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Date published: 5:30 pm, June 2nd, 2026 - 14 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 2nd, 2026 - 48 comments
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Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
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Date published: 6:00 am, June 1st, 2026 - 47 comments
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Date published: 9:24 am, May 31st, 2026 - 32 comments
Pete Hegseth has claimed that New Zealand is freeloading because it is not spending enough of weapons of war at a time of international chaos created by the United States.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 31st, 2026 - 31 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 30th, 2026 - 40 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 29th, 2026 - 7 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 29th, 2026 - 69 comments
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Date published: 5:39 pm, May 28th, 2026 - No comments
The Peoples’ Budget Lock-Up 2026 brings together unions, iwi, students, community organisations, advocates, and workers to collectively respond to Budget 2026 and help shape a people-centred alternative.
At 9pm BHN will talk first with Chris Hipkins, then later with Ricardo Menendez.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 28th, 2026 - 12 comments
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Date published: 2:01 pm, May 28th, 2026 - 83 comments
This is simply your space to react to the hyperbole, the outrages, the theatre of this coalition government’s election year budget. Buckle in.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 28th, 2026 - 22 comments
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Date published: 8:38 pm, May 27th, 2026 - 15 comments
Christopher Luxon has implied that a junior staffer met major polluters and received submissions urging him to sink Mike Smith’s bid to hold them to account which were then hidden. But it was his Chief Policy Advisor.
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 27th, 2026 - 6 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 27th, 2026 - 77 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 26th, 2026 - 11 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 26th, 2026 - 54 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 25th, 2026 - 3 comments
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Date published: 9:10 am, May 25th, 2026 - 43 comments
Briefing papers from two of the corporates being sued by Mike Smith for damaging the environment urging the Government to change the law to stop the case were received but allegedly lost by Luxon’s office.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 25th, 2026 - 51 comments
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Date published: 11:31 am, May 24th, 2026 - 5 comments
Paul Goldsmith’s move on orders bill applies to young people aged 14 even though existing legislation provides police with all the powers they need to deal with homeless young people.
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 24th, 2026 - 19 comments
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 23rd, 2026 - 27 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
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Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
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Date published: 8:55 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
There are still those who pine, from the readership of Jacinda Ardern’s biography, for a state that is perfectly kind, does everything with speed and authority, and brims with patrician wisdom for us all. Her 1.5 terms held many instances in which the state operated on the extremes of control to respond to massive crises.
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Date published: 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
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Date published: 6:00 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 20 comments
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Date published: 5:30 pm, May 21st, 2026 - 11 comments
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Date published: 3:13 pm, May 21st, 2026 - 7 comments
Palantir, founded by Alex Karp and New Zealand citizen Peter Thiel, is at the centre of an array of A.I. driven kill programmes for the US, Israeli and other militaries, including the NZDF.
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