Australia & Pacific 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. Troop withdrawal from Iraq: Australia-USA Rift?
Abdul Ruff - 6/18/2008
By the end of May 2008, Australia , a staunch U.S. ally and one of the first countries to commit troops to the Iraq war five years ago, officially ended combat operations there. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who was swept into office in November largely on the promise that he would bring home the country's 550 combat troops by the middle of 2008, has said the Iraq deployment has made Australia more of a target for terrorism. However, several hundred other troops will remain in Iraq to act as security and headquarters liaisons and to guard diplomats. Australia will also leave behind two... 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. Ties That Bind: Compact Agreement Between Palau and US
Renita Brooks, RN, BSN - 1/18/2005
As the heads of CBS begin to market their new version of its hit TV series "Survivor," I thought it may be interesting to explore this tiny island community's political background and investigate its history, in particular its ties to the U.S. Many mainlanders are unaware of the political and social backgrounds of countries we have free-hold pacts with, the nation of Palau being just one. |
