Adding Noughts in Vain

As the New Zealand Government consults on a greenhouse emissions reduction target for New Zealand we are often treated to a talking point al...

Finding out that Niall Ferguson is writing an authorized biography of Henry Kissinger confirms my worst fears about him. There was a fascin...

I am too young to have really been there and I've never talked to the guy, but it is clear that Chris Knox is a force of nature. His rec...

Andrew Sullivan has completely given over his blog to the remarkable events in Iran. Even to the extent of turning his background green. To...

The people of Mt Albert have elected a very interesting and accomplished character to be their MP. Given his varied and successful career, a...

An utterly unoriginal theme for a blog post but here goes: Television stations: from my sub-tropical exile over here there was no contest. ...

So Australian Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon was forced to resign today which is doubtless not ideal timing for the Government. His resig...

I was amused to hear Peter Townsend, the Chief Executive of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, on Morning Report comparing New Zealand'...

Sometimes DPF over at Kiwiblog does get a little carried away. I would have thought that what with this pig flu thing and everything we woul...

Vaclav Havel has a timely op-ed in the New York times about the failings of the UN Human Rights Council. It's called "A Table for ...

So this budget is the first one to follow the Australian Government's review of the "National Innovation System". The so-calle...

It's Budget night here in Australia. Bill English might like to pay some attention to one of Wayne Swan's wackier new ideas: it...

Early reaction to the White Paper seems to be positive, the main criticism is with regard to the lack of budget planning. Budgetary question...

So the Australian Defence White paper has finally been released, on a Saturday. It's available here. There will be a significant build ...

The Australian was so full of climate change contrarians on Saturday that it was hard to know where to start. But since both Roarprawn and ...

I have yet to read Hugh White's Lowy Institute paper on Australian Defence Paper. However I have listened to his recent talk at the In...

I'm going to keep linking to discussions of the Australian Defence White Paper, largely because there will be a New Zealand Defence Whit...

It became very tedious a few years ago to listen to continual unfavourable comparisons of New Zealand with Ireland coming from the kind of c...

I have to say that the Dim-Post has brought me round to his compelling common sense point of view on the Mt Albert by-election. The allege...

I have to say I enjoyed it. I think it's a bit early to expect Clark to be trumpeting her failings . None of us can yet give a really ba...