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March 1, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper today contrasted the “reckless self-expression” of anti-covid mandates protesters and the dangers confronting the people of Ukraine fighting for their survival as an independent nation in the face of a brutal four-day-old invasion by its neighbour Russia. Critising the rhetoric by protesters against the so-called “draconian” ... <a title="NZ newspaper condemns ‘reckless’ pandemic protesters in face of Ukraine’s ‘real danger’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/nz-newspaper-condemns-reckless-pandemic-protesters-in-face-of-ukraines-real-danger/" aria-label="Read more about NZ newspaper condemns ‘reckless’ pandemic protesters in face of Ukraine’s ‘real danger’">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A national network of groups supporting freedom and justice for West Papua has called on Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta to condemn Indonesian charges of treason against accused West Papuan Victor Yeimo. They have called for the release of Yeimo, who this week rejected charges against him in a court hearing in ... <a title="Local advocacy groups call on NZ to press Indonesia to free accused activist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/local-advocacy-groups-call-on-nz-to-press-indonesia-to-free-accused-activist/" aria-label="Read more about Local advocacy groups call on NZ to press Indonesia to free accused activist">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2022
RNZ News The Auckland Domain remained closed today to vehicles until further notice, because a small number of anti-covid protesters have set up tents there and stayed overnight. They moved there after thousands of people crossed the harbour bridge on foot yesterday, in a march organised protest against New Zealand’s covid-19 public health measures. The ... <a title="Auckland closes Domain to vehicles over anti-health camping protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/01/auckland-closes-domain-to-vehicles-over-anti-health-camping-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland closes Domain to vehicles over anti-health camping protesters">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Yesterday I watched Kenneth Branagh’s recent movie, Belfast. A wonderful ‘biopic’ of that fraught city in 1969/70. It brought back memories of my own brief visit there in April 1976, when I rode into town on my trusty Honda – past Carrickfergus Castle. Then parked, and walked along Donegal Place, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/28/keith-rankin-essay-high-noon/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – High Noon?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2022
By Jake McKee, RNZ News reporter Ukrainians and their supporters at a protest on the New Zealand capital Wellington say it’s agonising not being able to help those at home, but are unimpressed at a request to merge protests with supporters of the Parliament grounds occupation. The presence of two different protest groups at Wellington’s ... <a title="Ukraine, covid mandate protesters compete for attention in NZ’s capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/27/ukraine-covid-mandate-protesters-compete-for-attention-in-nzs-capital/" aria-label="Read more about Ukraine, covid mandate protesters compete for attention in NZ’s capital">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2022
RNZ News Hospitals across New Zealand are receiving anti-covid-19 mandate protesters returning from Parliament, and are pleading with those experiencing cold and flu symptoms to get tested and isolate. There were mounting tensions at the Parliament protest today, where police have formed a line to keep protesters back. More people have turned up in Wellington ... <a title="Protesters show up as covid-19 patients at hospitals across New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/27/protesters-show-up-as-covid-19-patients-at-hospitals-across-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters show up as covid-19 patients at hospitals across New Zealand">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2022
RNZ News All southbound traffic lanes on State Highway One over the Auckland Harbour Bridge have now reopened after they were closed while New Zealand anti-mandate protesters marched across the bridge. The southbound lanes of the bridge were closed for about an hour and a half while the protesters marched from the North Shore to ... <a title="NZ anti-mandate protesters march across Auckland Harbour Bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/27/nz-anti-mandate-protesters-march-across-auckland-harbour-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about NZ anti-mandate protesters march across Auckland Harbour Bridge">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2022
RNZ Pacific The invasion of Ukraine is likely to have a signficant impact on the Pacific, warns a senior USP academic. On Thursday, Russia launched a massive invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. More than 100 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians have been killed in the fighting so far, with no figures for the Russians. The invasion has ... <a title="Russia-Ukraine conflict will impact on Pacific economies, says USP academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/27/russia-ukraine-conflict-will-impact-on-pacific-economies-says-usp-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Russia-Ukraine conflict will impact on Pacific economies, says USP academic">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2022
Kaniva News Kaniva News correspondent Patimiosi Ngūngūtau took this photo of an emotional farewell for a grieving Tongan family at the Tanoa hotel in Nukua’alofa this week. The family requested that they stop outside the quarantine facility so that her daughter, who was in managed isolation after recently arriving from New Zealand could pay her ... <a title="Omicron Tonga: Heartbreak as hearse arrives outside MIQ hotel for daughter to say goodbye" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/27/omicron-tonga-heartbreak-as-hearse-arrives-outside-miq-hotel-for-daughter-to-say-goodbye/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron Tonga: Heartbreak as hearse arrives outside MIQ hotel for daughter to say goodbye">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2022
By Tom Kitchin and Emma Hatton, RNZ News reporters Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been met with despair and anger in New Zealand. Nearly 100 people gathered at the Russian embassy in the capital Wellington today, at a protest organised by the Ukrainian Gromada of Wellington. Fake blood was plastered over the gate and driveway, ... <a title="Putin ‘will not stop at Ukraine’ – NZ protesters condemn Russian invasion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/26/putin-will-not-stop-at-ukraine-nz-protesters-condemn-russian-invasion/" aria-label="Read more about Putin ‘will not stop at Ukraine’ – NZ protesters condemn Russian invasion">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2022
By John Gerritsen, RNZ News education correspondent Education Minister Chris Hipkins has warned that nearly every New Zealand school and early childhood centre will have contact with covid-19 in the next few weeks. He told students at Mana College in Porirua today that one in five schools were already managing cases among students or staff ... <a title="Covid-19 will be in ‘just about every NZ school’ soon, says Hipkins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/26/covid-19-will-be-in-just-about-every-nz-school-soon-says-hipkins/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 will be in ‘just about every NZ school’ soon, says Hipkins">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2022
RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says New Zealand joins its international partners in condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukraine and has immediately taken a range of measures against the Russian government. Giving a statement today about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Ardern said Russia began a “military offensive and an illegal invasion” yesterday. Russian ... <a title="PM condemns Russia’s Ukraine invasion which will claim many ‘innocent lives’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/26/pm-condemns-russias-ukraine-invasion-which-will-claim-many-innocent-lives/" aria-label="Read more about PM condemns Russia’s Ukraine invasion which will claim many ‘innocent lives’">Read more</a>
