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November 26, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Grace Millane trial Khylee Quince (Spinoff): Defending the Indefensible? On the Grace Millane trial 1News: High profile criminal defence lawyer defends right to look at Grace Millane’s sexual experience ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 26 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/26/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-26-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 26 2019">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2019
A consensus is building around the need for reform of New Zealand’s rules governing political party donations and spending. Many commentators are asking whether our electoral laws are fundamentally broken and, if so, how they should be changed. Currently the leading ideas appear to be to clamp down further on donations, better regulate loans to ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Fixing the problems of money in politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-fixing-the-problems-of-money-in-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Fixing the problems of money in politics">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. NZ First donations scandal Matt Shand (Stuff): A wine box, a deep throat and a dumpster – the trail that led to the NZ First donations scandal John ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 25 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/25/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-25-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 25 2019">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. NZ First Matt Shand (Stuff): ‘I am the dark shadow of NZ First’ – what party candidates claim Winston Peters’ lawyer said Matthew Hooton (Herald): Winston Peters must tell ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 22 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-22-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 22 2019">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2019
New Zealand is officially one of the least corrupt countries in the world. But it could be argued that our political system is still biased in favour of the wealthy. Here – as in other countries – wealthy individuals and businesses are able to disproportionately influence policy decisions and the distribution of resources in their ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s going on with NZ First’s mysterious donations?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-whats-going-on-with-nz-firsts-mysterious-donations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s going on with NZ First’s mysterious donations?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. NZ First Matt Shand (Stuff): Who are the donors behind the NZ First Foundation? Matt Shand (Stuff): Clayton Mitchell NZ First donations bag man, as donors kept in dark ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-21-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2019">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. NZ First Matt Shand (Stuff): What NZ First slush fund was spent on: Campaign HQ, staff overtime, and a shredder Danyl Mclauchlan (Spinoff): The NZ First donations scandal is ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 20 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/20/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-20-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 20 2019">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Chlöe Swarbrick’s “OK boomer” retort in Parliament has proved to be the spark that set alight a dry field of latent generational angst. The debate over the remark rolls on and on, revealing that generational warfare is a growing cleavage in New Zealand. Increasingly, political problems of housing, inequality, climate change and so forth, are ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why “OK boomer” generational warfare is a dead-end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-why-ok-boomer-generational-warfare-is-a-dead-end/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Why “OK boomer” generational warfare is a dead-end">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. NZ First Matt Shand (Stuff): NZ First Foundation dodging electoral rules? Records suggest breaches Matt Shand (Stuff): Why the NZ First slush fund ‘could breach electoral law’: expert Guyon ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 19 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-19-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 19 2019">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Housing Luke Malpass and Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government hikes claims thresholds for bad landlords, increases renters right Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government to ban rental bidding and end no-cause evictions ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 18 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-18-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 18 2019">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2019
The recent surge in social protests world-wide is quantitatively and qualitatively different than in previous ages. The advent of individualised mass communications technologies and the heterogenous range of demands presented in countries governed by political regimes of different ideological persuasions makes the moment unique from an analytic standpoint and challenging for policy-makers, interested observers and ... <a title="Dr Paul G. Buchanan Analysis – An age of protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/15/an-age-of-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Dr Paul G. Buchanan Analysis – An age of protest">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2019
The Zero Carbon Act (ZCA) is over a week old, but it’s still being heavily debated and analysed. After all, depending on who you listen to, it’s the most significant new law of the year, of this Government, or even of some people’s lifetime. And it deals with a giant issue – climate change. There ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Zero Carbon Act consensus and disagreement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/15/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-zero-carbon-act-consensus-and-disagreement/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Zero Carbon Act consensus and disagreement">Read more</a>
