In autumn 2001 the invasion of Afghanistan began, and here we are 20 year later and the U.S. is all-out in just over three weeks by September 11th. President Biden is about to get a Jimmy Carter-scale ...

Half-baked attempts to fix New Zealand’s failing health system has resulted in Aotearoa drifting into a hybrid public-private model that threatens to combine the worst of both worlds. Isn't it time to ...

Christopher Luxon has engaged in a classic example of bumper sticker politics by blaming Labour for excessive power prices, not the structure of the power sector. And he has completely ignored the ...

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 ...

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...

With National aligned Desley Simpson ruling herself out of the Mayoralty race and pledging support for Wayne Brown Auckland's mayoral contest looks like it will be a two way battle between Brown and ...

The waka of New Zealand First Party is misguided information, sunshine. It is majestic ship called HMS New Zealand that was built long ago and ruling the waves when you and I still had our snotty ...

The Coalition has a warped view of what science is, of its purpose, of its role in and for society, and of what should be funded with public money (clue: not much). It has culled another science fund ...

David Parker's Deputy Leader 's speech in 2014 at the Wellington Labour Party Conference was the best I ever heard from a Labour Leader. Vision matched values in intensity and scope. Parliament now ...

In a bargain of the damned the United States and Ukraine have signed a peace agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

Four poems on the 2009 tsunami that cost 150 lives in Samoa The post The Sunday Poems, by Nafanua Purcell Kersel appeared first on Newsroom.read more ...

The quill is mightier than the sword and many feathers will strike down the neo-authoritarian Coalition. The cynical attempts by the Coalition to control the narrative and manipulate rules for freedom ...