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December 24, 2020
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 Parliament, and end of year reviews Chris Trotter: 2021 will be about brown poverty and white guilt Steve Braunias (Guardian): Photos of New Zealand politicians and their bookcases are creepily revealing Claire Trevett (Herald): The lol-lights and ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 24 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-24-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 24 2020">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2020
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 Housing Dan Satherley and Rosie Gordon (Newshub): Housing crisis: Rents up everywhere, as demand far outstrips supply Miriam Bell (RNZ): Median rent now 21 per cent higher than in 2015, Trade Me data shows Marta Steeman ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 23 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-23-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 23 2020">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2020
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 Parliament, and end of year reviews Chris Trotter (Interest): How the state was reclaimed for the people Richard Shaw (The Conversation): 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead? ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 22 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-22-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 22 2020">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland’s lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand government failure is allowing the market to drive further inequality and hopelessness. Last month an unremarkable 1960s weatherboard house on less than a quarter acre section in Ōtara in South ... <a title="Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-residents-express-hopelessness-as-otara-house-sales-hit-1m/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
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 Parliament, and end of year reviews Claire Robinson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern should make Speaker Trevor Mallard pay the price for his costly ‘mistake’ Tova O’Brien (Guardian): It’s been an ugly year for New Zealand politics but ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-21-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Laurens Ikinia A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French military garrisons in pro-independence Kanak villages, and reported on social justice issues across the Pacific has stepped down as founding director of the Pacific Media Centre. Professor David Robie, 75, ... <a title="Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-media-centre-founder-takes-on-new-social-justice-journalism-role/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2020
By Sela Jane Hopgood, RNZ Pacific journalist Covid-19 vaccinations begin in the Northern Mariana Islands this weekend, but it is not yet clear when other Pacific countries will have access to a vaccine. The Northern Marianas, which is a US territory, was expecting 5,000 doses of the The Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to arrive during the ... <a title="Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/20/covid-19-vaccine-roll-out-starts-in-parts-of-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 vaccine roll out starts in parts of the Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 18, 2020
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 Ihumātao deal RNZ: Ihumātao: SOUL marks the beginning of the end 1News: Ihumātao protest leader celebrates land deal with Government, but not sold on housing proposals Justin Latif (Spinoff): The story behind the fight to save Ihumātao ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 18 2020">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
Essay by Keith Rankin. I recently watched Season Four of ‘The Crown’. Yes, it’s a drama, not a documentary. The two dominant characters – outside of the Windsor bloodline – were Princess Diana and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Both characters were probably overplayed, but only slightly. Diana was a social but shallow ‘girl’ (“younger than ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Queen of Hearts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/keith-rankin-essay-queen-of-hearts/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Queen of Hearts">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2020
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 Speaker Trevor Mallard’s rape allegations Heather du Plessis-Allan (Herald): Trevor Mallard has made things worse Barry Soper (Herald): Trevor Mallard raises more questions than he answers Claire Trevett (Herald): National’s attacks water off a Mallard’s back (paywalled) Newstalk ZB: Barry Soper ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2020">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2020
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 Briefings to Incoming Ministers Luke Malpass (Stuff): Government briefings blame Covid and are a double edged sword No Right Turn: BIM day Henry Cooke (Stuff): Some cash, please: Many government departments want more funding after Covid-19 Herald: Briefings to ministers: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 16 2020">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
By RNZ News It is looking increasingly likely that the much discussed trans-Tasman bubble is finally on the way. Cabinet has agreed in principle to quarantine-free travel in the first quarter of 2021. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said officials were working on contingency plans in the event of an outbreak. The decision is dependent on ... <a title="Trans-Tasman bubble to help reunify families, business, says epidemiologist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/trans-tasman-bubble-to-help-reunify-families-business-says-epidemiologist/" aria-label="Read more about Trans-Tasman bubble to help reunify families, business, says epidemiologist">Read more</a>
