Socio-Economics

April 15, 2022

Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy

NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system

China confirms ‘in-depth exchange’ with Cook Islands as New Zealand faces criticism for bullying

Victory for US press freedom and workers – court grants injunction in VOA media case

Tahiti’s pro-independence ‘blue wave’ back at helm with decisive win

May 2, 2023

NZ’s focus on private vehicles an ‘off-track’ climate change plan, say...

May 17, 2022

Vanuatu election 2025: Earthquake aftershocks expose high cost of democracy

January 11, 2025

Climate change costs at-risk countries $525 billion in damage, says report

June 13, 2022

O’Neill replies on Maseratis, shuns ‘racist’ critic as opponents call strike

October 15, 2018

Fiji can’t compete with Australia and NZ on teacher salaries, says...

May 26, 2025

Bainimarama’s covid bragging rebuked as ‘shameful and despicable’ by Prasad

October 8, 2021

Hipkins warns NZ voters against ‘turning the clock back’ on reforms

September 1, 2023

‘Quit lip service’ and reshuffle PNG cabinet for national benefit, says...

September 18, 2023

NZ election 2023: ‘People power’ alliance wins pledge of 1000 new...

September 7, 2023

Keith Rankin Essay – The Coming Plight of Aotearoan Women in...

November 2, 2022

Keith Rankin Analysis – Adult Poverty Action, and the Loafers Lodge

May 20, 2023

1.2m Indonesian workers laid off as coronavirus crushes economy

April 10, 2020

Top journo students honoured at USP’s award night

October 26, 2016

Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture

September 15, 2023

Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place

March 20, 2024

NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system

May 20, 2022

Govt should defuse NZ’s social timebomb – but won’t

May 23, 2025

PNG seabed mining an environment experiment based on ‘false hope’, say...

December 14, 2016

Rebecca Kuku: PNG’s Gulf Province, ignored for too long but now...

December 31, 2020

Dramatic growth of NZ’s Māori economy highlights new report

March 15, 2025

Being homeless in PNG is a ‘death sentence’, says Moresby’s Raymond

September 13, 2023

Keith Rankin Analysis – The Seventy-Thirty Problem, and the Māori Health...

May 21, 2021

‘Gutting the Ponsonby community’: Locals say post office should stay open

June 11, 2025

Top journo students honoured on USP’s award night

October 26, 2016

US might not cut pledged Pacific aid, says NZ foreign minister

March 21, 2025

Prasad confident ‘fed up’ Fijians will make a change in this...

April 15, 2022

China confirms ‘in-depth exchange’ with Cook Islands as New Zealand faces...

February 14, 2025

50 years after the ‘fall’ of Saigon – from triumph to...

April 30, 2025

PSNA slams NZ defence minister Collins over genocide ‘dog-whistling’

October 21, 2025

PNG eyes China for more ‘cheaper’ loans as ties gain momentum

October 12, 2023

Obama praises Harvard for ‘setting example’ to universities resisting Trump

April 15, 2025

Growing controversy over ‘blocked’ PNG next-of-kin pension pay outs

August 10, 2023

Marshall Islands president warns of threat to Pacific Islands Forum unity

August 5, 2025

PNG’s opposition blasts O’Neill over ‘fake budget, fake revenues’

December 6, 2017

Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy

May 20, 2020

Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Expediency rather than transformation on welfare reform

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May 6, 2019

Australia accused of ‘bullying’ Pacific over climate action, ‘buying silence’

November 4, 2021

How to fight Trump’s cyber dystopia with community, self-determination, care and...

April 27, 2025

Bad news – why Australia is losing a generation of journalists