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July 3, 2020
Athletes from the Papua New Guinea’s national team joined the peaceful “cry for justice” march in the nation’s capital of Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Many wore black yesterday in rallies against gender-based violence in Papua New Guinea in a day chosen to remember the young mother Jenelyn Kennedy – and for ... <a title="Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/03/many-in-black-rally-for-jenelyn-and-against-png-gender-based-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Many in black rally for Jenelyn and against PNG gender-based violence">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2020
It’s only been a year and half since I started university, but sometimes that’s enough time to realise more about the world than you could ever imagine. For me, the biggest thing, the one thing intertwined into every part of my life, is privilege. I’m a white male, and if society loves anything, it’s straight ... <a title="James Tapp: Confronting Pākehā Privilege as a white male student" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/30/james-tapp-confronting-pakeha-privilege-as-a-white-male-student/" aria-label="Read more about James Tapp: Confronting Pākehā Privilege as a white male student">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2020
COMMENT: By Sue Bradford for Pundit and RNZ News In the age of covid-19 we are Jacinda’s team of five million, except for some. There has rarely been a more blatant case of discrimination against beneficiaries than Grant Robertson’s announcement yesterday that people who have lost their jobs because of the coronavirus will receive weekly payments ... <a title="Sue Bradford: Labour betrays its traditions – and most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare payments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/26/sue-bradford-labour-betrays-its-traditions-and-most-vulnerable-with-two-tier-welfare-payments/" aria-label="Read more about Sue Bradford: Labour betrays its traditions – and most vulnerable – with two-tier welfare payments">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The Commentariat There is a regular commentariat who appear on places such as ‘The Panel’ on Radio New Zealand (4pm on weekdays), and on panels on television shows such as Newshub Nation (TV3, weekends) and Q+A (TV1, Mondays). Generally, these panellists come out in favour of targeted assistance to the misfortunate, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/keith-rankin-analysis-universal-versus-targeted-assistance-a-muddled-dichotomy/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Universal versus Targeted Assistance, a Muddled Dichotomy">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2020
By RNZ News The sense of national unity felt during the Covid-19 lockdown may disappear as social isolation and economic costs hit home, a report by leading social scientists warns. Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures from the University of Auckland has released a discussion paper outlining potential difficulties as restrictions lift. It argues ... <a title="Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say scientists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/05/lockdown-social-cohesion-likely-to-fall-as-acute-phase-ends-say-scientists/" aria-label="Read more about Lockdown social cohesion likely to fall as ‘acute’ phase ends, say scientists">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Social Development Minister Carmel Sepuloni described this year’s annual benefit increases of 3 per cent as “significant”, and “a way of sharing the wealth”. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern also heralded them as the biggest increase to benefits in nine years, if National’s 2015 one-off adjustments are excluded. The details of this year’s annual increase in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: “Significant” increases in benefits not necessarily enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-significant-increases-in-benefits-not-necessarily-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: “Significant” increases in benefits not necessarily enough">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2019
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka Great strides have been taken to empower women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing adopted an ambitious global agenda to achieve gender equality twenty-five years ago. Gender parity has been achieved in primary education. Maternal mortality has been halved. ... <a title="Joint UN ESCAP-UN Women Op-Ed: Catalysing change for gender equality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/27/joint-un-escap-un-women-op-ed-catalysing-change-for-gender-equality/" aria-label="Read more about Joint UN ESCAP-UN Women Op-Ed: Catalysing change for gender equality">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Tonight’s historic first vote on abortion laws will inevitably disappoint many advocates of reform. This is because of the watered-down proposals put forward by the Government, and the politicking that has accompanied the legislation – especially New Zealand First’s insistence on seeking a referendum. Of course, abortion law reform ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The complications and politicking of abortion law reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/08/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-complications-and-politicking-of-abortion-law-reform/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The complications and politicking of abortion law reform">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Scott Waide in Lae As the new Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, you have your work cut out for you. You have to try to get a lot of it done within two years before the 2022 elections. That’s a big job. Do what is right by the people. Listen to their ... <a title="Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/01/scott-waide-my-message-to-pngs-prime-minister-james-marape/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Waide: My message to PNG’s Prime Minister James Marape">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2019
Column: Barbara Sumner – If adoption secrecy were a game show, they’d call it, ‘how much do you really want this?’ Because I am adopted, I have no birth story. However, the state holds a large number of files on me. Legal documents, doctors notes, feeding recipes and home visit comments. Through these documents, I ... <a title="Column: Barbara Sumner – The Adoption Game Show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/23/barbara-sumner-column-the-adoption-game-show/" aria-label="Read more about Column: Barbara Sumner – The Adoption Game Show">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2019
by Dr Bryce Edwards Have the political left and supporters of the Labour-led Government been conned again? Big changes were promised in welfare reform, but with the response to the just-released working group report on the welfare system, it looks like very little is actually going to be delivered. Of course, the left has already ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Expediency rather than transformation on welfare reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-expediency-rather-than-transformation-on-welfare-reform/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Expediency rather than transformation on welfare reform">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Column: Barbara Sumner – 1960 was a big year for my adopting parents. First came the infertility diagnosis. Then a new baby arrived with little warning and no fanfare. Followed within days by a new refrigerator. I was one of over 103,000 New Zealand babies forcibly removed from my single mother. Her dying mother sent ... <a title="The baby or the fridge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/the-baby-or-the-fridge/" aria-label="Read more about The baby or the fridge">Read more</a>
