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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University In October 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand. The world looked longingly at a young and inspiring female leader who had unexpectedly catapulted the Labour Party into office. Ardern ... <a title="Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/left-leaning-australians-may-look-to-new-zealand-with-envy-but-ardern-still-has-much-work-to-do-128227/" aria-label="Read more about Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Political donations Sam Sachdeva (Newsroom): Govt’s foreign donation ‘ban’ leaves loopholes untouched Henry Cooke (Stuff): Andrew Little’s foreign donations ban is good politics, terrible lawmaking Andrew Geddis (Pundit): Less Haste, More Beef, Please Heather du Plessis-Allan ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-04-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2019">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
Labour chose a pākehā over a Māori as president at its annual conference in the weekend. Some believe this could have ramifications for a sector of the party and a demographic feeling ill-served by the party and the Government. Commentators have argued that this is symptomatic of bigger problems in the Labour-Māori relationship, which could ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour risks losing the Māori vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-labour-risks-losing-the-maori-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Labour risks losing the Māori vote">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour Party conference, infrastructure spending announcements Chris Trotter: “Not The Labour Party We Once Knew.” Chris Trotter (Interest): The year of delivery: A sympathetic stock-take of Jacinda Ardern’s 2019 ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-03-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 03 2019">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Former Brazilian president grants an interview for the first time since leaving prison on November 8 By Erick GimenesOriginally published in Portuguese on Brasil de Fato Lula granted this exclusive interview – for the first time since leaving prison on November 8 – to journalists Fernando Morais, Aline ... <a title="Lula extols “true heroes” of the country: “We need to retell the history of Brazil”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/lula-extols-true-heroes-of-the-country-we-need-to-retell-the-history-of-brazil/" aria-label="Read more about Lula extols “true heroes” of the country: “We need to retell the history of Brazil”">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage We, the undersigned US organizations condemn the civic-military coup in Bolivia and the brutal repression unleashed by the police and military authorized by the self-proclaimed anti-Indigenous “President” of Bolivia, Senator Jeanine Áñez. The regime has burned the Wiphala, flag of the Indigenous nations of Bolivia; decreed an exemption ... <a title="31 US organizations denounce the brutal repression in Bolivia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/31-us-organizations-denounce-the-brutal-repression-in-bolivia/" aria-label="Read more about 31 US organizations denounce the brutal repression in Bolivia">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour’s annual conference Richard Harman (Politik): Labour finds its happy space Audrey Young (Herald): PM Jacinda Ardern no longer feeling her way like some experimental PM (paywalled) Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/02/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-02-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 02 2019">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2019
There has been little real debate on an important Government announcement made last weekend. Justice Minister Andrew Little said the Government had decided to give the right to vote back to prisoners with sentences of three years or less. Perhaps it’s appropriate that there was no great reaction. After all, the change affects so few ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should we care about prisoners voting?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/29/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-we-care-about-prisoners-voting/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should we care about prisoners voting?">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Law and order, justice, prisoner voting Bryce Edwards (Guardian): Ardern’s prisoner voting compromise exposes the cynicism of NZ politics Peter Dunne: The shades of Hanan, McLay and Finlayson will ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 29 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/29/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-29-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 29 2019">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2019
A thorn in the side of National, former MP Chester Borrows punctured his party’s “law and order week” before it even started, by framing its new crime and punishment stances as ignorant and dangerous. Appearing in the media early in the week, he painted National’s discussion document as populist, opportunist, and a knee-jerk response where ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s law and order populism savaged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/28/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-law-and-order-populism-savaged/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s law and order populism savaged">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. National’s law and order proposals John Weekes (Stuff): National’s crime gurus must heed lessons from abroad to break cycle of repeat offending Craig McCulloch (RNZ): Checkpoint: Australian ex-cop blasts ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 28 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-28-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 28 2019">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2019
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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. National’s law and order proposals Richard Harman (Politik): Simon: That’s not what English, Joyce and even Collins said. Collette Devlin (Stuff): Experts: National’s law and order proposals sound good ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 27 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/27/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-27-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 27 2019">Read more</a>
