chorus for Friday, May 16

    Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate and poverty on Friday, May 16:Auditor General John Ryan issued a scathing report yesterday into Oranga Tamariki’s abrupt and surprising cancellation and clawback last year of $60 million of funding for social services organisations, describing the agency’s (virtually nil) ...
    The KakaBy Bernard Hickey
    4 days ago
  • How A Creative Sector Dies

    Art is inevitable, eternal, inexhaustible, unsuppressable. It comes from a place deep within ourselves; it comes from the spaces deep between ourselves, and it connects us like a tether. Even when it’s silly or funny or rude or violent or immature or enigmatic or conventional or bad. (Name a filmmaking ...
    Sapphi’s SubstackBy Stephanie Cullen
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  • Pacific island countries need support to address information manipulation

    Pacific island countries are being drawn into broader foreign information manipulation and interference efforts by countries such as Russia and China, which want to shape the global narrative in their favour. These operations often aim ...
    The StrategistBy Blake Johnson
    4 days ago
  • Skeptical Science New Research for Week #20 2025

    Open access notables Institutionalizing politicized science, Moynihan & Herd, Science [editorial]: The opening months of the Trump administration represent a historic disruption to America’s scientific agencies. Staff have been fired or reassigned in the name of efficiency, resulting in chaos. Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. “Pauses” ...
    Skeptical Science
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  • Shipbuilding to Citizenship: solving the US skills shortage with immigration

    Skill-based immigration can help the United States fill its severe shortage of shipbuilding workers, for both naval and civilian construction. Bolstering the labour pool would help the US and its allies match the Chinese maritime ...
    The StrategistBy Austin Wu
    4 days ago
  • Craig Renney – Locked out – Budget 2025 – and the choices of the Coalition Governm...

       Craig Renney will share his insights into Budget 2025, showing exactly what is going on with the government accounts, and what it might mean for the Election next year. Who are the winners and losers from the choices made by the Minister of Finance? How might different choices lead to ...
    Fabians
    4 days ago
  • Brownlee stands up for democracy

    Yesterday, parliament's white privilege committee recommended that three Te Pāti Māori MPs be suspended for up to three weeks for opposing the racist Treaty Principles Bill with a haka. The penalty is outrageous and antidemocratic - and surprisingly, even National's Speaker agrees. At the beginning of question time today, he ...
    No Right TurnBy Idiot/Savant
    4 days ago
  • How very dare you

    I kind of enjoyed Judith Collins’ stint as flailing leader of the opposition. I enjoyed calling her ‘pop-up leader' because so much of her punchin’ Judy show felt like nothing so much as hammed-up Panto. A certain kind of person who spends too long in the legal profession can lose ...
    More Than A FeildingBy David Slack
    4 days ago
  • Sri Lanka stalls Starlink over security and sovereignty concerns

    Starlink is great for developing countries, offering connectivity without costly infrastructure. But it’s a challenge for their national security, since authorities can’t monitor the traffic it carries. This policy conflict arose in Sri Lanka in ...
    The StrategistBy Malki Opatha
    4 days ago
  • Economic Bulletin April/May 2025

    Welcome to the April/May 2025 Economic Bulletin. The Minister of Finance has made it clear Budget 2025 will bring further cuts to public investment. She has chopped the operating allowance almost in half, said most government departments will not receive any additional funding, and signalled that numerous government programmes are ...
    NZCTUBy Jeremiah Boniface
    4 days ago
  • The video sums things up.

    Let me make this short and sweet (taken from my other social media): Seeing some of the world’s richest men shaking the blood-stained hand of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin-Salman while being warmly introduced by US president Donald Trump pretty much sums up the era we live in. It was ...
    KiwipoliticoBy Pablo
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  • 191 NZers now emigrating each day, including 15 babies & toddlers

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