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April 11, 2023
Analysis by Geoffrey Miller The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has New Zealand firmly in its sights. Last week, New Zealand’s foreign minister Nanaia Mahuta attended the annual NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels – alongside her counterparts from Australia, Japan and South Korea. Mahuta’s participation came after New Zealand’s then Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern ... <a title="Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/geoff-millers-political-roundup-why-nz-is-getting-closer-to-nato/" aria-label="Read more about Geoff Miller’s Political Roundup: Why NZ is getting closer to NATO">Read more</a>
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April 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 CULTURE WARS, DISINFORMATION Russell Palmer (RNZ): Rise in disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections Thomas Cranmer: From Academic Research to News Headlines: The Disinformation Project’s Influence ... <a title="Newsletter: April 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/newsletter-april-11-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 11 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter Campaigning for French Polynesia’s territorial elections has entered its final week. Dressed in their parties’ respective colours, supporters of several parties held small rallies at the weekend market in the capital Pape’ete. In two rounds of voting — on Sunday, April 16 and Sunday, April 30 — voters will ... <a title="French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/french-polynesia-election-campaigning-now-in-final-week-for-sundays-vote/" aria-label="Read more about French Polynesia election campaigning now in final week for Sunday’s vote">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2023
RNZ Pacific The authorities in Indonesia’s Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters more than two months ago has been extended. Philip Mehrtens, a pilot for Susi Airlines, was taken hostage in the remote Nduga district on February 7. According to Antara News, ... <a title="Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/10/search-for-nz-pilot-taken-hostage-by-papua-rebels-extended-says-indonesia/" aria-label="Read more about Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2023
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set up to deal with it during the pandemic have all been shut down, Disinformation Project researcher Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa has warned. He says the levels of vitriol and conspiratorial discourse ... <a title="Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/09/rise-in-nz-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-prompts-calls-for-election-protections/" aria-label="Read more about Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” For decades, the BBC’s editorial policy in reporting on Israel and Palestine has consistently chosen the side of the oppressor — and ... <a title="Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/08/al-aqsa-raid-how-bbc-coverage-is-enabling-israeli-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence">Read more</a>
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April 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 GOVERNMENT, JACINDA ARDERN, PUBLIC SERVICE Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Nash is only half gone and the after-effects will linger Brian Easton (Pundit): The Fashion For Generic Management Is Not Working ... <a title="Newsletter: April 7 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/07/newsletter-april-7-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 7 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2023
By Lydia Lewis and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific journalists The Fiji Parliament has voted to “kill” a draconian media law in Suva today, sending newsrooms across the country into celebrations. Twenty nine parliamentarians voted to repeal the Media Industry Development Act, while 21 voted against it and 3 did not vote. The law — which ... <a title="Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/06/historic-day-for-fiji-journalism-as-draconian-media-law-scrapped/" aria-label="Read more about Historic day for Fiji journalism as ‘draconian’ media law scrapped">Read more</a>
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April 6, 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 JACINDA ARDERN Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Sensitivity made Jacinda Ardern stronger (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Ardern; lifting the veil (paywalled) Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Jacinda Ardern says goodbye Jess Mutch McKay (1News): Analysis: Ardern’s ... <a title="Newsletter: April 6 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/06/newsletter-april-6-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 6 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2023
RNZ News Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has used her valedictory speech to Parliament to ask the House to take the politics out of climate change. In her speech, Ardern said when she became prime minister she knew she wanted climate change to be “front and centre”. “I called it our nuclear moment ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/05/jacinda-arderns-valedictory-plea-take-politics-out-of-climate-change/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern’s valedictory plea – ‘take politics out of climate change’">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The man in charge of Fiji’s oldest newspaper has high hopes for press freedom in the country following the tabling of a bill in Parliament this week to get rid of a controversial media law. Fiji’s three-party coalition government introduced a bill on Monday to repeal the 2010 Media ... <a title="Fiji’s longest active newsroom keen for ‘kicking out’ of tough media law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/05/fijis-longest-active-newsroom-keen-for-kicking-out-of-tough-media-law/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s longest active newsroom keen for ‘kicking out’ of tough media law">Read more</a>
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April 5, 2023
RNZ News Jacinda Ardern will largely be remembered in Aotearoa New Zealand as the prime minister whose pandemic-era policies saved thousands of Kiwi lives, according to former prime minister Helen Clark. And she will also be considered an example of how to govern in the age of social media and endless crises, political experts say, ... <a title="Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/05/jacinda-arderns-legacy-for-nz-unique-covid-19-strategy-saved-many-lives/" aria-label="Read more about Jacinda Ardern’s legacy for NZ: Unique covid-19 strategy ‘saved many lives’">Read more</a>
