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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>
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March 19, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Italy and Spain were the first major European entry points for Covid19. The pandemic appears to have spread to the rest of the Europe mainly from Italy, and to the rest of the world from Europe. Most of the world’s first dramatic news pictures of hospital wards and burial caskets came ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: A New Wave?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-a-new-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: A New Wave?">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Director of the Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis Dr Lain Dare discuss the week in politics. This week the pair discuss the marches which took place all over the nation, consisting ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on March 4 Justice, Christian Porter, and industrial relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/video-michelle-grattan-on-march-4-justice-christian-porter-and-industrial-relations-157507/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on March 4 Justice, Christian Porter, and industrial relations">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company (with New Zealand Government investment) has been in business with iFlytec – a Chinese company alleged to be involved with surveillance of China’s oppressed Uyghur people. ALSO, we discuss Myanmar and the disturbing reality that Myanmar's military has overthrown once again the democratically elected government.
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March 17, 2021
A View from Afar: Political scientist and former Pentagon analysis Paul G. Buchanan and investigative journalist Selwyn Manning and debate security, intelligence, and foreign policy trends and issues. This week’s episode: Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/17/coming-up-live-buchanan-manning-ethical-trade-and-china-myanmars-descent-into-military-rule/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: Ethical Trade and China + Myanmar’s Descent into Military Rule">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Krumdieck, Professor and Director, Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab, University of Canterbury Green hydrogen is being touted as an alternative to fossil fuels in New Zealand. The government has invested NZ$8.4 million to explore its potential and $19.9 million in a hydrogen energy facility. Globally, ... <a title="Why New Zealand should invest in smart rail before green hydrogen to decarbonise transport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/16/why-new-zealand-should-invest-in-smart-rail-before-green-hydrogen-to-decarbonise-transport-153075/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand should invest in smart rail before green hydrogen to decarbonise transport">Read more</a>
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March 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato March 15 2019 is a day we must never forget, a defining point in the history of New Zealand. The premeditated attack on the Christchurch Muslim community took the lives of 51 of our fellow citizens and damaged many ... <a title="Two years on from the Christchurch terror attack, how much has really changed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/15/two-years-on-from-the-christchurch-terror-attack-how-much-has-really-changed-156850/" aria-label="Read more about Two years on from the Christchurch terror attack, how much has really changed?">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Short, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland New research published this week in the British Medical Journal found the coronavirus variant originating in the United Kingdom, called B.1.1.7, is substantially more deadly than the original strain of SARS-CoV-2. The authors say the B.1.1.7 variant is between ... <a title="The UK variant is likely deadlier, more infectious and becoming dominant. But the vaccines still work well against it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/12/the-uk-variant-is-likely-deadlier-more-infectious-and-becoming-dominant-but-the-vaccines-still-work-well-against-it-156951/" aria-label="Read more about The UK variant is likely deadlier, more infectious and becoming dominant. But the vaccines still work well against it">Read more</a>
