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June 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 Border failure ODT Editorial: Defence must be tightened RNZ: Checkpoint: Covid-19: Isolation audit not enough to ensure safety – expert Shaun Hendy et al (The Conversation): 2 new COVID-19 cases in New Zealand, but ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 18 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-18-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 18 2020">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
By Budi Sutrisno in Jakarta A court in East Kalimantan found seven Papuans guilty of treason in separate trials today for their involvement in antiracism protests in Jayapura, Papua, in 2019, despite calls from human rights defenders for authorities to drop all charges against them. The Balikpapan District Court sentenced Buchtar Tabuni, an executive of pro-Papuan ... <a title="Seven Papuan protesters jailed for treason amid drop charges call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/seven-papuan-protesters-jailed-for-treason-amid-drop-charges-call/" aria-label="Read more about Seven Papuan protesters jailed for treason amid drop charges call">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
By RNZ News An independent review should be held of all the country’s airports and ports to ensure correct protocols are being followed when people are released from managed isolation, a prominent epidemiologist says. Otago University public health physician Professor Sir David Skegg was commenting on the case of two women who had travelled from ... <a title="‘Raise our game’ on NZ border safety says expert after covid test shock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/raise-our-game-on-nz-border-safety-says-expert-after-covid-test-shock/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Raise our game’ on NZ border safety says expert after covid test shock">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
By Wansolwara staff Critics have condemned Fiji police harassment and intimidation for summoning two staff members at the University of the South Pacific’s Laucala campus to the Fiji police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Suva yesterday for questioning. According to FBC News, police have launched an investigation into the public gathering of USP staff and ... <a title="Critics accuse Fiji police of harassing USP staff in ‘solidarity’ probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/critics-accuse-fiji-police-of-harassing-usp-staff-in-solidarity-probe/" aria-label="Read more about Critics accuse Fiji police of harassing USP staff in ‘solidarity’ probe">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
By RNZ Pacific A Paris-based lawyer acting for French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has taken his client’s treatment in the case in Tahiti to France’s High Council for the Judiciary. David Koubbi raised the actions of the prosecutor in Pape’ete against the Fa’aa mayor with the 22-member agency which rules on professional ethics. Two ... <a title="Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru challenges court over French judicial ethics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/tahitis-oscar-temaru-challenges-court-over-french-judicial-ethics/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s Oscar Temaru challenges court over French judicial ethics">Read more</a>
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June 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 Health and Disability System Review, hospital stocktake Henry Cooke (Stuff): Health system overhaul would be a gigantic fight. Is the Government up for it? Ben Heather (Stuff): Why we should be sceptical about ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 17 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-17-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 17 2020">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the up to six years in jail sentence that Philippine journalist Maria Ressa faces on a criminal libel charge in a “shocking judicial masquerade” in Manila yesterday. It called on the country’s justice system to recover a “semblance of credibility” by overturning her conviction on appeal, ... <a title="RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/17/rsf-brands-maria-ressas-conviction-as-masquerade-amid-global-criticism/" aria-label="Read more about RSF brands Maria Ressa’s conviction as ‘masquerade’ amid global criticism">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Fiji police were today questioning the University of the South Pacific chief librarian, Dr Elizabeth Reade Fong, at police CID headquarters in Toorak, reports FBC News. Dr Reade said was being questioned regarding protests at the university’s Laucala campus in Suva last week. However, Dr Reade maintains that they were not protesting ... <a title="Fiji police question USP librarian as crackdown on criticism grows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/fiji-police-question-usp-librarian-as-crackdown-on-criticism-grows/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police question USP librarian as crackdown on criticism grows">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
By Christine Rovoi of RNZ Pacific A former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea’s University of Technology says politics has no place in university governance. Professor Albert Schram’s comments follow last week’s suspension of the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, by the USP Council’s executive committee. The growing controversy at ... <a title="Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/pacific-leadership-in-spotlight-as-pressure-rises-over-usp-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse">Read more</a>
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June 16, 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 Labour Party list Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern rebrands the post-coronavirus Labour Party with her first real party list Jamie Ensor and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): Dr Ayesha Verrall’s experience could prove ‘helpful’ to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage In the context of police brutality in the US, which has many similar dynamics around the world, stories like that of Alejandro Treuquil in Chile call our attention. His assassination is still under investigation, but declarations by his family verify that the Mapuche leader was regularly harassed and ... <a title="The Death of Alejandro Treuquil and the disregard for Mapuche lives in Chile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/the-death-of-alejandro-treuquil-and-the-disregard-for-mapuche-lives-in-chile/" aria-label="Read more about The Death of Alejandro Treuquil and the disregard for Mapuche lives in Chile">Read more</a>
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June 15, 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 Colonial statues, place names, Black Lives Matter Cherie Howie (Herald): Race relations commissioner Meng Foon calls for dialogue on colonisation-linked statues, place names Jason Walls (Herald): NZ First Leader Winston Peters: Getting rid of ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 15 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-15-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 15 2020">Read more</a>
