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November 20, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva The sharply rising number of deaths from the covid-19 coronavirus in Mā’ohi Nui (“French” Polynesia) has triggered a corrosive war of words with a pro-independence party lawmaker, Élaine Tevahitua, accusing President Édouard Fritch of mismanagement of the crisis. All the archipelagos of the Polynesian territory have now been hit by the ... <a title="Covid-19: Politicians row over ‘out of control’ pandemic in Mā’ohi Nui" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/20/covid-19-politicians-row-over-out-of-control-pandemic-in-maohi-nui/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Politicians row over ‘out of control’ pandemic in Mā’ohi Nui">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2020
Papua New Guinea’s opposition – bolstered by its government defectors – moved its camp to West Sepik provincial capital Vanimo at the weekened to consolidate its numbers in a move to oust Prime Minister James Marape next month, reports the PNG Post-Courier. The 13 ministers who defected to the opposition will be decommissioned this week, ... <a title="Scott Waide: Our country, Papua New Guinea, is being taken away from us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/scott-waide-our-country-papua-new-guinea-is-being-taken-away-from-us/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: Our country, Papua New Guinea, is being taken away from us">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2020
COMMENT: By Bryan Kramer in Port Moresby Today, Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil and 12 other ministers in Papua New Guinea’s James Marape government crossed the floor to support former prime minister Peter O’Neill and opposition leader Belden Namah’s bid to move a vote of no confidence against Prime Minister James Marape. A total of ... <a title="Bryan Kramer: PM says PNG revolt ‘isn’t over’ – I say watch the play" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/14/bryan-kramer-pm-says-png-revolt-isnt-over-i-say-watch-the-play/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Kramer: PM says PNG revolt ‘isn’t over’ – I say watch the play">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Christian Downie, Australian National University When the US formally left the Paris climate agreement, Joe Biden tweeted that “in exactly 77 days, a Biden Administration will rejoin it”. The US announced its intention to withdraw from the agreement back in 2017. But the agreement’s complex rules meant formal notification could only be sent ... <a title="New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/09/new-biden-era-heralds-global-climate-politics-switch-with-us-rejoining-paris/" aria-label="Read more about New Biden era heralds global climate politics switch with US rejoining Paris">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An American columnist and high tech expert has apologised to the people of New Zealand over the “scary” experience of authoritarian presidential rule over the past four years and appealed for a “second chance”. Dick Brass, a former vice-president of Microsoft and Oracle for almost two decades and an ex-New York ... <a title="American columnist apologises to NZ for ‘scary’ Trump leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/09/american-columnist-apologises-to-nz-for-scary-trump-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about American columnist apologises to NZ for ‘scary’ Trump leadership">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
OPINION: By Crosbie Walsh As Aotearoa New Zealand waited for the election special votes results there was no talk of violence in the streets or threatened endless litigation. Our citizens are more tolerant of opposition and more liberal than the citizens of the divided nation that used to be called the “United States” of America. ... <a title="Thank goodness for the peaceful poll contrast in NZ to ‘united’ US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/thank-goodness-for-the-peaceful-poll-contrast-in-nz-to-united-us/" aria-label="Read more about Thank goodness for the peaceful poll contrast in NZ to ‘united’ US">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two former New Zealand prime ministers have called for an end to polarisation and the need for “healing” as the US presidential election remains in limbo. Both former Labour PM Helen Clark and ex-National PM Sir John Key talked up the “television spectacle” in newspaper columns today with Key admitting that ... <a title="Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/two-former-nz-prime-ministers-call-for-us-to-restore-global-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Sarah John, Flinders University Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential election — the Trump campaign is launching a well-planned legal assault to challenge the validity of ballots and the process of vote-counting itself. The Biden campaign is responding with an ... <a title="With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/with-re-election-hopes-fading-trump-tries-for-an-election-win-in-the-courts/" aria-label="Read more about With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts">Read more</a>
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November 5, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A leading New Zealand newspaper has branded the knife-edge US presidential election as a “nightmare” scenario in response to fears of civil disorder and a tarnished global image. “The very face of the American consumerism was forced to mask up,” said The New Zealand Herald today as the nation “hunkered down ... <a title="Nightmare ‘haunts US dream’, says leading NZ newspaper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/05/nightmare-haunts-us-dream-says-leading-nz-newspaper/" aria-label="Read more about Nightmare ‘haunts US dream’, says leading NZ newspaper">Read more</a>
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November 4, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Richard Shaw of Massey University Jacinda Ardern’s new “covid cabinet” is pretty much the same as — and completely unlike — every previous government under the mixed member proportional (MMP) system. The similarity involves the political accommodation reached between Labour and the Greens. Every government formed since 1996 has rested on such arrangements. ... <a title="Ardern now leads one of the most powerful governments NZ has seen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/04/ardern-now-leads-one-of-the-most-powerful-governments-nz-has-seen/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern now leads one of the most powerful governments NZ has seen">Read more</a>
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November 2, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Ena Manuireva The unfolding in French Polynesia of the latest judiciary entanglements of pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru versus the French administration is being closely followed by members of the Tahitian community in Tahiti and in Aotearoa New Zealand. There are undeniable similarities between Temaru’s upcoming trial on November 4 in Nouméa after many ... <a title="The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of déjà-vu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/02/the-judgment-of-tahitis-oscar-temaru-a-neocolonial-sense-of-deja-vu/" aria-label="Read more about The judgment of Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru – a neocolonial sense of déjà-vu">Read more</a>
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November 1, 2020
The Niugini Biomed Ltd papers … seeking to “leap frog” over all the other things Papua New Guinea needs and do drug research. Image: Scott Waide blog We cannot even get National Agriculture and Quarantine Inspection Authority (NAQIA) accredited laboratories up and running around Papua New Guinea for various lab testing our requirements. These labs ... <a title="Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/01/challenging-covid-19-two-critics-of-pngs-k10m-drug-development-plan/" aria-label="Read more about Challenging covid-19 – two critics of PNG’s K10m drug development plan">Read more</a>