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April 23, 2021
By Rebecca Kuku in Port MoresbyPapua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape has defended the adjournment of Parliament for four months, saying this is for the health and safety of everyone. He said he was not willing to “sacrifice the health of our elected leaders while at the same time, observe the parliamentary process that ... <a title="PNG Parliament adjourned for general health and safety, says Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/png-parliament-adjourned-for-general-health-and-safety-says-marape/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Parliament adjourned for general health and safety, says Marape">Read more</a>
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February 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 Parliament’s tie-wearing rules Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Speaker rules tie requirement to be dropped from Parliament Scott Palmer (Newshub): Ties no longer required in Parliament as ‘appropriate business attire’ – Speaker Trevor Mallard Claire Trevett (Herald): Parliament’s great tie-breaker ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 11 2021">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2021
By RNZ News New Zealand’s parliamentary Speaker has offered an olive branch to Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi over his refusal to wear a tie in the debating chamber yesterday. Speaker Trevor Mallard’s office has confirmed he has encouraged the party to submit to the Standing Orders Committee asking that hei-tiki be allowed instead of ... <a title="Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/11/waititi-to-wear-his-maori-business-attire-back-to-nzs-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about Waititi to wear his ‘Māori business attire’ back to NZ’s Parliament">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji’s Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ruled that an oral question from National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad, a former USP economics academic, and an adjournment ... <a title="Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/fiji-speaker-disallows-debate-on-usps-ahluwalia-deportation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2020
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea’s prime minister has urged the public to not get caught up in the country’s political crisis which has ended up in the courts. James Marape’s government appears to have staved off a vote of no confidence by quickly passing the budget on Tuesday and adjourning parliament ... <a title="‘Stay clear’ of PNG’s political crisis, Marape tells public" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/19/stay-clear-of-pngs-political-crisis-marape-tells-public/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Stay clear’ of PNG’s political crisis, Marape tells public">Read more</a>
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November 19, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Papua New Guinea Parliament has passed the 2021 national budget with more than half of MPs – including the opposition – absent from the chamber, assuming it had been adjourned to December 1. The opposition says it is challenging the sitting in the Supreme Court. Opposition lawyers could not obtain ... <a title="Opposition claims PNG budget vote a ‘mockery’, plans legal challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/19/opposition-claims-png-budget-vote-a-mockery-plans-legal-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Opposition claims PNG budget vote a ‘mockery’, plans legal challenge">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Prime Minister James Marape says his executive is still in control for the next three weeks for doing state business, passing the budget and to serve the people of Papua New Guinea. In spite of the defection by rebel members of his majority last Friday and a vote to suspend Parliament ... <a title="Marape confident he is control in PNG and will not bow to ‘greedy few’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/marape-confident-he-is-control-in-png-and-will-not-bow-to-greedy-few/" aria-label="Read more about Marape confident he is control in PNG and will not bow to ‘greedy few’">Read more</a>
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October 27, 2020
By RNZ News Former Green Party MP Keith Locke says his contemporaries should stay out of the New Zealand cabinet in order to remain critical of Labour while also working constructively with it. Any cabinet positions offered to the Greens by Labour would be a favour, not a necessity, and likely require the smaller party ... <a title="Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/27/stay-out-of-cabinet-be-independent-former-mp-tells-greens/" aria-label="Read more about Stay out of cabinet – be independent, former MP tells Greens">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Catholic professionals group has filed an application in Papua New Guinea’s Supreme Court to intervene in last month’s challenge on the constitutional validity of the National Pandemic Act 2020, reports the PNG Post-Courier. It has also called on Prime Minister James Marape’s government to repeal the law. The Catholic Professionals ... <a title="Catholic group calls on Marape to repeal ‘martial law’ Pandemic Act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/01/catholic-group-calls-on-marape-to-repeal-martial-law-pandemic-act/" aria-label="Read more about Catholic group calls on Marape to repeal ‘martial law’ Pandemic Act">Read more</a>
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July 2, 2020
The unopposed motion put forward by Prime Minister Henry Puna was regarding the article titled “MPs seek allowance top-ups in downturn”. In her ruling, Rattle said the headline was unfair and the use of the word “demand” in the first paragraph was inaccurate. READ MORE: Earlier Cook Islands News editorial on the issue The newspaper ... <a title="Cook Islands Speaker rules against motion to ban political journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/02/cook-islands-speaker-rules-against-motion-to-ban-political-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands Speaker rules against motion to ban political journalist">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim was inaccurate reporting over them seeking travel perks in the House. They have asked the Speaker, Nikki Rattle, to withdraw senior Cook Islands News journalist and political editor Rashneel Kumar ... <a title="Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-mps-seek-to-ban-political-editor-for-story-exposing-travel-perks/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
But their unanimous vote was not to introduce a new weapon in the fight against covid-19; it was to condemn Cook Islands News for its reporting on MPs’ travel allowances. They went further and asked Speaker Niki Rattle to require that Cook Islands News journalist Rashneel Kumar withdraw from reporting Parliament for an (as yet ... <a title="Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-news-on-journalist-ban-bid-mps-are-all-in-this-together/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together">Read more</a>
