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April 27, 2021
By Phil Pennington, RNZ News reporter It took seven months for the New Zealand police to set up their first team for scanning the internet after the mosque attacks – but it was almost immediately in danger of being shut down. An internal report released under the Official Information Act (OIA) said this was despite ... <a title="NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque attacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/27/nz-police-had-no-dedicated-team-to-scan-internet-before-mosque-attacks/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police had no dedicated team to scan internet before mosque attacks">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Tony Fala The arrest, detention, and deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia and his wife are significant issues for Fiji and the “Sea of Islands”. As a son of the Pacific committed to Oceania, I am dismayed by recent events at USP. I write in support of all the ... <a title="How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/how-fiji-could-help-resolve-the-pal-ahluwalia-and-usp-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji could help resolve the Pal Ahluwalia and USP crisis">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. As economies went into freefall, the world’s billionaires increased their already huge fortunes by 27.5 percent. And as many ordinary people lost their jobs ... <a title="We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/27/we-are-the-1-the-wealth-of-many-australians-puts-them-in-an-elite-club-wrecking-the-planet/" aria-label="Read more about We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2020
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Media freedom defenders from Commonwealth countries have criticised many governments across the world that threaten and censor the work of journalists. A virtual conference on media freedom in the Commonwealth was hosted by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICwS) in a webinar in London this week. Three speakers condemned Chinese ... <a title="Media freedom defenders criticise China, other Pacific info ‘threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/21/media-freedom-defenders-criticise-china-other-pacific-info-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Media freedom defenders criticise China, other Pacific info ‘threats’">Read more</a>
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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 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A new Fiji magazine published by a New Zealand-based media collective made its debut this weekend to mark Fiji’s 50th Independence Day anniversary. The first monthly edition of Fiji Dynamics was launched yesterday, 10th October 2020 – Fiji Day. The editorial team is made up of senior Fiji journalists and media ... <a title="Fiji Day – birth of a magazine and reflections for the past 50 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/11/fiji-day-birth-of-a-magazine-and-reflections-for-the-past-50-years/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Day – birth of a magazine and reflections for the past 50 years">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Television New Zealand and Pacific Cooperation Broadcasting Limited (PCBL) have launched a new training programme to help broadcasters across the region deliver a premium news product to their audiences. Designed and led by 1 NEWS’ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver and produced by Lee Taylor, the 10-week training programme will be attended ... <a title="Pacific television training initiative boosts region’s broadcasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/29/pacific-television-training-initiative-boosts-regions-broadcasters/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific television training initiative boosts region’s broadcasters">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2020
By The Conversation Prime Minister and Labour leader Jacinda Ardern and National Party leader Judith Collins met tonight for the first televised debate of the 2020 election campaign. With the results of the latest 1 News-Colmar Brunton poll released only an hour earlier, there was much at stake. While down slightly on previous polls, Labour ... <a title="Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/23/labour-and-national-leaders-contest-debate-draw-but-sharply-different/" aria-label="Read more about Labour and National leaders contest debate ‘draw’ but sharply different">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
By Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta, of Auckland University of Technology Earlier this year, I met an Aucklander whose teenage passion for K-pop sparked an interest in the Korean language and culture in general, and led to them learning Korean as a second language. Te Wiki o te Reo Māori It made me wonder what lessons could be ... <a title="Making te reo Māori cool: Language revival lessons from the Korean Wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/making-te-reo-maori-cool-language-revival-lessons-from-the-korean-wave/" aria-label="Read more about Making te reo Māori cool: Language revival lessons from the Korean Wave">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre “Climate change may be slower but its momentum is enormous.” – Stuart Chape, Acting Director-General, South Pacific Regional Environmental Programme (SPREP). Does anyone remember Greta Thunberg, the young Swedish environmentalist who caused a worldwide climate change stir – particularly among the neoliberal believers – but was ... <a title="How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/15/how-covid-19-has-undermined-climate-change-initiatives-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about How covid-19 has undermined climate change initiatives in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of covid-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 ... <a title="100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/100-days-without-covid-19-how-nz-got-rid-of-a-globally-spreading-virus/" aria-label="Read more about 100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2020
From RNZ Saturday Morning Described by a Guardian reviewer as “superb hate-reading”, writer and columnist Anand Giridharadas‘s latest book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World investigates the hypocrisy of billionaire “do-gooders”. He questions how and why we have become reliant on the philanthropy of the super-rich to help solve our biggest ... <a title="Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/11/beware-of-elite-billionaire-do-gooder-hypocrisy-warns-author/" aria-label="Read more about Beware of elite billionaire ‘do-gooder’ hypocrisy, warns author">Read more</a>
