Chinese ‘baseless rumour’, Nauru ‘justice’ for refugees and Fiji diabetes
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific.David Robie talks on 95bFM about current Pacific issues Reuben McLaren of 95bFM talks to Professor David Robie, director of the Pacific Media Centre at Auckland University of Technology, on the centre’s Southern Cross radio programme. David speaks about various upheavals around the Pacific, including the alleged Chinese […]
Read More →Dr Paul Buchanan – On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective.
Paul Buchanan On intelligence oversight, a broader perspective. – 36th Parallel Assessments Introduction. Dr Paul Buchanan, co-founder of 36th Parallel Assessments. 36th Parallel Assessments’ Director Paul G. Buchanan has been named as a member of the New Zealand Inspector General of Intelligence and Security’s Reference Group, an external interest intermediation panel. The backdrop to his […]
Read More →Tony Alexander’s Weekly New Zealand Economic Overview 19 April 2018
Economic Analysis by Tony Alexander. This week I take a simple look at reasons why our economy’s growth rate and jobs growth have both been so strong the past four years, in spite of the big fall in dairy prices over 2013-14. Strong Growth For Four Years In the absence of any truly useful economic […]
Read More →Keith Rankin’s Chart for this Month: Ages at Death, New Zealand 1957 and 2017
Chart for this Month: Ages at Death, New Zealand 1957 and 2017 Analysis by Keith Rankin. Older Population, Higher Life Expectancy. Chart by Keith Rankin. This month’s chart (a comparative histogram) shows the impact – of both an aging population and rising life expectancy – on ages at death. The percentages shown basically represent the […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s fraught balancing act on Syria bombing
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s fraught balancing act on Syria bombing Dr Bryce Edwards. Should New Zealand be giving support to Trump’s military intervention in the Middle East? New Zealand politicians and commentators are very divided on what the best course of action is. So far, the Government has tried to take a middle path, […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A bolder and greener government
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A bolder and greener government Dr Bryce Edwards. The Labour-led government is looking bolder, smarter, and greener than it did a week ago. Its announcement of the ban on new gas and oil exploration in the seas around New Zealand has been viewed as a defining moment for the new government. […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Hit & Run inquiry opens up a can of worms
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Hit & Run inquiry opens up a can of worms Dr Bryce Edwards. New Zealand’s military conduct in its longest running war ever – in Afghanistan – is finally getting an official government inquiry. This has the real potential to open up a can of worms. So far, the announcement […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why this isn’t A transformational government
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why this isn’t A transformational government Dr Bryce Edwards. Jacinda Ardern’s promise to lead a “transformational government” is looking fairly hollow at the moment. That’s because it’s insisting on running the same sort of economic regime as the previous government, while somehow expecting a different result. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Deputy […]
Read More →OP-ED: The Meaning of Operation Olive Branch – Turkey Minister of Foreign Affairs
EDITOR’S NOTE: This opinion article is written by Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, by H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu. It was first published in Foreign Policy on April 5 2018 Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. The gloomy portrait of the Middle East today should not obscure that peace is achievable. The basic premise for […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Greens go red
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Greens go red Dr Bryce Edwards. The Green Party membership have voted resoundingly to take the party in a more left-wing direction by selecting Marama Davidson as the new co-leader. That’s the consensus amongst commentators analysing yesterday’s announcement. Of course, commentators differ over many other elements of the result – for […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Something is rotten in the state of NZ’s healthcare
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Something is rotten in the state of NZ’s healthcare Dr Bryce Edwards. Something is rotten in the state of New Zealand’s hospitals – literally. And the source of that rot lies in the state of governance in health and politics. How else to explain recent revelations about the state of Middlemore […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should Clare Curran go?
Political Roundup: Should Clare Curran go? Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – From some angles, it seems like a comparatively trivial and pedantic controversy, but New Zealand’s reputation for integrity in the political system is just too important to be tarnished in the way that the RNZ-Curran scandal is doing. Far from being […]
Read More →Keith Rankin Analysis – The Government’s new ‘Employment’ Contract
Keith Rankin Analysis – The Government’s new ‘Employment’ Contract Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Keith Rankin. The government has got it badly wrong with the new Policy Targets Agreement, its contract with the Reserve Bank about monetary policy. Perhaps inadvertently, the emphasis is now on maximising employment, not living standards. Maximising employment is not the […]
Read More →OP-ED: Turkey’s Foreign Minister Details Its Resolve in the Conflict Against Terrorism and DAESH
Article by H.E. Mr. Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Minister of Foreign Affairs published in Le Monde entitled “Turkey: The best ally for the security of Europe”, 20 March 2018 EDITOR’S NOTE: This is an unofficial English translation of the original French text. *** Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Turkey’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Nowadays, the hardest challenges European countries confront […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Populist Shane Jones Vs Corporate Air NZ
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Populist Shane Jones Vs Corporate Air NZ Dr Bryce Edwards. Shane Jones is just what New Zealand First needs at the moment – a polarising campaigner who can show his party is in touch with those parts of New Zealand not well served by corporates such as Air New Zealand. His […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Battle for Trust in NZ politics
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Battle for Trust in NZ politics Dr Bryce Edwards. Over the last decade there’s been a stunning slump in levels of public trust for authorities around the globe. When society becomes more suspicious of public institutions, there is increased chance of political upheaval and change – which can be a […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The logic of the Greens’ question-time giveaway
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The logic of the Greens’ question-time giveaway Dr Bryce Edwards. Even many Green supporters are bewildered and unhappy about James Shaw’s announcement that the party has given away their allocation of parliamentary questions to National. On the face of it, this highly unusual decision to help the National Party looks mad, […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour’s victim-led approach under scrutiny
Political Roundup: Labour’s victim-led approach under scrutiny Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour has justified its handling of the youth summer camp sexual misconduct controversy as the party taking a “victim-led” approach. It has received support for its stance from a number of quarters, including Wellington Sexual Abuse HELP. But there has also been strong criticism of […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Defence cover-up starts to unravel
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Defence cover-up starts to unravel The New Zealand Defence Force’s attempted cover-up of the Hit and Run controversy appears to be unravelling. The military has finally been forced to make an about-turn – what they had claimed was a key flaw in the allegations in the 2017 book was, in fact, […]
Read More →Keith Rankin Analysis: Census Survey
Census Survey – Analysis by Keith Rankin Keith Rankin. I did an anonymous survey of my first year (tertiary) statistics and economic students. In West Auckland, while we have some international students, the biggest demographic is New Zealand residents born outside of New Zealand. Many students, though not most, are over 25 years old. 58 […]
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