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 ...

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 ...

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.

Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up By: Elliot Crossan - 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: ...

Trump and Musk: One Big Beautiful Break-up By: Elliot Crossan - 8:57 pm, June 7th, 2025 - 5 comments The world’s richest man has fallen out with the President he helped elect. Elliot Crossan asks: ...

re-post from the Climate Brink The WMO recently published their WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update that covers the period from 2025 to 2029. This is a regular assessment of near-term dynamic ...

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 ...

The callous rhetoric emerging from this Government's housing ministers reveals a profound disconnect from the harsh realities facing thousands of New Zealanders. When politicians like Mark Mitchell ...

Open mike 08/06/2025 By: notices and features - 6:00 am, June 8th, 2025 - 44 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: ...

The callous rhetoric emerging from this Government's housing ministers reveals a profound disconnect from the harsh realities facing thousands of New Zealanders. When politicians like Mark Mitchell ...