Our Climate Change Commission has two board vacancies. Nicola Shadbolt, an expert on farming and Judy Lawrence, a decorated climate change researcher have served their first tour of duty. The Gover...
A week, as they say, is a long time in politics. Fortunes change drastically and familiar territory can rapidly turn into a bog. This week, we have learned Labour has a highly educated doctor as th...
Nineteen years ago, then Prime Minister Helen Clark spoke at the Auckland launch of the "Seriously Asia" report from the Asia NZ 2000 Foundation. She described it as a reality check and observed Ki...
We have been gazing, eating and mythologising Matariki. Our European counterparts have been baking under the baleful influence of Sirius, the Dog Star - an ominous name that should give the Governm...
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has moved on from Asia, US, EU, Boris Johnson, Australia and is now in Fiji at the Pacific Islands Forum annual meeting. She has to perform with this regional body tha...
The Prime Minister is busy on the international travel circuit - a necessary part of governing for a small trading nation like ourselves. After imposing hermit-like status on her fellow citizens, s...
Who can remember our Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta giving her allegorical 2021 speech about the taniwha and the dragon at an event hosted by the NZ China Council? It was designed to showca...
The Labour Party has a substantial Maori caucus. It comprises 14 members. A significant number of them are cabinet ministers. While their leader, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, has been drumming up...
Each year, our Parliament passes the annual Budget. Unlike the US, we don't have the drama of Congress holding the government to ransom, refusing to accede to a President's spending agenda. More's ...
Rotorua, sitting on the Pacific Rim of Fire, understandably proclaims itself to be our geothermal wonderland. Tourists enjoy spa pools, geysers and picturesque lakes. Who could ever have guessed th...