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Keith Rankin Analysis – Is New Zealand geopolitically invisible?

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October 28, 2026

Keith Rankin writes: Foreign policy should be at the fore of the New Zealand election debates, and not just because foreign events raise the price of diesel fuel. New Zealand should make itself visible to the world, not as a lifeboat or latter-day Noah's Ark, but as a committed non-judgemental advocate for world peace and diplomacy.

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