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August 7, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These three countries are very useful comparators because they have broadly similar demographics – especially population age structures – to each other. Further they have comparable living standards. The Republic of Ireland has a population the same size as New Zealand (and a similar climate); Australia has close to five ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal Profile of Deaths in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia: 2015-2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-seasonal-profile-of-deaths-in-ireland-new-zealand-and-australia-2015-2023/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Seasonal Profile of Deaths in Ireland, New Zealand, and Australia: 2015-2023">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2023
In this the eighth episode of A View from Afar for 2023, political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine the risks of a 21st century nuclear war. The movie Oppenheimer has renewed interest in the dawn of the nuclear era. Almost 80 years later, are we safer from nuclear war than we were in the years immediately after 1945?
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August 1, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Cabinet Minister David Parker recently told the Spinoff he’s reading “The Triumph of Injustice – how the wealthy avoid paying tax and how to fix it”, by Berkeley economists Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez. The book complains that leftwing politicians throughout the world have forsaken their historic duty to innovate ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-can-david-parker-push-labour-back-onto-a-more-progressive-path/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can David Parker push Labour back onto a more progressive path?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. New Zealand First aren’t being given the attention they warrant by political commentators in the lead-up to this year’s election, with most rubbishing or downplaying the chances of Winston Peters and his party making it back into Parliament. This is despite the fact that the party is bubbling just below the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How NZ First might “take back our country”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/29/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-how-nz-first-might-take-back-our-country/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: How NZ First might “take back our country”">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University. Science fiction is rife with fanciful tales of deadly organisms emerging from the ice and wreaking havoc on unsuspecting human ... <a title="Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world, new analysis reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/28/ancient-pathogens-released-from-melting-ice-could-wreak-havoc-on-the-world-new-analysis-reveals-209795/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient pathogens released from melting ice could wreak havoc on the world, new analysis reveals">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller Antony Blinken is heading down under. The US Secretary of State’s visit to New Zealand and Australia this week comes as the two countries jointly host the FIFA Women’s World Cup. New Zealand foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta has highlighted the potential for ‘good old-fashioned sports diplomacy’ – and the Secretary is scheduled to attend ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: Antony Blinken’s endgame for New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/26/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-antony-blinkens-endgame-for-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: Antony Blinken’s endgame for New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Edele, Hansen Professor in History, Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne Vasily Deryugin/Kommersant Publishing House/AP A month on since pundits declared the imminent start of a new Russian civil war, we’re still waiting. Moreover, we still know very little about what went on when Wagner leader ... <a title="Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/24/has-russia-contained-the-prigozhin-threat-its-long-history-of-managing-violent-mercenaries-suggests-so-210131/" aria-label="Read more about Has Russia contained the Prigozhin threat? Its long history of managing violent mercenaries suggests so">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2023
In this episode political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine the strengths and weaknesses of democracy around the world. In particular Paul and Selwyn consider how and why democracy in many countries around the world is on the slide.
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July 17, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Last week we heard the Labour Party leader, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins, practically rule out changes to the marginal income tax rates or the associated income thresholds. In particular, he indicated that a Hipkins-led government would not proceed with proposals to introduce a tax-free income bracket. And he ruled out new ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Income Tax and Common-Sense: the Aotearoa New Zealand case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/17/keith-rankin-analysis-income-tax-and-common-sense-the-aotearoa-new-zealand-case/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Income Tax and Common-Sense: the Aotearoa New Zealand case">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. The ultra-rich can breathe easy and progressive voters can scream into the void, because Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has ruled out any meaningful reform to our broken and unfair tax system. The Labour leader says it won’t happen on his watch. Official documents were released yesterday showing the Government asked ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup – Political Roundup: Labour keeps the status quo on tax, but has it shot itself in the foot?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-political-roundup-labour-keeps-the-status-quo-on-tax-but-has-it-shot-itself-in-the-foot/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup – Political Roundup: Labour keeps the status quo on tax, but has it shot itself in the foot?">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I was concerned when the story broke last month about inappropriate subediting by RNZ staff of ‘wirecopy’ from international sources such as Reuters. The wire-tampering story broke with particular reference to stories about the war in Ukraine; and, at least for that story, it needs to be understood that Aotearoa New ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/13/keith-rankin-analysis-narratives-and-narrators-the-curious-rnz-story/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Narratives and Narrators: the curious RNZ story">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller Is New Zealand about to join ‘NATO+’? That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by. Formally, the expansion by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into the Indo-Pacific is unlikely ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: New Zealand gets ready to embrace NATO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/07/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-new-zealand-gets-ready-to-embrace-nato/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: New Zealand gets ready to embrace NATO">Read more</a>
