
What does a regional seat at the top table bring?
New Zealand’s long campaign to get itself a seat on the coveted United Nations Security Council came to fruition last month, when
New Zealand’s long campaign to get itself a seat on the coveted United Nations Security Council came to fruition last month, when
The very design of New Zealand’s Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) electoral system is meant to ensure a good balance between different political
An ambitious king in ancient India, so the story goes, prayed fervently to the almighty to give him a soldier so powerful
One of the more significant announcements during Prime Minister John Key’s visit to three Pacific Island countries last month is that New
India, often described as a sleeping elephant in contrast to the Chinese dragon, has thrown up a clear verdict for change. With
Exactly a decade ago to the day, on April 18, 2004, when I emailed my first ever Views from Auckland column to
That grim, much-derided prediction of impending apocalypse that has provided satirical grist to many a cartoonist’s mill – so often depicting an
According to popular climate change lore, the continuous spewing of carbon and harmful greenhouse gases over nearly 200 years, primarily by western