“Ray Chung has circulated a malicious and sexist rumour – a tactic designed to dehumanise, wear people down, and discourage good people from standing for public office. She said she was seeking legal ...

Australia hosts several joint Australian-American facilities and provides the US with privileged access to a range of functions that are performed at Australian facilities. As a consequence, Australia ...

UN Special rapporteur on Gaza Francesca Albanese’s latest report highlights the corporate role in enabling genocide in Gaza.

In 1954 the Castle Bravo test exploded a 15-megaton bomb – one thousand times more deadly than the one dropped on Hiroshima.

Contrary to numerous promises to release it after it was vetted it appears that there is actually no Epstein Client List, no recorded collection of ultra wealthy men who engaged in illegal sexual ...

In the murky world of local politics, few things reek as badly as Wellington mayoral candidate Ray Chung’s despicable conduct. His smearing email, circulated to fellow councillors in early 2023, ...

Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New ...

“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 ...

We Have a Human Right to Water, and to Democracy By: advantage - 7:01 am, July 1st, 2025 - 25 comments National is rolling out comprehensive water corporatisation, across New Zealand. For those who ...

Originally posted on Nick Kelly’s blog I spent the last UK General Election canvassing in Uxbridge, trying to unseat the then Prime Minister Boris Johnson. In the 25 years I’ve been politically active ...

Briefly for paying subscribers at 6.30am on Friday, July 11, the key scoops, breaking news, deep-dives, Op-Eds, analysis and other news links in Aotearoa-NZ’s political economy around housing, poverty ...

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 ...