Keith Rankin ‘s Chart for this Month: Pregnancy Rates, New Zealand 1980 to 2017
Chart for this Month: Pregnancy Rates, New Zealand 1980 to 2017 Analysis by Keith Rankin What’s happening in the 2010s’ decade? Chart by Keith Rankin. Pregnancy rates have been dropping in New Zealand, especially since 2008. While pregnancy rates among women in their twenties have been dropping since 1990, all age groups shown reveal a […]
Read More →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 PacificMedia 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 military […]
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: Something is rotten in the state of NZ’s healthcare
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: 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 […]
Read More →Open letter to PM Ardern: Raise Papua human rights crimes with Jokowi
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Open letter to PM Ardern: Raise Papua human rights crimes with Jokowi Yanto Awerkion, a young activist who was promoting a petition calling for the UN Decolonisation Committee to become involved in West Papua, was jailed for more that 9 months for “treason”. He will […]
Read More →Data collection on children in Pacific ‘poor’, says UNICEF
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Data collection on children in Pacific ‘poor’, says UNICEF Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Poor data collection in several Pacific Island countries is obstructing UNICEF’s first assessment to measure progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for children according to a report. UNICEF’s report Progress for Children in […]
Read More →Australian doctors to be flown into PNG’s quake-stricken areas
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Australian doctors to be flown into PNG’s quake-stricken areas Prime Minister Peter O’Neill says 20 helicopters have now been deployed on Papua New Guinea’s disaster relief operations. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Australian medical doctors will be at earthquake-affected areas soon to give […]
Read More →Challenges on the ground in PNG Highlands – what people really need
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Challenges on the ground in PNG Highlands – what people really need By Scott Waide, EMTV journalist and blogger Survivors in Papua New Guinea’s earthquake in the Highlands face tough challenges. And so do the relief agencies and government authorities trying to deliver support to […]
Read More →Keith Rankin Analysis: Will we keep living longer?
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: Keith Rankin Analysis: Will we keep living longer? Will we keep living longer? – Analysis by Keith Rankin. Watch the middle-age males. Graph by Keith Rankin. A recent Economist article (Life Expectancy in America, 4 January) notes that actuarially-calculated life expectancy in the USA has fallen […]
Read More →UN human rights chief to send mission to investigate abuses in Papua
MIL OSI – Source: Evening Report Arts and Media Headline: UN human rights chief to send mission to investigate abuses in Papua By Sheany in Jakarta The United Nations High Commission for Human Rights plans to send a mission to Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua following reports of abuses against its indigenous population. “I am […]
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