The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over Parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan
Many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament have been heard in the lead-up to this year’s referendum in...
Australians should be wary of scare stories about New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal
ANALYSIS: By Michael Belgrave
Australian Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s recent claim that Aotearoa New Zealand’s Waitangi Tribunal has veto powers over Parliament was met with...
Owen Wilkes: Exposing foreign militarism on the ‘backside of the earth’
By David Robie
When I first encountered Owen Wilkes it was at a range of 17,000 kilometres -- the distance between Auckland, Aotearoa, and Stockholm,...
Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes
ANALYSIS: By Jeffrey McNeill
It was observed that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners.
So reads a disturbing war diary entry of...
The ‘otherness’ of Jacinda Ardern – by doing politics differently she changed the game and saved her party
ANALYSIS: By Jennifer Curtin
This week marks the beginning of Jacinda Ardern’s life outside parliament, since she officially ceased to be an electorate MP at...
Africa’s highway takes shape – bureaucrats, mud and all
Flashback to a cover story in African Development magazine in April 1974. The Trans-African Highway (TAH) was expected to ease trade and other contacts...