Independent Analysis and Reportage
RNZ Pacific reporters Prime Minister Jotham Napat’s government could be staring down a potential leadership challenge in a fortnight’s time when the Vanuatu parliament session resumes on November 5, local media is reporting. Napat, who was elected as the country’s new prime minister in February 2025, is the country’s fifth prime minister in as many
What drives scientists to uncover nature’s mysteries is curiosity. But what are they curious about?
If we make better use of the GST, and offset it with tax cuts, we’ll have a fairer tax system that can adapt to an ageing population.
Russia’s push for ‘digital sovereignty’ concentrated online services in a few physical sites – and that creates a vulnerability.
Advice around screens is no longer just about avoiding harms, but maximising benefits for your kid. No wonder some parents feel like their heads might explode.
Lots of people love the crepe myrtle but others think of them as an inadequate and over-planted species. Some even refer to them as ‘crap myrtle’. But is that fair?
Southeast Asian countries have a more pragmatic view of the great power contest between the US, China and Russia.
New Zealand is a hazard-prone country and exposure to risk is rising. The choices the next government makes may be among the most consequential of the next decade.
The question is not whether Canada builds more data centres, but what it asks of them before they draw on public systems and local landscapes.
When wild animals are illegally imported to Canada, the law is clear about what happens to perpretrators. It fails to address how they are cared for after seizure.
To figure out what AI may be understood as replacing, we need to examine intelligence as a historical and dangerous idea — rather than as a biological fact.
The Alberta and Québec independence referendums, motivated by vastly different concerns, will nonetheless create uncertainties for both provinces.