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 ...

Here in New Zealand, the government cut RNZ’s budget by $18m over four years in the last budget – that’s almost $5m a year. Now RNZ is starting to ask for voluntary redundancies when we already have ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

New Zealand has a deep connection with the sea, and this is reflected in the narratives and naval mythologies of the coalition parties. The waka of the National Party is a slick shiny speed machine ...

In very bad news for the Government former National MP Marilyn Waring has announced that she will be doing something the Government did not do, organise hearings to consider the Government’s ...

I was writing a long involved post about the recent budget that I may put up in the next few days. But in writing it up what struck me was the weird similarities between this Government’s budget which ...

The Coalition is treating the economy as an amateur bodybuilder. There’s a lot of pump & grunt with artificial diets and supplements trying to achieve some kind of success embodied by a dehydrated ...

Our growing stress is everywhere By: advantage - 9:38 am, May 24th, 2025 - 22 comments Categories: crime, Deep stuff, economy, housing, unemployment - Tags: ...

BHN are hosting Craig Renney, Director of Policy and Economist at the CTU and BHN journalist, as he comes out of budget lock up. Livestream discussion from 2pm.