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April 7, 2021
A View from Afar – Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: how in the last two weeks, China and the United States have been advancing distinct and separate defence alliances – positioning that is akin to the old Cold War. On one hand, the US has been building up a coalition of allies that is ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/07/scheduled-live-buchanan-and-manning-on-china-usa-construct-cold-war-styled-coalitions/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan and Manning on China + USA Construct Cold War-Styled Coalitions">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards The area of mental health has been a key strength for Jacinda Ardern and her Labour Government over the last few years. They campaigned strongly in 2017 on fixing up the dysfunctional system, and initially they made some vital strides forward in reforming the sector. An in-depth inquiry was instigated and ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: An overwhelming vote of no confidence in Labour’s mental health reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-an-overwhelming-vote-of-no-confidence-in-labours-mental-health-reforms/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: An overwhelming vote of no confidence in Labour’s mental health reforms">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT – by Selwyn Manning. On Tuesday, March 30, we lodged a series of questions to the Minister of Immigration Kris Faafoi, seeking answers to allegations that 10 Chinese workers, who were detained in custody pending deportation orders, were in fact victims of a human trafficking scam. Throughout last week, the ten workers’ lawyer, ... <a title="SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/06/special-report-bureaucratic-silence-surrounds-immigration-new-zealand-deportation-move-is-this-a-case-of-human-trafficking-black-labour/" aria-label="Read more about SPECIAL REPORT: Bureaucratic Silence Surrounds Immigration New Zealand Deportation Move – Is This a Case of Human Trafficking + Black Labour?">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards Jacinda Ardern can essentially say “kia kaha” as much as she wants to those at the bottom of the housing market, but it won’t help their plight. Eventually her government is going to have to take state housing seriously as a tool for helping solve the housing crisis – especially for ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Missing part of the Govt housing package – state builds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-missing-part-of-the-govt-housing-package-state-builds/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Missing part of the Govt housing package – state builds">Read more</a>
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April 1, 2021
A View from Afar - Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate political symbolism and discuss: How governments use symbolism to accentuate intent and identity. Some of it is fact, and some of it is fiction, some of it is designed to divert attention and deceive. In this episode Buchanan and Manning show you how to sift through the wheat from the chaff.
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March 30, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. Getting the Language Correct Aotearoa New Zealand has a housing problem; a very big housing problem, and a problem not unique to New Zealand. While political leaders and privileged commentators do acknowledge the problem, the discussion remains befuddled, presumably largely because of the compromised political and financial interests of those who ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Solving the Housing Crisis: Making Homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/keith-rankin-essay-solving-the-housing-crisis-making-homes/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Solving the Housing Crisis: Making Homes">Read more</a>
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March 30, 2021
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana. The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be a long time before the deep scars of the COVID-19 pandemic on human well-being fully heal. In the Asia-Pacific region, where 60 per cent of the world lives, the pandemic revealed chronic development ... <a title="Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/30/op-ed-covid19-a-wake-up-call-to-address-development-fault-lines-in-asia-and-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: COVID19 a wake-up call to address development fault lines in Asia and the Pacific">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Renters have been thrown under a bus by the Labour Government this week. Now the dust has settled on the Government’s announced housing changes, economists are pointing to a likely rise in the cost of rents, and an increase in homelessness. The flipside, of course, is that homebuyers may be better ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Housing announcement a blow for those at the bottom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/28/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-housing-announcement-a-blow-for-those-at-the-bottom/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Housing announcement a blow for those at the bottom">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin Hungary has now taken over from its neighbour, the Czech Republic, as the world’s most covid-fatal country in the most recent week. The top seven countries are in Eastern Europe, as is the ninth country (Poland); plenty of others from the region also feature. Only Brazil, scoring much higher than in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Victims of the latest wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-victims-of-the-latest-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Victims of the latest wave">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2021
Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning debate:
Whether the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service has accepted its failure to identify and detect terrorist planning activity in the lead up to the tragedy that occurred in Christchurch against Muslim people on March 15, 2019.
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March 25, 2021
A View from Afar: Join Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning debate: Whether the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service has accepted its failure to identify and detect terrorist planning activity in the lead up to the tragedy that occurred in Christchurch against Muslim people on March 15, 2019. ALSO, since the Christchurch terror attacks, after ... <a title="Video: Buchanan + Manning: After all the intel reports on the 2019 Terror Attacks are Kiwis safer in 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/25/scheduled-video-buchanan-manning-after-all-the-intel-reports-on-the-2018-terror-attacks-are-kiwis-safer-in-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Video: Buchanan + Manning: After all the intel reports on the 2019 Terror Attacks are Kiwis safer in 2021">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. “If the nations of the world fail to honour the pledges they made in Paris, the climate could return to Pliocene conditions when okapi-like creatures and giant vipers thrived in Europe. … Ernst Haeckel’s name for our Neanderthal ancestors, homo stupidus, may yet have some validity – for us.” Tim Flannery, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Homo Stupidus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/23/keith-rankin-essay-homo-stupidus/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Homo Stupidus?">Read more</a>
