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June 5, 2023
South Australia now joins New South Wales, Tasmania, Victoria and Queensland, states which have already passed anti-protest laws imposing severe penalties on people who engage in peaceful civil disobedience. However, South Australia’s new law carries the harshest financial penalties in Australia. Thirteen Upper House Labor and Liberal MPs voted for the Bill, opposed by two ... <a title="South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/south-australia-adopts-draconian-new-law-curbing-peaceful-climate-protest/" aria-label="Read more about South Australia adopts draconian new law curbing peaceful climate protest">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2022
By Finau Fonua, RNZ Pacific journalist Fiji MP and the leader of the opposition National Federation Party, Professor Biman Prasad, is accusing Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama’s ruling FijiFirst Party of suppressing opposition parties with newly amended electoral laws ahead of the country’s general elections this year. “These are draconian pieces of electoral laws which are ... <a title="Draconian Fiji ‘nowhere near genuine democracy’, says NFP’s Prasad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/16/draconian-fiji-nowhere-near-genuine-democracy-says-nfps-prasad/" aria-label="Read more about Draconian Fiji ‘nowhere near genuine democracy’, says NFP’s Prasad">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has published a gallery of grim portraits — those of 37 heads of state or government who crack down massively on press freedom, reports RSF. Some of these “predators of press freedom” have been operating for more than two decades while others have just joined the blacklist, which for the first ... <a title="RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/rsfs-2021-press-freedom-predators-gallery-includes-old-tyrants-2-women/" aria-label="Read more about RSF’s 2021 ‘Press freedom predators’ gallery includes old tyrants, 2 women">Read more</a>
