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- Not just drones, but massed swarms of them. Defences can’t cope.
A new and sophisticated phase of aerial warfare has emerged from the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East over the past month, defined by the systematic use of massed drone saturation attacks. This evolving ...11 hours ago - Fact brief – Are human CO2 emissions driving current global warming?
Skeptical Science is partnering with Gigafact to produce fact briefs — bite-sized fact checks of trending claims. You can submit claims you think need checking via the tipline. Are human CO2 emissions driving current global warming? While many natural factors influence Earth’s climate, human emissions of heat-trapping carbon dioxide are driving ...11 hours ago - A short global tour for people who hate socialism
I often make the mistake of reading what other people online have written. This is how I know that I live among many people who violently object to Socialism. Or Communism.Or The Left. These are all terms they throw around so loosely it can seem almost as though they don't ...12 hours ago - This is what the IPCA’s anti-protest laws mean
Back in February, the "Independent" Police Conduct Authority issued a radical, out-of-the-blue proposal to ban protests. The core of their proposal was a requirement for protesters to notify police well in advance of any protest action, and to obey whatever conditions police subsequently set or directions they made, with failure ...12 hours ago - If this is the Trump Doctrine, Australia had better pay attention
What a week. Swiftly and decisively, and in uniquely Trumpian style, US President Donald Trump has restored US military credibility and deterrence with global repercussions. The always mercurial president is often viewed as non-ideological and ...12 hours ago
- As China expands resource control in Myanmar, Australia-India collaboration matters
Myanmar’s rare earth sector has become a geopolitical flashpoint where critical minerals, armed conflict and strategic competition intersect. In 2024, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) suspended mining operations in northern Myanmar’s Kachin State, sharply curtailing ...13 hours ago
- National’s flagship telehealth costs Kiwis up to $99 a call as Simeon Brown funds telehealth p...
Leaked documents from Te Whatu Ora showed National planned to pay telehealth providers - including ‘reluctant PHO' Tend Health - between 367% and 433% what it funds struggling GPs for casual patients.The telehealth service is targeted at those not enrolled with a local GP. But as GenPro Chairman Dr Angus ...15 hours ago - National is afraid of kids
As the government - or one of its Ministers, anyway - keeps reminding us, Parliament is meant to be a place of free speech, where MPs (but not apparently select committee witnesses) need to be able to robustly criticise government policy and hold Ministers to account. But Youth MPs at ...15 hours ago
- Every day is Independence Day in Taiwan
In a speech kicking off his ‘10 Talks on the Country’ series on 22 June, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te declared that Taiwan ‘is of course a country’, citing its democratic system and separate history, and ...15 hours ago
- 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 ...16 hours 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 ...18 hours 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 ...19 hours 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 ...20 hours 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 ...21 hours 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 ...22 hours 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 day 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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, ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...2 days 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 ...3 days 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 ...3 days 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 ...3 days 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 ...3 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...4 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...5 days 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 ...6 days ago
- The Terminator
This morning I watched The Terminator. This is the original 1984 Terminator where Arnie plays the villain, because, you know, accent. ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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. ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days ago
- Honouring Takutai Tarsh Kemp
6 days 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 ...6 days 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. ...6 days 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, ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...7 days 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 ...7 days 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 ...7 days ago
- A new paper challenges the consensus on the cost-benefit analysis of community water fluoridation
Bill Osmunson, senior advisor ... 7 days 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 ...7 days ago- The Right to Stop Unsafe Work
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The government has denied the speeches were censored. ...13 hours ago
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Associate Health Minister David Seymour says he has recently written to the agencies and both have replied positively. ...14 hours ago
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- Youth MPs told to remove criticisms of government from speeches
Changes had been made to at least one speech. ...17 hours ago
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- Te Pāti Māori MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp will be laid to rest today
Kemp died suddenly last week following a battle with kidney disease. ...18 hours ago
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The ACT Party fought to have a Treaty of Waitangi clause stripped out of amended education legislation - but was overruled. ...19 hours ago
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A majority of this year's youth MPs have, once again, signed an open letter calling for the voting age to be lowered to 16. Youth Parliament, held every three years, ...19 hours ago
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