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March 23, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On 1 December 2021 the CCCFA (Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act) entered Aotearoa New Zealand with more stealth than the Omicron BA2 variant. It resulted in unintended consequences that were (and are) entirely predictable. There are two sets of ‘unintended but predictable consequences’: those consequences that make anxious and desperate ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Borrowing Hurdles: Unintended Consequences arising from Wilful Blindness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/23/keith-rankin-analysis-borrowing-hurdles-unintended-consequences-arising-from-wilful-blindness/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Borrowing Hurdles: Unintended Consequences arising from Wilful Blindness">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryce Edwards How determined are Labour to take the necessary steps to fix inequality and poverty? Will electoral calculations triumph over their principles and stated ambitions? These are some of the questions being asked on the political left, as Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s government looks determined to stand by while social problems continue ... <a title="Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems worsen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/13/bryce-edwards-arderns-labour-government-stands-by-as-nz-social-problems-worsen/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards: Ardern’s Labour government stands by as NZ social problems worsen">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This 21st century epoch is coming to be one of ‘existential crises’, meaning that various large-scale dangers are increasingly coming to be seen to threaten ‘our’ existence, where ‘our’ most commonly relates to people, but may also relate to multicellular life on Earth. An existential catastrophe might fall short of human ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Existential Concerns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/14/keith-rankin-analysis-existential-concerns/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Existential Concerns">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesia’s West Papua province has again been recorded as having the worst democracy index in the republic, reports CNN Indonesia. This year (2019), the West Papuan Democracy Index (IDI) was 57.62, even dropping lower from 2018 when it was 58.29 points. Based on data from the National Statistics Agency (BPS), West ... <a title="West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/west-papua-scores-lowest-democracy-index-free-expression-declines/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua scores lowest democracy index, free expression declines">Read more</a>
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September 28, 2018
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