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Date published: 10:45 am, January 3rd, 2017 - 9 comments
The Briefing Papers assesses NZ’s time at the UN Security Council, which came to an end on 31 December. Here are extracts from pieces by commentators Grant Duncan and Paul Buchanan.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 3rd, 2017 - 161 comments
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Date published: 9:34 am, January 2nd, 2017 - 371 comments
In strange news Kim Dotcom is talking about resurrecting the Internet Party and claims have been made that a New Zealand journalist is seeking asylum in Russia. Update: I am satisfied the application is for real.
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Date published: 8:00 am, January 2nd, 2017 - 19 comments
This is a difficult concept for the left to address in election year in New Zealand but it’s possible to be positive about 2017.
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Date published: 12:56 pm, January 1st, 2017 - 100 comments
My first degree about 35 years ago was in earth sciences. And one of my lifelong passions has been reading the history, prehistory, and evolutionary history of humans. The timescales give me an appreciation of the farcical attempts of humans to stop crapping in our narrow evolutionary space over the last century. We’re going to live in a hot hot world we weren’t evolved for.
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Date published: 9:26 am, January 1st, 2017 - 42 comments
The Herald has managed to overlook choosing Helen Kelly as its New Zealander of the year.
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Date published: 6:00 am, January 1st, 2017 - 176 comments
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Date published: 10:22 am, December 31st, 2016 - 172 comments
Ordinary Syrian people on Aleppo.
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The Standard’s ten most popular posts of 2016.
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Date published: 10:05 am, December 30th, 2016 - 150 comments
Barak Obama is using the last few days of his presidency to do some quite radical stuff.
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Date published: 8:07 am, December 30th, 2016 - 7 comments
The list of the top ten commented on posts for 2016.
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Date published: 1:49 pm, December 28th, 2016 - 126 comments
Israeli Prime Mininster Benjamin Netanyahu told Murray McCully that New Zealand supporting the rights of Palestinians in the homeland areas would be regarded as a declaration of war.
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Date published: 12:59 pm, December 27th, 2016 - 37 comments
Pauline Hanson is upset that vegemite has achieved Halaal status.
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Date published: 10:31 am, December 27th, 2016 - 132 comments
Israel has responded to New Zealand’s principled stand in seeking to uphold the rights of Palestinian citizens by threatening sanctions.
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Date published: 9:33 am, December 26th, 2016 - 72 comments
Donald Trump’s success in the recent Presidential Election may have had a lot to do with very judicious use of targeted Facebook advertising and the proliferation of fake news stories.
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Date published: 7:03 am, December 26th, 2016 - 63 comments
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Date published: 9:48 am, December 25th, 2016 - 32 comments
Robert Guyton concludes his series on life in a Riverton Food Forest.
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Date published: 8:30 am, December 25th, 2016 - 12 comments
Advantage muses on the meaning of Christmas and how our response to it says a lot about who we are.
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Date published: 7:48 pm, December 24th, 2016 - 287 comments
Murray McCully has had New Zealand co sponsor a successful Security Council resolution condemning Israel for violating International Law through its resettlement policy.
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Date published: 6:00 am, December 24th, 2016 - 112 comments
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Date published: 12:00 pm, December 23rd, 2016 - 44 comments
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President Donald Trump reckons that the US must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability to make the world come to its senses regarding nukes.
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Date published: 6:10 am, December 23rd, 2016 - 107 comments
Alicia Sudden reflects on Christmas at The Briefing Papers: “Yet this brief annual window excludes the elephant in the room: that this poverty is a consequence of our welfare system failing to provide the support it was intended to.”
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