As Victoria marks almost two months in its latest lockdown the public mood is becoming increasingly dark.

Belief we tend to associate with the fringes of US society have torn a swathe through Aotearoa’s traditionally easy-going if occasionally oddball community of hippies, yoga teachers, and spiritual festival-goers.

The idea that Labour won thanks to strategic lifelong National voters making the ultimate electoral sacrifice is absurd.

As the city returns to lockdown for another six weeks, Melbourne-based New Zealander Joseph Nunweek explains how things got so bad.

Efforts urging the monarch to dismiss the Australian PM over his handling of the bushfire crisis provide a revealing and worrying snapshot of what good intent looks like in 2020.