In February 2026, due to the retirement of Bassett and Hide, a new entity, Brash and Mitchell was established. You can find Don's articles below.
A few days ago, my good friend Rodney Hide criticized Winston Peters when, as Minister of Foreign Affairs, he made it clear that “New Zealand is deeply concerned by the deteriorating situation in the West Bank”.
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Australia is currently holding a “Public inquiry into AUKUS” . The five members of the panel holding the inquiry are:
About a year ago, when the Government had been in office about two years, I wrote a short assessment of how they were doing. At that point, I marked them on five criteria and gave them a 2.5 out of 5.
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There is an old political lesson which Christopher Luxon and the National Party would do well to remember:
In the last couple of days, Pete Hegseth, the United States Secretary of Defense, or Secretary of War as he prefers to be known, has made a quite astonishing speech.
For all my now-rather-long adult life, there has been a largely unquestioned assumption that the best way for New Zealand to get along in the world is to be an ally of the United States.
In the last few days, plenty of people have mocked the Prime Minister for his apparent inability to answer simple questions about New Zealand’s attitude to the attacks on Iran by two countries with which we have a very friendly relationship, the United States and Israel.
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