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One option is to cut back on maintenance of your capital – say, to delay repainting the house or keeping the car in tip-top ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Open mike 23/06/2025 By: notices and features - 6:00 am, June 23rd, 2025 - 42 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: ...
Te Pāti Māori condemns the Israeli navy’s armed interception of the Madleen, a civilian aid vessel carrying food, medical supplies, and international activists to Gaza, including Greta Thunberg.
The results are in from the NZ Post-sponsored Kids Voting project, and while it’s a worthy project it nonetheless shows why we don’t allow children the franchise. More than 13,000 school students ...
The appeal by the BNZ against the IRD assessment of $466 million for avoiding income tax has wound up in the High Court and the decision is still to appear. We don’t know yet whether our Finance ...
In the absence of any political party stating clearly that public ownership of major infrastructure is a very good idea, here’s 10 good things public ownership of infrastructure does that private ...
Open mike 26/06/2021 By: notices and features - 6:00 am, June 26th, 2021 - 31 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: ...
National’s short list of candidates for the Tauranga seat has been released. And it is clear that its gender and ethnic representation problems will be made worse after the selection process is ...
The Bill has been introduced. As I said recently even the introduction of the bill has been controversial. It was brought forward and introduced earlier for one or more of three reasons: To muck up a ...