Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FOREIGN AFFAIRS Gordon Campbell: On Luxon in the NATO pressure cooker Davina Zimmer (RNZ): America's space wars are our space wars Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon weighs in on President Joe Biden’s mental state Logan Church (1News): 'On top
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards According to an OECD report released today, New Zealand needs to tame its corporate lobbying industry. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has ranked New Zealand as the fourth-worst country among its 38 members when it comes to regulating vested
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE Geoffrey Miller (Democracy Project): New Zealand forges deeper ties with NATO Luke Malpass (Post): What is NZ doing at Nato anyway? (paywalled) Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Nato-NZ ties grow ever closer as Luxon visits DC Claire Trevett (Herald): PM Christopher Luxon
Republished with Permission Author: Geoffrey Miller Christopher Luxon is finding his foreign policy feet. Now eight months into the job, New Zealand’s Prime Minister is in Washington DC this week to attend the NATO summit. It is the third year in a row that Wellington has been invited to
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Last Thursday, Housing Minister Chris Bishop announced radical new plans to deregulate property development in New Zealand. He’s won praise for his efforts from across the political spectrum, including those on the political left and millennials who think Bishop is bravely fighting for
Tani Newton A near-continuous chorus of toots, cheers and waves greeted a gathering in central Gisborne last Wednesday. About 70 people met in Grey Street, holding signs, shouting messages and chalking on footpaths, to protest the controversial ‘upgrade’ of two blocks in the busy CBD. The project is being
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GREENS Anneke Smith (RNZ): Tana 'likely' knew about allegations of worker exploitation - investigation Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): The Greens are responsible for tidying up their Darleen Tana mess Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Why the Greens hate party waka-jumping law and will be
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards Yesterday, the Green Party did its best to paint a picture in which it is the victims of Darleen Tana. Naturally, there will be sympathy for the plight of a party embarrassed by an aberrant MP who appears to have misbehaved and looks to
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards GREENS RNZ: Greens will have 'sensitive' talks on invoking waka-jumping rule Andrew Geddis (Spinoff): So what’s the point of the party-hopping law, again? Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Darleen Tana and Greens destined for waka-jumping showdown after party ejection, leaving
Republished with Permission Author: Chris Trotter IT’S A POLITICAL MYSTERY, this alliance between the Left and well-connected property developers. The Right’s covert dealings with commercial greed-heads has for long been a disreputable feature of its brand. The Left, to its credit, still has to work at
Viv Forbes Saltbush Club How low Australia has fallen – our once-great BHP now has a “Vice President for Climate”, the number of Australian students choosing physics at high school is collapsing and our government opposes nuclear energy while pretending we can build and operate nuclear submarines. Our Green politicians
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Luke Malpass (Post): Like it or loathe it, the coalition is cracking on (paywalled) Miriam Bell and Thomas Manch (The Post): The billion-dollar question hanging over housing reforms (paywalled) Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour and National housing policy leaves anti-density backers nowhere
Mark Freeman A Waikato mother is travelling around the country, informing people about the sexualisation of children in the school curriculum and encouraging parents to find out more from their children’s schools. Penny Marie is the founder of Let Kids Be Kids, a New Zealand-wide grassroots network of
Republished with Permission Author: Bryce Edwards HOUSING Joel MacManus (Spinoff): The problem with Chris Bishop’s plan to flood the housing market Lauren Crimp (RNZ): Housing Minister's plan to 'flood' the country with new homes cautiously welcomed Susan Edmunds (RNZ): Government wants to 'flood the
