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Op-Ed: Seeking Peace Needs an Enterprising Foreign Policy – Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs

November 30, 2018

Op-Ed: Seeking Peace Needs an Enterprising Foreign Policy by H.E. Mr Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey This week Istanbul will host two separate but related international conferences on mediation. One will be devoted to the state of play in the conflict map and capacity for mediation within the membership of the Organization ... <a title="Op-Ed: Seeking Peace Needs an Enterprising Foreign Policy – Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/30/op-ed-seeking-peace-needs-an-enterprising-foreign-policy-turkeys-minister-of-foreign-affairs/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Seeking Peace Needs an Enterprising Foreign Policy – Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs">Read more</a>

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Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand

November 28, 2018

Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand One of this year’s most potentially explosive and dangerous political issues has been allegations of foreign meddling against the University of Canterbury’s Prof Anne-Marie Brady because of her role as a critic of Chinese state political interference.  It’s a fascinating tale ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/28/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-navigating-allegations-of-illegal-foreign-state-meddling-in-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Navigating allegations of illegal foreign state meddling in New Zealand">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin’s Chart for this Month: Slowly Increasing Teachers’ Earnings

November 27, 2018

Chart analysis by Keith Rankin. This month’s chart uses a correctly proportioned (logarithmic) scale to compare the growth of the average hourly price of labour in Education/Training and miscellaneous Professional Services with wage growth across ‘all industries’ (bearing in mind that most workers are employed in service ‘industries’). We should relate this to my June ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart for this Month: Slowly Increasing Teachers’ Earnings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/27/keith-rankins-chart-for-this-month-slowly-increasing-teachers-earnings/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart for this Month: Slowly Increasing Teachers’ Earnings">Read more</a>

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Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice

November 26, 2018

Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice By Bryce Edwards. “All liberation movements fall apart and devolve into factionalism” suggested Kim Hill yesterday in her RNZ interview with Pride festival board chairperson Cissy Rock. Although expressed in rather a negative way, Hill’s statement is one of the clearest observations of the current meltdown in the LGBTQ+ ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/26/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-police-pride-and-prejudice/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Police, Pride and prejudice">Read more</a>

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Op-Ed: Asia-Pacific takes stock of ambitious development targets

November 26, 2018

Asia-Pacific takes stock of ambitious development targets Op-Ed By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Natalia Kanem Ministers and senior policymakers across Asia and the Pacific are gathered in Bangkok this week to focus on population dynamics at a crucial time for the region. Their goal: to keep people and rights at the heart of the region’s ... <a title="Op-Ed: Asia-Pacific takes stock of ambitious development targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/26/op-ed-asia-pacific-takes-stock-of-ambitious-development-targets/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Asia-Pacific takes stock of ambitious development targets">Read more</a>

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Strange fruit

November 23, 2018

Column: Barbara Sumner – There have always been inconsistencies in my birth story. The dates, the people involved, the actual circumstances. All missing, suspect or manufactured. As an adopted person I have no legal right to know anything other than the story my adopting parents chose to tell. So I decided to challenge that. I ... <a title="Strange fruit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/23/strange-fruit/" aria-label="Read more about Strange fruit">Read more</a>

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Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan

November 22, 2018

Headline: A bridge too far. – 36th Parallel Assessments by Dr Paul G. Buchanan Jiaozhou Bay/Qingdao-Haiwan Bridge, China. Photo: Feel the Planet (feel-planet.com). The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge ... <a title="Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/a-bridge-too-far/" aria-label="Read more about Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan">Read more</a>

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2018 Fiji elections – the ‘fake news’ catchphrase of this poll but beware

November 19, 2018

By Sri Krishnamurthi “Fake News” was the catch phrase of the 2018 Fiji Elections – the second democratic elections since Commodore, now Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama, carried out Fiji’s fourth coup in 2006. Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama … reelected with easily the strongest personal vote in the Fiji general election but his FijiFirst party has ... <a title="2018 Fiji elections – the ‘fake news’ catchphrase of this poll but beware" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/19/2018-fiji-elections-the-fake-news-catchphrase-of-this-poll-but-beware/" aria-label="Read more about 2018 Fiji elections – the ‘fake news’ catchphrase of this poll but beware">Read more</a>