Two countries, two kidnappings – Port Moresby shows Jakarta how it’s done with 3 PNG hostages freed
Two countries. A common border. Two hostage crises. But the responses of both Asia-Pacific nations have been like chalk and cheese.
New Zealand
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – How will we explain Trump to our children?
Four years ago, just before Trump was inaurgurated, I wrote the post I have copied below. At the time I…
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ANZAC Day 2020
History is always watching.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 4
Lock Down: Day 4 – A photo essay with observations
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Life in Lock Down: Day 3
March 28: First day of the first weekend in Lock Down. It feels like it’s been weeks since only Level 3 was declared last Tuesday, only four days ago.
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Life in Lock Down: Day 1
Day one of the Level 4 nationwide lock-down (or, DefCon 4 as I sometimes cheekily call it) started at 11.59PM on 25 March. For a moment, most of the nation held it’s collective breath. In that brief moment, as the countdown moved to one minute to midnight, everything changed.
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Dr Liz Gordon: Sharing would have been better
Anyway, I will leave the technical writing to others, but I do want to talk a bit about winning. Competition is healthy until it becomes unhealthy. Whether it be a sporting game, an educational outcome or anything else, sometimes one person alone does not come put on top. What you do about that defines who you are as a person, a country or a sporting tournament.
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MEDIA WATCH: Homophobic attack against Aziz Al-Sa’afin
This terrible act of homophobic violence against Aziz Al-Sa’afin was deeply moving this morning.
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Happy New Year 2019
Here’s to another circle around the Sun.