The recently appointed panel to determine how grassroots aid funding will be spent in New Zealand is being criticised as poorly qualified and politically driven.
An integrated water management system, though essential to protect developing nations facing climate change, is but one part of a wider “climate proofing” system, a report released by the UK-based sustainable development NGO Forum for the Future has said.
Melbourne-based writer, blogger and activist Kevin Rennie originally wrote this article on an East Timor solution for refugees for an international audience as part of the European Journalism Centre's Th!nk3 blogging project. We reprint it here with his kind permission.
when you look at the statistic that refugee and humanitarian visas make up just 0.03 percent of all visas granted last year, you wonder why this issue has become so politicized and such a sticky policy issue leading into the election.
By Sue Pennicuik and Bob Hale: ‘Fair Share’ was the theme of the second Asia Pacific Greens Network Congress (APGN), hosted by the Green Party Taiwan and Taiwan Friends of the Global Greens, that we attended on the weekend of 30 April – 2 May. It was a huge effort for the small group...
Regional editor Alex Schlotzer takes a look at what lies ahead for the big, and not-so-big, political players in the Southeast Asia/Pacific in 2010.
Political analyst Alex Schlotzer takes a look at the important events and examines Australia's influence in the Pacific's political year of 2009.
By Alex Schlotzer New Zealand is far better placed to be a stronger regional partner, or “peacekeeper” (or even “sheriff”) than Australia. Some will decry me as being “un-Australian” or worse but in my humble opinion our neighbours from across the ditch are in a superior position to exercise successful regional diplomacy than Australia....
By Rich Bowden: Research conducted in New Zealand has exploded customers’ preconceptions that switching banks is a difficult and expensive procedure. Dr Claire Matthews, who researched the subject for her Doctor of Philosophy in Banking Studies at Massey University‘s Centre for Banking Studies, questioned nearly 3000 New Zealanders on their attitudes to switching banks...
By Rich Bowden: A recently-released report on the state of New Zealand’s glaciers has found they have, once again, lost a significant portion of their ice mass. The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA), the NZ-based organisation which conducts both commercial and non-commercial research in the field of environmental sciences, has found...
Fiji's relations with its neighbours hit a new low as its leader announced the expulsion of the Australian and New Zealand ambassadors.
New Zealand has confirmed it has sent SAS troops into Afghanistan, the first time elite NZ troops have served in the country since 2006.
An OECD report on the welfare of children in member countries has found New Zealand to have the highest youth suicide rate in the developed world.
The New Zealand government's carbon emissions reduction plan has drawn mixed reactions from the country's climate experts and environmental groups.
By Rich Bowden Img: Maori flag New Zealand’s Maori Affairs minister Pita Sharples has told Radio New Zealand that his Government will ratify the non-binding United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples within weeks, reversing the previous Labour party’s policy. Previously one of only four countries – along with Australia, Canada and...
