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The long promised WFF review has been conducted under wraps, all discussion and meetings in secret and with no consultation, least of all with those affected. While we can now see from the OIAs the direction of bureaucratic thinking, between the annoying redactions that is, it does not impress with either its vision or basic logic.
There are multiple reasons for nuclear-free New Zealanders to be upset about Australia’s plan to acquire nuclear-powered submarines.
Did emigrating to New Zealand trigger some kind of psychotic episode for the mother? Did she have a pre-existing mental illness, and, if so, did Immigration NZ know about it? Or did something else entirely happen?
Look, I’m no fan of the PRC – but I can’t help but recall how NZ’s previous entanglement in ANZUS worked out.
Late at night, on 2 September, Israeli war planes violated Lebanese airspace, terrorising people as they flew low over suburbs…
THANK GOD New Zealand is not a member of the new “AUKUS” alliance. Australia, the United Kingdom and the United…
THE UPPER-CLASS ABSCONDERS from Auckland’s Level 4 Lockdown have done the rest of New Zealand a favour. They have exposed, in the most dramatic terms, the true extent of the social gulf separating the wealthiest New Zealanders from the poorest.
In this week’s podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss: Geopolitics and how the global order is changing fast after the United States withdrawal from Afghanistan. This includes; the USA, Australia and the UK announce a trilateral security defence alliance, plus the nuclearisation of Australia’s submarine fleet. Also, China shifts strategy to mainland interests and hits the Silk Road running.
I hope you are all keen to sign this petition to change the name of our country to Aotearoa – we were never part of the Netherlands!
Whether we are considering positionality or economy, zero-sum calculations are incorrect and damaging. Expansiveness expands, as it were. There is nothing to fear.