Independent Analysis and Reportage
Source: Radio New Zealand The government will spend $131 million on improving students’ reading, writing and maths in this year’s budget, the Education Minister Erica Stanford says. Stanford made the pre-Budget announcement alongside Prime Minister Christopher Luxon at Boulcott School in Lower Hutt on Monday. Another 12 initiatives as part of primary and intermediate school…
Source: Radio New Zealand 123rf Last year’s weak economic conditions coincided with a 35 percent drop in the value of capital investments, along with a 10 percent drop in the number of transactions the year earlier. NZ Private Capital Monitor indicates there were 276 transactions last year, with $2.5 billion in combined investments and divestments…
Source: Radio New Zealand GenPro, the association for general practice owners, has called for all political parties to consider investing more in primary healthcare. 123rf GPs are calling for more funding and more accurate ways of allocating it, to ensure practices aren’t losing money. The government has recently announced a new method of determining the…
Source: Radio New Zealand Finance minister Nicola Willis. RNZ / Mark Papalii The finance minister is set to reveal proposals to reduce the number of government agencies, by telling ministries and departments to come up with plans for amalgamation. RNZ understands Nicola Willis will set out three proposals on Tuesday afternoon to create efficiencies in…
Source: Radio New Zealand The government pledged to spend $131 million on improving students’ reading, writing and maths in this year’s budget. Unsplash/ Taylor Flowe A school principal has said the government’s planned investment into education will help teachers and deliver a more consistent quality of learning across the country. The government pledged on Tuesday…
Recorded Live @ 12:30pm Monday (NZ Time) – A View from Afar podcast. Series 06, Episode 04 – In this episode, political scientist and former Pentagon Analyst Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into: The PRC/USA Summit, Geopolitics, Institutional Lag, Industrial Resilience. Geopolitics is shifting, new alliances are forming, and co-operation between unlikely nations are paving the way for a different world.
Essay by Keith Rankin, 20 April 2026 It’s commonplace, especially in The West, to think of wars in binary terms. In those terms, wars are either won or lost, like a sports match. And the symbol of victory is a trophy. In a match-up, the symbol of defeat is the loss of a trophy. In ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – War Trophies: Considering USA, Iran, and Japan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/20/keith-rankin-essay-war-trophies-considering-usa-iran-and-japan/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – War Trophies: Considering USA, Iran, and Japan">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 17 April 2026 My first paragraphs here feature Steve Keen, Australian economist, who was a panellist on Al Jazeera’s Inside Story 12 April 2026 (Could the Iran war pose lasting risks to global food security?, or here on YouTube): Interviewer: “You’ve warned that the world could face famine within months … ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Marooned in the Pacific Ocean: Famine Down-Under?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/20/keith-rankin-analysis-marooned-in-the-pacific-ocean-famine-down-under/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Marooned in the Pacific Ocean: Famine Down-Under?">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 15 April 2026. On 14 April 2026 I heard this on TV3 News (about 8 minutes in): Sharon Zollner, ANZ Bank chief economist: “We were earlier picking that the Reserve Bank wouldn’t need to hike until December, but the news out of the Middle East has kept getting worse. It does ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Aggravating an Aggravated Cost of Living Crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/20/keith-rankin-analysis-aggravating-an-aggravated-cost-of-living-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Aggravating an Aggravated Cost of Living Crisis">Read more</a>
Recorded Live - A View from Afar - In this episode, political scientist and former Pentagon Analyst Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into: The End of the Liberal Internationalist Order and the Rise of Illiberalism.
LIVE@ 12:30PM (NZ TIME): A View from Afar podcast. Series 06, Episode 03 – In this episode, political scientist and former Pentagon Analyst… Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will deep-dive into: The End of the Liberal Internationalist Order and the Rise of Illiberalism. The topics to discuss are: A Global Transition Process – What is this ... <a title="Podcast: The End of the Liberal Internationalist Order and the Rise of Illiberalism – AVFA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/20/podcast-the-end-of-the-liberal-internationalist-order-and-the-rise-of-illiberalism-avfa/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast: The End of the Liberal Internationalist Order and the Rise of Illiberalism – AVFA">Read more</a>
Analysis by Keith Rankin, 14 April 2026. Despite the mega-commentary about the Israel-Iran war, and especially the United States’ participation in that war, almost nothing is being debated about how the war is being funded. I’ll make some comments about Iran later. But we need to focus on the United States, which is by far ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Printing Money to Finance this and other Wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2026/04/14/keith-rankin-analysis-printing-money-to-finance-this-and-other-wars/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Printing Money to Finance this and other Wars">Read more</a>