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March 23, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: The Beehive’s revolving door and corporate mateship New Zealanders are uncomfortable with the high level of influence corporate lobbyists have in New Zealand politics, and demands are growing for greater regulation. A recent poll shows 62 per cent of the public support having a two-year cooling off period between ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Beehive’s revolving door and corporate mateship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/23/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-beehives-revolving-door-and-corporate-mateship/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Beehive’s revolving door and corporate mateship">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Who will drain Wellington’s lobbying swamp? Wealthy vested interests have an oversized influence on political decisions in New Zealand. Partly that’s due to their use of corporate lobbyists. Fortunately, the influence lobbyists can have on decisions made by politicians is currently under scrutiny in Guyon Espiner’s in-depth series published ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Who will drain Wellington’s lobbying swamp?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-who-will-drain-wellingtons-lobbying-swamp/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Who will drain Wellington’s lobbying swamp?">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Shining a bright light on lobbyists in politics Four out of the five people who have held the top role of Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff since 2017 have been lobbyists. That’s a fact that should worry anyone who believes vested interests shouldn’t have a place at the centre ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Shining a bright light on lobbyists in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-shining-a-bright-light-on-lobbyists-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Shining a bright light on lobbyists in politics">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2023
Analysis by By Geoffrey Miller. Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War This week marks the twentieth anniversary of the Iraq War. While it strongly opposed the US-led invasion, New Zealand’s then Labour-led government led by Prime Minister Helen Clark did deploy military engineers to try to help rebuild Iraq in mid-2003. With violence soaring, ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/20/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-nzs-middle-east-strategy-20-years-after-the-iraq-war/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: NZ’s Middle East strategy, 20 years after the Iraq War">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics I teach a first year course at Victoria University of Wellington about government and the political process in New Zealand. In “Introduction to Government and Law”, students learn there are rules preventing senior public servants from getting involved ... <a title="Bruce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/bruce-edwards-political-roundup-stuart-nashs-resignation-shows-our-leaders-need-a-lesson-in-civics/" aria-label="Read more about Bruce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University The agreement to deliver Australia nuclear-powered submarines under the AUKUS tripartite security pact was announced today with great fanfare at United States Navy facilities in San Diego, California. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese joined UK counterpart Rishi ... <a title="AUKUS submarine plan will be the biggest defence scheme in Australian history. So how will it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/14/aukus-submarine-plan-will-be-the-biggest-defence-scheme-in-australian-history-so-how-will-it-work-199492/" aria-label="Read more about AUKUS submarine plan will be the biggest defence scheme in Australian history. So how will it work?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two? – Spiralling Deaths in Germany The four weeks ending 8 January 2023 have seen easily the most deaths in Germany of any four‑week period since 2015. The worst week was the week ending Christmas Day, with 28,481 deaths. While it’s hard to compare with pre-1990 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/14/keith-rankin-analysis-germanys-deadliest-weeks-since-world-war-two/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Germany’s Deadliest Weeks since World War Two?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Labour’s refocus is working Labour’s shift in focus is working. Under Jacinda Ardern they were a party and government focused on the voters and ideologies of liberal Grey Lynn and Wellington Central. Now under Prime Minister Chris Hipkins Labour has a laser-like focus directed at the working class politics ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s refocus is working" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/14/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labours-refocus-is-working/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s refocus is working">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: The Big “consultocrats” debate needs to carry on A parasitic blight on our democracy? Or a useful and necessary aid to our government departments? Those are two perspectives on the usefulness of the Wellington consultant class that contract to government agencies. The role of business management consultants took centre ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Big “consultocrats” debate needs to carry on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-big-consultocrats-debate-needs-to-carry-on/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Big “consultocrats” debate needs to carry on">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above is quite alarming, and not only because of Germany’s high death toll. It’s the difference between reported Covid19 deaths and excess deaths, in the context where four waves of excess deaths in Germany in 2022 are clearly ‘epidemic’ in nature. And we see the same death waves in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/12/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-death-spikes-and-covid-dissonance-examples-of-germany-and-denmark/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Spikes and Covid Dissonance? Examples of Germany and Denmark">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 7 March 2023 I published a summary table of death tallies in a wide range of countries, comparing 2019‑2022 with 2015‑2018. (Covid19 Pandemic-era Facts: Irrefutable, Inconvenient, Important, Evening Report.) I let the data stand on its own, largely without interpretation. The most important findings to explain are the reasons why Sweden ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Deaths: Interpretation of the Facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/08/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-pandemic-era-deaths-interpretation-of-the-facts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Deaths: Interpretation of the Facts">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The most important question about the Covid19 pandemic of the early 2020s is ‘how many people died?’. (The second-most important question relates to the impact of the pandemic on people’s ‘quality of life’.) The data here, available since last week, is the starting point for an answer to the first question. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Facts: Irrefutable, Inconvenient, Important" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/07/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-pandemic-era-facts-irrefutable-inconvenient-important/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Pandemic-era Facts: Irrefutable, Inconvenient, Important">Read more</a>
