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March 14, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter Police will not give details about finances and their investigation into the New Zealand protest against covid-19 public health measures which occupied Parliament’s grounds and surrounding streets. Large sums of money traded hands during and leading up to the 23-day occupation, but it is unclear how it ... <a title="Parliament protest: Questions remain on funding sources and where it went" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/parliament-protest-questions-remain-on-funding-sources-and-where-it-went/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament protest: Questions remain on funding sources and where it went">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
RNZ News It is too early to say New Zealand has peaked, and declining tallies are no reason to celebrate as covid-19 is still rife in our communities with a record eight deaths reported in a day, an epidemiologist says. University of Auckland professor Rod Jackson said the coronavirus is occurring so frequently right now ... <a title="Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/declining-nz-covid-19-case-counts-but-record-deaths-and-more-to-come/" aria-label="Read more about Declining NZ covid-19 case counts – but record deaths and more to come">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2022
By Kathleen Farmilo and Sweeney Preston in Sydney Journalism students from Australia’s Macleay College programme with 50 participants are saying their degrees have been cancelled just two weeks into the course. Macleay is a private tertiary institution with campuses in Sydney and Melbourne. Macleay students say that on Friday afternoon they were sent an email ... <a title="Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/14/australian-journalism-school-students-hung-out-to-dry-over-sudden-closure/" aria-label="Read more about Australian journalism school students ‘hung out to dry’ over sudden closure">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ News A New Zealand protest flotilla has arrived outside the luxury Northland home of Russian oligarch Alexander Abramov. The eight vessels sailed to Helena Bay, north of Whangārei, early today to protest over the two-week-old Russian invasion of Ukraine facing the private estate owned by Abramov. Locals on kayaks and boats were expected to ... <a title="NZ war protest flotilla faces Russian oligarch’s luxury Northland estate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/nz-war-protest-flotilla-faces-russian-oligarchs-luxury-northland-estate/" aria-label="Read more about NZ war protest flotilla faces Russian oligarch’s luxury Northland estate">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ News The number of people with covid-19 who have died in New Zealand has now reached 105, with 14 deaths reported in the past two days. There are more than 206,000 active cases of covid-19 in the community, with another 18,699 new community cases reported today. The Ministry of Health announced seven further deaths ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been thousands’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/nzs-covid-19-death-toll-reaches-105-but-it-could-have-been-thousands/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 death toll reaches 105, but it ‘could have been thousands’">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
By Tony Smith of Stuff The tiny Pacific territory of Wallis and Futuna can, per capita, surely lay claim to be test rugby’s hottest talent nursery. Three players who trace their heritage to Wallis and Futuna — a French “overseas collectivity” located north-west of Fiji and west of Samoa — are in France’s Six Nations ... <a title="Six Nations: How Wallis and Futuna players have boosted France’s title hopes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/six-nations-how-wallis-and-futuna-players-have-boosted-frances-title-hopes/" aria-label="Read more about Six Nations: How Wallis and Futuna players have boosted France’s title hopes">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2022
RNZ Pacific Sincha Dimara, the news and current affairs manager at EMTV and one of Papua New Guinea’s most experienced journalists, has been sacked after weeks of being suspended. Dimara, who was one of the longest serving journalists in PNG and at EMTV for 30 years, was accused of “insubordination” after political pressure from a ... <a title="PNG’s EMTV sacks top journalist, recruits novices as elections loom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/13/pngs-emtv-sacks-top-journalist-recruits-novices-as-elections-loom/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s EMTV sacks top journalist, recruits novices as elections loom">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Peter Thompson, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The announcement of the government’s decision to merge RNZ and TVNZ into a non-profit “public media entity” was long anticipated but, coming in the second year of Labour’s second term, underwhelming in its lack of detail. Cabinet had discussed the proposal back in ... <a title="Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and time is running out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/12/merging-commercial-tvnz-and-non-commercial-rnz-wont-be-easy-and-time-is-running-out/" aria-label="Read more about Merging commercial TVNZ and non-commercial RNZ won’t be easy – and time is running out">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2022
RNZ News Auckland health authorities remain cautiously optimistic that the omicron outbreak may have peaked in the country’s biggest city, even though 601 of the 856 people in hospital with covid-19 are in Auckland. Clinical leads Dr Andrew Old, Dr Anthony Jordan and Dr Christine McIntosh at the Northern Region Health Coordination Centre gave details ... <a title="‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid deaths reported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/12/remain-vigilant-warning-from-auckland-health-leaders-as-record-7-covid-deaths-reported/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Remain vigilant’ warning from Auckland health leaders as record 7 covid deaths reported">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2022
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s police commissioner, David Manning, addressing the International Women’s Day celebrations this week, let it be known that violence against women is becoming a serious disease. Yes, we agree. It is a growing threat to women and children, family unity and community harmony. On the same token Sir, ... <a title="Post-Courier: Violence in any form is a serious disease – target ‘rotten cops’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/12/post-courier-violence-in-any-form-is-a-serious-disease-target-rotten-cops/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Violence in any form is a serious disease – target ‘rotten cops’">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Scores of Papuan activists have held a protest in front of the Army Strategic Reserves Command (Green Berets) headquarters in Central Jakarta, demanding that President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo withdraw military troops from Papua, reports CNN Indonesia. The protesters, who came from the Pro-Democracy Alliance and the Greater Jakarta Papua Student Alliance ... <a title="Papuan activists protest in Jakarta, demand Jokowi pull troops in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/11/papuan-activists-protest-in-jakarta-demand-jokowi-pull-troops-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activists protest in Jakarta, demand Jokowi pull troops in Papua">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This summary, of reported cases of people testing positive for Covid19, and deaths recorded of people with Covid19, is the first to include New Zealand. Reported Positive Cases: All Countries (except Turkmenistan and North Korea) Most countries in this list are experiencing a covid-omicron wave of cases, but have relatively few ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/10/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-in-2022-first-week-of-march/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19 in 2022: First Week of March">Read more</a>
