Tag: New Zealand
Slow down Simeon Brown – NZ bilingual traffic signs aren’t an accident waiting to happen
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw
When New Zealand’s opposition National Party’s transport spokesperson, Simeon Brown, questioned the logic of bilingual traffic signs, he seemed to echo...
Academic ‘tsunami’ at USP shakes regional Pacific institution to core
COMMENT: By Michael Field
An alleged bizarre swinging punch towards an academic from a senior management figure at the top of the University of the...
OPM call for PNG’s James Marape as negotiator for NZ pilot’s safe passage
Asia Pacific Report
Free Papua Organisation (OPM) leader Jeffrey Bomanak has appealed for Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape to become a “neutral intermediary”...
Author-poet condemns Papuan rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks
Asia Pacific Report
An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage...
Highly secretive Five Eyes alliance disrupts China-backed hacker group
ANALYSIS: By Dennis B. Desmond
This week the Five Eyes alliance — an intelligence alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the...
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...