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 STERILISING POLITICS WITH POLITENESS Outsiders who propped their eyelids apart to watch Indonesia’s third TV ‘debate’ ahead of nex...

NO PLACE FOR HATE  - ANYWHERE Our deepest and most sincere condolences to our Islamic friends and their community in NZ, and to Mu...

Indonesia - the new Andalus?                           ‘The stories are usually wildly unhistorical but also dramatic, wacky, poignant...

                           Should Kiwi values fly north?             New Zealand’s image has always been less coarse than Australia’...

Megatsunamis – the threat we can’t flee                            No imagination needed to know why William Dampier named the western...

Papua – deal or no deal?                                             Foreign “actors” are supporting Papua’s armed secessionists a...

    Old soldiers don’t die – they just imagine                                       Historians and older Westerners know well what fo...