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November 30, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The academic study of history, more than anything else, is about the relationships between social elites and the lower classes. Yet, when it comes to the present, the relationships between elites and wider society is under-discussed, both popularly and academically. (In academia, it is the province of sociology, a social ‘science’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/keith-rankin-essay-how-do-left-wing-elites-make-their-money/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2022
Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s Asia trip rekindles New Zealand’s independent foreign policy Analysis by Geoffrey Miller. New Zealand’s independent foreign policy is back. That’s a key underlying message from Jacinda Ardern’s trip this week to Southeast Asia. The New Zealand Prime Minister attended the East Asia Summit in Cambodia over the weekend. She will head to ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller – Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s Asia trip rekindles New Zealand’s independent foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/14/geoffrey-miller-political-roundup-jacinda-arderns-asia-trip-rekindles-new-zealands-independent-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller – Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s Asia trip rekindles New Zealand’s independent foreign policy">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Will the Govt act on mega bank profits and reform the banking sector? The corporate retail banks are making mega profits on the back of Government policies and indirect subsidies of recent years. As a result, there are calls from across almost the whole political spectrum for greater regulation ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Govt act on mega bank profits and reform the banking sector?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-will-the-govt-act-on-mega-bank-profits-and-reform-the-banking-sector/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Will the Govt act on mega bank profits and reform the banking sector?">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The present cost-of-living crisis, and the present inflation, are global issues. It is just silly to discuss these, to address these, in predominantly nationalist terms. The next key point to note is that rises in the cost-of-living and inflation are not the same thing, yet public discussion largely treats them as ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The Cost-of-Living Crisis, and Inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/09/keith-rankin-analysis-the-cost-of-living-crisis-and-inflation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The Cost-of-Living Crisis, and Inflation">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In the last three months, Elizabeth (Liz) Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng performed an amazing political boom and bust routine. They captured the British Conservative Party at a time that such a capture meant a direct route to power in the United Kingdom. (More commonly, at least in New Zealand, political party ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng: What they were Thinking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/07/keith-rankin-analysis-liz-truss-and-kwasi-kwarteng-what-they-were-thinking/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng: What they were Thinking">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2022
Political Roundup: New Zealand’s relationship with India is in trouble Analysis By Geoffrey Miller. New Zealand’s relationship with India is not in good health. That’s the underlying message from a rare visit to New Zealand by India’s external affairs minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. Jaishankar met with his New Zealand counterpart, Nanaia Mahuta, last Thursday – but only ... <a title="Analysis – Political Roundup: New Zealand’s relationship with India is in trouble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/12/analysis-political-roundup-new-zealands-relationship-with-india-is-in-trouble/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – Political Roundup: New Zealand’s relationship with India is in trouble">Read more</a>
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September 5, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Most of the 2.1 billion strong workforce in Asia and the Pacific are denied access to decent jobs, health care and social protection but there is an array polices and tools ... <a title="OP-ED: The right policies can protect the workers of Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/05/op-ed-the-right-policies-can-protect-the-workers-of-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: The right policies can protect the workers of Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Shailendra Singh of the University of the South Pacific In Fiji’s politically charged context, national elections are historically a risky period. Since the 2022 campaign period was declared open on April 26, the intensity has been increasing. Moreover, with three governments toppled by coups after the 1987, 1999 and 2006 elections, concerns about ... <a title="Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/13/will-fijis-2022-hotly-contested-elections-further-cement-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Will Fiji’s 2022 hotly contested elections further cement democracy?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2022
A View from Afar – In this podcast, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse hostilities and the pathway ahead for Taiwan, China, Asia Pacific nations and the United States of America. Buchanan and Manning examine why hostilities have intensified, what defence and pre-emptive security moves have been actioned, and what we all should expect next, including the ramifications impacting on Asia Pacific nations' foreign policies and what the short, medium and long term consequences will be.
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August 1, 2022
Analysis By Geoffrey Miller Today’s speech by Jacinda Ardern to the China Business Summit in Auckland was full of soothing words for Beijing. The headline-grabber was Ardern’s comment that ‘a few plans are afoot’ for New Zealand ministers to return to China – and that the Prime Minister herself hopes to return to the country ... <a title="Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern strikes a softer tone on China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/01/political-roundup-jacinda-ardern-strikes-a-softer-tone-on-china/" aria-label="Read more about Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern strikes a softer tone on China">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. All wars incur economic costs, and not only to the directly belligerent countries. The biggest costs arise when a war becomes a prolonged stalemate. The present war in Ukraine can be characterised, differently, as a Russian Civil War (that’s the Russian view), as ‘just another’ Eastern European conflict that will go ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/22/keith-rankin-essay-the-economic-cost-of-war-especially-world-war/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – The Economic Cost of War, especially World War">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Achieving the SDGs in extraordinary times OP-ED by Armida Alisjahbana, Woochong Um and Kanni Wignaraja The start of the “Decade of Action” to achieve the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has also marked the start of an unprecedented period of overlapping crises. The Covid-19 pandemic and crises of conflict, hunger, climate change and environmental ... <a title="OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/op-ed-achieving-the-sustainable-development-goals-in-extraordinary-times/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals in extraordinary times">Read more</a>
