There are more fault lines emerging in the coalition, once again over climate change. Public consultation closed a week ago on a proposal for a “Sustainable Finance Taxonomy.” Simply, it is described ...

New Zealand’s MethaneSAT, launched with fanfare in March 2024 to tackle methane emissions, has become a troubling case study in corporate overreach and government opacity. The satellite’s abrupt ...

Australia’s intelligence agencies are increasingly centre-stage as cyber threats, foreign interference, grey-zone competition and the prospect of Indo-Pacific conflict reshape our national security.

There are always limits to growth, because we have a finite land base and a mostly finite resource base. Sunlight being an ...

I did my own research”? No. You didn’t. You can’t! You can do your own observations. But you need to be aware of the many reasons including confirmation bias, small sampl ...

The “Coalition of Cockups” figureheaded by Nicola Willis (Ruth Richardson Clone) and David Seymour (“Useful idiot” for offshore corporate interests) blights the future of hundreds of thousands of New ...

An expensive haul: food price inflation more than doubled in June to 1.2% . File photo: Lynn Grieveson / Getty ImagesBriefly for all subscribers on Friday, July 18, the key scoops, breaking news, deep ...

This September, Britain will rename Strategic Command as the Cyber & Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) following emphasis on the cyber and electromagnetic (CyberEM) domain within the Strategic ...

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other ...

There are still lots of outstanding questions around the sudden departure of the Reserve Bank Governor, and the handling of those events by the board and the Minister. But, even amid ongoing OIA ...

There are still lots of outstanding questions around the sudden departure of the Reserve Bank Governor, and the handling of those events by the board and the Minister. But, even amid ongoing OIA ...

It is a classic example of Bumper Sticker politics.