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December 11, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Whakaari/White Island eruption Gordon Campbell: On the Whakaari/White Island eruption MIchael Lueck (Stuff): Should NZ look again at risky adventure tourism? Brook Sabin (Stuff): Why were tours still operating? Dominion Post Editorial: Whakaari/White Island deaths raise lessons ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-11-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 11 2019">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
I have written elsewhere (see reference list below) about the important principles that suggest all enfranchised residents should receive a share of public income, and how the realisation of this is essentially a matter of reformed public accounting. Here I just consider two typical New Zealanders of different generations, and two policy options. And no ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-universal-dividends-and-universal-superannuation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Jacinda Ardern speaks about deadly Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Live: Whakaari / White Island eruption – day 2 Zane Small (Newshub): ‘A significant issue’: Jacinda Ardern fronts on ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-10-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Government John Armstrong (1News): Despite lead in polls, National should be worried by Jacinda Ardern’s recent ‘double whammy’ 1News: What the country thinks of the Government’s performance so far Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour screws up a ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-09-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
December 6, 2019
The latest allegations of a corruption scandal involving a Cabinet minister suggests this government is far too loose when it comes to providing access to power for friends and associates. Kris Faafoi is in trouble because of his alleged role in helping a mate with an immigration matter when he was the Associate Minister of ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should Kris Faafoi be sacked?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-kris-faafoi-be-sacked/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should Kris Faafoi be sacked?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Kris Faafoi immigration case Fiona Connor and Tova O’Brien (Newshub): ‘I’m on it bro’: Messages show Kris Faafoi offering help to friend Jason Kerrison over immigration case Audrey Young (Herald): Kris Faafoi is in trouble ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-06-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 06 2019">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
What is it about reforming laws around money and politics that makes politicians so inclined to stuff it up and act undemocratically? From Helen Clark’s notorious Electoral Finance Act (2007) – which the party eventually voted to repeal, given it was so anti-democratic and unworkable – through to yesterday’s announcement of a so-called ban on ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-whats-driving-the-urgent-clamp-down-on-foreign-donations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Political donations Guyon Espiner and Kate Newton (RNZ): New details revealed over NZ First-linked company and Shane Jones’ office Matt Shand (Stuff): Winston Peters says the NZ First foundation is similar to the National Party’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 05 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-05-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 05 2019">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University In October 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand. The world looked longingly at a young and inspiring female leader who had unexpectedly catapulted the Labour Party into office. Ardern ... <a title="Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/left-leaning-australians-may-look-to-new-zealand-with-envy-but-ardern-still-has-much-work-to-do-128227/" aria-label="Read more about Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Political donations Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt’s foreign donation ‘ban’ leaves loopholes untouched Henry Cooke (Stuff): Andrew Little’s foreign donations ban is good politics, terrible lawmaking Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Less Haste, More Beef, Please Heather du Plessis-Allan ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-04-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2019">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Labour chose a pākehā over a Māori as president at its annual conference in the weekend. Some believe this could have ramifications for a sector of the party and a demographic feeling ill-served by the party and the Government. Commentators have argued that this is symptomatic of bigger problems in the Labour-Māori relationship, which could ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour risks losing the Māori vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labour-risks-losing-the-maori-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour risks losing the Māori vote">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour Party conference, infrastructure spending announcements Chris Trotter: “Not The Labour Party We Once Knew.” Chris Trotter (Interest): The year of delivery: A sympathetic stock-take of Jacinda Ardern’s 2019 ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-03-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2019">Read more</a>
