The Covid-19 crisis is shaking up our thinking in a number of areas, not least on foreign policy.In the 1980s we were excluded from the Anzus alliance for daring...
With so many New Zealanders put off by Donald Trump and his maverick foreign policy, I had expected a Labour/New Zealand First Government to keep its distance. However, with...
Parliament's intelligence and security committee was in the news recently when Labour's Andrew Little nominated Winston Peters for membership.
Little also proposed expanding the committee to include a Green member...
(An opinion piece published in the New Zealand Herald, 13 December 2016.)
Most of us know there were conscientious objectors who refused to fight in World War I. Many were...
The intelligence services report by Sir Michael Cullen and Dame Patsy Reddy sheds more light on the GCSB's work with the Five Eyes network, but it also leaves several...
It's difficult to have an adequate discussion of sex offender legislation because anyone taking a critical stance risks being labeled as soft on sex crimes. The Child Protection (Child Sex Offender Register) Bill is a case in point. There has been little public debate even though Attorney-General Chris Finlayson says it offends our Bill of Rights.
Countering the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq requires solutions that are mainly political, not military.
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New Zealanders are right to be concerned about the rise of the Islamic...
WWI was a disastrous struggle for imperial power rather than a fight for freedom — and we must share blame
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The Government may well have acted beyond the law in cancelling the passports of New Zealanders intending to join rebel groups fighting...