Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Despite the impressive and undeniable strides quantum computing has made in recent years, it’s important to remain cautious about sweeping claims regarding its transformative potential. To avoid ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

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 ...

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.

Judith Collins was at her insufferable worst yesterday when she announced the Privileges Committee recommendation that Te Pati Maori MPs Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, and Rawiri ...

National's recent announcement that it will take away voting rights from all prisoners may be nothing more than a distraction from its real intent, screwing the electoral scrum by making it harder to ...