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 ...
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 – 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 ...
2 October (Wellington) New Zealand and Canada feature this weekend, in the inequality stakes and on the rugby paddock. The Caritas global rankings have New Zealand trailing behind Canada on the overall inequality picture among the competing countries, but this closeness hides a number of very significant differences. New Zealand’s income inequali ...
24 September (Auckland) Close rivals on the rugby pitch, New Zealand and France are also evenly matched on our social equality rankings – at 5th and 6th respectively. But just as they play two very different styles on the field, they’re also quite divergent on the individual indicators that led to those rankings. France is the better performer ...
16 September (Hamilton) New Zealand and Japan square off tonight in a match that will be tinged with sadness and remembrance – as it begins with a minute’s silence to remember the victims of the Christchurch earthquakes and Japan tsunami earlier this year. There’s little question who will win on the field (am I tempting fate?). But on our mea ...
New Zealand likes to look great on the world stage, but we’re not so good at looking after our own people. We look better than some other countries in the indicators on this site for international aid contributions, military spending and environmental matters. So we come out better in the rankings than we would if we were just looking at the in ...
While hanging around for the games to kick off, thought we’d just cover off some interesting snippets from Caritas resources on social equality available from our Social Justice Week pages: New Zealand’s richest 10 percent of people hold half the total wealth, while the lower half of the population have just over 5 percent of the wealth. When N ...
