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Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers

February 22, 2023

RNZ Pacific More than 400 workers from the Pacific evacuated to a Napier church during Cyclone Gabrielle should be able to return to more permanent accommodation in the next few days. Workers from Samoa, Fiji, Tuvalu and Solomon Islands had stayed at the Samoan Assembly of God church in Napier after being displaced by floodwaters ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/22/cyclone-gabrielle-help-for-more-than-400-evacuated-pacific-rse-workers/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Help for more than 400 evacuated Pacific RSE workers">Read more</a>

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Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched

February 22, 2023

REVIEW: By Jenny Nicholls Peacemonger is a collection of essays about the much travelled Aotearoa peace activist and researcher Owen Wilkes, who died in May 2005. Wilkes was an extraordinary peace campaigner who discovered a foreign spy base at Tangimoana and was once charged with espionage in Norway and again while on a cycling holiday ... <a title="Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/22/tribute-to-a-human-comet-who-lit-everything-he-touched/" aria-label="Read more about Tribute to a human comet who lit everything he touched">Read more</a>

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Newsletter: February 21 2023 – Items of interest and importance today

February 21, 2023

New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today CYCLONE GABRIELLE, JANUARY FLOODS, CLIMATE CHANGE Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Cyclone Gabrielle, politics and the cost-of-the-status-quo crisis Luke Malpass (Stuff): Chris Hipkins makes a down ... <a title="Newsletter: February 21 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/21/newsletter-february-21-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: February 21 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support

February 21, 2023

New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Finance Minister Grant Robertson have announced a $50 million support package to provide immediate relief for businesses hit by Cyclone Gabrielle, as well as the extension of the national state of emergency, a new cyclone recovery taskforce and related ministerial role. The full extent of the cyclone damage ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/21/cyclone-gabrielle-hipkins-announces-recovery-taskforce-50m-support/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Hipkins announces recovery taskforce, $50m support">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk

February 20, 2023

RNZ News The historic shot tower in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Auckland suburb of Mt Eden which caused concern that it could fall during the worst of Cyclone Gabrielle last week will be demolished from tomorrow. Residents from about 50 housing units surrounding the former Colonial Ammunition Company Shot Tower on Normanby Road were evacuated last ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/20/cyclone-gabrielle-historic-shot-tower-to-be-demolished-as-storm-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Historic shot tower to be demolished as storm risk">Read more</a>

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Newsletter: February 20 2023 – Items of interest and importance today

February 20, 2023

  New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today CYCLONE GABRIELLE, CLIMATE CHANGE, INFRASTRUCTURE Chris Trotter (Interest): Gabrielle’s lesson Andrea Vance (Stuff): Passively waiting for climate change has cost us time, options, ... <a title="Newsletter: February 20 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/20/newsletter-february-20-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: February 20 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says PM

February 20, 2023

Almost 30,000 homes have no power and major supply chains have been disrupted in Aotearoa New Zealand — and Prime Minister Chris Hipkins is also warning that more fatalities from Cyclone Gabrielle remain possible. Hipkins said it was now seven days after the cyclone had passed through and the true extent of the devastation and ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/20/cyclone-gabrielle-lives-turned-upside-down-destroyed-says-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Lives ‘turned upside down . . . destroyed’, says PM">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Death toll rises to 11, Civil Defence targets isolated communities

February 20, 2023

RNZ News The number of people in Aotearoa New Zealand whose deaths have been officially linked to Cyclone Gabrielle has risen to 11, with confirmation of two further deaths today. In a statement, police said a person who passed away in their Onekawa home on Thursday is “believed to have died in circumstances related to ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Death toll rises to 11, Civil Defence targets isolated communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/20/cyclone-gabrielle-death-toll-rises-to-11-civil-defence-targets-isolated-communities/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Death toll rises to 11, Civil Defence targets isolated communities">Read more</a>

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Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’

February 20, 2023

A powerful day in the history of the Gisborne Herald. Video: Gisborne Herald RNZ Mediawatch New Zealand’s media were in emergency mode yet again this week, offering hours of extra coverage on air, online and in print. Outlets in the hardest-hit places reported the basics — even without access to basics like power, communications and ... <a title="Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/20/mediawatch-on-gabrielle-im-proud-to-be-working-on-this-newspaper/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch on Gabrielle: ‘I’m proud to be working on this newspaper’">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay

February 18, 2023

By Susana Suisuiki, RNZ Pacific journalist In the midst of all the destruction from Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand, Pasifika voices singing songs of praise and gratitude have rung out in church halls across Hawke’s Bay. Pacific churches have been sanctuaries for RSE workers in the region, some of whom were clinging desperately to ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/18/cyclone-gabrielle-pasifika-songs-of-gratitude-ring-out-across-hawkes-bay/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Pasifika songs of gratitude ring out across Hawke’s Bay">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle zone: ‘I’d call it an apocalypse’ says survivor – death toll 9

February 18, 2023

By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter The death toll from Cyclone Gabrielle in Aotearoa New Zealand is rising — now 9 — and many areas in Hawke’s Bay have been left as disaster zones with rescues, rather than recovery, still the focus. Power, internet and phone service is still patchy for many people in the ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle zone: ‘I’d call it an apocalypse’ says survivor – death toll 9" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/18/cyclone-gabrielle-zone-id-call-it-an-apocalypse-says-survivor-death-toll-9/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle zone: ‘I’d call it an apocalypse’ says survivor – death toll 9">Read more</a>

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Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change how it grows trees

February 18, 2023

ANALYSIS: By Mark Bloomberg, University of Canterbury The severe impacts of Cyclone Gabrielle on the North Island, and the five severe weather events experienced by the Thames–Coromandel region in just the first two months of 2023, are merely the latest examples of more frequent erosion-triggering rainfall events over the past decade. Inevitably with the heavy ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change how it grows trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/18/cyclone-gabrielle-triggers-more-destructive-forestry-slash-nz-must-change-how-it-grows-trees/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle triggers more destructive forestry ‘slash’ – NZ must change how it grows trees">Read more</a>