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September 3, 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 Green private school funding row, education Stuff Editorial: Shaw’s Green School shambles risks his party’s future Claire Trevett (Herald): Will James Shaw’s endless sorry save the Greens? (paywalled) Ben Thomas (Spinoff): James and the giant ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 03 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-03-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 03 2020">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In practice, democratic political reforms are usually incremental, though typically seen as part of a process leading to wider and more embedded improvement. Reforms are ‘evolutionary’ – indeed, in a technical sense – in that they improve the ‘fitness’ of democratic society. Unlike biological evolution, which is a fully blind process, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/keith-rankin-analysis-extending-democracy-a-path-dependent-process/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process">Read more</a>
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September 2, 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 Green private school grant row Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Green co-leader James Shaw refused to sign-off on $3bn of infrastructure projects unless Green School was included Jane Patterson (RNZ): Treasury opposed Green School grant ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 02 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-02-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 02 2020">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Brisbane-based Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom calls for Chinese authorities to provide due process to Australian television journalist Cheng Lei and release her immediately pending any judicial proceedings – in line with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which China has signed). It has also called on the authorities ... <a title="AJF calls for Chinese authorities to free ‘hostage’ TV anchor Cheng Lei" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/ajf-calls-for-chinese-authorities-to-free-hostage-tv-anchor-cheng-lei/" aria-label="Read more about AJF calls for Chinese authorities to free ‘hostage’ TV anchor Cheng Lei">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Centre A New Zealand youth MP Shaneel Lal is speaking out against education policies that exclude some Pacific Island people from Pasifika programmes and scholarships as unfair. Lal, who is eighth generation Indo-Fijian, applied for a Pasifika scholarship at the University of Otago only to be told he had ... <a title="Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/01/youth-mp-speaks-out-against-unfair-pacific-criteria-in-nz-education-system/" aria-label="Read more about Youth MP speaks out against ‘unfair’ Pacific criteria in NZ education system">Read more</a>
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September 1, 2020
By RNZ News The Christchurch mosque shooter has been designated as a “terrorist entity” by the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. The designation under New Zealand legislation freezes the assets of terrorist entities and makes it a criminal offence to participate in or support the activities of the designated terrorist entity. Last Thursday, Australian ... <a title="NZ designates Christchurch mosque shooter as a terrorist entity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/01/nz-designates-christchurch-mosque-shooter-as-a-terrorist-entity/" aria-label="Read more about NZ designates Christchurch mosque shooter as a terrorist entity">Read more</a>
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September 1, 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 Education Anna Bracewell-Worrall (Newshub): Couple who called COVID-19 ‘manufactured natural disaster’ held ‘DNA activation’ event at Green School Katie Scotcher (RNZ): James Shaw looking for solution in Green School controversy Deena Coster (Stuff): Marfell ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 01 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/01/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-01-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 01 2020">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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August 31, 2020
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesian unions say they will hold a general strike this Thursday unless covid-19 measures are tightened. Five unions jointly issued the warning as the number of covid-19 infections this month rose to 444. They said they acted to protect the health of employees which was no longer assured by the “explosion” ... <a title="Tahiti unions threaten general strike if covid-19 rules not tightened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/31/tahiti-unions-threaten-general-strike-if-covid-19-rules-not-tightened/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti unions threaten general strike if covid-19 rules not tightened">Read more</a>
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August 31, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says the New Zealand alert level system is designed to work when there are active cases at lower levels, despite some experts saying it could be too soon. She told RNZ Morning Report covid could not only be managed at levels 3 and 4. She said the move ... <a title="PM Jacinda Ardern says NZ’s covid cases can be managed at alert level 2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/31/pm-jacinda-ardern-says-nzs-covid-cases-can-be-managed-at-alert-level-2/" aria-label="Read more about PM Jacinda Ardern says NZ’s covid cases can be managed at alert level 2">Read more</a>
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August 31, 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 Greens fund private school Luke Malpass (Stuff): Hypocrisy, thy colour is Green Chris Trotter (Interest): From safe bet to Shaw loser Bryce Edwards (Herald): Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal Stephanie Ockhuysen ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 31 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/31/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-31-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 31 2020">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Was it just a terrible stuff-up? Or a reflection of the political direction the Green Party is shifting in? The announcement this week by co-leader James Shaw that he had secured nearly $12m for a private school has angered educationalists and raised significant questions about the Greens and what they ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/30/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-greens-private-school-funding-scandal/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Greens’ private school funding scandal">Read more</a>
