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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>
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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.
