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Date published: 11:52 am, March 14th, 2026 - 2 comments
Categories: Christopher Luxon, climate change, energy, International, Iran, jacinda ardern, nicola willis, peak oil, science, uncategorized, war
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Jacinda Ardern led the country through some of the most taxing international crises imaginable. How would she deal with the potential oil shock caused by the Iranian war and how does this compare to Christopher Luxon’s response?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 14th, 2026 - 11 comments
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Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 8 comments
We are now in the opening days of what may be the decisive war to determine either the survival of the Iranian state or the expulsion of the US from the Arab lands.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 13th, 2026 - 35 comments
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Date published: 1:05 am, March 13th, 2026 - 27 comments
“Every emergency plan principle that I’m aware of says you communicate early, honestly and with a plan.” – Nathan Surendran
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Date published: 1:31 pm, March 12th, 2026 - 27 comments
Shane Jones has been making a song and dance about how the previous Labour Government was responsible for the closure of the Marsden Point Refinery. But a perusal of the cabinet paper he cites in support shows that this clearly is not the case.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 12th, 2026 - 14 comments
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Date published: 11:31 am, March 11th, 2026 - 85 comments
In the short and medium term, what should this government do as a plan?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 11th, 2026 - 28 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 10th, 2026 - 21 comments
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Date published: 12:53 pm, March 9th, 2026 - 16 comments
Winston Peters has been in this scenario before. The brutal replacement of Jim Bolger as PM in 1997 eventually saw Peters walk away from the coalition. What will happen this time around?
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 9th, 2026 - 3 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 8th, 2026 - 18 comments
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Date published: 8:55 pm, March 7th, 2026 - 39 comments
The US-Israeli killing of children must be stopped.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 7th, 2026 - 33 comments
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Date published: 1:49 pm, March 6th, 2026 - 10 comments
Latest poll results show a gain of 10 seats by Labour but don’t forget the voter disenfranchisement laws and NZME’s Editorial Direction is still to come
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Date published: 8:46 am, March 6th, 2026 - 65 comments
It has been a hell of a week for Christopher Luxon. His performance particularly over Iran has been appalling. And a new poll puts National under 30%.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 6th, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 11:44 am, March 5th, 2026 - 39 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran, in cahoots with, or in support of, his regional proxy, Israel, is illegal, but also unconscionable in moral and political terms. It is a resurgence of the post-war experience, in which the development of the rules-based international order was qualified by the arbitrary actions of “big players” in Iran, Suez, Cuba […]
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 5th, 2026 - 9 comments
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Date published: 7:56 pm, March 4th, 2026 - 5 comments
TVNZ Board members reached out to Paul Goldsmith on media stories, and later added stories to satisfy National Party Ministers
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 4th, 2026 - 10 comments
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Date published: 11:56 am, March 3rd, 2026 - 22 comments
A prime minister who does not understand how vulnerable New Zealand’s economy is to a Middle Eastern war as we have now, is a Prime Minister who should be removed from office.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 3rd, 2026 - 28 comments
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Date published: 8:00 pm, March 2nd, 2026 - 55 comments
Funny…when Russia invaded Ukraine, New Zealand didn’t wait for Putin to tell us whether his aggression was legal under international law. Different story when it comes to the Americans.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 2nd, 2026 - 23 comments
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Date published: 8:59 am, March 1st, 2026 - 29 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran is one hell of a way to divert away from the Epstein files.
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Date published: 8:27 am, March 1st, 2026 - 42 comments
Trump’s attack on Iran has a high risk of turning into another Afghanistan in which the United States was utterly humiliated.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 1st, 2026 - 20 comments
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Date published: 5:53 pm, February 28th, 2026 - 29 comments
Hannah Spencer’s stunning win for the Greens in the the UK’s Gorton and Denton by-election has some lessons for political strategists here as well.
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Date published: 6:00 am, February 28th, 2026 - 20 comments
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