Reality Check Radio needs a reality check
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Reality Check Radio has on the eve of the Royal Commission of Inquiry’s hearings into the Government’s Covid response released a petition suggesting that Jacinda Ardern and others have been put on trial.
Open Mike 07/07/25
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The Rainbow Warrior 1985-2025. Part 1: French State Terrorism and the end of innocence.
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Immediately after blowing up the Rainbow Warrior the French agents went on a ski holiday in the South Island to celebrate. Such was the contempt they had for Kiwis and our police. How wrong they were.
Open Mike 06/07/25
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Open Mike 05/07/25
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Open mike 04/07/2025
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Almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence from Kiwis
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Why public interest journalism matters
Keith Locke Inaugural Memorial Debate – Live
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View the inaugural Keith Locke Memorial Debate!
July 3, 2025 | Auckland Irish Club or via livestream
The moot? China is a threat to regional peace
Moderator: Simon Wilson
On the Affirmative Hon Dr Wayne Mapp, Dr Cam Calder, Andrew Dickens
On the Negative Trevor Johnston, Dr Marco de Jong, Dr Arama Rata
Open mike 03/07/2025
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Open mike 02/07/2025
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Daily review 01/07/2025
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We Have a Human Right to Water, and to Democracy
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Date published: 7:01 am, July 1st, 2025 - 25 comments
National is rolling out comprehensive water corporatisation, across New Zealand. For those who don’t live in Auckland, Wellington, or other centres with commercialised water services already, this is coming to you fast. “Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run […]
Open mike 01/07/2025
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Daily review 30/06/2025
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Why Asia-Pacific should back Iran
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Date published: 4:41 pm, June 30th, 2025 - 24 comments
Ceasefire will only be a pause in the long-running US-Israeli campaign for regime change in Iran. The good news for our region is that Iran’s resilience pushes back the looming risk of a US-led war on China.
State-run food stores anyone?
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What if we broke New Zealand’s grocery misery with our own grocery store?
Open mike 30/06/2025
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A different way of doing politics
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Date published: 1:00 pm, June 29th, 2025 - 56 comments
Hopefully what we witnessed in Parliament this week will return a trend to the politics of kindness that Jacinda Ardern practised. And one holding respect for Te Ao Māori at its core.
Open mike 29/06/2025
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National Wants to Increase Retirement Age to 67
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Date published: 11:10 am, June 28th, 2025 - 75 comments
If Luxon and Willis go ahead with it as a policy platform for the 2026 election, and win, a raise in the age of entitlement for national superation will most likely be implemented.
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Daily review 27/06/2025
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Oceania: Journey to the Center and other Auckland events
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A few things I will be heading to over the coming 5 days in Auckland. A documentary on climate change on pacific islands. Phil Goff on foreign affairs. And the Inaugural Keith Locke Memorial Debate. Moot is “China is a threat to regional peace”. I kind of got caught up in each of these for one reason or another…
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Daily review 26/06/2025
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Open mike 26/06/2025
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Daily review 25/06/2025
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Weasel Winston’s FiveEyes fudge
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Winston Peters’ Ministerial statement in Parliament yesterday was a disgrace. Echoing other FiveEyes leaders such as Keir Starmer, unable to distinguish evil from good, he accused those who can of “moral posturing.”
Conduct unbecoming
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David Seymour has been criticised for breaching the Cabinet Manual when posting Parliamentary Service funded social media attack ads against academic opponents to the Regulatory Standards Bill.
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- The Red Flag
Then raise the scarlet standard highBeneath its folds, we'll live and dieThough cowards flinch and traitors sneerWe'll keep the red flag flying hereLyrics: Billy Bragg / Traditional.On this day in 1916, smaller socialist parties and trade unions came together to form our New Zealand Labour Party. So, congratulations to all ...1 hour ago - Australia urgently needs a national security strategy
Many nations, including Australia, continue to operate as if strategic shocks are exceptional, not the new norm. This illusion of peace leaves us dangerously unprepared for the multipolar, contested, and volatile world rapidly unfolding around ...2 hours ago - “I Wanted, So Badly, To See His Face”
Hi,Four years ago on Webworm, my friend Kate wrote an essay about having aphantasia. In her words, “Aphantasia is the inability to visualise mental images. Most people who have aphantasia are also unable to recall sounds, smell or sensations of touch. That’s me. I can’t do any of it. Never ...3 hours ago - Unresolved Questions About Epstein’s Paedophile Network
Jeffrey Epstein’s criminal enterprise represents one of the most sophisticated pedophile and blackmail operations in modern history, facilitated by an extensive surveillance network that recorded illicit activities across his Manhattan townhouse, Palm Beach mansion, Little St. James island, New Mexico’s Zorro Ranch, and the New Albany estate. Despite numerous investigations ...5 hours ago - 2025 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #27
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1 day ago - Common People
You will never understandHow it feels to live your lifeWith no meaning or controlAnd with nowhere left to goYou are amazed that they existAnd they burn so bright whilst you can only wonder whySongwriters: Jarvis Cocker, Russell Senior, Steve Mackey, Nick Banks, Candida Doyle.Under every government, there are winners and ...2 days ago - The Dangerous Lie That Homelessness is a Choice
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 and Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell suggest that homelessness is somehow a matter of personal choice, they perpetuate a dangerous myth that absolves the ...2 days ago
- The Dangerous Lie That Homelessness is a Choice
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 and Rotorua Mayor Tania Tapsell suggest that homelessness is somehow a matter of personal choice, they perpetuate a dangerous myth that absolves the ...2 days ago
- Investing in the Public Health System
What can you do when you have hit your borrowing limit and still want to spend? One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top condition. The government does the same. Hence our three water ...3 days ago - The case for boosting defence spending is compelling—we shouldn’t need US prodding
The Australian government’s dispute with the United States over the level of defence spending has distracted our media and public from the core issue. The main driver of increased defence spending should not be requests ...3 days ago
- A reminder that music lifts you out of everything
Questions 1. What were participants in this year’s Youth Parliament effectively prohibited from saying?a. Death, death to the IDFb. There’s some hoes in this housec. Freddie Starr ate my hamsterd. Anything critical of the government2. About what does this government like to flex like a gym bro?a. Being tough on ...3 days ago - British public backs defence and security partnership with Australia
Australia was high on the list for Britain’s revamp of its alliances after Brexit, and the stormy geopolitical climate that followed has only reinforced the need for a more ambitious partnership. Looking ahead, public demonstrations ...3 days ago
- Qantas data breach shows compliance doesn’t always mean protection and resilience
Cybersecurity requires more than legal compliance; it demands constant vigilance and adaptation. A cyberattack on a third-party platform used by a Qantas customer contact centre in Manila, discovered on 30 June, made this clear. Six ...3 days ago
- How Taiwan must prepare to face Chinese drone saturation
Taiwan urgently needs to overhaul its air defence strategy to prevent the rising threat of low-cost drone saturation attacks from China. This demands three major reforms: expanding air-defence capability with low-cost weapons; improving survivability with ...3 days ago
- Friday 4 July
NZNO says Health New Zealand’s latest pay offer is a “massive backward step” for the health system and patients, and there are “very strong indications” members will want to strike. The amount of money Health New Zealand is spending each year on locum doctors to plug staff shortages is increasing ...3 days ago - Europe’s lesson for Australia: invest in defence now, or spend more later
Instead of learning from Europe’s mistakes in the decade leading into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine—underinvesting in defence, increasing trade with a strategic adversary and expecting the United States to disproportionately carry the security burden—Australia ...3 days ago
- Make New Zealand Proud Again
Prime Minister Luxon makes Alt-Right Extremist Group Proud Boys Legal AgainPrime Minister Christopher Luxon has removed the extremist group “Proud Boys” from New Zealand’s terrorist list despite its history of violence1 and far-right extremism. Journalist Paula Penfold notes the group is operating cross border, and have made their own New ...3 days ago - Bernard Hickey, Peter Bale, Cathrine Dyer, Robert Patman & Ed Miller ‘Hoon’ around the news ...
The podcast above of the weekly ‘Hoon’ webinar for paying subscribers on Thursday night features co-hosts and talking with regular guests and about the week’s news in geopolitics and climate. This week’s Hoon featured:a discussion over research showing the sensitivity to climate change of extreme weather ...3 days ago - ‘Sleeping rough is a lifestyle choice here’
Mark Mitchell walked around Rotorua’s shops for TV cameras and said some rough sleepers did it more as a ‘lifestyle choice’. File Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Friday, July 4:Police Minister Mark Mitchell says people who ...3 days ago - Australia can leverage SMEs to build national resilience
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 infrastructure resilience. Despite high-level pledges to build a self-reliant ...3 days ago
- Protesters deluge Parliament
It has long been a cliché whenever Parliament is seriously discussed that the real work is done in the Select Committees. It is not anymore entirely true. The Committees are becoming platforms for political protest. One left-wing activist has recently widely circulated a document on how to “deluge” a Select ...3 days ago - Canada’s Hikvision ban can inspire wider collective action
Canada has just made a great step forward in minimising the security risk from China. Now Australia should step forward and propose to work with Canada to create international, harmonised arrangements to protect critical infrastructure. ...4 days ago
- Skeptical Science New Research for Week #27 2025
Open access notables The Emergence of Near-Permanent Marine Heatwave State in the Tropical Indian Ocean During 2023–2024, Soumya, International Journal of Climatology In 2023/24, global mean surface temperatures exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, and the Tropical Indian Ocean (TIO) experienced a record-breaking basin mean anomalous warming of 0.88°C. This unprecedented warming ...4 days ago
- A further descent into tyranny
A protest group carries out repeated non-violent actions to highlight its cause, highlighting the fact that the regime's foreign policy is in violation of international law and is at odds witht he values and wishes of its people. The regime responds by banning the organisation, and threatening 14 year jail ...4 days ago - Strangle it, strangle it now
Sometimes you've got to take your chance at the flood, even when everyone says you've got it all wrong. Sometimes you've just got to back yourself and ride that tide.Sometimes this is the worst advice you could possibly give yourself. You imagine you know better than everyone else, but you ...4 days ago - For Quad to be taken seriously, it must formalise and expand
The Quad must formalise through a permanent secretariat and expand to include South Korea and New Zealand to remain relevant to Indo-Pacific security. Now is the time to assess whether the group’s current structure is sufficient ...4 days ago
- Taiwan, South Korea and Japan also need to spend 5 percent on defence
There’s no shortage of measures that the United States’ major East Asian friends could spend an increased defence budget on. NATO allies of the US have agreed to allocate 5 percent of GDP to defence ...4 days ago
- Libertarian Stuff
Arise, libertarians above totalitariansOur guide is the mighty invisible handReject state controllers, collectors and patrollersOur choices are better than government plansSongwriter: Dominic Frisby.This week, Prime Minister in waiting, Chris Hipkins, ventured into the centre-right heartland of Newstalk ZB and told them what he really thought.No major surprises; it was what ...4 days ago - Bob Vylan Censored While Gaza Genocide Ignored
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 governance.The swift and heavy-handed response, launching a criminal investigation, revoking the band’s visas, cancelling future concerts, and seeing them dropped by ...4 days ago
- Despite it all, China dominates Australian trade—again
China has reasserted its dominance over Australia’s export markets, taking a record of almost 1 billion tonnes of mineral resources and agricultural commodities last year, and displacing the trading partners that helped Australia out during ...4 days ago
- The five-domains update
Sea state Defence Minister Richard Marles visited the Maldives in early June and announced a present of one Guardian-class patrol boat and hydrographic equipment. They are expected to be delivered in 2026. Australia has an ...4 days ago
- An almost $20 million budget cut to RNZ is met with … near silence
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 tanks such as IPA - as "wasting taxpayers money" The last Liberal (conservative) leader Peter Dutton also labelled ABC (and the Guardian) as ...4 days ago - Take advantage of these tax credits before Congress kills them
This is a re-post from Yale Climate Connections by Samantha Harrington Republicans in the U.S. Senate are working to pass their version of the budget reconciliation bill before Congress goes on holiday for July 4. As it stands, the bill would terminate most clean energy tax credits long before their original ...4 days ago
- Act forces Willis backdown on policy costings unit
Seymour says there is no need for the unit - and he wouldn’t trust what the officials said anyway. Photo: Lynn Grieveson / The KākāBriefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Thursday, July 3:Deputy PM David Seymour has forced Finance Minister Nicola Willis ...4 days ago - Reflecting on 25 years of UNSC Resolution 1325
The United Nations’ Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda suffers from an ongoing burden: the need for less talk and more action. Invariably, several speakers raise this issue at the Security Council’s annual Open Debate ...4 days ago
- Gordon Campbell on National’s crackdown on shoplifters
Politicians do like being tough on crime. Flexing law and order muscle is a feature of the patriarchal Daddy State, and is beloved by the very same conservatives who deplore the workings of the Nanny State. But tough on which crimes – and even more to the point – tough ...4 days ago - Bookshelf: the secret history of China’s most powerful company
How did a small Shenzhen-based manufacturer of telephone switches defy tough domestic and international competition to become a world leader in telecoms technology? And how did it manage to start producing its own 5G processors ...5 days ago
- Robert Howell – The Climate Catastrophe
Dr Robert Howell UN Secretary General: We are sleepwalking to climate catastrophe. In facing this wake up call, Dr Howell will describe the lessons to be learned from Wesfamers; the work of the External Reporting Board; the National Climate Change Risk Assessment for New Zealanders; and the Dasgupta Review.Dr Robert Howell ...5 days ago - You build prosperity from the ground up, not from the helipad down
FFS, did you see this? I didn’t think he could do worse this year than host Morning Report, but Lord, Paddy Gower is a trier.Stuffed if I’m linking to it. It’s just another contemplation-free, insight-starved Tall Poppy Syndrome is Stopping Us From Being Rich diatribe.Here’s the thing:Prosperity isn't created by ...5 days ago - Why the Coalition should worry less about scholarships and more about Studylink
Hello. My house burnt down on my birthday. Well not down, but it burnt. And I’m currently living in a motel. Forgive me for phoning this one in; a better article is coming. And probably also a poetry substack, whenever I finally get around to it. From: Stephanie Cullen <s.cullen@hotmail.co.nz> Sent: Wednesday, ...5 days ago - Managing the dark side of the critical minerals rush
Australia and its partners must move towards frameworks that manage, rather than merely lament, the negative side-effects of critical mineral extraction. As the world scrambles to meet the demands of a clean energy transition, it’s ...5 days ago
- Israel-Iran war has exposed Russia’s vulnerability
The war between Israel and Iran has brought only short-term gains for Russia. Looking to the longer term, we see much bigger negatives. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky complained that the war had resulted in a sharp ...5 days ago
- Democracy Under Siege: NZ Government Gags Youth MPs
In a development that epitomises authoritarian overreach masquerading as administrative procedure, the Coalition of Chaos government has decided to censor Youth MPs during the 11th Youth Parliament, an event that was meant to amplify the free voices of our young people. The revelation that youth representatives, invited to Parliament to ...5 days ago
- Home Affairs should be the great enabler of national resilience
Amid worsening strategic surprise and security fragility, Australia’s national resilience responses are just as important as its defence capabilities. While the original strategic logic for the Department of Home Affairs—the idea of peace, order and ...5 days ago
- Letter to the editor on State housing and broken promises
..2 July 2025The editorKapi Mana News letterstoeditor@stuff.co.nzKia ora,Your story in 'Kapi Mana News' on 1 July, headed "Porirua East social housing developments axed in review" revealed how this government is cutting back on social housing.76 proposed new homes in the Porirua region would have housed around 153 people. These are ...5 days ago - The translation crisis: why our best ideas rarely become national assets
When it comes to innovation, Australia has a strategy problem as much as a delivery problem. The first is about purpose. The second is about execution. I recently argued that Australia’s innovation system lacks the ...5 days ago
- Wednesday 2 July
The PSA says potential plans to privatise New Zealand’s meat inspection service could put food quality and safety at risk. Industrial action at Napier Port has concluded after one week, with a pay deal being reached in principle for about 185 workers. Academic staff and TEU members at the Western ...5 days ago
- Behold, another Quarterly Survey of Business Delusion
Briefly in the news from Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, poverty and climate on Wednesday, July 2:The NZIER’s QSBO survey published yesterday showed businesses remain stubbornly confident about the wider economy and their own businesses, despite their own ‘experienced activity’ in the June quarter being much, much worse than they ...5 days ago - ASPI USA roundtable: How Australia and US can work with Prabowo’s Indonesia
On the Indo-Pacific geopolitics gameboard, Indonesia stands as a potentially pivotal piece—a country whose strategic choices could reshape regional dynamics for decades. Yet, as revealed during a recent panel discussion hosted by ASPI USA, Indonesia ...5 days ago
- Got Milk?
Hi,I got a lot of very intense feedback on social media this week about milk — and I want to talk about it.But first, some quick updates on some other Webworm things.1. The Telepathy TapesYou may recall my story about how the chart-topping podcast The Telepathy Tapes was nothing more ...5 days ago - Fix Poverty, Fix Crime
Learn to love meAnd assemble the waysNow, today, tomorrow and alwaysMy only weakness is a listed crimeBut last night, the plans for a future warWas all I saw on Channel FourShoplifters of the worldUnite and take overShoplifters of the worldHand it over, hand it over, hand it overSongwriters: Johnny Marr ...5 days ago - 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 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 ...6 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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), ...6 days 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 ...6 days 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 ...7 days 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 ...7 days 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 ...7 days ago - Japan can help the Pacific become more resilient
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