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LIVE@MIDDAY NZ Time – 8pm US EDT – In this the first episode of A View from Afar for 2023 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will examine the pros and cons of New Zealand, and other APAC nations, joining the AUKUS security defence pact.
WHAT WOULD MY YOUNGER SELF have said to the person he had become on Saturday night as the Coronation unfolded?…
Monday May 15th marks Nakba Day (Nakba is Arabic for “catastrophe”) which remembers the ethnic cleansing of more than 700,000…
Recently Mr Hickey interviewed Wellington City Councillor Rebecca Matthews and it was disappointing for the lack of critical thinking taken…
Kia ora! Auckland’s torrential rain washes out J Day; no surprise that police discretion is applied unfairly but still a…
An Australian author and human rights advocate for West Papuan self-determination has sent an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and the federal parliament calling for a Royal Commission to investigate Canberra’s “protection” of Indonesian colonial policies.
THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY of a centre-left government being formed if the Greens are no longer in Parliament. That’s a…
As part of an Indonesian-backed disinformation and troll campaign against West Papuan pro-independence activists, a Facebook page has emerged making bitter and slanderous attacks on campaigners, Papuan exiles and media people in the Pacific region.
The Doc Edge Film Festival as abandoned Israeli Embassy sponsorship this year after a furore caused by such sponsorship last…
Kia ora! Police seizing legit medi-weed, the good and bad of lobbying, Weedman and Afroman, law reform in Germany, Antigua…