Robert Ayson

A senior White House official who visited Wellington over the weekend is promising greater co-operation, and a collaboration on "cutting-edge" technology between New Zealand and the United States.

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The Australian government is to spend nearly $400 billion over the next three decades to buy a fleet of nuclear submarines, as part of the new AUKUS defence and security pact.

Australian Prime… Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's first stop on her trip to Europe is attending and speaking at the NATO summit tonight New Zealand time.

Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson announced… Audio

Japanese media are reporting their Prime Minister is considering a summit with New Zealand, Australia, and South Korea in a show of solidarity against a more assertive China.

All four countries have… Audio

The Prime Minister is heading to Australia to catch up with her newly elected counterpart.

She will be the first world leader Anthony Albanese receives since the Labor leader took office two weeks… Audio

A leading strategic studies professor believes Beijing calling out New Zealand over its defence ties with the US is full of overreaction and hype.

The United States and New Zealand issued a joint… Audio

He is pursuing a Pacific-wide deal with almost a dozen island nations covering policing, security and data communications cooperation. The Federated States of Micronesia president David Panuelo says… Audio

An international affairs expert believes the new Indo-Pacific Economic Framework could cause its allied countries to cut trade ties with China. We hear from Robert Ayson, who is a professor of… Audio

MPs are debating whether to haul the Russian Ambassador before them for parliamentary questioning over the Ukraine invasion.

Such a step would be extraordinary: Parliament has only used its power to… Audio

Panellists Sam Johnson and Anna Dean discuss the New Zealanders blacklisted by Russia, the cooling housing market, and choosing between car parks and bus lanes. Audio

The government is slapping sanctions on Russians with connections to New Zealand and President Putin.

New legislation will let the government freeze the assets of people associated with Russia, and… Video, Audio

US president Joe Biden's name checked New Zealand as one of the countries sanctioning Russia.

Some have pulled out the big financial guns; freezing the offshore assets of Russian banks, cutting… Video, Audio

Diplomatic efforts to cool mounting tensions in Ukraine have come to nothing, and New Zealand's being told this is one we can't afford to sit back and watch.  Audio

Australia, the United States and Britain is to unveilling a new security pact this morning.

The new three-nation security pact called AUKUS is an attempt to counter growing Chinese influence.

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Australia's foreign minister and International Development minister are in town today. Victoria University's Strategic Studies Professor Robert Ayson talks to Jesse about the state of the trans-Tasman… Audio

Australian prime minister Scott Morrison has delivered a forceful message that New Zealand should stand strong with its democratic allies in dealing with China.

Morrison's comments follow the remarks… Audio

A foreign policy professor has cautioned New Zealand's Trade Minister that Australia will not take kindly to his recent remarks.

In a media interview this week, Damien O'Connor suggested Australia… Audio

Our Five-Eyes spy network has evolved from a surveillance agency to a political tool - and New Zealand is caught between old allies and new trading partners.  Audio