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November 20, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Indonesian police have arrested 54 participants of a public hearing organised by the Papuan People’s Council (MPR) this week at the Valentine Hotel in Merauke regency in Papua. They were arrested for alleged makar (treason, subversion, rebellion) yet the public hearing was actually discussing evaluating the implementation of Law Number 21/2001 ... <a title="Papua special autonomy hearing broken up, 54 arrested for ‘treason’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/20/papua-special-autonomy-hearing-broken-up-54-arrested-for-treason/" aria-label="Read more about Papua special autonomy hearing broken up, 54 arrested for ‘treason’">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 19, 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 Housing Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Housing: Jacinda Ardern’s Achilles heel? Alice Wilkins (Newshub): Tax reform needed to solve New Zealand’s housing crisis – economist Henry Cooke (Stuff): Housing crisis: Green Party urge prime minister to reverse ruling out taxing ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 19 2020">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Demonstrators from the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have protested the Indonesian police actions in blocking them when they wanted to hold a rally at the State Palace in Central Jakarta on Monday, reports CNN Indonesia. They have experienced the same problem during demonstrations in Papua. One of the speakers at the ... <a title="Papuan students question rally ban – no action against Islamic hardliners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/papuan-students-question-rally-ban-no-action-against-islamic-hardliners/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan students question rally ban – no action against Islamic hardliners">Read more</a>
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November 18, 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 Housing Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern won’t stage Reserve Bank intervention as Government loses grip on house prices Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): One-in-four property speculators dodging housing tax Jane Patterson (RNZ): Government under pressure across political spectrum over inflated house ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 18 2020">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2020
Opinion by Chris Leitch, Social Credit Party leader. 18th November 2020 – Hardly any of them will admit it (apart from Richard Prebble, David Seymour and the Taxpayers Union, who claim we already have a Social Credit economy, but who are wrong) but a growing majority of the notable people in New Zealand’s economic sphere ... <a title="OP-ED: Economy – Robertson not in the cheerleading squad – Chris Leitch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/18/op-ed-economy-robertson-not-in-the-cheerleading-squad-chris-leitch/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Economy – Robertson not in the cheerleading squad – Chris Leitch">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Politics in Papua New Guinea has been plunged into more turmoil today, with government MPs continuing to meet while the opposition was out of town, thinking they had adjourned Parliament. The government MPs passed the Budget, and then made their own adjournment, until next April. Last Friday, the opposition, bolstered by government ... <a title="PNG government passes budget while rebel MPs caught out of town" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/png-government-passes-budget-while-rebel-mps-caught-out-of-town/" aria-label="Read more about PNG government passes budget while rebel MPs caught out of town">Read more</a>
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November 17, 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 Housing Liam Dann (Herald): House price surge just getting started – Westpac Susan Edmunds (Stuff): Social pressure from renters may force Govt to implement wealth tax: Westpac Michael Cullen (Stuff): Time for a monetary policy rethink Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Reserve ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 17 2020">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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November 16, 2020
By Keith Jackson in Noosa Papua New Guinea’s prime minister James Marape has arisen with fire in his belly today. A short time ago he issued a short and pugnacious Facebook message to members of Parliament who are plotting to overthrow his government. The plotters are reportedly led by former prime minister Peter O’Neill and ... <a title="PM Marape brands plotter as ‘political scumbag’ in PNG upheaval" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/16/pm-marape-brands-plotter-as-political-scumbag-in-png-upheaval/" aria-label="Read more about PM Marape brands plotter as ‘political scumbag’ in PNG upheaval">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>
