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 ...

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.

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” ...

Lack of certainty is killing the spirit and economy of Christchurch. Before the latest quakes there were already threats of protests because Brownlee has failed to announce which areas can't be ...

Economic commentators are now openly speculating about “the D-word” – Depression. Even our own Treasury are in on the act: Eurozone ‘depression’ possible – Treasury The head of Treasury, the ...

The recent blacklisting of British punk-rap group Bob Vylan, following their provocative chant of “death, death to the IDF” at Glastonbury 2025, exposes a chilling double standard in Western ...

Cecilia Robinson’s Tend Health Win By: Mountain Tui - 1:10 pm, June 12th, 2025 - 37 comments For-profit healthcare continues its acceleration under National as second largest private healthcare ...

Here (ht Brian Rudman) is Nick Smith in 2013: HOUSING WOF TO BE DEVELOPED AND TRIALLED The Government is to develop a Housing Warrant of Fitness system and trial it on Housing New Zealand properties, ...

The callous rhetoric emerging from this Government's housing ministers reveals a profound disconnect from the harsh realities facing thousands of New Zealanders. When politicians like Mark Mitchell ...