New Zealand is hedging its bets over using Huawei technology in its 5G phone network despite growing concerns about Chinese political influence, Professor Robert Patman says.
Former Environment Minister, Marian Hobbs, has been ousted as chairwoman of an Otago Regional Council divided and damned over its management of water. How did it come to this? Bruce Munro investigates.
Bruce Munro has compiled Dunedin’s top 10 shortcuts: a guide to the best clever, hidden, forgotten or, in some cases, barely existent paths, steps and tracks in Dunedin.
"Indo-Pacific" is the new code word for "contain China". Significantly, it is a phrase increasingly being used by New Zealand, Professor Robert Patman says.
Australia, under pressure from China, will be dismayed by the United States decision to pull almost 10,000 soldiers out of Germany, Professor Robert Patman says.
Two researchers and a high-containment lab stood in the breach as the Covid-19 pandemic reached our shores. Bruce Munro talks to Otago professors James Ussher and Miguel Quinones-Mateu about their life-saving work.
Research throughout the University of Otago, and across its five national campuses, has refocused in response to the global pandemic. Bruce Munro has collated a small sampler of what else is going on.
Watch: In this episode of Global Insight, Otago Daily Times reporter Bruce Munro talks to international relations expert Professor Robert Patman about the protests which have engulfed major cities across the United States in the past 10 days.
The call for New Zealanders to wear face masks in public is likely to gain momentum within days.
The call for New Zealanders to wear face masks in public is likely to gain momentum within days, with the World Health Organisation understood to be on the verge of doing a U-turn on mass masking.
He has been called everything from dull and plodding to ruthless and one of the most influential New Zealand politicians of recent decades. And yet, Sir Bill Birch is virtually forgotten today
The United States might already have evidence of other life in the universe, Professor Robert Patman says.
