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May 20, 2022
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget’s centrepiece $1 billion cost-of-living relief package. The temporary short-term support is counterbalanced by a record $11.1 billion for the health system as the government scraps district health boards (DHBs) and ... <a title="NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/nz-budget-2022-record-11-1-billion-post-covid-boost-for-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific The pro-independence coalition parties of Kanaky New Caledonia have selected their candidates for the French Legislative elections next month. Wali Wahetra from the Palika Party is standing in one electoral district, and Gerard Reignier from Union Caledonienne is standing in the other. Speaking with La Premiere, Wahetra explained what the New Caledonian pro-independence ... <a title="New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties choose for French elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/new-caledonias-pro-independence-parties-choose-for-french-elections/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties choose for French elections">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2022
RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand has reported 9570 new community cases of covid-19 and a further 32 deaths today, bringing total publicly recorded deaths with the coronavirus 1017. In a statement, the Ministry of Health said the total number of deaths was up by 31 from yesterday as they had removed a case which had ... <a title="NZ covid deaths top 1000 with 9570 new community cases reported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/18/nz-covid-deaths-top-1000-with-9570-new-community-cases-reported/" aria-label="Read more about NZ covid deaths top 1000 with 9570 new community cases reported">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ French Pacific reporter The Kanak people will not accept France’s attempt to “recolonise” New Caledonia, a pro-independence delegate has told the United Nations. Addressing a UN Decolonisation Committee seminar on the Pacific in Saint Lucia, Dimitri Qenegei said since 2020 the French President, Emmanuel Macron, and his Overseas Minister Sebastien Lecornu ... <a title="Kanak delegate warns France against ‘recolonising’ New Caledonia with a lie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/kanak-delegate-warns-france-against-recolonising-new-caledonia-with-a-lie/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak delegate warns France against ‘recolonising’ New Caledonia with a lie">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
RNZ News Critics of New Zealand’s new $4.5 billion global warming plan to help New Zealanders into electric vehicles and hybrids say a significant cheque for the Clean Car programme is sending the wrong message about the role cars play in the country’s future. Victoria University of Wellington’s environmental studies Professor Ralph Chapman said — ... <a title="NZ’s focus on private vehicles an ‘off-track’ climate change plan, say critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/nzs-focus-on-private-vehicles-an-off-track-climate-change-plan-say-critics/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s focus on private vehicles an ‘off-track’ climate change plan, say critics">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Striking New Zealand health workers have picketed around the country, saying they are fed up with being underpaid and undervalued. About 10,000 allied health staff who work at district health boards have walked off the job for 24 hours, with rolling demonstrations. They are health workers who are ... <a title="‘We’re not paid fairly for the work we do’, say striking NZ health workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/were-not-paid-fairly-for-the-work-we-do-say-striking-nz-health-workers/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re not paid fairly for the work we do’, say striking NZ health workers">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s Amuitahiraa Party has registered its three candidates for the French National Assembly elections next month — just hours before the nomination deadline. The three are Pascale Haiti, Jonathan Tariha’a and Sylviane Terooatea. Haiti, a former member of the French Polynesian Assembly, is the partner of party founder and leader Gaston Flosse, ... <a title="Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/flosses-amuitahiraa-party-names-candidates-for-french-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections">Read more</a>
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May 14, 2022
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has confirmed that she has tested positive for covid-19. Her daughter Neve tested positive on Wednesday, she added in the post. Her partner Clarke Gayford tested positive on Sunday. “Despite best efforts, unfortunately I’ve joined the rest of my family and tested positive for covid-19,” Ardern wrote on social ... <a title="PM Jacinda Ardern tests positive for covid-19 – NZ cases rising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/14/pm-jacinda-ardern-tests-positive-for-covid-19-nz-cases-rising/" aria-label="Read more about PM Jacinda Ardern tests positive for covid-19 – NZ cases rising">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2022
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s outgoing president, Obed Moses Tallis, has urged the government not to abolish the Ministry of Justice, warning against a “dictatorial system”. His opening speech to Parliament’s first “ordinary” session of 2022 is his final duty of his mandate which will end in July. “In my observation during my five-year term as a ... <a title="Vanuatu president warns against ‘dictatorship’ if Justice Ministry is abolished" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/13/vanuatu-president-warns-against-dictatorship-if-justice-ministry-is-abolished/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu president warns against ‘dictatorship’ if Justice Ministry is abolished">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2022
RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil has died following a car crash in the Bulolo district of Morobe Province. As well being Deputy Prime Minister, Basil was Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, and is the former Minister for Communications, Information Technology and Energy. Police Commissioner David Manning confirmed his death after ... <a title="PNG Deputy PM killed in road accident – a driver on the run, say police" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/12/png-deputy-pm-killed-in-road-accident-a-driver-on-the-run-say-police/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Deputy PM killed in road accident – a driver on the run, say police">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
RNZ News The New Zealand government’s immigration decisions amount to a “white immigration policy”, creating a two-tier system that will entrench inequities, claims the Green Party. National and ACT are also critical of the moves announced by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and top ministers at a Business NZ lunch in Auckland today. The new policy ... <a title="Greens condemn ‘two-tier’ NZ migrant policy as entrenching inequities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/greens-condemn-two-tier-nz-migrant-policy-as-entrenching-inequities/" aria-label="Read more about Greens condemn ‘two-tier’ NZ migrant policy as entrenching inequities">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only discuss the territory’s accession to full sovereignty in talks planned with France. The joint position was adopted at the weekend at the congress of the FLNKS and then a meeting ... <a title="FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/flnks-insists-on-full-sovereignty-for-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
