Tag: Economics
New Caledonia’s mothballed nickel plant starts mass sackings process
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk
New Caledonia's mothballed nickel plant in Koniambo (north of the main island of Grande Terre) has...
Massey University science staff, students fight for jobs and studies
By Jimmy Ellingham, RNZ Checkpoint reporter
Science staff and students at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand are fighting to save their jobs, and their...
Gordon Campbell: Fostering the Kiwi culture of covid complaint media
ANALYSIS: By Gordon Campbell in Wellington
Success can be its own worst enemy. If the plane doesn’t crash or the ship doesn’t sink, that doesn’t...
‘Practise what you preach’ climate message to Fiji over COP26
By Ajay Bhai Amrit in Suva
Critics in Fiji are concerned about climate change hypocrisy at the COP26 Leaders Summit this week. Fiji Times contributor...
Aftershocks of covid-19 threaten to undo gains across Pacific, says report
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific deputy news editor
Experts are warning that development gains across the Pacific region over the past 10 years could be...
Calls for NZ to ‘feed the 5 million first’ before exporting...
By Farah Hancock, RNZ data journalist, In Depth
People are going hungry even though New Zealand produces enough food to feed 40 million -- and...
Jackson Kiakari: What happened to the PNG dream? How did paradise...
COMMENT: By Jackson Kiakari in Port Moresby
I am from the Papua New Guinea generation that was born in the 1980s, raised in the 1990s...
Myanmar coup: Asian response echoes ‘democracy comes with stability’ adage
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne
Both coverage in the Asian press and statements by neighbouring Asian governments reported in the media on the grabbing of exclusive...
Bryan Bruce: The fog of economic policy is starting to clear
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce
National’s economic policy of temporary tax cuts for next month's New Zealand general election yesterday proved - if proof be needed...
Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal...
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series
What is the purpose of an economy?
I realised this morning that it is 7 years...
Bryan Bruce: Judith Collins selection last throw of the dice to...
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce
The selection of Judith Collins by her colleagues as the new leader of New Zealand's opposition National Party is a last...
Coronavirus casualty – NZ opposition leader dumped by unknown Muller
By RNZ News
New Zealand's opposition National Party leader Simon Bridges was today dumped by a relative unknown, agriculture and biosecurity spokesperson Todd Muller.
Commentators believe...
Timor-Leste’s lost oil millions blamed on Australia’s ‘rip-off’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Fifteen months after a treaty pledged to usher in a “new chapter” in the relationship between Australia and neighbouring Timor-Leste, the...
Sylvester Gawi: Papua New Guinea, a dream of the new...
By Sylvester Gawi in Singapore
I hope you are reading this with ease and a positive mindset to help change the course of this beautiful...
Housing issue not just ethnic – Pākehā leaders have ‘failed’, says...
By Rahul Bhattarai
Author and researcher David Hall has criticised anti-immigration rhetoric in New Zealand’s housing crisis, saying a more serious problem is “Pākehā leaders...