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November 14, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand’s controversial Treaty Principles Bill passed its first reading in Parliament today and will now go to the Justice Committee for consideration as the national Hīkoi continued its journey to the capital. Opposition Te Pati Māori’s Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke was suspended from the House following a haka. Maipi-Clarke interrupted the vote on the ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading after Māori MP evicted over haka" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-passes-first-reading-after-maori-mp-evicted-over-haka/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill passes first reading after Māori MP evicted over haka">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2024
RNZ News Thousands of people are continuing their North Island hīkoi as the legislation they are protesting against, the Treaty Principles Bill, gets its first reading in Parliament today. The hīkoi enters day four and headed off from Huntly, destined for Rotorua today, after it advanced through Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau yesterday. Traffic was at a ... <a title="Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington – bill reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/14/hikoi-day-four-setting-off-from-huntly-on-way-to-wellington-bill-reading/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day four: Setting off from Huntly on way to Wellington – bill reading">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ political reporter Members of the King’s Counsel, some of New Zealand’s most senior legal minds, say the controversial Treaty Principles Bill “seeks to rewrite the Treaty itself” and are calling on the prime minister and the coalition government to “act responsibly now and abandon” it. More than 40 KCs have written ... <a title="Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/senior-nz-lawyers-call-for-treaty-principles-bill-to-be-abandoned/" aria-label="Read more about Senior NZ lawyers call for Treaty Principles Bill to be abandoned">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
By Eloise Gibson, RNZ climate change correspondent New Zealand’s Climate Change Minister Simon Watts is going to the global climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijan next week, where he will be co-leading talks on international carbon trading. But the government has been unable to commit to using the trading mechanism he is leading high-level discussions about, ... <a title="COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/cop29-does-nz-have-the-credibility-to-lead-carbon-trading-talks/" aria-label="Read more about COP29: Does NZ have the credibility to lead carbon trading talks?">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
RNZ News Thousands of supporters of Aotearoa New Zealand’s hīkoi mō te Tiriti — a march traversing the length of Aotearoa in protest against the Treaty Principles Bill and government policies impacting on Māori — have crossed the Auckland Harbour Bridge. RNZ reporters with the march said it was swaying and rocking as the protesters ... <a title="Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/hikoi-day-three-thousands-of-protesters-walk-across-auckland-harbour-bridge/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi day three: Thousands of protesters walk across Auckland Harbour Bridge">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2024
ABC Radio Australia and RNZ You probably know about the last moments of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985. But what do you know about the environmental campaign ship’s last voyage before it was bombed by French secret agents in New Zealand on 10 July 1985? Where had it come from, why was it ... <a title="The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/13/the-last-voyage-of-the-rainbow-warrior-rongelap-podcast-series/" aria-label="Read more about The last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior – Rongelap podcast series">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2024
By Lillian Hanly, RNZ News political reporter Survivors of abuse in care arrived at Parliament today to hear the formal apology from the state which oversaw and inflicted harm on children. Public sector leaders from Oranga Tamariki, the Ministry of Health, New Zealand Police, and Ministry of Education also apologised, as did the public service ... <a title="NZ abuse in care apology called PR stunt,’tokenistic’ by some survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/12/nz-abuse-in-care-apology-called-pr-stunttokenistic-by-some-survivors/" aria-label="Read more about NZ abuse in care apology called PR stunt,’tokenistic’ by some survivors">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2024
RNZ News Emotions are running high as the Hīkoi mō te Tiriti has been welcomed to Laurie Hill Park in Whangārei by mana whenua. Thousands have arrived to support the kaupapa — young and old, tangata whenua and tangata tiriti, all to make a stand for the rights of Māori. The crowd have joined in ... <a title="Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/12/hikoi-mo-te-tiriti-sets-off-from-whangarei-on-day-two/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi mō te Tiriti sets off from Whangārei on day two">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
By Giles Dexter, RNZ political reporter An investigative journalist who was barred from attending New Zealand’s national apology to survivors of abuse in care has now been granted accreditation. Parliament’s Speaker has now granted temporary Press Gallery accreditation to journalist Aaron Smale for tomorrow’s apology for abuse in care. He must, however, be accompanied by ... <a title="NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/11/nz-speaker-reverses-journalist-bar-from-abuse-apology-at-parliament/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Speaker reverses journalist bar from abuse apology at Parliament">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2024
RNZ News From the misty peaks of Cape Reinga to the rain-soaked streets of Kawakawa, Aotearoa New Zealand’s national hīkoi mō Te Tiriti rolled through the north and arrived in Whangārei. Since setting off this morning numbers have swelled from a couple of hundred to well over 1000 people, demonstrating their opposition to the coalition ... <a title="Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/11/hikoi-mo-te-tiriti-day-one-lets-make-this-hikoi-build-a-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Hīkoi mō te Tiriti day one: ‘Lets make this hīkoi build a nation’">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2024
RNZ News A national hīkoi across Aotearoa New Zealand began today in the small Far North town of Te Kāo. Supporters gathered at Pōtahi Marae, before setting out tomorrow on the first leg of the long journey south. Travellers from Bluff at the far end of the South Island are also travelling toward Wellington to ... <a title="NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/10/nzs-treaty-principles-bill-protest-hikoi-begins-in-far-north/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Treaty Principles Bill protest hīkoi begins in Far North">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2024
Former Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has been released from prison, only six months into his 12 months sentence, the Fiji Corrections Service (FCS) said via a statement today. Bainimarama was jailed in May, alongside former police chief Sitiveni Qiliho, for perverting the cause of justice. “The Fiji Corrections Service confirms that former Prime Minister ... <a title="Convicted former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama released from prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/08/convicted-former-fiji-pm-voreqe-bainimarama-released-from-prison/" aria-label="Read more about Convicted former Fiji PM Voreqe Bainimarama released from prison">Read more</a>
