Independent Analysis and Reportage
A View from Afar: In this the first episode for 2022 Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss what we all should expect to unfold in 2022 - especially with regard to foreign affairs and global security.
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Including the small countries As for most of the second half of 2021, the small principalities and territories (and former territories) of the European colonial powers show up highly in these charts of covid casualty countries. One of the great untold stories of Covid19 has been the impact of SARS-Cov2 (and ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 January league: Beginning of the End" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-january-league-beginning-of-the-end/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 January league: Beginning of the End">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Plank, Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury Lynn Grieveson /Newsroom via Getty Images The controversy surrounding New Zealand journalist Charlotte Bellis, who has now accepted a place in border quarantine after initially seeking refuge in Afghanistan when her first application was declined, has highlighted confusion ... <a title="New Zealand’s border quarantine has intercepted thousands of COVID cases, but is it time to retire the flawed system?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/03/new-zealands-border-quarantine-has-intercepted-thousands-of-covid-cases-but-is-it-time-to-retire-the-flawed-system-176144/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s border quarantine has intercepted thousands of COVID cases, but is it time to retire the flawed system?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David S G Goodman, Director, China Studies Centre, Professor of Chinese Politics, University of Sydney David J. Phillip/AP The Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics start on Friday – the first time in history the same city has hosted both the summer and winter games. Compared to ... <a title="How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/02/how-will-china-handle-the-dual-threats-of-covid-and-political-protests-at-the-winter-olympics-175637/" aria-label="Read more about How will China handle the dual threats of COVID and political protests at the Winter Olympics?">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Kent, Professor and Laboratory Head, The University of Melbourne AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi COVID is rampant in Australia and many parts of the world right now. Some people battling or recovering from infection may wonder if catching COVID will give them longer term immunity for when ... <a title="What we know now about COVID immunity after infection – including Omicron and Delta variants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/31/what-we-know-now-about-covid-immunity-after-infection-including-omicron-and-delta-variants-175653/" aria-label="Read more about What we know now about COVID immunity after infection – including Omicron and Delta variants">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Cooper, Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom via Getty Images As New Zealand’s government prepares to deal with a looming Omicron outbreak, this won’t be the only major issue it will have to tackle this year. 2022 will be important ... <a title="COVID will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/covid-will-dominate-but-new-zealand-will-also-have-to-face-the-triple-planetary-crisis-this-year-175044/" aria-label="Read more about COVID will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Burnett, Research Officer, Garvan Institute; Senior Lecturer, UNSW., Garvan Institute In November last year, Australians began to feel a wave of optimism that COVID would no longer define their everyday existence. Soaring vaccination rates provided some measure of confidence the threat from COVID was beginning to ... <a title="Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There’s one key problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/will-an-omicron-specific-vaccine-help-control-covid-theres-one-key-problem-175137/" aria-label="Read more about Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There’s one key problem">Read more</a>
By Katie Scotcher, RNZ News political reporter Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is warning New Zealand’s covid-19 case numbers in 2022 will be unlike anything seen here before. Jacinda Ardern today delivered her first speech of the year — to Labour MPs gathered in New Plymouth for their annual caucus retreat. The speech was largely focused ... <a title="Omicron will be a ‘different foe’, PM Jacinda Ardern warns NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/21/omicron-will-be-a-different-foe-pm-jacinda-ardern-warns-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron will be a ‘different foe’, PM Jacinda Ardern warns NZ">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Power, Associate Professor in Coastal and Marine Science, University of Newcastle Bianca De Marchi The eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai created a tsunami felt across the Pacific Ocean. This includes Australia, where small but measurable tsunami waves were still being recorded as ... <a title="Waves from the Tonga tsunami are still being felt in Australia – and even a 50cm surge could knock you off your feet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/17/waves-from-the-tonga-tsunami-are-still-being-felt-in-australia-and-even-a-50cm-surge-could-knock-you-off-your-feet-175056/" aria-label="Read more about Waves from the Tonga tsunami are still being felt in Australia – and even a 50cm surge could knock you off your feet">Read more</a>
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Campion, Lecturer in Terrorism Studies, Charles Sturt University Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, extremists have sought to exploit the pandemic environment to their own ends. Where most of the population sees an enduring health catastrophe, extremists tend to see opportunity. Over the past two years, we have ... <a title="How extremists have used the COVID pandemic to further their own ends, often with chaotic results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/10/how-extremists-have-used-the-covid-pandemic-to-further-their-own-ends-often-with-chaotic-results-174400/" aria-label="Read more about How extremists have used the COVID pandemic to further their own ends, often with chaotic results">Read more</a>
Headline: Indigenous socialism, with a Chilean face. – 36th Parallel Assessments Five days before Christmas and 51 years after Salvador Allende was elected as the first socialist president in Chilean history, Gabriel Boric re-made history as the youngest candidate (35) to win that office. A former student activist and Congressman from Punta Arenas in Tierra ... <a title="Indigenous socialism, with a Chilean face." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/09/indigenous-socialism-with-a-chilean-face/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous socialism, with a Chilean face.">Read more</a>
Opinion by Chris Leitch, leader of Social Credit Party. The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing) – It bought those bonds (IOU’s which represent previous government borrowing) from the country’s commercial banks, institutional investors, and managed funds (such as Kiwisaver) using a process termed Quantitative Easing ... <a title="Opinion – The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing)." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/08/opinion-the-reserve-bank-holds-55-billion-in-government-bonds-around-half-of-the-governments-current-borrowing/" aria-label="Read more about Opinion – The Reserve Bank holds $55 billion in Government bonds (around half of the Government’s current borrowing).">Read more</a>