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October 18, 2020
Analysis by Selwyn Manning. There’s a mood circulating among some circles that it would end badly for the Green Party in 2023 should it negotiate a part within a now-powerful Labour-led government. The argument goes; that should the Greens negotiate roles within the new Government, that their voice and policies would be watered down, rendered ... <a title="Selwyn Manning Analysis – Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/18/selwyn-manning-analysis-of-negotiations-opportunities-and-an-obligation-to-voters-to-govern/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning Analysis – Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political commentators and journalists are searching around for the right term to describe Saturday’s election result. “Seismic” or “tectonic” might be the winner – the shift really was of that magnitude. Labour increased their vote from 37% to 49%, which is likely to rise closer to 50% after special votes ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s tectonic election result" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/18/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labours-tectonic-election-result/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s tectonic election result">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart looks at a familiar island country with the same population as New Zealand. The chart shows daily cases at the top, and daily deaths at the bottom; and it includes world averages for comparison. The most striking recent feature on the Ireland chart is the straight-line (exponential) growth ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: New European Outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-new-european-outbreak/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: New European Outbreak">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I recently encountered the concept “pay it forward”, with reference to a debt. While it was in a personal context that I came across this concept, on reflection I am wondering why – as a follower of news media – I have never heard the concept in any current affairs discussion. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Public Debt: Pay it Back or Pay it Forward?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/keith-rankin-analysis-public-debt-pay-it-back-or-pay-it-forward/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Public Debt: Pay it Back or Pay it Forward?">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Election Henry Cooke (Stuff): Thank goodness this empty election is almost over Richard Shaw, Bronwyn Hayward, Grant Duncan, Jennifer Curtin, Rawiri Taonui (The Conversation): The final debate and the campaign’s winners and losers ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 16 2020">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s A View from Afar As always, we are joined by political scientist Paul Buchanan and this week we will discuss: How the ‘probabilities’ of Presidential incumbent Donald Trump being re-elected, look increasingly unlikely. It’s still possible, but more improbable. If Democrat candidate Joe Biden wins the presidency, what would this mean ... <a title="LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss – What would a Biden Administration Foreign Policy Look Like" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/live-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-discuss-what-would-a-biden-administration-foreign-policy-look-like/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss – What would a Biden Administration Foreign Policy Look Like">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Wealth tax Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Tax the wealthy? I don’t think so Heather Du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National’s ‘wealth tax’ assault isn’t working Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s absurd day in Christchurch, still battling ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 15 2020">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This 21st century epoch is coming to be one of ‘existential crises’, meaning that various large-scale dangers are increasingly coming to be seen to threaten ‘our’ existence, where ‘our’ most commonly relates to people, but may also relate to multicellular life on Earth. An existential catastrophe might fall short of human ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Existential Concerns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/keith-rankin-analysis-existential-concerns/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Existential Concerns">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Wealth tax, Labour-Greens coalition negotiations Tim Watkin (Pundit): What Else Apart From A Wealth Tax? The Shape Of A Labour-Greens Coalition Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Jacinda Ardern’s deputy dilemma Audrey Young (Herald): It takes two ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 14 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-14-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 14 2020">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Election Graeme Edgeler (Democracy Project): How to vote, and how to think about voting John Armstrong (1News): Pressure on Collins to lift National votes, even in defeat Colin Gavaghan (Pundit): The Comforting Myth Of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 13 2020">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Māori TV-Curia Tāmaki Makaurau poll, Māori electorates Māori TV: Tāmaki Makaurau seat up for grabs? – Poll results Martyn Bradbury ( Daily Blog): Shock poll: Tamaki Makarau – Peeni 35% Tamihere 29% Rachel Sadler ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 12 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-october-12-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – October 12 2020">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Over the last month, I enjoyed watching Origins on TV1. Very ambitiously, it looked at the origins of Tangata Whenua, going all the way back to the origins of humanity in Africa. Nevertheless, the final episode in particular bothered me. It presented a somewhat uncritical view of the ‘Express Train from ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Aotearoan Origins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/keith-rankin-analysis-aotearoan-origins/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Aotearoan Origins">Read more</a>
