Independent Analysis and Reportage
LIVE@MIDDAY NZ Time - 6pm USEST - In this, the 24th episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will examine whether there is, in reality, such a thing as foreign policy independence in today's world.
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today THREE WATERS Thomas Manch (Stuff): Make no mistake, Labour knew it was passing controversial Three Waters entrenchment clause Thomas Cranmer: A government humiliated Thomas ... <a title="Newsletter: December 7 2022 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/newsletter-december-7-2022-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: December 7 2022 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 29 October 2022, the New Zealand Listener published 10 Billion reasons to be cheerful, an article by Greg Dixon summarising “futurologist” Hamish McRae’s 2022 book The World in 2050: How to think about the future. (Note also the accompanying article, A blast from the past; and the letters responses.) The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Predicting the Coming Quarter Century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/keith-rankin-essay-predicting-the-coming-quarter-century/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Predicting the Coming Quarter Century">Read more</a>
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today 1NEWS KANTAR POLL, PARLIAMENT 1News: Poll: National and ACT strengthen, Luxon closes gap on Ardern 1News: Poll: Economic pessimism soars to 10-year high Toby ... <a title="Newsletter: December 6 2022 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/newsletter-december-6-2022-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: December 6 2022 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Economics is a profound and important discipline. But its practice is prone to self-censorship, and still reflects in large part its (Victorian era) glory days and the sensibilities of that era. The father and mother of today’s textbook economics were Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley who published The Economics of Industry ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Using the Sex Industry to Critique Textbook Economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/keith-rankin-essay-using-the-sex-industry-to-critique-textbook-economics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Using the Sex Industry to Critique Textbook Economics">Read more</a>
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Clawing back $7bn of corporate welfare The taxpayer is short of billions of dollars that were overpaid to businesses during Covid according to Christchurch philanthropists Grant and Marilyn Nelson. They are taking legal action against state agencies to push them to recoup up to $7bn that was wrongly paid ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Clawing back $7bn of corporate welfare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-clawing-back-7bn-of-corporate-welfare/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Clawing back $7bn of corporate welfare">Read more</a>
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy Do New Zealand state spies unlawfully surveil the government’s political critics? Do they spy on critical journalists? Unfortunately, the answer is yes. And yesterday the government domestic security agency was forced to apologise for one instance when they were ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nicky-hager-strikes-a-win-for-media-freedom-and-democracy/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Nicky Hager strikes a win for media freedom and democracy">Read more</a>
In this, the 23rd episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning analyse the significance of public protests that have challenged authoritarian rule in both the People’s Republic of China and in the Republic of Iran.
LIVE@MIDDAY NZ Time – 6pm USEST – In this, the 23rd episode of A View from Afar for 2022 political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning will analyse the significance of public protests that have challenged authoritarian rule in both the People’s Republic of China and in the Republic of Iran. Paul will ... <a title="Live Midday Today: A People’s Protest Rises Within the PRC and Iran – Buchanan and Manning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/live-midday-today-a-peoples-protest-rises-within-the-prc-and-iran-buchanan-and-manning/" aria-label="Read more about Live Midday Today: A People’s Protest Rises Within the PRC and Iran – Buchanan and Manning">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The academic study of history, more than anything else, is about the relationships between social elites and the lower classes. Yet, when it comes to the present, the relationships between elites and wider society is under-discussed, both popularly and academically. (In academia, it is the province of sociology, a social ‘science’ ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/keith-rankin-essay-how-do-left-wing-elites-make-their-money/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – How do Left-Wing Elites Make their Money?">Read more</a>
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today THREE WATERS Jane Patterson (RNZ): Three Waters anti-privatisation blunder adds to storm of controversy Jo Moir (Newsroom): The chaos behind the Greens’ controversial Three ... <a title="Newsletter: November 30 2022 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/newsletter-november-30-2022-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: November 30 2022 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of ESCAP. The recent climate talks in Egypt have left us with a sobering reality: The window for maintaining global warming to 1.5 degrees is closing fast and what is on the table currently is insufficient to avert some of the worst ... <a title="OP-ED: Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero? – Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/30/op-ed-can-asia-and-the-pacific-get-on-track-to-net-zero-armida-salsiah-alisjahbana/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Can Asia and the Pacific get on track to net zero? – Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana">Read more</a>