Game of Realms and Rare Earth: How Trump gets the Cook Islands
It may have been sometime during a voyeuristic rewatch of Zelinsky’s Oval Office tag team beat-down when Trump kept referring…
Tim Selwyn
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Helen Clark’s global wisdom on NZ/Cook Islands/China/US is the voice we need right now
Helen Clark, the second female Prime Minister of New Zealand, former UNDP head, multiply-vetoed UN Secretary-General nominee, Mt Eden resident,…
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New Zealand’s Settled on Immigration Corruption
The New Zealand immigration system has for a very long time now been nothing but a giant, continuous scam –…
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The dragon in the room: Cooks v NZ v China
Later today the Cook Islands Prime Minister, Mark Brown, will be back in Rarotonga and will reveal the hitherto secret…
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Waitangi 2025 – Sovereignty and Settlements
Every rohe seems to have a Waitangi. There’s one at the end of town here in Opotiki. There’s a Waitangi…
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2024 review + 2025 predictions
Before my review of the year a few predictions for 2025: TV in 2025: Freeview as a platform for free-to-air…
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The Podcast awards and the magic of television rubbing off
The editor of The Daily Blog very casually suggested to me that a review of the podcast awards would be…
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HMNZS Manawanui: As stupid as it sounds it just ploughed straight into the reef
My last post on the continuing saga of the ill-fated HMNZSLGBTQ Manawanui included the shock realisation: As stupid as it…
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Treaty Principles Bill – Sometimes it is just racism.
The first time I experienced racism that I can remember of any description was at primary school – from the…
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20 years on from the Foreshore and Seabed confiscation: Treaty itself at risk of being taken.
Twenty years ago I, unwittingly, left a portion of my fingerprint on a corner of one of the fliers condemning…