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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run water like a business and remove it from direct democratic ...

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 ...

Way back in April: Greens’ “Barking Mad” Bill Blocked The big question in Question Time arose from the allegation in leaked documents called the Panama Papers that New Zealand is a tax haven. Prime ...

God not Mana, and a geriatric rent a crowd. John Key and his Cabinet will self destruct, offering Little the election very cheaply. If Key takes over Auckland to fix and hook it of cheaply, like they ...

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.

Clearly, the world needs to stop talking about Israel’s right to defend itself, and start talking about the world’s need to defend itself against Israel. Gaza, Lebanon, Iran….these have become the ...

BHN special on the Regulatory Standards Bill By: notices and features - 7:16 pm, June 19th, 2025 - 5 comments “…just days out from the close of submissions on this controversial Bill” ...

Open mike 17/06/2025 By: notices and features - 6:00 am, June 17th, 2025 - 35 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: ...

Daily review 16/06/2025 By: notices and features - 5:30 pm, June 16th, 2025 - 3 comments Categories: Daily review - Tags: ...