As the Coalition moves to partially privatise our healthcare system, and Seymour fatally undermines the free school lunch ...

Simeon Brown used a Deloitte report to criticise Health NZ and accelerate his privatisation message. But, writes Mountain Tui ...

Simeon Brown’s gutting of funding for earlier bowel cancer screening of Maori and Pacifica will increase health disparity.

Chris Hipkins has released his priorities should he be Prime Minister. They do not include addressing climate change.

Yesterday’s press conference involving Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky suggests that the United States is now solidly ...

Read an amusing quora reply that rather crystallised my thinking on the US compared to here. It started as a click-bait ...

The Green Party gave their annual State of the Planet speech yesterday. The video replay is on RNZ or Facebook. Text of the ...

Yesterday National announced plans to amend the Public Works Act to "speed up" land acquisition for public works. Which sounds boring and bureaucratic - except its not. Because what "land acquisition" ...

Helen Clark appeared yesterday on Q&A and presented a nuanced sophisticated response to current International trends. The video is worth watching. Her comments were especially relevant given what had ...

You've got to live, lady liveDo the tongue rollGive me joyBut don't kiss me too fastSong: Th’ Dudes.Good morning, all. After another heavy week of less-than-positive news, it’s time for something ...

The title of this post comes from Albert Wohlstetter’s 1976 seminal essay Moving Towards Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd. In that essay he contemplated a world in which several nations had nuclear ...

The title of this post comes from Albert Wohlstetter’s 1976 seminal essay Moving Towards Life in a Nuclear Armed Crowd. In that essay he contemplated a world in which several nations had nuclear ...