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Open mike 07/06/2025
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Open mike 06/06/2025
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Open mike 05/06/2025
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Open mike 04/06/2025
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Open mike 03/06/2025
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Open mike 02/06/2025
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Open mike 01/06/2025
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Open mike 31/05/2025
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Open mike 30/05/2025
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Open mike 29/05/2025
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Open mike 28/05/2025
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Open mike 27/05/2025
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Open mike 26/05/2025
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Open mike 25/05/2025
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Open mike 24/05/2025
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Open mike 23/05/2025
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Open mike 22/05/2025
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Open mike 21/05/2025
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Open mike 20/05/2025
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Open mike 19/05/2025
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Open mike 18/05/2025
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Open mike 17/05/2025
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Open mike 15/05/2025
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Open mike 14/05/2025
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Open mike 12/05/2025
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Open mike 11/05/2025
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Open mike 10/05/2025
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Open mike 09/05/2025
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Open mike 08/05/2025
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- Webworm Meetups: Denver, Chicago, New York
Hi,So I am about to head to to Denver and Chicago for some live Flightless Bird shows (I am so happy with our live guests, you’ll see).(Note, yes, I do want to get to New Zealand with our podcast — and some other places — it just all depends on ...7 days ago - Defying China, Jim Chalmers enforces our critical-minerals red line
Jim Chalmers is enforcing national sovereignty and defying risk of economic intimidation. The treasurer has taken court action to force a China-linked entity to divest from a key rare-earths miner. This is a matter of ...7 days ago - It’s The Economy, Stupid
Last year in August, I wrote Why More Economic & Social Pain Is Coming For Us All. The short of it was Nicola Willis’s budget approach was inevitably going to cut us off, and force many into economic and social pain. And worse, I kept thinking, “Do they not realise ...1 week ago - ADF must bolster cyber capabilities to maintain combat edge
The Australian Defence Force’s cyber capacity falls short of what would be needed in a scenario where Australia found itself in combat against an adversary with modern military and technological capabilities. The ADF’s establishment of ...1 week ago
- What do the latest WMO temperature projections imply for 1.5C?
This is a re-post from the Climate Brink The WMO recently published their WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update that covers the period from 2025 to 2029. This is a regular assessment of near-term dynamic model projections that assess both the forced climate response and short-term natural variability (e.g. ENSO and AMV). This new update ...1 week ago - So many extreme weather events, but no mention of climate change
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Tuesday, July 1:Extreme floods hit the top of the South Island over the weekend, unleashing a wall of media coverage on the ‘unprecedented’ scale of the disaster, but there was no coverage of modelling showing each ...1 week ago - 2025 Reading List: June (+ Writing Update)
Completed reads for June: Eclogues, by Virgil Georgics, by Virgil The Love-Talker (poem), by Ethna Carbery The Amores, by Ovid The Art of Love, by Ovid Love’s Remedy, by Ovid The Art of Beauty, by Ovid The Heroides (I – XV), by Ovid The Double Heriodes (XVI – XXI), ...1 week ago - Gordon Campbell on what our Labour Party could learn from Zohran Mamdani
Heaven forbid that an abrasive punk duo that calls itself Bob Vylan should lead a hostile chant at the Glastonbury music festival against a military organisation – not a state, not an ethnic group – that has killed tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, and which is enforcing a famine ...1 week ago - When its foreign ministers meet this week, let the Quad step up
Never mind that the Quad partners have their differences. The meeting of their foreign ministers in Washington on 1 July should be an occasion for the grouping of Australia, India, Japan and the United States ...1 week ago
- Terrorgram block is a welcome step towards countering violent extremism
The Australian government has listed Terrorgram—a network of violent extremist chatroom-like channels on Telegram—as an official terrorist organisation. Australians found to be part of Terrorgram now face up to 25 years in prison. As an ...1 week ago
- Regulatory Standards Bill could cost up to $60 million a year
Source: Guardian, Photographer: Johan Lolos/RexACT’s “dangerous” Regulatory Standards Bill could cost taxpayers up to $60 million a year upfront, according to Treasury advice released to The Post, under OIA.Even at the most conservative estimate, $18 million a year, Treasury acknowledges there are significant ongoing costs that are still unaccounted for.In ...1 week ago - Japan can help the Pacific become more resilient
Australia’s 2024 national defence strategy describes Japan as an ‘indispensable partner’ for achieving regional peace and security. But the prominence of the growing defence relationship between Japan and Australia, while vital, risks obscuring opportunities to ...1 week ago
- The Science and Mātauranga Māori debate
Professor Kendall Clements of the University of Auckland argues that attempts to conflate traditional Māori knowledge with science debases both. This is a video of a great discussion between Professor Kendall Clements of the University of Auckland and Dr Iona Italia, managing editor and a podcast host at ...1 week ago - Shane Jones is a Fascist
The spectre of authoritarianism rarely announces itself with jackboots and torchlight parades. More often, it arrives draped in the rhetoric of economic necessity, promising prosperity whilst systematically dismantling the institutions that protect democratic accountability. Such is the case with Shane Jones, New Zealand First's Resources Minister, whose latest tirade against regional ...1 week ago - Monday 30 June
E tū mill union delegate Ian Farall has spoken about the disappointment felt by workers that Kinleith pulp and paper mill in Tokoroa has closed. The government wants to electronically monitor some asylum seekers and migrants, is preparing for mass arrivals of asylum seekers by plane, and is hoping to ...1 week ago - Critical minerals aren’t a startup game: Australia’s junior miners must grow up
Silicon Valley’s ‘move fast and break things’ mantra might work in software. But when it comes to lithium, rare earths and other critical minerals, where development times average 10 to 15 years, breaking things isn’t ...1 week ago
- Australia’s must make its research security ecosystem work smarter
Since 2018 the Australian government has made serious strides in countering espionage and foreign interference, including introducing policy and legislative reforms aimed at protecting the research and university sector. That was necessary. But seven years on, ...1 week ago
- Don’t Happy, Be Worry
Got trust issues, bad paparazziHalf of the news that act fugaziFamine, but there's snacks at the partyElon Musk and that pack of NazisSome are fighting boredom 'round their houseOthers fight for borders ’round their houseThe fallout's getting sort of scary nowThis New World Order? Tear it downSong: Hilltop Hoods.You’ve probably ...1 week ago - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #26
A listing of 28 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, June 22, 2025 thru Sat, June 28, 2025. Stories we promoted this week, by category: Climate Change Impacts (10 articles) Heatwave in England to bring temperatures above 32°C ...1 week ago
- Government Doesn’t Care About the Nelson-Tasman Flooding
New Zealand’s weather is turning rogue, and the National-led government seems content to sit on its hands. The recent flooding in the Tasman District, which claimed one life and left homes, businesses, and livelihoods underwater, is yet another stark reminder of the escalating climate crisis.This deluge, described by locals as ...1 week ago
- Pride Over Fascism
Budapest Pride Event - A Success100,000 defy Atlas Network’s Hungarian dictator Viktor OrbanOrganisers face a 1 year prison sentence. Orban warned police would use facial recognition to penalise attendeesOrban’s right wing populist party outlawed public events by LGBTQ+ communities in March 2025Photograph: Rudolf Karancsi (Source: NPR)The law was “Fast-Tracked”.Photograph: János ...1 week ago - Why are Western Leaders Complicit in the Gaza Genocide?
The ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has exposed the profound moral bankruptcy of Western diplomacy, revealing how economic interests and geopolitical calculations have trumped basic human decency. With over 70,000 Palestinians officially dead, 59.1% of them women, children and elderly, NATO nations have demonstrated a stunning inability to deploy the ...1 week ago
- Always another question
Thanks to this newsletter I have a connection with all kinds of excellent people who send me all kinds of excellent messages that I appreciate very much indeed.And the more moved I am by them, the longer it can take me to respond. You want to do it justice, you ...1 week ago - Peter Thiel is Building an AI Driven Mass Surveillance State
Make no mistake: the United States is constructing the most comprehensive civilian surveillance apparatus in human history. And they're not even trying to hide it anymore. Under the Trump administration's enthusiastic blessing, tech behemoth Palantir Technologies is weaving together the digital breadcrumbs of every American citizen into a single, all-seeing artificial ...1 week ago
- Isn’t It Ironic?
And isn't it ironic?Don't you think?Songwriters: Alanis Morissette, Glen Ballard.Last week, parliament saw the tragic loss of Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp, whose untimely death caused grief across the house. Less shocking, although still surprising, was the announcement that Tanya Unkovich, a NZ First MP, had resigned to ...1 week ago - Butter Economics: The Great Kiwi Rip-Off Exposed
The dairy industry's spin machine has been working overtime lately, desperately trying to convince New Zealanders that paying through the nose for butter is somehow good for us.Media personalities like Ryan Bridge and industry apologists such as Dr Jacqueline Rowarth have been peddling this economic fairy tale with all the ...1 week ago
- Constraining Fiscal Management
Why Government borrowing is limitedThis column started out to explain how the proposed structural outsourcing of public surgery was partly a consequence of the peculiarities of our fiscal borrowing practices. In summary, the restriction on the government’s debt level means seeking indirect ways to provide the required capital. One way ...2 weeks ago - AUKUS needs a third pillar: space
AUKUS is reshaping Australia’s strategic future, but its vision is incomplete. While the partnership’s first two pillars focus on submarines and advanced technologies, they rely on an often overlooked domain: space. If AUKUS is to ...2 weeks ago
- Building Australian capability in the era of autonomous warfare
Far from being a prospect for the distant future, the era of autonomous systems on (and off) the battlefield is here. Mass is back in warfare, not through much larger armies, but through growing numbers ...2 weeks ago
- This is how 10 year olds talk
1. Who said this, and of whom? Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.a. Jacinda Ardern, of David Seymourb. Winston Peters, of David Seymourc. Winston Churchill, of Stanley Baldwind. Chris Topher Luxon, of David Seymour2. How old would ...2 weeks ago - This has to stop
Another day, another crony appointment - this time, of former National candidate (and general racist arsehole) Paul Henry to the board of TVNZ. Coming in the wake of revelations that a member of the PM's science and technology advisory council got their job by sending the prime minister a text ...2 weeks ago - Australia’s innovation gap threatens national safety, not just economic prosperity
From grey zone coercion to regional surveillance competition, the Indo-Pacific is now in live contest. Yet our national innovation posture is not structured to mitigate emerging risks or leverage strategic possibilities. Innovation is now a ...2 weeks ago
- National’s Housing Hypocrisy: New Zealand Pays the Price
While Christopher Luxon's National-led government has been busy patting themselves on the back for delivering a whopping 25 state houses in Rotorua that apparently employed 300 people, they've quietly gone and axed another 70 desperately needed state house builds in Porirua East. Because nothing says "caring about ordinary Kiwis" like ...2 weeks ago
- Agricultural cooperation is in Australia’s and Indonesia’s best interests
Fostering people-to-people links between northern Australia and Indonesia could improve agricultural output in both countries. They share agri-environmental conditions, providing opportunities for enhanced partnership. Such an approach would also progress Australia’s underdeveloped economic ties with ...2 weeks ago
- Peter Bale, without Bernard Hickey this week, joins Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman, Jonathan Lyons and...
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-host Peter Bale talking with regular guests Robert Patman and Cathrine Dyer about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate.This week’s Hoon featured special guests:author, historian and a former colleague from Reuters, former Tehran bureau ...2 weeks ago - Australia’s classification system must balance secrecy and usability
In an era of escalating strategic competition, the effectiveness of Australia’s government and national security apparatus hinges on its ability to use information with precision and agility. Yet, the very systems designed to protect sensitive ...2 weeks ago
- Radio New Zealand Says It Did Nothing Wrong
Hi,Last time I sent you a Webworm, I was on my way to Manchester airport to fly back to the US, as Trump sidestepped Congress to send a barrage of missiles towards Iran. The US Defense Intelligence Agency says Iran’s mission to build a nuclear weapon has only been set ...2 weeks ago - Skeptical Science New Research for Week #26 2025
Open access notables Increased sea-level contribution from northwestern Greenland for models that reproduce observations, Badgeley et al., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences The Greenland Ice Sheet has been thinning over the past several decades and is expected to contribute significantly to sea-level rise over the coming century. Ice ...2 weeks ago
- Digital dai-ichi: with right balance, Japan can shape its hyperscale future
Japan’s digital rise hinges on adopting hyperscale cloud computing without ceding strategic autonomy—a balance it has yet to strike. Japan’s hyperscale strategy must walk a tightrope—balancing the immense benefits of cloud infrastructure with the imperative ...2 weeks ago
- If language is power, why is Australia going quiet?
In 1992, Paul Keating said, ‘Asia is where our future substantially lies’. Decades later, the rhetoric remains, but the follow-through is still lacking. Despite Australia’s pivot to the Indo-Pacific, our cultural competency is inhibiting our ...2 weeks ago
- The Terminator
This morning I watched The Terminator. This is the original 1984 Terminator where Arnie plays the villain, because, you know, accent. ...2 weeks ago - National’s Fossil Fool Fiasco Betrays Climate Commitments
New Zealand’s National-led government has once again proven its reckless disregard for our planet and our international reputation by abandoning the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), a commitment made in 2021 to phase out fossil fuel production.This incredibly dumb decision, coupled with a $200 million fund to subsidise oil ...2 weeks ago
- US’s Iran strike may have strengthened Tehran’s nuclear resolve
Donald Trump could be having his Mission Accomplished moment. He said in a nationally televised address Saturday night, ‘Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran’s key ...2 weeks ago
- Donald Trump’s Arms Push Betrays Global Needs
Donald Trump’s recent insistence that NATO countries increase military spending to 5% of their GDP is a reckless and self-serving manoeuvre that prioritises warmongering over humanity’s pressing needs. This demand, rooted in Trump’s cosy ties with American weapons manufacturers, threatens to divert trillions from critical global challenges like starvation and ...2 weeks ago
- Mount Isa’s closure is a strategic own goal for Australia
In the words of Billie Eilish, ‘I’m in love with my future… can’t wait to meet her.’ But for Mount Isa and Australia, that future is being quietly dismantled. The closure of Glencore’s copper mine ...2 weeks ago
- Is Trump Laying the Groundwork for U.S. Invasion of Iran?
The effectiveness of the United States’ recent military actions against Iran’s nuclear facilities have been cast into doubt by a leaked Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment, revealing that Iran may have relocated much of its enriched uranium stockpile, including approximately 400 kilograms of near-weapons-grade uranium, to undisclosed locations before U.S. ...2 weeks ago
- NZCTU statement on Takutai Tarsh Kemp
The union movement is sending its love and condolences to the whānau of MP for Tāmaki Makaurau, Takutai Tarsh Kemp, following the shocking news of her passing. “We are heartbroken for Takutai’s whānau, hapū and iwi, for the people of Tāmaki Makaurau, and for Te Pāti Māori at this sad ...2 weeks ago
- ASPI Defence Conference: Considering combat operations from the Australian homeland
‘We’re having to reconsider Australia as a homeland from which we will conduct combat operations’, the chief of the defence force, Admiral David Johnston, surprised some listeners by saying at ASPI’s annual defence conference on ...2 weeks ago
- Thursday 26 June
The MP for Tāmaki Makaurau Takutai Tarsh Kemp has died at the age of 50, following a diagnosis of kidney disease. A bill that reintroduces the right of employers to penalise workers for “partial strikes” ‒ such as working to rule or refusing extra duties ‒ passed into law last ...2 weeks ago
- Honouring Takutai Tarsh Kemp
2 weeks ago - Wednesday 25 June
RMTU members have started industrial action at Napier Port amid negotiations for better pay for about 185 workers. The draft National Infrastructure Plan is challenging the government to “lift its game” on project planning, saying it has often been “short-term and reactive”. Record numbers of people are chasing a dwindling ...2 weeks ago
- Tuesday 24 June
About 50 theatre nurses and healthcare assistants at Whangārei Hospital are striking over their ongoing pay dispute with Health New Zealand. Delays in replacing a fire station in Tauranga at “significant” risk of partial collapse in an earthquake are putting people at risk and causing “intolerable” stress for union members. ...2 weeks ago
- Indo-Pacific contest demands an Australian Silicon Valley
Australia’s path to a sovereign, high-impact defence technology ecosystem will not start with quantum supremacy. It will start with deployable, verifiable systems that meet today’s threats. Against the backdrop of strategic contest in the Indo-Pacific, ...2 weeks ago
- Gordon Campbell On Exonerating Israel, And Demonising Iran
Now that the US and Israel have stopped bombing Iran, Israel can re-focus on its core business of starving children in Gaza, and killing their parents, medical staff, journalists and anyone else who strays across their line of fire. Since Israel shut the UN out of aid delivery, it has ...2 weeks ago
- Beijing’s economic playbook for Taiwan: big carrots and small sticks
Beijing’s approach to economic coercion against Taiwan is less about brute force and more about baiting. While China has long threatened economic punishment to deter what it sees as separatist behaviour, the past several years ...2 weeks ago
- PSA: Duncan Webb reveals Finance & Expenditure Committee will only allow 30 hour max for RSB ora...
Article link to Webb’s statement: hereQuick Primer on the dangers of the Regulatory Standards Bill Seymour previously told RNZ that the 99.5% of Kiwis who opposed his bill during consultation were bots.“You’re smart enough to know that those 23,000 submissions, 99.5 percent of them, were because somebody figured out how ...2 weeks ago - The last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop
Who doesn't enjoy a politician with an acerbic wit?In The Gathering Storm, Churchill gives an account of a tedious farewell dinner in 1938 for the German Ambassador which he ends, deadpan, with the words: "This was the last time I saw Herr von Ribbentrop before he was hanged."Who amongst our ...2 weeks ago - Unintended consequence: a bombed Iranian nuclear program may become harder to watch
The 22 June strike by the United States on Iran’s nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordow and Isfahan risks replacing known quantities—monitored, visible sites—with a dangerous blind spot. Iran’s program may now shift into more inaccessible ...2 weeks ago
- Climate Change: National cheats the world
Back in 2022, Aotearoa joined the Beyond Oil & Gas Alliance, a group of countries dedicated to fighting climate change by phasing out fossil fuels. Because our oil and gas ban was only partial, affecting only new offshore exploration, with no phase-out date for existing permits, we were only an ...2 weeks ago
- Bookshelf: a history of Iran to reach for now
Understanding the unfolding geopolitical drama around Iran requires an understanding of its history. There is perhaps no better English language source for such a review than Abbas Amanat’s Iran: A Modern History, first published in ...2 weeks ago
- A new paper challenges the consensus on the cost-benefit analysis of community water fluoridation
Bill Osmunson, senior advisor ... 2 weeks ago- The Strait of Hormuz: what Iran sees as its trump card
In the wake of the US strikes on Iran, focus has shifted to how Tehran will respond. Its options range from direct attacks on US bases to exerting pressure on maritime trade through the Strait ...2 weeks ago- The Right to Stop Unsafe Work
As workers, we all have a legal right to stop any work that we believe will get us or anyone else hurt If you genuinely believe that you (or anyone else) are facing a serious risk to health and safety from an immediate or imminent hazard, you have a legal ...2 weeks ago- Joblessness deteriorates while government plays games with homelessness & climate
Complimentary articleSharon Murdoch$170m promised for EV chargers yet to materialise (Newsroom, David Williams)David Williams reports that despite National promising to ‘supercharge’ electric vehicle infrastructure with 10,000 chargers and $170m of investment, outside of Labour’s past allocation, National has set aside $0. In response, Chris Bishop said the promised 10,000 EV ...2 weeks ago- Australia’s fuel insecurity is not hypothetical
For more than a decade, commentators, analysts and industry have warned Australian governments about fuel vulnerability. Yet little has changed. Despite repeated reviews and rising geopolitical tensions, there has been little concrete action to strengthen ...2 weeks ago- Why South Korea won’t build the bomb
The idea of South Korea developing nuclear weapons is reaching critical mass, if you’ll excuse the pun. Surveys show as much as 70 percent of the public now in favor. There has also been plenty ...2 weeks ago- Balance sheet recession lengthening
The new forecasts imply house prices won’t recover to their previous peaks until 2030, suggesting a near-decade gap between peaks and extending what is in effect a Japanese-style balance sheet recession. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on ...2 weeks ago- Hold the Line
Morena, folks, I’ve hit a bit of a wall at the moment, and I need to take a few days off. Before that, one of my favourites, as I’m a pretty nostalgic person, is my old standby of sharing ten social media memories from each of the last ten years ...2 weeks ago- What China thinks of NZ
It has never really made much sense why the world’s largest country with the second largest population and economy should single little old New Zealand out for special treatment. Prime Minister Christopher Luxon was only the 10th head of state or government to visit Beijing this year. Only four countries ...2 weeks ago- Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles – Recap
A week ago today, we published a blog post highlighting Sabin Rebuttal #33, which answers the question "What is the effect of hot or cold weather on EVs?". With that blog post, this phase of our effort to turn the report "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles" into individual ...2 weeks ago- Germany steps up from reluctant power to Baltic deterrent
Germany’s decision to permanently station a combat brigade in Lithuania is more than a military deployment. It’s a strategic signal that Berlin is finally ready to lead from the front. The foreign basing, which began ...2 weeks ago- ASPI Defence Conference: Australia’s shared security with PNG and the Pacific
‘Australia is secure when Papua New Guinea is secure, and Papua New Guinea is secure when Australia is secure,’ said Billy Joseph, PNG’s Minister for Defence. It was an important reminder of the closeness of ...2 weeks ago- Working with Ukraine is how Australia can supercharge defence innovation
‘High-tech trench warfare’ was an oxymoron—until Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On Ukraine’s battlefields, Cold War artillery meets 21st-century innovation. Shells fall while AI-enabled drones swarm the air, land and sea. In the ...2 weeks ago- Government out of touch on employment rights
The commitment at the 113th International Labour Organization conference to develop a binding Convention for securing decent work in the platform economy shows how disconnected and out of touch the New Zealand government is when it comes to employment rights. “This decision is a huge step towards establishing internationally recognised ...2 weeks ago- Keeping the Indo-Pacific onboard with the global anti-spyware movement
Launched in early 2024 by Britain and France, the Pall Mall Process is one of two global initiatives aiming to set norms to prevent the harmful proliferation of commercial spyware. But unless the process becomes ...2 weeks ago - The Strait of Hormuz: what Iran sees as its trump card
- ER Report: A Roundup of Significant Articles on EveningReport.nz for July 7, 2025
ER Report: Here is a summary of significant articles published on EveningReport.nz on July 7, 2025. The hard questions NZ must ask about the claimed economic benefits of fast-track mining projectsSource: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Banks, Professor of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te ...19 hours ago - The hard questions NZ must ask about the claimed economic benefits of fast-track mining projects
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Banks, Professor of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Getty Images Much of the debate about the fast-track applications by a number of new or extended mining projects has, understandably, focused on ...20 hours ago
- New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Angel DiBiblio/Shutterstock In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their ...20 hours ago
- New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Angel DiBiblio/Shutterstock In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their ...20 hours ago
- Appeasing Trump in the Middle East is not cost-free for New Zealand
The government’s responses to recent events in the Middle East indicate that its desire not to offend the Trump administration has compromised New Zealand’s commitment to uphold an international rules-based order, argues Robert Patman. While distant in geographic terms, brutal violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Iran marks the ...20 hours ago - Appeasing Trump in the Middle East is not cost-free for New Zealand
The government’s responses to recent events in the Middle East indicate that its desire not to offend the Trump administration has compromised New Zealand’s commitment to uphold an international rules-based order, argues Robert Patman. While distant in geographic terms, brutal violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Iran marks the ...20 hours ago
- Banks Should Stay Out Of Culture Wars: FSU Welcomes Bill To Protect Against Debanking
We’ve recommended that consideration be given to the popularity of financial institutions using ESG policies, and the risks these create in denying lawful individuals and businesses access to services, often based on disagreement with their views. ...20 hours ago - Watch live: Opponents of Regulatory Standards Bill dominate first morning of hearings
Multiple submitters on Monday called the bill "constitutionally unsound", whilst its supporters were few and far between. ...21 hours ago - Treaty Principles 2.0? Hearings begin into Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill
Analysis: A week of political scrutiny lies ahead for one of the government's most polarising bills. ...22 hours ago
- Did this Kaitāia cafe deserve to win New Zealand’s top hospitality award?
A local returns to the far north to visit the country’s new supreme cafe – and leaves with more questions than compliments. To say I was surprised to hear a cafe in the country’s northernmost town of Kaitāia had been awarded the country’s top hospitality prize would be an understatement. ...22 hours ago
- Wellington Hospital cuts maternity and gynaecology beds for ED
It's a trial aimed at making more room for patients from the overcrowded Emergency Department, according to a leaked memo. ...23 hours ago
- Why do so many New Zealand plays have such short lives?
Playwright Sam Brooks on the importance of looking back to move forward. Theatre is an ephemeral art form. That’s the beauty of it. For an hour or two, the performance exists for the people who are in the same room as it, and then it goes away. The next night, ...23 hours ago
- Watch live: First public hearings into New Zealand’s Covid-19 response begin
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the pandemic is focusing on eveyday people's views on lockdowns and vaccines. ...24 hours ago
- Watch live: Hearings begin into Seymour’s Regulatory Standards Bill
Analysis: A week of political scrutiny lies ahead for one of the government's most polarising bills, dubbed by some critics as "Treaty Principles 2.0". ...24 hours ago
- FamilyBoost payment increased, income limit raised
Nicola Willis has revealed a shake-up of the government's flagship policy that she says will benefit thousands. ...1 day ago
- Why NZ’s first space unit was named after a WW2 squadron
The air force has reactivated the name of a World War 2 squadron - but this time, as the country's first space unit. ...1 day ago
- What it’s like to go blind at 25
My father and I share the same experience of retinitis pigmentosa: we knew something was wrong when we could no longer see stars. It was Barbenheimer weekend – a real cultural reset. The slight scent of body odour and popcorn filled the musty recycled air of the Queen Street Event ...1 day ago
- Ageing bridges around the world are at risk of collapse. But there’s a simple way to safeguard the...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Nguyen, Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering, University of Southern Queensland The Story Bridge, with its sweeping steel trusses and art deco towers, is a striking sight above the Brisbane River in Queensland. In 2025, it was named the state’s best landmark. ...1 day ago
- Much to celebrate as NAIDOC Week turns 50, but also much to learn
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynette Riley, Co-chair of the National NAIDOC Committee and Professor in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work; and Chair, Aboriginal Education and Indigenous Studies.original Education & Indigenous Studies., University of Sydney Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this ...1 day ago
- Just $7 extra per person could prevent 300 suicides a year. Here’s exactly where to spend it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karinna Saxby, Research Fellow, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne xinlan/Shutterstock Medicare spending on mental health services varies considerably depending on where in Australia you live, our new study shows. We found areas with lower ...1 day ago
- A Māori worldview describes the immune system as a guardian – this could improve public health in...
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tama Te Puea Braithwaite-Westoby, Tautoro Māori Engagement Advisor, Malaghan Institute of Medical Research Getty Images In biomedical science, the immune system is described as a cellular defence network that identifies and neutralises threats. In te ao Māori (the Māori worldview), it ...1 day ago
- We don’t need deep-sea mining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Alger, Associate Professor / Senior Lecturer in Global Environmental Politics, The University of Melbourne Potato-sized polymetallic nodules from the deep sea could be mined for valuable metals and minerals. Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Deep-sea mining promises ...1 day ago
- ‘The customer is always right’: why some uni teachers give higher grades than students deserve
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ciprian N. Radavoi, Associate Professor in Law, University of Southern Queensland Pixels Effect/ Getty Images Grade inflation happens when teachers knowingly give a student a mark higher than deserved. It can also happen indirectly, when the level of difficulty of a ...1 day ago
- Covid-19 Inquiry: Who is being ‘excluded’ from inquiry hearings
Starting today, the inquest will hear from everyday people about what the government's decisions over vaccines and lockdowns meant for them. ...1 day ago
- Thousands to benefit from FamilyBoost changes to be announced today – Willis
Nicola Willis is set to make an announcement on the government's FamilyBoost scheme this morning. ...1 day ago
- Is NZ politics having a MAGA moment?
American-style conflict and populism are taking root in parliament, and critics say respect for the democratic process is being eroded as a result, writes Catherine McGregor in today’s extract from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Welcome to the era of ‘wrecking ball’ politics ...1 day ago
- Government told after election it would have to quit fossil fuel group if new exploration started
An international coalition for phasing out fossil fuels says it told the government after the election it would have to quit the group if it re-started looking for new oil and gas, contradicting what the climate change minister told the media. ...1 day ago
- First public hearings into New Zealand’s Covid-19 response to begin
The Royal Commission of Inquiry into Covid-19 is looking into the government's response to the pandemic and its effects. ...1 day ago
- How effective has the road cone hotline been?
More than 650 reports have been made to the road cone hotline within its first month, but how effective has it been on the streets of Auckland? ...1 day ago
- Red tape or red flag? Seymour’s regulation bill on trial this week
Analysis: A week of political scrutiny lies ahead for one of the government's most polarising bills, dubbed by some critics as "Treaty Principles 2.0". ...1 day ago
- Mayor Brown frugal on the video and frugal with some facts
“As a matter of principle I never go down to Wellington,” says Auckland mayor Wayne Brown. True or False? The statement is a line in Brown’s latest social media video, a slick, fast-moving production with special effects intended to demonstrate that the mayor is, in his words, “completely against frivolous, ...1 day ago - The birth of the Wests: How Outrageous Fortune came to be
Twenty years ago this week, New Zealand television’s most famous family stormed onto our screens in a flurry of skin, sex and swearing. Tara Ward goes back to where it all began. Rachel Lang was listening to National Radio in the shower one morning in 2003 when a news report ...1 day ago
- The golf war: rival golf power plots regime change
The battle over the future of Takapuna Golf Course has been pitched as golfers vs the council. But a rival golf superpower thinks it’s come up with a way to keep everyone happy. Eric Faesenklout and I should be mortal enemies. The 71-year-old Takapuna resident thinks the problem with the ...1 day ago
- Ministry warned Seymour of public reaction to KidsCan contract
KidsCan was in talks with the minister months before applying for $8m in funding for free meals The post Ministry warned Seymour of public reaction to KidsCan contract appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Spike in personal grievances at foreign ministry
Ministry settled more claims in one year than the previous four combined The post Spike in personal grievances at foreign ministry appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Mini crossword, Monday 7 July
The post Mini crossword, Monday 7 July appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Daily crossword, Monday 7 July
The post Daily crossword, Monday 7 July appeared first on Newsroom. ...1 day ago
- Newsroom daily quiz, Monday 7 July
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- Our child protection system is sounding the alarm, but are we listening?
In late October 2023, a boy who was just shy of his second birthday died in Hutt Hospital. Just a few days later, police confirmed how he had died: blunt force trauma, either inflicted by a weapon, or by his skull being slammed on a hard floor or table. Just ...1 day ago
- University bookshop closes
Shocked academic staff at the University of Auckland say they are “horrified” that Ubik, the privately owned campus bookshop, is set to close its doors. It has been placed in liquidation and will remain open until August 31. A sheet of A4 is roughly taped to the doors of the ...1 day ago
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