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August 11, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Pacific Media Centre has protested to Facebook over censorship of a West Papuan media freedom news item in what its director, Professor David Robie, has described as an Orwellian example of the “tyranny of algorithms”. The news item, published by the International Federation of Journalists on its Asia-Pacific website, reported the ... <a title="PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/pmc-protests-to-facebook-over-censored-west-papua-news-item/" aria-label="Read more about PMC protests to Facebook over censored West Papua news item">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Radio 95bFM The Wire’s Zoë Larsen Cumming and Justin Wong talked to Pacific Media Centre director Professor David Robie today about a resurgence of coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea and the impact of other Pacific cases on two very important upcoming votes in Bougainville and New Caledonia. Speaking on the ... <a title="New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/new-covid-cases-in-png-bougainville-new-caledonia-and-tahiti-aired/" aria-label="Read more about New covid cases in PNG, Bougainville, New Caledonia and Tahiti aired">Read more</a>
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August 10, 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 Labour Party Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour launch an extremely centrist campaign Audrey Young (Herald) Labour launch is a deliberately understated affair from Jacinda Ardern (paywalled) Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern’s decision to ditch Labour manifesto ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 10 2020">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2020
A senior journalism lecturer is urging the foreign media to respect New Zealand’s strict reporting restrictions for the sentencing of the gunman who carried out the Christchurch mosque attacks last year. Brenton Tarrant will be sentenced in the High Court in Christchurch beginning on Monday, August 24. Eighteen overseas and 11 New Zealand news organisations ... <a title="Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/10/foreign-media-told-to-obey-rules-over-mosque-gunman-sentencing/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign media told to ‘obey rules’ over mosque gunman sentencing">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2020
Studying a Bachelor of Arts at AUT helped Guled Mire understand his place in the world, so that he can make a difference in his community. Video: AUT By Simon Smith Guled Mire says his new Fulbright NZ scholarship to study at an Ivy League university in the United States sends a strong message to ... <a title="Former Somali refugee now Ivy League scholar bound for US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/09/former-somali-refugee-now-ivy-league-scholar-bound-for-us/" aria-label="Read more about Former Somali refugee now Ivy League scholar bound for US">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2020
By Michael Baker, University of Otago; Amanda Kvalsvig, University of Otago, and Nick Wilson, University of Otago Tomorrow, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of covid-19. From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 ... <a title="100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/08/100-days-without-covid-19-how-nz-got-rid-of-a-globally-spreading-virus/" aria-label="Read more about 100 days without covid-19: how NZ got rid of a globally spreading virus">Read more</a>
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August 7, 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 Election Simon Wilson (Herald): Election diary: Stimulus or austerity? (paywalled) Tim Watkin (RNZ): This election is brought to you by the letter C Bryce Edwards (Democracy Project): Political Roundup – Where is the contest of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2020">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Money as an Unfortunate Metaphor for Cost Especially but not only in election years, when any new policy is proposed by a major party, a ubiquitous refrain follows: “what will it cost?”; “where will the money come from?”. The context is that cost is the spending of ‘coin’. Indeed I once ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/keith-rankin-analysis-counting-the-cost-of-government-action-and-inaction/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Counting the Cost of Government Action and Inaction">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Can we postpone this year’s election? Quite frankly, the political parties don’t seem ready for it, and aren’t about to offer voters the necessary policy choices for the unprecedented times we’re in. We’ve ended up with a campaign focused on scandal, personality and leadership, with a policy void that’s worse ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-where-is-the-contest-of-ideas-in-the-election-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Where is the contest of ideas in the election campaign?">Read more</a>
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August 6, 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 Election John Armstrong (1News): To win, Judith Collins needs to pull off NZ’s biggest upset since politics began Claire Trevett (Herald): The light at the end of National’s tunnel moves further away (paywalled) Ben ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 06 2020">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2020
The Cook Islands language video. Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Cook Islands episode in AUT’s Pacific language video series – “Adapting to a changing world, shaping resilient futures” – is out now. The video is narrated in Cook Islands Māori (with English subtitles) to acknowledge the language being celebrated in Aotearoa this week. Pacific Islands ... <a title="Cook Islands episode in AUT Pacific language series launched" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/05/cook-islands-episode-in-aut-pacific-language-series-launched/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands episode in AUT Pacific language series launched">Read more</a>
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August 4, 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 Labour Party Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): The Third Referendum Jason Walls (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern warns voters not to expect big Labour Party policies this election Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Labour’s hiding ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 04 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-04-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 04 2020">Read more</a>
