Keith Rankin: Letter to Labour about Income Tax
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Economist Keith Rankin argues that if Labour is elected as the lead party of Government then it should embark on a brave “twenty-first century income tax” reform package. Letter to Labour about Income Tax – By Keith Rankin. As the fog clears, three options emerge for the 2017-2020 government: · conservative: National […]
Read More →LETTERS: Operation Burnham – New Zealand Government Must Initiate Independent Inquiry
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Lieutenant General Tim Keating presenting the official account of Operation Burnham at a press conference, March 27, 2017. LETTERS to the Editor: Operation Burnham – New Zealand Government Must Initiate Independent Inquiry In July It was revealed Australia Special Forces may have been responsible for the deaths of children in Afghanistan. […]
Read More →Peter S. Kinjap: Only a ‘scrub up’, fresh MPs can save PNG’s future
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A cartoon about the lack of action in reversing the huge Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABL) land grab, or to stop illegal logging in SABL areas. Cartoon: PNGExposed OPINION: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby. The current Papua New Guinea government is being accused of being […]
Read More →Peter S. Kinjap: Only a ‘scrub up’, new MPs can save PNG’s future
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz A cartoon about the lack of action in reversing the huge Special Agricultural and Business Leases (SABL) land grab, or to stop illegal logging in SABL areas. Cartoon: PNGExposed OPINION: By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby. The current Papua New Guinea government is being accused of being […]
Read More →Keith Locke: Israel’s anti-nuclear whistleblower more deserving of NZ citizenship
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Mordechai Vanunu holding a copy of the London Sunday Times article that landed him in jail, in Jerusalem after his release in 2004. Image: Haaretz OPINION: By Keith Locke No self-respecting country sells its passports to rich people who don’t even live there, which is why it was […]
Read More →Vanuatu police chief court case, finance ‘grey list’ pose challenges
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Vanuatu police on parade on Port Vila … commissioner issue now in court. Image: Vanuatu Daily Post COMMENT: By Bob Makin in Port Vila Two big issues for Vanuatu lead today’s news and need quick resolution to restore confidence in the current administration. There are legal and political sides to both […]
Read More →Wadan Narsey: Are there two sets of prosecuting rules in Fiji?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz ANALYSIS: By Wadan Narsey in Suva In 2016, two of Fiji’s main media organisations, the privately owned The Fiji Times and state-owned Fiji Broadcasting Corporation, came to public attention, for the wrong reasons — laws regarding ethnic sensibilities in multiracial Fiji. The international community needs to note that […]
Read More →Dan McGarry: Indonesia is slowly, slowly losing Melanesia
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry in Port Vila Last month, New Zealand-based analyst Jose Sousa-Santos commented on Twitter that “Indonesia’s attempt at buying support from the Pacific region seems to have little to no impact on Melanesia’s stance on [West] Papua.” That’s one of those pesky observations that’s neither […]
Read More →Amanda Watson: Does PNG rank highly for internet porn searches?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Dr Amanda Watson In Papua New Guinea, the Post-Courier featured a front-page story with the headline “PNG tops world in ‘porn’ search” on January 17. In previous years, there have also been similar stories asserting that PNG beats all other countries when it comes to internet searches […]
Read More →Daily Digest: Tanna filmmakers respond to exploitation claims
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Comment from Vanuatu Daily Digest Knee-jerk resentment of someone else’s success, as elsewhere, is sadly a feature of Vanuatu life, so the kind of comment seen below, prompted by the feature film Tanna‘s global success — and now Oscar nomination, is not unexpected: Thanks and good tumas blo save’ but my […]
Read More →‘Everything can be burnt’ – Melanesian West Papua in the Jokowi era
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The face of West Papuan society is changing but RNZ International found that the core culture of the indigenous people of Indonesia’s Papua region is not easily destroyed. Video: RNZI On an island with the third largest rainforest in the world live an indigenous people who are quickly […]
Read More →The future of media freedom – we can’t take it for granted
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Dan McGarry, media director of the Vanuatu Daily Post Media freedom is everyone’s freedom. We can’t take it for granted. My education in the challenges of reporting the news began in a hurry. I got my first threatening lawyer’s letter less than half an hour after sitting […]
Read More →Obama’s legacy is bittersweet – and its chance of survival hangs in the balance
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz By Professor Thomas Clark The grace. The elegance. The deftness of touch. The quick intelligence. The soaring rhetoric. The unlimited aspirations. The hope of a better life for all. Though Barack Obama’s legacy is rather lesser than some might have hoped for when he was inaugurated president of […]
Read More →Tess Newton Cain: We need a new law about kava … or do we?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Kava Act 2015 amendment … “In most cases we don’t need a new law or new powers; what we need is to enforce the ones we already have.” Image: SBS OPINION: By Tess Newton Cain in Port Vila There have been a couple of stories recently in Vanuatu […]
Read More →Despite Trump, 2017 should be another top year for global wind
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz President-elect Dinald Trump … “bunch of climate-denying billionaires [named] as his key cabinet nominees”. Image: 21stCentTech ANALYSIS: By Steve Sawyer Looking back at 2016, it’s easier to come up with a list of bad things that happened than good: Brexit, Trump and the rise of post-truth politics; the […]
Read More →Endangered – the frontline journalism of outrage
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz War Reporters, a short video launched by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) last year to honour journalists facing “danger zones”. Its release coincided with the publication of RSF’s 50th book in the “100 photos for press freedom” series – this one dedicated to the work of Robert Capa. REVIEW: […]
Read More →Biman Prasad: COP23 presidency — facing the gravity of the task for Fiji
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The narrativeIt is noteworthy that there was no communications or consultations nationally, regionally or internationally as Fiji lobbied to get the presidency for COP23 in Marrakech. Even our fellow members of the Pacific and SIDS (Small Islands Developing States) were caught unaware. A robust consultation nationally would have […]
Read More →Florida airport shootings – few basic questions being raised
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz Surveillance footage of the accused guman Esteban Santiago opening fire at Fort Lauderdale Airport in Florida last Friday. Video: TMZ website OPINION: By David Robie Just having missed the shootings by a US veteran at Florida’s Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last Friday by less than a couple of […]
Read More →Gary Juffa: Shedding PNG blood for corporate interest – didn’t we learn?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz The deployment of military troops to Hela province is reminiscent of tragic events that unfolded about 28 years ago that sparked off a crisis and left more then 20,000 Papua New Guineans dead. When Bougainvilleans decried the unfair treatment of landowners, pollution and lack of the government’s care […]
Read More →Massive tourism development proposal for Port Vila poses urban challenge
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Article by AsiaPacificReport.nz An architectural rendering of the proposed resort at Melcoffe. Port Vila’s urban planning processes are practically non-existent – so why is Govt pushing for a development of this scale at this location? COMMENTARY: By Bob Makin in Port Vila “An ambitious new plan to improve Vanuatu’s aviation and […]
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