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Graham Young - 2/14/2011
For 11 years On Line Opinion has been my passion. It’s been my passion because I’m a child of the Enlightenment and I was raised to believe that not only do people have a right to an opinion, but they have a responsibility to continually test and examine that opinion in the light of what others think and believe. Japan and Australia: convergence of security interests
Pranamita Baruah - 1/14/2010
It is often difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish between purely bilateral activities from the myriad multilateral activities in which both Australia and Japan are engaged, and particularly from collaborative activities undertaken as part of their security alliance arrangements with the US. Still, these arrangements can offer an insight into the framework for bilateral connection between Tokyo and Canberra. New Zealand goes to polls at time of global economic turmoil – Part II
Chris Ford - 11/11/2008
The potential saving grace for the Labour-led government has been the re-emergence of Winston Peters’ conservative nationalist New Zealand First Party after months of controversy for the party and its leader over their initial non-declaration of a donation from expatriate Europe-based billionaire Owen Glenn. New Zealand goes to polls at time of global economic turmoil – Part I
Chris Ford - 11/3/2008
New Zealand will go to the polls almost four days after the US elects a new leader on November 8. This is at a time when global economic turmoil could impact on the outcome. Race Relations in New Zealand
Chris Ford - 4/24/2006
New Zealand is widely considered to have the best race relations in the world. Yet, 2004 has been the year of race politics in the country. That epithet has been challenged in the past six months to devastating effect. The right-wing National Party opposition, under the new leadership of former central bank governor Don Brash, has indulged in some populist 'wedge' politics as a means of shoring up his party's and the centre-right's poll numbers. Prior to January they had been falling and it seemed inevitable that a centre-left Labour-led government would win the next general election in 2005. Test New Zealand's Stranger Than Fiction Governing Arrangements
Chris Ford - 10/26/2005
New Zealand's general election outcome on September 17 was the closest in over a decade and has resulted in some of the most constitutionally bizarre governing arrangements seen in the nation's post-war history. |
