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March 11, 2021
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. The leaking has already begun from the National Party’s top-secret report on their disastrous 2020 election campaign. It’s a fraught issue, illustrating just how dysfunctional and divisive things still are inside National. Trust is low, and fingers ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s blame game, secrecy and dysfunction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-blame-game-secrecy-and-dysfunction/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s blame game, secrecy and dysfunction">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
A View from Afar: Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss whether the Five Eyes spy agencies are adequately monitoring white supremacist activity, and, what can be done. Plus Ollie Neas joins the panel to discuss whether the New Zealand Government is aware of what Rocket Lab is sending into space?
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March 11, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Michael Toole, Burnet Institute One year ago today, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared covid-19 a pandemic, the first caused by a coronavirus. As we enter year two of the pandemic, let’s remind ourselves of some sobering statistics. So far, there have been more than 117.4 million confirmed cases of covid-19 around the ... <a title="After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/after-a-year-of-pain-heres-how-the-covid-19-pandemic-could-play-out-in-2021-and-beyond/" aria-label="Read more about After a year of pain, here’s how the covid-19 pandemic could play out in 2021 and beyond">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
A View from Afar – Join Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning LIVE and keep ahead of security intelligence and foreign policy trends and issues. This week’s episode will go LIVE Thursday, midday, NZDST (Wednesday evening 6pm USEST). This episode’s topics: * Terrorism and the Dark Web: White supremacists are back online and making threats. ... <a title="LIVE VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: White Supremacists – Has the Five-Eyes Spy Network Let Us Down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/live-video-buchanan-manning-white-supremacists-has-the-five-eyes-spy-network-let-us-down/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning: White Supremacists – Has the Five-Eyes Spy Network Let Us Down?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2021
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 National Party Richard Harman: National’s review is political dynamite (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): National Party’s review a double-edged sword (paywalled) Herald: Editorial: What the National Party review needs to see (paywalled) Martyn Bradbury (Daily Blog): National Party Election Autopsy so bad, ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 11 2021">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2021
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 Covid: Vaccine RNZ: Covid-19: 51% of New Zealanders willing to take vaccine – survey The Hui: New poll shows 23 percent of Māori unlikely to get coronavirus jab Stewart Sowman-Lund (Spinoff): One in five New Zealanders ‘unlikely’ ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 10 2021">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2021
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. It’s not entirely surprising that Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has quit her weekly Newstalk ZB interview with Mike Hosking. After all, it was a tough interview each week, from a broadcaster clearly keen to put ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s unsurprising search for favourable media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/09/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-jacinda-arderns-unsurprising-search-for-favourable-media/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s unsurprising search for favourable media">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2021
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 PM pulls out of weekly Mike Hosking interviews Mike Hosking (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern doesn’t answer the tough questions Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): PM turning her back on voters by abandoning interview slot Barry Soper ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 09 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-09-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 09 2021">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Murray Horton in Christchurch Owen Wilkes, an internationally renowned peace researcher and Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (CAFCA) founder, died in 2005, aged 65 (see my obituary in Watchdog 109, August 2005). And yet, 16 years later, I’m still learning more about him and gaining insights into his life and character. In ... <a title="Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and ‘bird watcher’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/murray-horton-reflections-on-owen-wilkes-iconic-peace-researcher-adventurer-and-bird-watcher/" aria-label="Read more about Murray Horton: Reflections on Owen Wilkes, iconic peace researcher, adventurer and ‘bird watcher’">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
Essay by Keith Rankin. On Friday at 6am I woke up in Covid Level 3 Auckland to news of a big earthquake around 100km east of East Cape, at about 2:30am. While many people in Auckland had apparently felt it, many more had uninterrupted sleep. Descriptions on Radio New Zealand’s Morning Reportsuggested that this was ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Friday’s Tsunami Messaging: Why Not Tauranga and Auckland?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/keith-rankin-essay-fridays-tsunami-messaging-why-not-tauranga-and-auckland/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Friday’s Tsunami Messaging: Why Not Tauranga and Auckland?">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2021
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 Covid: Govt comms, blame, compliance Graham Adams (Democracy Project): Ardern’s halo slips, rhetoric wears thin Luke Malpass (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s Covid comms strategy is starting to look a bit tired Michael Morrah (Newshub): Epidemiologist Michael Baker ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 08 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-08-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 08 2021">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology Although international travel restrictions for Australia have been extended to at least June, there may still be potential for a trans-Tasman bubble with New Zealand (and maybe some other countries), according to reports. Air New Zealand will begin trialling digital vaccine passports (or “immunity passports”) on routes ... <a title="How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/06/how-would-digital-covid-vaccine-passports-work-and-whats-stopping-people-from-faking-them/" aria-label="Read more about How would digital covid vaccine passports work? And what’s stopping people from faking them?">Read more</a>
