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‘Terrorist Organization’? What’s Behind The Israeli War On UNRWA

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 10:18:12 +1200 | Ramzy Baroud

Targeting a school during a war could be justified or, at least, argued to have been a mistake. But striking over 120 schools, killing and wounding thousands of civilians sheltered inside, can only be intentional and horrific war crimes. More >>

NZ Army Instructors March Out With Fijian Recruits For The First Time

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:49:47 +1200 | New Zealand Defence Force

For the first time, New Zealand Army instructors have participated in the marching out of Republic of Fiji Military Force (RFMF) recruits. More >>

Indonesian Foreign Minister To Visit

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 09:32:52 +1200 | New Zealand Government

Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Retno Marsudi, will visit New Zealand next week, Foreign Minister Winston Peters has announced. More >>

Whose Values Do You Mean, Winston And Judith?

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:34:19 +1200 | Alison Forrest

These values place commerce and money as well as US strategic military interests over the wellbeing, and the very existence, of ordinary, and especially foreign, people.More >>

It’s Bigger Than NATO And It’s Heading Our Way

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 17:26:36 +1200 | Eugene Doyle

New Zealand is about to sacrifice what it cannot afford to lose for something it doesn’t need: gambling we can keep the strength and security of our trading relationship with China whilst leaping into the US anti-China military alliance.More >>

On A Textbook Case Of Spending Waste By The Luxon Government

Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:31:16 +1200 | Gordon Campbell

Given the crackdown on wasteful government spending, it behooves me to point to a high profile example of spending by the Luxon government that looks like a big, fat waste of time and money. I’m talking about the deployment of NZDF personnel to ...More >>

NZ Support For Sustainable Pacific Fisheries

Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:04:44 +1200 | New Zealand Government

New Zealand is promoting increased regional co-operation to counter changing patterns attributed to climate change, which will force a large proportion of tuna stocks out of the exclusive economic zones of some Pacific countries that rely on the catch ...More >>

Government Wasting Money In Korea

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:45:51 +1200 | NZ DPRK Society

The claim that these NZDF deployments will contribute to regional; peace and security, are simply not true according to Peter Wilson, Secretary of the NZ DPRK Society. More >>

NZ Must Act On ICJ Advisory Opinion On Israel

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:26:09 +1200 | Peace Movement Aotearoa

The Advisory Opinion is in response to a UN General Assembly (UNGA) Resolution adopted on 30 December 2022. More >>

NZ Government Must Enforce ICJ Ruling

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:19:05 +1200 | Te Pati Maori

We are urging the New Zealand Government to do all it can to enforce the ICJs ruling. More >>

New Zealand, Japan Renew Pacific Partnership

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:23:18 +1200 | New Zealand Government

“Our discussions made clear the similar ways that New Zealand and Japan see the world and our region, and the importance of our work together - as we seek a stable and prosperous region,” Mr Peters says.More >>

Pacific Futures - Winston Peters' Speech Delivered At The International House Of Japan, Tokyo

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:25:47 +1200 | New Zealand Government

We see the Pacific as a family of nations and like any family each member wants to stand on their own two feet, as an equal. And that is how we view them, and how we hope to be viewed, as equals.More >>

Fire And Emergency New Zealand To Deploy Wildfire Personnel To Canada

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 10:13:58 +1200 | Fire and Emergency NZ

Fire and Emergency New Zealand along with the Department of Conservation and Forest Protection Services will send seven incident management team members to assist Canada with its wildfire response in British Columbia.More >>

Luxon's 'Radical Change In NZ's Foreign Policy' Criticised By Helen Clark And Don Brash

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:44:48 +1200 | RNZ

Former political rivals Helen Clark and Don Brash are warning the PM's statements on China may threaten NZ's independent foreign policy. More >>

New Zealand's Joe (Biden/Ward) Moment

Tue, 16 Jul 2024 17:34:47 +1200 | Keith Rankin

Joseph Ward's 'Biden moment' bisected 1925 to 1933 period, enabling 1929 and most of 1930 to be relatively good years for New Zealand in the midst of a disastrous run of circumstance compounded by unbending economic liberalism of William Downie ...More >>

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