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February 18, 2022
By Tim Brown, RNZ News reporter The anti-mandate protests in New Zealand’s capital Wellington and around the country have also contained a strong anti-media sentiment with reporters abused and threatened. But one far-right activist has gone a step further and as part of a targeted attack on the media has published a graphic image of ... <a title="Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/anti-media-sentiment-among-nz-protesters-big-concern-say-experts/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-media sentiment among NZ protesters big concern, say experts">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made by protesters to the 1881 colonial assault at Parihaka. The parliament complex and surrounding streets form part of the historic Pipitea Pā. Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust chairperson Kara Puketapu-Dentice ... <a title="Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/maori-iwi-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-nzs-protest-in-parliament-grounds/" aria-label="Read more about Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ Pacific A group of church ministers in Fiji have resigned because they do not want to be vaccinated against covid-19. There has been growing pressure on the clergy to get the injections since the Fiji government’s “No jab, no job” policy for public servants was announced last June. The Methodist Church said this week ... <a title="11 Fiji church ministers refuse to be vaccinated against covid – and resign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/11-fiji-church-ministers-refuse-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-and-resign/" aria-label="Read more about 11 Fiji church ministers refuse to be vaccinated against covid – and resign">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A Kaipara district councillor’s almost week-long participation in New Zealand’s anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the safety of Kaipara residents, warns Mayor Dr Jason Smith. Dr Smith said he was particularly worried about those in the councillor’s West Coast/Central council ward which had Kaipara’s lowest vaccination ... <a title="Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/mayor-slams-kaipara-councillors-protest-role-as-health-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Police Commissioner admits some tow companies are reluctant to help with the removal of vehicles near Parliament but says some towing will begin today. The anti-mandate protest on Parliament’s grounds and neighbouring streets is entering its ninth day. Commissioner Andrew Coster told RNZ Morning Report he expected to see some of ... <a title="Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/police-act-against-nz-protester-vehicles-but-admit-towies-unwilling-to-help/" aria-label="Read more about Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to help">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is very wrong when news organisations in New Zealand share those details about their staff covering a story in downtown Wellington. Stuff’s head of news Mark Stevens disclosed last Friday that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/gavin-ellis-copycat-media-abuse-from-ragtag-bag-of-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
RNZ News The one million New Zealanders who are so far delaying getting their booster shots are the biggest concern of top covid-19 adviser Sir David Skegg. Phase two of New Zealand’s Omicron response plan begins at 11.59pm tonight, as daily cases rocket toward the 1000 mark. Sir David, who is chair of the Strategic ... <a title="Omicron spread: ‘Crazy’ shortfall in booster numbers worries top NZ covid-19 adviser" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/omicron-spread-crazy-shortfall-in-booster-numbers-worries-top-nz-covid-19-adviser/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron spread: ‘Crazy’ shortfall in booster numbers worries top NZ covid-19 adviser">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2022
RNZ News “Go home and take your children” — that was New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s plea to protesters remaining at Parliament today. Despite being trespassed from Parliament grounds a week ago, protesters remain on the Parliament lawn and show no sign of leaving in spite of a new record 981 community covid-19 cases ... <a title="NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/16/nz-parliament-covid-protesters-not-interested-in-engaging-says-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ parliament covid protesters ‘not interested in engaging’, says Ardern">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ News Hundreds of anti-mandate protesters remained on the New Zealand Parliament lawn today as health officials reported a big increase in covid-19 cases nationally. But some have been driven away by the heavy rain and the gale force winds from the tailend of Cyclone Dovi lashing the capital Wellington. The Health Ministry reported that ... <a title="NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost double to 810" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/nz-protest-at-parliament-enters-sixth-day-covid-cases-almost-double-to-810/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protest at Parliament enters sixth day – covid cases almost double to 810">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
Police say a protester who needed medical attention within New Zealand’s Parliament grounds last night had to wait for ambulance staff to get through the roads blocked by vehicles. The protest against covid-19 protection measures has continued through its fifth day with police saying new tents and marquees had been erected while police have strengthened ... <a title="Stronger police barriers, heavy rain, covid ads don’t dampen NZ protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/stronger-police-barriers-heavy-rain-covid-ads-dont-dampen-nz-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Stronger police barriers, heavy rain, covid ads don’t dampen NZ protest">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson has warned that although people have a right to protest when “they threaten, harass and disrupt people and a whole city they lose that right”. In a post on Facebook, Robertson — who is also Finance Minister and MP for Central Wellington where the five-day-old Parliament ... <a title="Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’, warns deputy PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/right-to-protest-lost-for-those-who-threaten-harass-and-disrupt-warns-deputy-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Right to protest lost for those who ‘threaten, harass and disrupt’, warns deputy PM">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2022
RNZ News Police say misinformation and a “range of different causes and motivations” are making it difficult to resolve the situation with protesters at New Zealand’s Parliament. In a statement this afternoon, Wellington District Commander Superintendent Corrie Parnell said police were continuing to monitor the protest activity at Parliament grounds as new community cases of ... <a title="Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/13/covid-19-outbreak-misinformation-spreading-among-nzs-parliament-protesters-say-police/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 outbreak: Misinformation spreading among NZ’s parliament protesters, say police">Read more</a>
