Independent Analysis and Reportage
The federal government will push for new national laws with rules for where data centres can go, how they must be powered and where their water comes from.
By Talaia Mika of RNZ Pacific There will be “no more Manu Samoa” if the government does not accept a proposed World Rugby review of Lakapi Samoa (Samoa Rugby Union) and the country is subsequently sanctioned. That is the warning from Lakapi Samoa CEO Seumanu Douglas Ngau Chun. “If we get to that point, then
His latest – and possibly last – book tackles America’s foreign policy before and after 9/11. Could it also serve as an antidote to the fragmented attention and political duplicity of our current moment?
COMMENTARY: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Some years ago when I headed the Pacific Media Centre that I founded at Auckland University of Technology, we ran a postgraduate internship programme at the China Daily in Beijing. It was part of a professional development exposure platform that also included Jakarta in Indonesia and
An increasing number of women are turning to “social” egg freezing each year.
It’s a hot political issue, but the Liberals’ won’t have an immigration policy in 2026, One Nation’s position is confused and Labor has yet to announce its changes.
The Israel lobby wrote itself a dictionary. Governments adopted it, regulators enforced it and police made arrests under it. Then it met a judge who required evidence, and it collapsed in an afternoon. Andrew Brown on Australia’s Fagan judgment for Michael West Media. COMMENTARY: By Andrew Brown Justice Desmond Fagan’s Supreme Court decision in the
While the sect has some very conservative views and has been politically involved in recent years, its political impact has been limited.
Governments at all levels often assume arts funding is not electorally popular. New data shows they are wrong.
Israel’s refusal to investigate the killing of Australian Zomi Frankcom relfects a long standing problem of insufficient accountability for aid worker deaths.
Kalimantan’s land fires aren’t just down to El Niño—they are caused by soil losing its ability to hold water. Prevention must start by restoring the soil’s natural balance.
Existence is hard in the frozen Antarctic soil – and microbes use ‘horizontal gene transfer’ to share the tools that keep them alive.