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November 1, 2020
By RNZ News Green Party delegates have voted to accept a deal with Labour which will give it two ministerial portfolios outside of cabinet in the New Zealand government. Consensus was blocked, so the party required 75 percent of delegates to get the deal across the line this evening. Labour offered the Green Party the ... <a title="NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/nz-greens-accept-labours-offer-for-cooperation-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Greens accept Labour’s offer for ‘cooperation agreement’">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Papua Province Humanitarian Team for Cases of Violence Against Religious Figures in Intan Jaya Regency, Haris Azhar, has announced the results of their investigation into the shooting of Pastor Yeremia Zanambani who was allegedly shot by a rogue Indonesian military (TNI) officer in Hitadipa District, Intan Jaya, on September 19, ... <a title="Independent investigators blame TNI for murder of Papuan pastor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/31/independent-investigators-blame-tni-for-murder-of-papuan-pastor/" aria-label="Read more about Independent investigators blame TNI for murder of Papuan pastor">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2020
The euthanasia referendum has passed New Zealand’s public vote, with 65.2 percent voting in favour, but the cannabis question has 53.1 percent voting “no” so far, preliminary results show. The number of voters who chose “no” in the End of Life Choice referendum reached 33.8 percent. In the cannabis question, “yes” received 46.1 percent of ... <a title="NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no to cannabis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/31/nz-referendum-preliminary-results-yes-to-euthanasia-reform-no-to-cannabis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ referendum preliminary results – yes to euthanasia reform, no to cannabis">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s charts show three small economically prosperous European countries with similar populations; Belgium has 11.6 million people, Switzerland 8.6 million, and Sweden has 10.1 million. Belgium has the third highest per capita death toll in the world from Covid-19; only Peru and little San Marino have had more deaths. Belgium got ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-belgium-switzerland-and-sweden/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Belgium, Switzerland and Sweden">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2020
French Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu has held talks with 10 New Caledonian politicians at a retreat near Noumea to promote dialogue between rival camps, saying a new accord will emerge. The minister, who delayed yesterday’s planned departure for Paris by at least two days, convened five anti-independence and five pro-independence leaders on Lepredour island, including ... <a title="French minister Lecornu holds future talks in New Caledonia retreat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/30/french-minister-lecornu-holds-future-talks-in-new-caledonia-retreat/" aria-label="Read more about French minister Lecornu holds future talks in New Caledonia retreat">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Indonesian special forces are turning West Papua into “more of a hunting ground”, warns an exiled Papuan leader in response to the shooting of protesting university students this week. “These were live rounds.” Earlier, Benny Wenda, the London-based chair of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), said Indonesia was ... <a title="Wenda accuses Indonesian special forces over Papua ‘hunting ground’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/29/wenda-accuses-indonesian-special-forces-over-papua-hunting-ground/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda accuses Indonesian special forces over Papua ‘hunting ground’">Read more</a>
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October 29, 2020
By Miriam Zarriga and Clifford Faiparik About 400 squatters in Papua New Guinea watched helplessly as excavators demolished their homes and properties to make way for the construction of a K100 million four-lane road outside the capital of Port Moresby. Police were present to ensure that the court-ordered eviction at 14-Mile on the border of ... <a title="Port Moresby evicts 400 squatters to make way for new capital highway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/29/port-moresby-evicts-400-squatters-to-make-way-for-new-capital-highway/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby evicts 400 squatters to make way for new capital highway">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The United Liberation Movement if West Papua (ULMWP) has accused the Indonesian government of imposing martial law on the Melanesian region of West Papua and brutally supressing protests in a crackdown. “Students have been shot with live rounds, tear gassed and beaten with bamboo sticks by police in Jayapura – just ... <a title="ULMWP accuses Jakarta over ‘martial law’ after police fire on students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/28/ulmwp-accuses-jakarta-over-martial-law-after-police-fire-on-students/" aria-label="Read more about ULMWP accuses Jakarta over ‘martial law’ after police fire on students">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
By RNZ News Former Green Party MP Keith Locke says his contemporaries should stay out of the New Zealand cabinet in order to remain critical of Labour while also working constructively with it. Any cabinet positions offered to the Greens by Labour would be a favour, not a necessity, and likely require the smaller party ... <a title="Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/stay-out-of-cabinet-be-independent-former-mp-tells-greens/" aria-label="Read more about Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Bryan Bruce Today is Labour Day in New Zealand – the public holiday set aside to celebrate the rights of workers and in particular the right to an eight-hour working day. The great irony is that like many New Zealanders I am working today because I’m a contractor and not an employee with ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/bryan-bruce-labour-day-eroded-by-neoliberalism-and-selfishness/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Labour Day … eroded by neoliberalism and selfishness">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2020
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta An Indonesian government-sanctioned joint fact-finding team has reported that it found indications that security forces were involved in the shooting of Papuan pastor Yeremia Zanambani after investigating a series of shootings in Intan Jaya regency, Papua. The team gave its findings to the Office of the Coordinating Political, ... <a title="Investigators find evidence of military role in shooting of Papuan pastor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/24/investigators-find-evidence-of-military-role-in-shooting-of-papuan-pastor/" aria-label="Read more about Investigators find evidence of military role in shooting of Papuan pastor">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2020
By Selwyn Manning – Editor, EveningReport.nz The Green Party has settled on its negotiation team, agreeing to who will represent the party’s members when considering the shape and outcome of talks with the incoming Labour-led Government. The negotiating team has a similar make up to the group that considered the merits of negotiations with Labour ... <a title="Election 2020: Green Party Negotiation Team Sets Its Terms of Reference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/23/election-202o-green-party-negotiation-team-sets-its-terms-of-reference/" aria-label="Read more about Election 2020: Green Party Negotiation Team Sets Its Terms of Reference">Read more</a>
