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"John Frum, He Come." The National Government's stubborn promotion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been likened to th...

Kiwi Boots On The Ground: To Arab eyes, New Zealand’s continuing presence in Iraq must signal a depressingly familiar message. Since the...

Jam Tomorrow - Maybe: Last Thursday morning (13/10/16) Finance Minister, Bill English told reporters that the unexpectedly large projec...

Are Armed Forces A Necessary Evil? Conservatives assert that government’s highest priority is, and must remain, the protection of its p...

  CHRIS TROTTER follows-up on many of the issues canvassed in the previous posting in this interview  with Paul Henry, broadcast on Thu...

Water and Grass: The economic value of productive pastures is deemed by the National Government to be more important than popular politi...

Not A Happy Chappy: Queensland's Premier no longer, the Liberal National Party leader, Campbell Newman, is forced to acknowledge th...

Wolves In Wolves' Clothing: What Key and Joyce, both inveterate poll-watchers, clearly grasped after National’s last-minute failure ...

Free Market Solutions: In 1890, Jacob Riis, one the world's first 'photo-journalists', published How The Other Half Lives, ...

Perfectly Calm: 2010 was year characterised by the politics of denial. ‘WE HAVE MAINTAINED a silence closely resembling stupidity." Do ...