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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 9, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis Assessment, Analysis-Reportage, Bryce Edwards, Critical Politics, Editor's Picks, Elections, English, Evening Report, Lead, Leadership, Media, Media Intelligence, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, National Party, National Party Leader, New Zealand, New Zealand National Party, News Media, NZ Politics, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Politics, Reportage / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Risks to Simon Bridges’ leadership
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Risks to Simon Bridges’ leadership Dr Bryce Edwards. Last week was Simon Bridges’ worst one as National Party leader, which has sparked widespread discussion about his risk of being rolled. Commentators are relatively divided on the likelihood of this happening, and they also have differing views on how he’s performing, […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 9, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Who Owns You?
Barbara Sumner. Column: Barbara Sumner – Who owns you? Have you ever asked yourself this question? If you are a non-adopted person then the idea that someone could own you may never have occurred to you. If you are an adopted person, you may not be aware of the terms of your adoption. Or […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 9, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Climate, Climate Action, Climate adaptation, Climate Change Resilience, Climate policy, Editor's Picks, English, Environment, Evening Report, Featured, forests, Global, history, Human Rights, Innovation, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, MIL OSI, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Climate 2018, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Pacific Report, PMC Reportage, Politics, Real climate action, Reportage, Reports, Self Determination, UN, United Nations / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: ‘Most important years in history’ – last chance over climate, says UN report
Warming beyond 1.5C will unleash a frightening set of consequences and scientists say only a global transformation, beginning now, can avoid it. Climate Home News reviews the warnings in the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change research report released yesterday. Only the remaking of the human world in a generation can now prevent serious, far […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 8, 2018 / 1965 Indonesian purge, 30th September Movement, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, APR, Asia Pacific, Asia Pacific Report, Asia Report, assassinations, Disasters, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Extrajudicial killings, history, Human Rights, Indonesia, Indonesian Communist Party, Justice, MIL OSI, Open Source Intel, Pacific Media Centre, Pacific Region, Palu tsunami, PMC Reportage, Reportage, Reports, Security / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Palu quake and tsunami sweeps away key Indonesian human rights activism
Palu mayor Rusdy Mastura (seen on the billboard), apologised in 2012 for the mass killings of Communists in Indonesia, becoming the first and only Indonesian official to do so. This paved the way for family and victims of the massacre to receive aid. Image: Ulet Ifansasti ANALYSIS: By Dr Vannessa Hearman When the earthquake and […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 7, 2018 / Analysis, Analysis Assessment, Analysis-Reportage, Bryce Edwards, Critical Politics, Editor's Picks, English, Ethics, Evening Report, Fairness, Health, Inquiry, Investigation, Jami-Lee Ross, Lead, Leadership, Legal Issues, Media, Media Intelligence, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, National Party, National Party Leader, New Zealand, New Zealand National Party, News Media, NZ Politics, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Political freedom, Political Integrity, Political rights, Politics, Reportage / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: An Embarrassing week for National
Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: An Embarrassing week for National Published 5 October Dr Bryce Edwards. “Embarrassing” is the word of the week for the National Party. Leader Simon Bridges applied the term in various ways to MP Jami-Lee Ross, when explaining that Ross’ personal circumstances required his temporary departure from Parliament. Bridges described Ross’ personal […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 7, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Dear Toni Street
Column: Barbara Sumner – Dear Toni StreetCongratulations on the arrival of your child born through a surrogate. I have read of your frustration at the hoops you must jump through to now adopt him.Thank you for lending your profile in support of a petition to update the Adoption Act 1955. By doing so, you are […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Why I hate biographies
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. I have a friend who loves biographies. She’s always telling me to read accounts of dire lives turned around, the fall and rise of a star or a tragedy overcome. But I can’t. Biographies and especially autobiographies unsettle me. It is not the sweep of grand lives that leaves […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: What more do you want?
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. I’ve spent most of my adult life searching for my biological family. I’ve encountered endless roadblocks. The majority of them from officialdom. During the search and now as I start a campaign to free all adoption files, I am often asked – what do you want?But as an adopted […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Like a Stranger
Column: Barbara Sumner – Barbara Sumner. There once was a woman who kept changing everything: her hair, her glasses, her furniture, her style, her husbands and her lovers. She moved 34 times and changed her name seven times. Her restless journey was almost unconscious. She described herself as emotionally and physically peripatetic. The idea of […]
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By MIL OSI - ForeignAffairs.co.nz / October 6, 2018 / Adoption, Adoption Laws, Adoption Legislation, Analysis, Analysis-Reportage, Barbara Sumner, Civil rights, Columns, Editor's Picks, English, Evening Report, Features, Human Rights, Identity, law, Lead, MIL OSI, MIL Syndication, New Zealand, Open Source Intel, Pacific Region, Reportage, Self Determination, Self Identity, social change, Social issues, Social justice / Comments Off on MIL-Evening Report: Letter to Jacinda
Column: Barbara Sumner – Dear Prime Minister Your child is almost three months old. I was this age when I was taken from my mother because of her marital status. Or, it could have been earlier. Or later. I don’t know because I have three possible birth dates, seven months apart and two birth certificates. […]
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