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April 21, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Australians are being urged to stay united following the horrific events in Sydney last week, reports the ABC’s Saturday Extra programme. Five women and one man were killed in a mass stabbing at Bondi Junction last Saturday by a man with a history of mental illness, and a nine-month-old baby baby was ... <a title="Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/21/australias-social-cohesion-under-strain-challenges-and-solutions/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s social cohesion under strain, challenges and solutions">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Khairiah A. Rahman “On the ground, there is a sense of disquiet and distrust of the organisers’ motivations for the hui, as some Muslim participants directly connected to the Christchurch tragedy were not invited.” — Khairiah A. Rahman The two-day Aotearoa New Zealand government He Whenua Taurikura Hui on Countering Terrorism and Violent ... <a title="Countering terrorism hui in Aotearoa – vital but why marginalise media?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/05/countering-terrorism-hui-in-aotearoa-vital-but-why-marginalise-media/" aria-label="Read more about Countering terrorism hui in Aotearoa – vital but why marginalise media?">Read more</a>
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May 27, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delivered the highly regarded Harvard Commencement address, calling out social media as a threat to modern day democracy. She was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the university. The Commencement is steeped in history with Ardern’s predecessors including Winston Churchill, JFK, Angela Merkel — and topically ... <a title="‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out tech companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/27/democracy-can-be-fragile-ardern-uses-harvard-speech-to-call-out-tech-companies/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Democracy can be fragile’: Ardern uses Harvard speech to call out tech companies">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2021
Bannonism-Trumpism, a cultural ideological export - Political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning deep-dive into how Aotearoa New Zealand is in the cross-hairs of two distinct political powers - one has been around for awhile and applies influence operations aimed at elites; and the other is new to this part of the world and uses cultural and ideological diffusion that is aimed at civil society. Can countries like New Zealand resist the slide into US-styled political chaos?
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September 7, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Randa Abdel Fattah, Macquarie University Those born after 2001 have only known a world “at war on terror”. This means a generation growing up under under fears and moral panics about Muslims and unparalleled security measures around their bodies and lives. In my new book, Coming of Age in the War on Terror, ... <a title="‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/07/im-not-afraid-of-terrorism-im-afraid-of-being-accused-of-being-a-terrorist-growing-up-muslim-after-9-11/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not afraid of terrorism. I’m afraid of being accused of being a terrorist’ – growing up Muslim after 9/11">Read more</a>
