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Date published: 6:00 am, March 22nd, 2026 - 23 comments
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Date published: 5:04 pm, March 21st, 2026 - 24 comments
Don’t hold on to an old umbrella in a wuthering storm.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 21st, 2026 - 23 comments
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Date published: 6:50 pm, March 20th, 2026 - 30 comments
In absence of a concrete leadership plan from this government to address the impending oil supply crisis, this post is for us to simply note down what actions we are taking ourselves.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 20th, 2026 - 21 comments
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Date published: 7:10 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 7 comments
The Chinese Embassy is right. The recent joint statement by Australia and New Zealand condemning China’s actions in the South China Sea reads like a relic from a bygone colonial era.
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Date published: 4:33 pm, March 19th, 2026 - 46 comments
The government has shifted position and is now directly talking about the need to plan and prepare for a potential crisis and doing so for the worst case scenario.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 19th, 2026 - 55 comments
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Date published: 3:36 pm, March 18th, 2026 - 10 comments
Prime Minister Christopher Luxon should be fired over the imperilment of the New Zealand economy by his government’s laissez-faire response to the coming energy shock.
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 18th, 2026 - 47 comments
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Date published: 1:38 pm, March 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
Driven by ideology, this Government has worsened the country’s prospects to reduce oil dependance by axing policies that would have cut greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Date published: 6:15 am, March 17th, 2026 - 30 comments
“True resilience will not come from stockpiling more finite, fossil fuels, but from reducing our reliance on fossil fuels altogether.” – Greenpeace
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 17th, 2026 - 85 comments
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Date published: 8:00 pm, March 16th, 2026 - 25 comments
“There are 23,000 home support workers on low wages who look after our most vulnerable people – the elderly, disabled and injured – every single day who need help urgently, right now. They deserve better than being left to foot the bill” – Fleur Fitzsimons, PSA
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 16th, 2026 - 32 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, March 15th, 2026 - 7 comments
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Date published: 11:52 am, March 14th, 2026 - 43 comments
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 - 20 comments
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Date published: 2:59 pm, March 13th, 2026 - 14 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 - 42 comments
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Date published: 1:05 am, March 13th, 2026 - 47 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 - 29 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 - 17 comments
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Date published: 11:31 am, March 11th, 2026 - 90 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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