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January 18, 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 Housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): The ‘brutal’ catch-22 politics of trying to move to affordable housing Bernard Hickey: Why work when you can just own houses? Miriam Bell (Stuff): Consents are up, but will that help with NZ’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 17 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-17-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 17 2021">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2021
Pacific Media Watch correspondent The pro-independence conflict in West Papua with a missionary plane reportedly being shot down at Intan Jaya has stirred contrasting responses from the TNI/POLRI state sources, church leaders and an independence leader. A shooting caused a plane to catch fire on 6 January 2021 in the Intan Jaya regency, Papua province. ... <a title="Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/16/confusion-reigns-over-real-reasons-for-burning-of-missionary-plane-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Confusion reigns over real reasons for burning of missionary plane in Papua">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Ena Manuireva in Auckland It seems a long time ago – some 124 days – since Mā’ohi Nui deplored its first covid-19 related deaths of an elderly woman on 11 September 2020 followed by her husband just hours later, both over the age of 80. The local territorial government was indeed saddened ... <a title="Controversy over renaming Tahiti’s hospital after Chirac amid covid crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/controversy-over-renaming-tahitis-hospital-after-chirac-amid-covid-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Controversy over renaming Tahiti’s hospital after Chirac amid covid crisis">Read more</a>
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January 15, 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 Tiwai Point Smelter deal Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): Aluminium smelter deal – who caved? Hamish Rutherford (Herald): Power play: Meridian Energy reaches deal with Rio Tinto over Tiwai Point Smelter No Right Turn: Paying the BluffGeld Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Tiwai Point negotiations ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 15 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-15-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 15 2021">Read more</a>
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January 14, 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 Twitter suspension of NZ accounts Rachel Sadler (Newshub): Twitter’s suspension of New Zealand-based right-wing accounts ‘an overreaction’ – Simon Bridges Alex Braae (Spinoff): NZ right-wingers caught up in global purge of Twitter accounts No Right Turn: The Twitter ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 14 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-14-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 14 2021">Read more</a>
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January 14, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Arturo López-Levy Oakland, California Unfortunately, the attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters, encouraged by the Inciter-in-Chief, will not be the last act of mischief. Trump is insisting on causing as much damage as possible to the interests and values of the United States on his way ... <a title="Placing Cuba on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism Discredits U.S. Foreign Policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/14/placing-cuba-on-the-list-of-state-sponsors-of-terrorism-discredits-u-s-foreign-policy/" aria-label="Read more about Placing Cuba on the List of State Sponsors of Terrorism Discredits U.S. Foreign Policy">Read more</a>
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January 12, 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 Covid, vaccine, and border Matthew Theunissen (RNZ): Government accused of being ‘too relaxed’ over new Covid strains Herald: Judith Collins on urging Govt to accelerate rollout of vaccine Jason Walls (Herald): Government being lobbied to accelerate the Covid ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 12 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/12/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-12-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 12 2021">Read more</a>
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January 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 US politics and NZ Chris Keall (Herald): NZ Privacy Commissioner critical of Facebook and Twitter’s decision to ban Trump Tom Pullar-Strecker (Stuff): NZ privacy commissioner says social media bans on Trump ‘arbitrary and cynical’ RNZ: PM should not ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 11 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-11-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 11 2021">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk West Papuans are facing the start of 2021 with sorrowful news about the death of Mispo Gwijangge, a victim of accusations and torture over alleged crimes he did not commit. Some human rights advocates and lawyers, including Amnesty International Indonesia, have expressed their condolences for his death in Wamena on January ... <a title="A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death of Mispo Gwijangge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/10/a-sad-papuan-human-rights-tale-the-torture-and-death-of-mispo-gwijangge/" aria-label="Read more about A sad Papuan human rights tale – the torture and death of Mispo Gwijangge">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The governors of Pacific US territories the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas and Guam have denounced the violent protests in US Congress. In a statement, CNMI’s Governor Ralph Torres said he was disappointed and saddened to see the nation’s senators and representatives threatened and law enforcement officials overwhelmed by this unprecedented act ... <a title="Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/10/pacific-us-territory-leaders-denounce-the-storming-of-capitol-hill/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific US territory leaders denounce the storming of Capitol Hill">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
By Ella Stewart, RNZ News reporter American expats are feeling grateful to be living in Aotearoa after watching the chaos and violence unfold at the Capitol building in Washington. Madeline Nash, her husband, and her two children looked at moving to New Zealand after the 2016 presidential election. Her eldest child was just about to ... <a title="‘They’re trying to tear down the country’, says US expat in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/theyre-trying-to-tear-down-the-country-says-us-expat-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They’re trying to tear down the country’, says US expat in NZ">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2021
ANALYSIS: By David Smith, University of Sydney After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential election, Washington erupted in chaos today as his supporters stormed the Capitol during a joint session of Congress to certify the results. While shocking to watch, in hindsight, today’s riots ... <a title="‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/08/delighting-in-causing-complete-chaos-behind-trump-supporters-brazen-storming-of-the-capitol/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Delighting in causing complete chaos’ – behind Trump supporters’ brazen storming of the Capitol">Read more</a>
