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July 13, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content TAX Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Labour not out of the woods yet on tax (paywalled) Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Giving a fig about Labour’s tax policy options (paywalled) Luke Malpass (Post): Chris Hipkins ... <a title="Newsletter: July 13 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/13/newsletter-july-13-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: July 13 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2023
RNZ Pacific Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has accused the country’s Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare, of mocking Solomon Islanders. On Monday, Solomon Islands signed nine deals with China, including an agreement on police cooperation to upgrade the relation between the two nations. Sogavare arrived in Beijing on Sunday and reportedly told Chinese officials: “I ... <a title="Solomons PM’s ‘I’m back home’ comment in Beijing ‘shameful’, says Wale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/12/solomons-pms-im-back-home-comment-in-beijing-shameful-says-wale/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons PM’s ‘I’m back home’ comment in Beijing ‘shameful’, says Wale">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content ELECTION Gordon Campbell: On National’s need for Winston Peters Lloyd Burr (Newshub): Christopher Luxon’s wool snub beggars belief Craig Ashworth (RNZ): Swap to Māori roll popular in hot Te Tai ... <a title="Newsletter: July 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/11/newsletter-july-11-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: July 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Advocates and defenders of a nuclear-free Pacific have condemned the AUKUS military pact and warned New Zealand that the agreement would make the world “more dangerous” and should not join. Participants at a Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific (NFIP) movement teachers’ wānanga launched a petition against the pact with one of the “elders” ... <a title="Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/11/nuclear-free-campaigners-warn-against-aukus-raising-pacific-tensions/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear-free campaigners warn against AUKUS raising Pacific tensions">Read more</a>
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July 10, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content FOREIGN AFFAIRS 1News: NZ pushed EU ‘as far as we could’ on free trade deal – O’Connor Jane Patterson (RNZ): New Zealand signs free trade deal with European ... <a title="Newsletter: July 10 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/10/newsletter-july-10-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: July 10 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2023
By Singgih Wiryono in Jakarta Indonesia’s former National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) chairperson Ahmad Taufan Damanik says it is difficult to expect Komnas HAM to play a role in freeing the New Zealand pilot Philip Mehrtens held hostage in West Papua. According to Damanik, who was chair 2017-2022, this is because the current Komnas ... <a title="Jakarta’s rights commission criticised for ‘failure’ over NZ pilot hostage case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/09/jakartas-rights-commission-criticised-for-failure-over-nz-pilot-hostage-case/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta’s rights commission criticised for ‘failure’ over NZ pilot hostage case">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2023
Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein . . . author of The Palestine Laboratory. Image: The author Asia Pacific Report: LocationsMonday, July 17: ChristchurchPublic meeting, 7pmKnox Centre, Cnr Bealey Avenue & Victoria street, Christchurch (books available)https://www.facebook.com/events/813719740268177/ Tuesday, July 18: Wellington7pmSt Andrews on the Terrace, 30 The Terrace (Unity Books will have a rep there)https://www.facebook.com/events/644521054258279/ Wednesday, July 19: ... <a title="Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/palestine-a-testing-ground-for-israeli-occupation-war-tech-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine a testing ground for Israeli ‘occupation war tech’, says author">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2023
Pacific island countries’ “relentless” efforts at the UN’s specialist agency on shipping, International Maritime Organisation (IMO), has resulted in the adoption of a new emissions reductions strategy to ensure the Paris Agreement goal remains within reach. The IMO’s 80th Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC80) was under pressure to deliver an outcome to reduce the global ... <a title="UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/08/un-shipping-agency-endorses-1-5-degrees-plan-after-relentless-pacific-lobbying/" aria-label="Read more about UN shipping agency endorses 1.5 degrees plan after ‘relentless Pacific lobbying’">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller Is New Zealand about to join ‘NATO+’? That seems to be the effective endgame, if reports ahead of New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins’ attendance at the NATO summit in Lithuania are anything to go by. Formally, the expansion by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) into the Indo-Pacific is unlikely ... <a title="Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: New Zealand gets ready to embrace NATO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/07/geoffrey-millers-political-roundup-new-zealand-gets-ready-to-embrace-nato/" aria-label="Read more about Geoffrey Miller’s Political Roundup: New Zealand gets ready to embrace NATO">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content ORANGA TAMARIKI Peter Dunne: Politicians failing those at risk Ian Hyslop: Institutions, abuse and alternatives Moana Eruera (Herald): Do we really need another youth justice residence review? RNZ: Oranga Tamariki ... <a title="Newsletter: July 07 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/07/newsletter-july-07-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: July 07 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian human rights author and poet has accused successive federal governments of “deliberately aiding and abetting” the 1969 annexation of West Papua by Indonesia and enabling the “stifling” of the Melanesian people’s right to self-determination. In reaffirming his appeal last May for a royal commission into Australia’s policies over West Papua, ... <a title="Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/06/author-condemns-canberra-collusion-with-jakarta-on-west-papua-atrocities/" aria-label="Read more about Author condemns Canberra ‘collusion’ with Jakarta on West Papua atrocities">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2023
Political scientist Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning present a two-part episode to analyse what to make of the New Zealand-People's Republic of China bilateral leadership meetings. And also, Paul and Selwyn analyse the shifts inside Russia in the weeks after the destabilisation caused by Wagner Commander Yevgeny Prigozhin's pronouncements and challenge to Russia's military heads.
