Te Pāti Māori sends aroha to whānau, and communities impacted by the recent severe weather across Nelson Tasman, Banks Peninsula, Northland and beyond. While dozens of people are still unable to ...

David Seymour’s is putting through changes to our Overseas Investment Act to make it easier for foreigners and the uber wealthy to buy NZ’s sensitive land and assets.

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Jones, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Musculoskeletal Health, University of Sydney AsiaVision/Getty Spinal cord stimulators are electrical devices ...

Australia’s intelligence agencies are increasingly centre-stage as cyber threats, foreign interference, grey-zone competition and the prospect of Indo-Pacific conflict reshape our national security.

There are always limits to growth, because we have a finite land base and a mostly finite resource base. Sunlight being an ...

New Zealand’s MethaneSAT, launched with fanfare in March 2024 to tackle methane emissions, has become a troubling case study in corporate overreach and government opacity. The satellite’s abrupt ...

Last week, during the Regulatory Standards Bill select committee, the dominance of corporate media and RNZ government inteference could not be clearer. As heavy hitter after heavy hitter, and expert ...

There are more fault lines emerging in the coalition, once again over climate change. Public consultation closed a week ago on a proposal for a “Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.” Simply, it is described ...

I did my own research”? No. You didn’t. You can’t! You can do your own observations. But you need to be aware of the many reasons including confirmation bias, small sampl ...

In 1954 the Castle Bravo test exploded a 15-megaton bomb – one thousand times more deadly than the one dropped on Hiroshima.

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

China is not a passive bystander to US aggression. It is a fully engaged global actor: one that builds artificial islands in contested waters, bankrolls infrastructure across three continents, ...