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The closeness of the Australia-New Zealand relationship is a long-standing fact of both nations’ history, going back to Cook’s first voyage in 1768-71. The two nations went to world war together as the ANZACs. But, under its Labour government especially, the reliability of New Zealand as a defence partner
Here’s one that’ll draw a good belly laugh from BFD readers: New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has held up his country as one that has successfully embraced reconciliation with its Indigenous people, in a strong signal of trans-Tasman support for the voice referendum. Perhaps a decade ago,
I often say, “Never apologise — it only encourages the bastards”. I’m only half-serious, of course. There are times when you absolutely should apologise, but only if you mean it. If you don’t think you should be sorry, then say so. There’s nothing worse than the sort of
A nurse rose as they entered and came to attention before the Director. “What’s the lesson this afternoon?” he asked. “We had Elementary Sex for the first forty minutes,” she answered. “But now it’s switched over to Elementary Class Consciousness.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” The groomer left
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As predicted by many, the Police’s new profit-based Firearms Safety Authority has suffered a major privacy and security breach. The only thing no one expected was that it occurred less than one month after the registers went live. So much for the much-vaunted “bank level security”: The newly created
Late last year, this little snippet passed almost unnoticed in the NZ media: The government is working with an Israeli-born surveillance firm named among a group of “cyber mercenaries” and kicked off Facebook for spying on people. It is keeping most of the operations with Cobwebs Technologies secret, but they
Is Sleepy Joe sleepwalking into WWIII? In his eagerness to fight a proxy war to bruise Putin’s nose, while paying back his son’s former business partners in Ukraine, Biden is more and more dancing on the razor edge of full-blown war with Russia. Now, in news that should
The Covid pandemic has been marked by dominant narratives of two main kinds: firstly, what we might call the “Covidians”, who are utterly convinced that Covid was a unique and alarming threat, and that favoured public health measures such as lockdowns, and mass mask and vaccination mandates, were all successful
As Harry Truman famously said, “Show me a man that gets rich by being a politician, and I’ll show you a crook”. Joe Biden has spent all but two of his 54 working years in politics — and he’s got very, very rich. From a middle-class family, he has
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