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July 8, 2021
RNZ News The agent for a ship carrying two covid-19-infected fishermen says New Zealand officials jumped the gun in announcing all its crew would be taken into managed isolation. The mariners were in a group of nine sailors who arrived in Auckland on Monday without having to quarantine and were immediately driven to New Plymouth ... <a title="Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/covid-19-cases-on-board-viking-bay-agent-says-nz-officials-jumped-gun/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 cases on board Viking Bay: Agent says NZ officials ‘jumped gun’">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Fiji government’s response to the covid-19 pandemic outbreak is an utter failure, but it is not too late to follow New Zealand’s lockdown example, an opposition leader says. New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told media her advice was that the lockdown strategy had saved lives. Fiji is in the grip of ... <a title="Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/08/fiji-government-useless-warns-prasad-ardern-touts-lockdown-benefits/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government ‘useless’, warns Prasad – Ardern touts lockdown benefits">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2021
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan will present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, LIVE at midday Thursday where they will analyse: Revelations that the People’s Republic of China has further developed missile silos in its north-west desert. How does this fit with proliferation of nuclear silos in the west?
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July 7, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Chile is our neighbour over the ditch; the ‘big ditch’, that is, the Pacific Ocean. And it’s a country with much in common with Aotearoa New Zealand. Until Covid19, Latam flew daily flights between Auckland and Santiago. Chile is regarded as the richest country in Latin America, and it certainly keeps ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Chile – Revolution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/07/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-chile-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Chile – Revolution?">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
By Guyon Espiner, investigative reporter, RNZ In Depth New Zealand Labour MP Louisa Wall has accused China of harvesting organs from political prisoners among the Uyghur and Falun Gong populations. The MP, who is part of a global network of politicians monitoring the actions of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), also says her own government ... <a title="NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/nz-labour-mp-breaks-ranks-to-accuse-china-of-organ-harvesting-slave-labour/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Labour MP breaks ranks to accuse China of organ harvesting, slave labour">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I was encouraged to hear Nicola Willis, National Party’s spokesperson on housing, make the key point that the central problem in New Zealand’s housing crisis is that of people being squeezed out of the private rental market. I made this point and more in detail earlier this year (Solving the Housing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Unrented Rentals and Property Hoarders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/05/keith-rankin-essay-unrented-rentals-and-property-hoarders/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Unrented Rentals and Property Hoarders">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. This week New Zealand was officially pronounced the second most peaceful nation on earth – just behind Iceland – in the publication of the annual Global Peace Index. New Zealand’s high “peacefulness” score was based on the country’s low amount of violence, conflict and terrorism. However, New Zealand was marked down ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Massive new government defence spending reconfirmed without NZ First" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/04/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-massive-new-government-defence-spending-reconfirmed-without-nz-first/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Massive new government defence spending reconfirmed without NZ First">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific A convicted Tongan government minister, ‘Akosita Lavulavu, and her husband ‘Etuate Lavulavu have each been jailed for six years. They were sentenced today in the Supreme Court after being found guilty on charges of obtaining money by false pretences. The couple owned and ran the educational institution ‘Unuaki ‘o Tonga Royal Institute. They ... <a title="Tongan MP and former MP couple sentenced to six years jail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/03/tongan-mp-and-former-mp-couple-sentenced-to-six-years-jail/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan MP and former MP couple sentenced to six years jail">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Pacific regional civil society groups claim that DeepGreen, a venture capitalist company, has started “the clock ticking” with little regard for potential wide-ranging environmental damage from seabed mining in two years’ time. An aggressive push by any industry player to fast-track the conclusion of seven years of ongoing global negotiations on ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/02/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-naked-hijack-fast-track-seabed-mining-bid/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam ‘naked hijack’ fast-track seabed mining bid">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Arindam Basu, University of Canterbury New Zealand has avoided community transmission, even though an Australian visitor tested positive for the delta variant which dominates Australia’s latest covid-19 outbreaks. New Zealand health authorities were quick to react, isolating and testing contacts and suspending travel. Of the traveller’s 2,609 contacts, 93 percent have now returned ... <a title="NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/nz-has-managed-to-dodge-the-covid-19-bullet-again-heres-why/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has managed to dodge the covid-19 bullet, again. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
COMMENT: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views I have been reading the tea leaves in the bottom of the online subscription cup. My fortune-telling has been assisted by some very interesting international statistics. The pattern in the bottom of the cup is telling me that the winner-takes-most paywall phenomenon that has characterised the US market may ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/gavin-ellis-dregs-in-the-news-media-paywall-teacup/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Dregs in the news media paywall teacup">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Whenever governments attempt to regulate political speech and activity, the results often end up being problematic and potentially harmful to democracy and debate. Regardless of how good the intentions, such reforms often bring complications, confusion, and unintended ill-effects. That means any laws around “hate speech” need to be extremely clear and ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The confusing and concerning hate speech reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/30/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-confusing-and-concerning-hate-speech-reforms/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The confusing and concerning hate speech reforms">Read more</a>
