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July 22, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Jane Kelsey, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau While public attention has been focused on the domestic fast-track consenting process for infrastructure and mining, Associate Minister of Finance David Seymour has been pushing through another fast-track process — this time for foreign investment in New Zealand. But it has had almost no public ... <a title="Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/07/22/why-has-a-bill-to-relax-nz-foreign-investment-rules-had-so-little-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Why has a bill to relax NZ foreign investment rules had so little scrutiny?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2025
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis New Zealand-based Canadian billionaire James Grenon owes the people of this country an immediate explanation of his intentions regarding media conglomerate NZME. This cannot wait until a shareholders’ meeting at the end of April. Is his investment in the owner of The New Zealand Herald and NewstalkZB nothing more than a ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME – now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/14/gavin-ellis-canadian-billionaire-must-explain-his-designs-on-nzme-now/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Canadian billionaire must explain his designs on NZME – now">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Last week, on 26 February 2025, President Prabowo Subianto officially launched Indonesia’s first bullion banks, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to gold and precious metal management. This initiative aims to strengthen Indonesia’s control over its gold reserves, improve financial stability, and reduce reliance on foreign institutions for gold ... <a title="Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/indonesias-bullion-banks-new-mining-policies-pose-threat-to-west-papuan-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia’s bullion banks, new mining policies pose threat to West Papuan sovereignty">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2024
Department of Mum and Dad Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 12 August, the national-led government announced a new policy program to impose more sanctions on New Zealand’s beneficiaries, meaning people of working age (18-64) whose primary income is a government benefit. (Refer RNZ Government further increases sanctions for beneficiaries, 12 August 2024.) This policy direction ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Department of Mum and Dad, in the context of a more restrictive welfare state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/14/keith-rankin-analysis-department-of-mum-and-dad-in-the-context-of-a-more-restrictive-welfare-state/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Department of Mum and Dad, in the context of a more restrictive welfare state">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Today I read this article (David Seymour calls for sweeping changes to make the Reserve Bank more accountable, NZ Herald, 26 October) showing David Seymore’s wish to double-down on New Zealand’s financial model. The Ponzi financial model operates much more broadly than the fraudulent Ponzi schemes associated the likes of players ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – The Ponzi financial model and New Zealand’s monetary policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/keith-rankin-analysis-the-ponzi-financial-model-and-new-zealands-monetary-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – The Ponzi financial model and New Zealand’s monetary policy">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2023
By Meri Radinibaravi in Suva The gamble that the previous FijiFirst government took in 2016 — in reducing the value added tax (VAT) rate from 15 percent to 9 percent — was basically done to please the people, says Fiscal Review Committee chair Richard Naidu. He said this gamble failed miserably because government expenditure continued ... <a title="Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed, says Naidu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/27/fijis-reduced-vat-a-failed-gamble-a-vision-now-needed-says-naidu/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s reduced VAT ‘a failed gamble’ – a vision now needed, says Naidu">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2022
By Luke Nacei in Suva Foreign investors could be sent to jail in Fiji for breaking a new investment law, says the prominent Suva law firm Munro Leys. The company said the “vague and unsatisfactory” new Investment Act could create greater uncertainty for foreign investors. In a legal alert to its clients, Munro Leys lawyers ... <a title="Fiji’s new investment law leads to ‘confusion and risk’, say lawyers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/28/fijis-new-investment-law-leads-to-confusion-and-risk-say-lawyers/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s new investment law leads to ‘confusion and risk’, say lawyers">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2022
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has spoken to media to demonstrate to the US market that New Zealand is “open for business”, having arrived in the US yesterday. Her trip includes meeting members of Congress and the UN Secretary-General, attending a launch event for sustainable meat exports, delivering the Harvard Commencement speech, meeting with ... <a title="PM Jacinda Ardern launches US tour with NZ ‘open for business’ message" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/26/pm-jacinda-ardern-launches-us-tour-with-nz-open-for-business-message/" aria-label="Read more about PM Jacinda Ardern launches US tour with NZ ‘open for business’ message">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is the United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads today – to further breakdown or breakthrough to a greener, better, safer future. Since the Economic and Social Commission for Asia ... <a title="OP-ED: Reclaiming our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/23/op-ed-reclaiming-our-future/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reclaiming our future">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This last week I watched Push: The Global Housing Crisis on Al Jazeera, featuring Leilani Farha, Canadian lawyer and former United Nations special rapporteur on adequate housing. She is now leader of The Shift (the global movement to secure the human right to housing). The central takeaway from this ‘Witness’ documentary ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Global Housing Crisis, Human Rights, and Entitlement Finance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/07/keith-rankin-analysis-global-housing-crisis-human-rights-and-entitlement-finance/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Global Housing Crisis, Human Rights, and Entitlement Finance">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2021
3 May 2021 By Simon Angelo editor of WealthMorning.com There’s a sign on the Northern Motorway I see at least twice a week. It’s advertising a high-density townhouse developer. The homes appear squashed together, side-by-side and on top of one another. There are no garages. Garages can be important If there’s a tangible link to ... <a title="OP-ED: Simon Angelo on Why You Might Need a Garage to Get Rich" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/03/op-ed-simon-angelo-on-why-you-might-need-a-garage-to-get-rich/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Simon Angelo on Why You Might Need a Garage to Get Rich">Read more</a>
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April 27, 2021
Analysis by Simon Angelo, Editor, Wealth Morning * August 2000: IMF Report contends Irish property prices are almost certainly heading for a collapse in the medium-term. * Between 2007 to 2013: Irish house prices (nominal) fall 54%. * March 2021: IMF Report contends New Zealand’s unsustainable house price rises could trigger a pronounced correction. * ... <a title="Analysis – New Zealand Property Market: An Eerie Warning from the IMF – Wealth Morning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/27/analysis-new-zealand-property-market-an-eerie-warning-from-the-imf-wealth-morning/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis – New Zealand Property Market: An Eerie Warning from the IMF – Wealth Morning">Read more</a>
