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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an in principle decision that Tāmaki Makaurau will then move to alert level 3. The rest of New Zealand will remain in alert level 2 until Tuesday next week. Alert ... <a title="Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/ardern-says-auckland-to-stay-in-lockdown-for-another-week/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brown in Auckland Twenty years ago, I was on a plane from Rarotonga to Auckland. Lovely flight, with a path at the end I had never experienced before. Almost from the tip of the North Island, down to Tamaki Makaurau — the rising sun bathing the hills and coastline in rich, almost ... <a title="Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/jason-brown-9-11-and-a-mango-dawn-and-heres-to-the-end-of-being-pacific-pawns/" aria-label="Read more about Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Nauru president Lionel Aingimea has accused Fiji of being “divisive” over its refusal to pay its share of funding for the 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific, saying the institution needs every member country to pay their contribution. Aingimea said all Pacific island country members of USP were present ... <a title="Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nauru-president-aingimea-accuses-fiji-of-being-divisive-over-usp-funding/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Government management of outbreak, expert advice Luke Malpass (Stuff): The political class all ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 13 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-13-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 13 2021">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2021
By Rahmad Nasution in Jayapura More than a week after four Indonesian soldiers were killed by pro-independence fighters in an attack on a military post in Kisor village, South Aifat sub-district, Maybrat district, West Papua, police have arrested two suspects and launched a manhunt for 17 others. Also, a joint team of personnel from the ... <a title="Indonesian military, police continue Papua crackdown over soldier deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/indonesian-military-police-continue-papua-crackdown-over-soldier-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military, police continue Papua crackdown over soldier deaths">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney Since the attacks on the United States by 15 Saudi Arabian Islamic fanatics on 11 September 2001 — now known as 9/11 — the world has been divided by a “war on terror” with any protest group defined as “terrorists”. New anti-terror laws have been introduced both in the ... <a title="9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/12/9-11-killed-it-but-20-years-on-global-justice-movement-is-poised-for-revival/" aria-label="Read more about 9/11 killed it, but 20 years on global justice movement is poised for revival">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
OPEN LETTER: By Elizabeth Reade Fong A ranking of an institution of higher education by Times Higher Education (THE) is the ultimate recognition of excellence that an institution can aim for. The University of the South Pacific (USP) has achieved two accolades by being ranked for 2022 and secondly being the only institution of higher ... <a title="Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/top-global-accolades-for-usp-the-captain-and-pacific-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about Top global accolades for USP, the ‘captain’ and Pacific regionalism">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
By Susan Price in Sydney West Papua activists have called on the Australian government to raise concerns about the Indonesian military’s ongoing human rights abuses in West Papua, when they met with their Indonesian counterparts this week. Foreign Minister Marise Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton are attending the seventh Indonesia-Australia Foreign and Defence Ministers ... <a title="Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/activists-call-on-canberra-to-protest-over-human-rights-abuses-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Activists call on Canberra to protest over human rights abuses in Papua">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis “So many detractors were saying, ‘no you won’t get it, the Supervisor of Elections won’t allow it’. I said, ‘well let him just do his work’. And I believe in the goodness of the man. We got it and we’re happy.” — Sitiveni Rabuka, CFL/FijiVillage interview. 8 September 2021 The leader ... <a title="Graham Davis: In the stars? It’s in the polls, Rabuka’s final political twist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/11/graham-davis-in-the-stars-its-in-the-polls-rabukas-final-political-twist/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: In the stars? It’s in the polls, Rabuka’s final political twist">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Plan for re-opening border Peter Dunne (Newsroom): Needed: A post-lockdown reopening plan Craig ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 10 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-10-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 10 2021">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk France has declared a health emergency in New Caledonia after covid-19 was detected in the community, RNZ Pacific reports. The state of emergency was decreed by the French Prime Minister Jean Castex, effective immediately. The decree, which is valid for a month, allows the authorities to impose restrictions, such as curfews ... <a title="France declares covid-19 emergency in New Caledonia as cases surge to 66" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/09/france-declares-covid-19-emergency-in-new-caledonia-as-cases-surge-to-66/" aria-label="Read more about France declares covid-19 emergency in New Caledonia as cases surge to 66">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2021
In this week's podcast, Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning discuss: three areas that have been relied on to protect New Zealanders from terror-styled attacks; legal measures designed to protect communities from danger and even protect individuals from themselves and why they failed.
