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October 22, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s A View from Afar As always, we are joined by political scientist Paul Buchanan and this week we will discuss: In these weeks leading up to the United States elections… there have been a number of countries around the world that have seen voters swing away from economically liberal right parties ... <a title="VIDEO: New Zealand and Bolivia Elections – A View from Afar – With Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/22/live-a-view-from-afar-with-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-new-zealand-and-bolivia-elections-do-they-indicate-a-change-in-global-mood/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: New Zealand and Bolivia Elections – A View from Afar – With Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. The National Party’s defeat has been so comprehensive that few in the party seem optimistic they will recover anytime soon. Falling from 47% in 2017 to just 27% (which might drop as low as 25% once special votes are counted), is one of the most severe collapses in New Zealand’s ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s catastrophic collapse and fraught rebuild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-catastrophic-collapse-and-fraught-rebuild/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s catastrophic collapse and fraught rebuild">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the average numbers of votes cast – on and before election day – in New Zealand’s different regions. In principle, all electorates have the same population, with electorate boundaries drawn with reference to population quotas based on census returns. However, each electorate may be up to ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Election Day Demographics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-election-day-demographics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Election Day Demographics">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Rowley, Professor; School of Economics, Finance and Property, and Director, Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute, Curtin Research Centre, Curtin University In response to the COVID-19 recession, federal, state and territory governments quickly provided support to the housing industry for two reasons. First, to safeguard jobs ... <a title="Australia: Why more housing stimulus will be needed to sustain recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/21/why-more-housing-stimulus-will-be-needed-to-sustain-recovery-148003/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: Why more housing stimulus will be needed to sustain recovery">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Few would have thought a US-China relationship marked by relative stability for half a century would be upended in just four years. But US President Donald Trump’s privileged tour of the Forbidden City in November 2017 ... <a title="Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/trump-took-a-sledgehammer-to-us-china-relations-this-wont-be-an-easy-fix-even-if-biden-wins-147098/" aria-label="Read more about Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2020
Analysis by Selwyn Manning. There’s a mood circulating among some circles that it would end badly for the Green Party in 2023 should it negotiate a part within a now-powerful Labour-led government. The argument goes; that should the Greens negotiate roles within the new Government, that their voice and policies would be watered down, rendered ... <a title="Selwyn Manning Analysis – Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/18/selwyn-manning-analysis-of-negotiations-opportunities-and-an-obligation-to-voters-to-govern/" aria-label="Read more about Selwyn Manning Analysis – Of Negotiations, Opportunities and an Obligation to Voters to Govern">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political commentators and journalists are searching around for the right term to describe Saturday’s election result. “Seismic” or “tectonic” might be the winner – the shift really was of that magnitude. Labour increased their vote from 37% to 49%, which is likely to rise closer to 50% after special votes ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s tectonic election result" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/18/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labours-tectonic-election-result/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s tectonic election result">Read more</a>
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October 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University The pre-election polls suggested it might happen. But the fact that Labour and Jacinda Ardern have provisionally won an outright majority and the mandate to govern New Zealand alone is more than an electoral landslide — it is a tectonic ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern and Labour returned in a landslide — 5 experts on a historic New Zealand election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/18/jacinda-ardern-and-labour-returned-in-a-landslide-5-experts-on-a-historic-new-zealand-election-148245/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern and Labour returned in a landslide — 5 experts on a historic New Zealand election">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I recently encountered the concept “pay it forward”, with reference to a debt. While it was in a personal context that I came across this concept, on reflection I am wondering why – as a follower of news media – I have never heard the concept in any current affairs discussion. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Public Debt: Pay it Back or Pay it Forward?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/16/keith-rankin-analysis-public-debt-pay-it-back-or-pay-it-forward/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Public Debt: Pay it Back or Pay it Forward?">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s A View from Afar As always, we are joined by political scientist Paul Buchanan and this week we will discuss: How the ‘probabilities’ of Presidential incumbent Donald Trump being re-elected, look increasingly unlikely. It’s still possible, but more improbable. If Democrat candidate Joe Biden wins the presidency, what would this mean ... <a title="LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss – What would a Biden Administration Foreign Policy Look Like" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/live-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-discuss-what-would-a-biden-administration-foreign-policy-look-like/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: Paul Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss – What would a Biden Administration Foreign Policy Look Like">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Clune, Honorary Associate, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney New South Wales Premier Gladys Berejiklian has become ensnared this week in the sensational ICAC hearings into alleged corruption by former MP Daryl Maguire — and suddenly finds her future very much in doubt. In today’s ... <a title="A long history of political corruption in NSW — and the downfall of MPs, ministers and premiers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/a-long-history-of-political-corruption-in-nsw-and-the-downfall-of-mps-ministers-and-premiers-147994/" aria-label="Read more about A long history of political corruption in NSW — and the downfall of MPs, ministers and premiers">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suze Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Executive Development, Massey University Women leading both of New Zealand’s largest political parties is something to celebrate. Watching Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins go head to head in three televised or online pre-election debates should surely dispel any doubt about whether women are ... <a title="NZ election 2020: why gender stereotypes still affect perceptions of Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins as leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/15/nz-election-2020-why-gender-stereotypes-still-affect-perceptions-of-jacinda-ardern-and-judith-collins-as-leaders-147837/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2020: why gender stereotypes still affect perceptions of Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins as leaders">Read more</a>
