Bryce Edwards Analysis: Jacindamania
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Bryce Edwards Analysis: Jacindamania Labour Party leader, Jacinda Ardern. New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern is promising to run an election campaign characterised by “relentless positivity”. And, so far, there’s been an almost relentlessly positive response to her rise to the top. It appears that Ardern’s extraordinary elevation is going to lift […]
Read More →Keith Rankin Analysis: What’s happened to Labour Productivity?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Keith Rankin Analysis: What’s happened to Labour Productivity? Productivity plummets despite high annual growth. Graph copyright 2017, Keith Rankin. Labour productivity is an important economic concept, that should equate to living standards. It is rising labour productivity that makes it possible to remunerate people with rising incomes. Productivity, by definition, is economic […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: Get ready for Prime Minister Winston Peters
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ New Zealand First leader Winston Peters on TVNZ’s Q+A from Russell after winning the Northland by-election. Analysis byBryce Edwards: Get ready for Prime Minister Winston Peters Dr Bryce Edwards. Winston Peters made a mixture of colourful, grandiose, and rather ridiculous statements in the weekend that will infuriate many, and delight others. […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Greens go nuclear – and other options
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Greens go nuclear – and other options Dr Bryce Edwards. You have to feel a bit sorry for the Greens. Because of Labour’s electoral weakness they will, once again, find themselves with a very weak post-election hand to negotiate with. And they’re in danger of being outmanoeuvred […]
Read More →‘Voice of the voiceless’ – Al Jazeera’s response over Saudi-led blog gag pressure
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific The Doha headquarters of the global news network. Photo: Al Jazeera An important media freedom statement: An open letter from Al JazeeraRepublished on Café Pacific from the Doha-based global news network OVER two decades ago, Al Jazeera Arabic was […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Hugely damaging Barclay scandal – Police Re-Investigate
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Hugely damaging Barclay scandal Dr Bryce Edwards. It’s become a received wisdom that in New Zealand political scandals don’t really hurt governments. But English is looking very damaged by the Barclay saga, and it’s no longer too far-fetched to specutulate on whether this could help deny National’s […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: Bill English’s Dirty Politics scandal
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Bryce Edwards Analysis: Bill English’s Dirty Politics scandal Dr Bryce Edwards. Is the Todd Barclay scandal the National Government’s 2017 version of Dirty Politics? Of course there are key differences, but there are also plenty of parallels. Either way, National will be hoping it’s a scandal with as little impact on […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: Todd Barclay’s downfall – who loses and why
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards: Todd Barclay’s downfall – who loses and why National Party MP Todd Barclay (pictured above) announced his resignation over illegal taping allegations. The Todd Barclay scandal reminds the public why they distrust and sometimes despise politicians. Therefore, the biggest long-term impact of the scandal might be […]
Read More →Keith Rankin Analysis: British Tories surge; new Labour surges more
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Headline: British Tories surge; new Labour surges more Analysis by Keith Rankin Record support in Britain for both Conservative and Labour. Graphic by Keith Rankin. Keith Rankin. This month’s chart shows that the performance by the Tories in the UK election was not at all bad. With a 42.34 percent share […]
Read More →New Zealand Budget Analysis: Explaining National’s apparent shift to the left – Bryce Edwards
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – New Zealand Budget Analysis: Explaining National’s apparent shift to the left Dr Bryce Edwards. National’s 2017 Budget is a very centrist affair and it involves implementing many of the types of decisions that might be expected of a centre-left Labour-led government. The political left sometimes […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: The Unaccountability of elites
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – The Unaccountability of elites Dr Bryce Edwards. How much accountability is there in New Zealand politics and public life? Not enough, it seems, going on recent controversies. Mistakes by those in authority can lead to disasters and misfortunes of various magnitudes. Yet a number of recent […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: New Zealand’s democracy and its discontents
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards: New Zealand’s democracy and its discontents Dr Bryce Edwards. The big theme of this year’s general election could turn out to be disinterest and disengagement in democracy. Can our low voter turnout be solved? Or is there a deeper problem with our democracy? All over the […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards Analysis: New Zealand Government’s Trump-like threats against opponents
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ The Beehive and Parliament Buildings. Dr Bryce Edwards Analysis: New Zealand Government’s Trump-like threats against opponents Dr Bryce Edwards. Is it corruption for a Government to use taxpayer resources to silence its critics? This has been among the questions raised by Cabinet minister Alfred Ngaro’s threat to turn off the financial […]
Read More →Rave hospitality, but Indonesia fails West Papua with media freedom hypocrisy
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ [embedded content] Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific – Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Papuan protest at WPFD2017 in Jakarta. By David Robie in Jakarta INDONESIAN hospitality was given a rave notice last week for hosting World Press Freedom Day 2017, but it was also given a […]
Read More →Bryce Edwards on Labour’s demographically challenging party list
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ New Zealand Labour Party leader, Andrew Little. Dr Bryce Edwards. Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Labour’s demographically challenging party list Challenging demographic requirements in Labour played a part in causing this week’s difficulties with its party’s list. Creating and announcing Labour’s party list for the 2017 election was clearly a challenging […]
Read More →Keith Rankin’s Chart of the Month – Descended from Royalty?
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Analysis by Keith Rankin – Chart of the Month – Descended from Royalty? While reading a news-site recently, I caught a link to the following from ancestry.com: Do You Come From Royalty? While the article itself doesn’t actually mention “royalty”, it’s true that many people wonder if they are descended from someone […]
Read More →Latest West Papua journalist blacklisting another serious violation by Indonesia
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific [embedded content]French journalist Cyril Payen is still barred from entering Indonesia following his 2015 documentary film, Indonésie : la guerre oubliée des Papous (The Forgotten War in Papua). Analysis by Tempo in Pacific Media Watch THE blacklisting of Jack […]
Read More →LIVE: CAFCA’s Murray Horton on NZ independence and foreign policy
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific Graphic: Concept art for Planet of the Apes Courtesy of the Pacific Media Centre and Asia Pacific Report TIME FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM A CRUMBLING US EMPIRE – Murray HortonThe advent of President Donald Trump in the US provides an unprecedented […]
Read More →ANALYSIS: Lieutenant General Tim Keating’s Operation Burnham Account Highlights Key Legal Concerns
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ By Selwyn Manning – Editor of EveningReport.nz. This analysis was first published on Kiwipolitico.com. Selwyn Manning, editor EveningReport.nz. There’s an overlooked aspect of the New Zealand Defence Force’s account of Operation Burnham that when scrutinised suggests a possible breach of international humanitarian law and laws relating to war and armed conflict […]
Read More →Grief, repression, life and death in West Papua’s Highlands
MIL Analysis+Reportage – EveningReport.NZ Report by David Robie. This article was first published on Café Pacific Bonnie Etherington reading from her new book The Earth Cries Out at the Women’s Bookshop in Ponsonby,Auckland, this week. Photo: Del Abcede THE Auckland launch of Bonnie Etherington’s thrilling debut novel, The Earth Cries Out, on grief, repression and […]
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