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December 28, 2022
By Conan Young , Local Democracy Reporting editor This year was another huge one for Local Democracy Reporting, with our reporters at the forefront of uncovering some of the biggest stories in their regions. Felix Desmarais in Rotorua exposed hitherto secret plans by the council to revoke the reserve status of seven council reserves, paving ... <a title="Local Democracy Reporting: Secret plans, health chaos, climate change among NZ’s top 2022 stories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/28/local-democracy-reporting-secret-plans-health-chaos-climate-change-among-nzs-top-2022-stories/" aria-label="Read more about Local Democracy Reporting: Secret plans, health chaos, climate change among NZ’s top 2022 stories">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Essay by Keith Rankin. I try to write about general issues of importance, in a general – indeed global – context. This time I will write just about me. I am the same age as Phil Goff, Mayor of Auckland. And I want to be appropriately protected from Covid19. I have had three shots of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/keith-rankin-essay-answers-please-tribulations-of-getting-a-covid19-vaccine-2nd-booster/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Answers please? Tribulations of getting a Covid19 Vaccine ‘2nd Booster’">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist A family has been under house arrest in Tokelau for almost a year after they refused to get vaccinated against covid-19. The tunoa — house arrest — was imposed on the family of four by the Taupulega (council) on Nukunonu, one of the three atolls that make up Tokelau. ... <a title="Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine defiance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/24/tokelau-family-under-house-arrest-for-nearly-a-year-over-vaccine-defiance/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau family under house arrest for nearly a year over vaccine defiance">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Ashwin Swaminathan, Australian National University It seems not a day goes by without learning someone in our inner circle of family, friends and colleagues has covid. When we ask how unwell our acquaintance is, the responses vary from “they’re really crook” to “you wouldn’t even know they had it”. This is in line ... <a title="Covid diagnosis: Could I have had the virus and not realised?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/22/covid-diagnosis-could-i-have-had-the-virus-and-not-realised/" aria-label="Read more about Covid diagnosis: Could I have had the virus and not realised?">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2021
By Charles Moi in Port Moresby Employees of the National Capital District Commission (NCDC) have challenged the legality of the “no jab, no job” policy imposed by NCDC on Port Moresby with a lawsuit. Lawyer George Kaore, representing the NCDC Workers Association, appeared before Deputy Chief Justice Ambeng Kandakasi to seek certain interim orders at ... <a title="Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/04/port-moresby-workers-challenge-no-jab-no-job-workplace-policy-in-court/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby workers challenge ‘no jab, no job’ workplace policy in court">Read more</a>
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November 3, 2021
By Carmella Gware in Lae Urban clinics in Papua New Guinea’s second city Lae have closed for an indefinite period following attacks on health workers. Anti-vaxxers have been verbally or physically attacking health workers over false claims of state mandatory vaccinations against the covid-19 pandemic. Health workers and support staff manning facilities around the city ... <a title="Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/03/anti-vaxxer-attacks-on-png-health-workers-force-closure-of-lae-clinics/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-vaxxer attacks on PNG health workers force closure of Lae clinics">Read more</a>
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October 28, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Indonesia’s popular tourism islands of Bali opened for tourism last week, while Thailand announced that from November 1 vaccinated travellers from 19 countries will be allowed to visit the kingdom including its tourism island of Phuket. Both those countries’ tourism industry, which is a major revenue earner, has been ... <a title="As Asia ‘lives with covid-19’, media may need to be less adversarial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/28/as-asia-lives-with-covid-19-media-may-need-to-be-less-adversarial/" aria-label="Read more about As Asia ‘lives with covid-19’, media may need to be less adversarial">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2021
RNZ News Parts of Waikato — including Raglan, Huntly, Ngāruāwahia and Hamilton City — will join Auckland in alert level 3 from midnight tonight, the New Zealand Prime Minister has confirmed. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield have given today’s briefing after three recently reported community covid-19 cases outside of ... <a title="Waikato joins Auckland in alert level 3 tonight – 33 new NZ covid cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/10/04/waikato-joins-auckland-in-alert-level-3-tonight-33-new-nz-covid-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Waikato joins Auckland in alert level 3 tonight – 33 new NZ covid cases">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama in Suva Fiji Islands Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama is the current Chair of the 18-member Pacific Islands Forum. Addressing the UN General Assembly virtually on September 25, he called on the global community to embrace Fiji’s vision of a “better, greener, bluer and safer future for humanity”. The United Nations ... <a title="Bainimarama: Pacific faces tough climate, disease challenges – world leaders need to rise up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/29/bainimarama-pacific-faces-tough-climate-disease-challenges-world-leaders-need-to-rise-up/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama: Pacific faces tough climate, disease challenges – world leaders need to rise up">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Auckland Mayor Phil Goff has appealed to the 1.7 million people in the city to “roll up your sleeves” and get vaccinated immediately to help New Zealand cope better with the covid-19 pandemic. Writing in The New Zealand Herald today to back the newspaper’s 90% Project for maximum vaccination, Goff said ... <a title="Auckland mayor Goff makes ‘roll up your sleeves – take covid jab’ plea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/24/auckland-mayor-goff-makes-roll-up-your-sleeves-take-covid-jab-plea/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland mayor Goff makes ‘roll up your sleeves – take covid jab’ plea">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2021
RNZ News New Zealand’s Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield says the country may never find out the source of the current outbreak, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she lies awake at night pondering the ways in which it may have happened. In today’s update, Dr Bloomfield said there were 49 new cases of ... <a title="Bloomfield says no update on how virus got into NZ community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/01/bloomfield-says-no-update-on-how-virus-got-into-nz-community/" aria-label="Read more about Bloomfield says no update on how virus got into NZ community">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2021
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist As with much of Indonesia, the country’s easternmost provinces of Papua and West Papua are struggling to contain the spread of covid-19, with the delta variant on the loose. In their latest update, health authorities in Papua province reported 33,826 confirmed cases of the virus to date, as well ... <a title="Vaccine resistance in West Papua as covid-19 pandemic rages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/31/vaccine-resistance-in-west-papua-as-covid-19-pandemic-rages/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccine resistance in West Papua as covid-19 pandemic rages">Read more</a>
