Australia needs a national strategy that explicitly prioritises the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into its defence industrial base to strengthen sovereign capability and ...

Here in New Zealand, the government cut RNZ’s budget by $18m over four years in the last budget – that’s almost $5m a year. Now RNZ is starting to ask for voluntary redundancies when we already have ...

Australia's national broadcaster is called Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It's regularly attacked by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News & Australian broadsheet - as well as Atlas Network think ...

Iran is the weakest. If Iran falls, war in our region – intended or unintended – becomes vastly more likely. Mainstream New Zealanders and Australians suffer from an understandable complacency: war is ...

Te Pāti Māori condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel carrying food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg.

Te Pāti Māori stands in solidarity with Te Whānau-ā-Apanui after revelations the Government is looking to derail their almost completed Treaty settlement. Minister Goldsmith has stated that the ...

The waka of the ACT Party is an AI hallucination. It is a piece of driftwood, also known as woke-wood, which people cling on to for dear life, and which must be dragged out of the water, chopped up ...

In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s ...

I was writing a long involved post about the recent budget that I may put up in the next few days. But in writing it up what struck me was the weird similarities between this Government’s budget which ...

The Coalition is treating the economy as an amateur bodybuilder. There’s a lot of pump & grunt with artificial diets and supplements trying to achieve some kind of success embodied by a dehydrated ...

Insolvencies and bankruptcies are at a nine year high. It hasn’t been as bad as this since 2015. Over half a million New Zealanders need food from food banks to actually eat. The New Zealand economy ...

I disagree..firstly 1 million people (incl the wealthy)getting a free 500 = 500million. So I applaud the cut I'm getting there. The employee contribution going up 1% then a further 1% is a tax hike in ...