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Now that the rugby party’s (almost) over – what do we do now? Well, there is our political future to consider – and to play our part. It was great to see on the victory dias on Sunday, acknowledgement of all those in the All Blacks side who had contributed in some way on or off the field, including the temporarily disabled – Aaron Crude ...
Two views on the final match: 23 October 2011 La grande finale: France v New Zealand – Martin de Jong No – the title doesn’t represent any bias towards the no 2 team. But second-time around, can France pull something out of the blue, and beat the New Zealand All Blacks? Some would say it would take a miracle. But we all know that ...
21 October (Auckland) Last week Wales and Australia both lost to fairer nations – this week the contest is much tighter, just as it’s likely to be on the field. Australia edges out Wales in the crucial income inequality stake, at least on paper, but neither nation’s figure is very impressive. Wales’ income inequality is quit ...
16 October (Auckland) For all of you who are still moaning at Wales vs. France. Wales may seem to be a fairer team on the field but when we look at the stats of equality, Wales gets knocked out like Kevin Mealamu and Tana Umaga clearing Brian O’Driscoll out of the ruck. France is ranked no.5 on equality, while Wales is ranked 9th. In most countri ...
The indigenous factor 16 October (Auckland) New Zealand’s overall ranking of 5 puts us ahead of Australia on 8, a fact which has been immensely satisfying to New Zealand readers of this blog, especially as the mounting All Black injury list makes the outcome of Sunday’s semi-final less certain than many would like. However, looking at the break ...
15 October (Auckland) On the numbers, there’s little dispute over who’s favourite to win on social equality here. France’s number 6 place on our rankings (just below NZ) is earned through high places on gender equality and the happy planet index, and a good showing on income equality (its Gini measure of 32.7 places it 5th among the rugby nat ...
15 October – Rena, oil and who’s to blame? We can’t let this weekend’s games go by without noting the oil slick coating our ‘Bay of Plenty’ shores and tarnishing New Zealand’s clean, green ‘100% pure’ image – as the container ship Rena continues to spill heavy fuel oil, containers and other debris off the coast of Tauran ...
QF 3: Australia v South Africa (Wellington) On the rugby stats, South Africa could be expected to dominate on the field, but on our social equality rankings, it comes a lowly 18th and would be out of the competition at this phase. Australia ranks 8th, aided by a much better Gini coefficient of 35 on a 0-100 scale (where 0 represents total equality ...
8 October (Auckland) Neither England nor France is a stellar performer when it comes to fairness: both are ranked mid-table in our rankings, and with middling scores in most categories. It’s France, however, who take the early lead from income and gender equality. France’s income equality in particular is stellar for what is a reasonably large, ...
