Cut US ties? Alliance slams Trump threats
Trump is threatening Iran again — and the Alliance is asking why New Zealand is still tied to the fallout. How long do we stay hitched to this?

Trump is threatening Iran again — and the Alliance is asking why New Zealand is still tied to the fallout. How long do we stay hitched to this?

If Australian SAS are already in the region, the question isn’t if — it’s whether New Zealand is next. And Luxon isn’t answering.

This isn’t a warning for the future — it’s happening now. Without a port strategy, global shipping giants will decide which parts of New Zealand survive.
A temporary increase in the mileage allowance for home support workers is a welcome response to the fuel crisis but…

If it’s safe, drink it. That’s the challenge Greenpeace just laid down on Parliament’s lawn — and it cuts straight through years of political avoidance on nitrate contamination.

They can call it fisheries management all they like, but bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf looks more like sanctioned vandalism. Now a flotilla is heading out to make that impossible to ignore.

When the people who care for others can’t afford the petrol to get there, something’s broken.

A law change that protects satire doesn’t just defend comedians — it protects the right to mock power. And that always makes someone nervous.

A 45-cent pay rise in a $4 petrol world isn’t balance — it’s denial. And workers are the ones paying for it.

You don’t privatise a public ocean without consequences. The question is whether anyone will stop it before it’s too late.