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August 19, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Local government Michael Fallow (Stuff): Your council – what’s its job description? Dileepa Fonseka and Todd Niall (Stuff): Behind-the-scenes of the companies running the country’s local body elections Charlie ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 19 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-19-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 19 2019">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Corrections, Christchurch mosque shootings Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Upholding The Accused’s Right To Write Mark Daalder (Newsroom): Corrections breaking law in terrorist letter saga: experts No Right Turn: Nazis, prisons and ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 16 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-16-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 16 2019">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. National Party Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Christopher Luxon taking Paula Bennett’s seat would be his first smart political move Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Simon Bridges Leads National Down Into The ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 15 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-15-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 15 2019">Read more</a>
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August 15, 2019
Is it “Trumpian” to dispute the veracity of the botched census statistics? That’s the question currently dominating the political debate following the release of the official report into how the 2018 government census operation went so badly. Leader of the Opposition, Simon Bridges has slammed the handling of the census operation by Statistics New Zealand ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Toxic clash over census stats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/15/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-toxic-clash-over-census-stats/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Toxic clash over census stats">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Census David Williams (Newsroom): Pulling apart the butchered census Thomas Manch (Stuff): More than census data is compromised after resignation of chief statistician Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Stats NZ could need ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-14-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 14 2019">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tonga is mulling a Facebook ban as the Kingdom struggles to contain a torrent of online abuse and threats on the platform directed at the monarchy by pro-government forces. It’s the latest fallout in an escalating digital war between the pro-democracy camp and those firmly backing Tonga’s constitutional monarchy, which bestows the ... <a title="‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/we-cant-control-the-demons-tonga-mulls-facebook-ban/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk As four more journalists were assaulted in the North Point in Hong Kong area on Sunday August 11th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called on the authorities to put an end to the violence against the press. In the past two months, journalists covering the anti-extradition bill protests were increasingly the ... <a title="RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/rsf-condemns-journalist-assault-as-hong-kong-violence-escalates/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Prisoner voting ban Jo Moir (RNZ): NZ First tightlipped on prisoners’ voting rights Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern against blanket right to vote for all prisoners Dan Satherley (Newshub): Restoring ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-13-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2019">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By A J Brown, Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University Never has the case for law reform to properly protect public-interest whistleblowers been so stark. Today, the public hearings into press freedom begin, following the “seismic” raids on media organisations ... <a title="Australia – It’s time whistleblowers had better protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/13/from-richard-boyle-and-witness-k-to-media-raids-its-time-whistleblowers-had-better-protection-121555/" aria-label="Read more about Australia – It’s time whistleblowers had better protection">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Government John Armstrong (1News): Winston Peters has breached trust in threatening ‘to chuck a spanner’ into abortion reform Audrey Young (Herald): How Winston Peters failed his coalition partner (paywalled) Henry ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-12-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 12 2019">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An American journalist working in the Philippines on indigenous environmental and human rights issues has been shot and critically wounded while fetching his daughter from school in the northern province of Ifugao, according to his news media outlet and other press reports, says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The New ... <a title="American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/11/american-environmental-journalist-shot-critically-wounded-in-philippines/" aria-label="Read more about American environmental journalist shot, critically wounded in Philippines">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – One of the central elements of any democracy is information. Voters need to know what’s going on in government for accountability to be possible. That’s why in New Zealand we have various conventions, as well as the Official Information Act (OIA), which are supposed to allow the public to ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Julie Anne Genter and the case of the secret letter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-julie-anne-genter-and-the-case-of-the-secret-letter/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Julie Anne Genter and the case of the secret letter">Read more</a>