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

If you’re curious to see her labour of love, the NZ premiere is Auckland, 6.15pm, July 2 at Doc Edge, with another Auckland ...

Immediately after murdering Fernando Pereira and blowing up Greenpeace’s ship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour, several of the French agents went on a ski holiday in New Zealand’s South Island ...

“Water Done Well” is the policy of this government to require all communities to decide on forming commercial water delivery entities, to run water like a business and remove it from direct democratic ...

Australia's national broadcaster is called Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). It's regularly attacked by Rupert Murdoch's Sky News & Australian broadsheet - as well as Atlas Network think ...

With perhaps one (or maybe two) exception(s), the journalists, producers, technicians, and hosts at RNZ are folks I hold in high regard. They have tough jobs to do - especially when trying to elicit ...

Iran is the weakest. If Iran falls, war in our region – intended or unintended – becomes vastly more likely. Mainstream New Zealanders and Australians suffer from an understandable complacency: war is ...

Australia needs a national strategy that explicitly prioritises the integration of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) into its defence industrial base to strengthen sovereign capability and ...

Two incidents yesterday showed why. One was the leaking of National’s internal poll results. 55 Labour to 34 National is not the leadership bounce they were hoping for. And Muller reluctantly ...

The results are in from the NZ Post-sponsored Kids Voting project, and while it’s a worthy project it nonetheless shows why we don’t allow children the franchise. More than 13,000 school students ...

The appeal by the BNZ against the IRD assessment of $466 million for avoiding income tax has wound up in the High Court and the decision is still to appear. We don’t know yet whether our Finance ...

Open mike 03/07/2023 By: notices and features - 6:00 am, July 3rd, 2023 - 85 comments Categories: open mike - Tags: ...