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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Fisher, Co-author of the Digital News Report: Australia 2020, Deputy Director of the News and Media Research Centre, and Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Canberra Australian news consumers are far more likely to believe climate change is “not at all” serious compared to news users ... <a title="The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/the-number-of-climate-deniers-in-australia-is-more-than-double-the-global-average-new-survey-finds-140450/" aria-label="Read more about The number of climate deniers in Australia is more than double the global average, new survey finds">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
By Christine Rovoi of RNZ Pacific A former vice-chancellor of Papua New Guinea’s University of Technology says politics has no place in university governance. Professor Albert Schram’s comments follow last week’s suspension of the vice-chancellor of the University of the South Pacific, Professor Pal Ahluwalia, by the USP Council’s executive committee. The growing controversy at ... <a title="Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/pacific-leadership-in-spotlight-as-pressure-rises-over-usp-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leadership in spotlight as pressure rises over USP impasse">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Labour Party list Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern rebrands the post-coronavirus Labour Party with her first real party list Jamie Ensor and Lydia Lewis (Newshub): Dr Ayesha Verrall’s experience could prove ‘helpful’ to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-16-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 16 2020">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University The case of Australian Karm Gilespie, who has been sentenced to death by a Chinese court on drugs charges pending an appeal, cannot be separated from a recent souring in Sino-Australian relations. Gilespie was reportedly arrested with ... <a title="Karm Gilespie’s case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/karm-gilespies-case-cannot-be-separated-completely-from-strained-sino-australian-relations-140720/" aria-label="Read more about Karm Gilespie’s case cannot be separated completely from strained Sino-Australian relations">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabi Mocatta, Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania Many Australians enjoy a glass of homegrown wine, and A$2.78 billion worth is exported each year. But hotter, drier conditions under climate change means there are big changes ahead for our wine producers. ... <a title="Pass the shiraz, please: how Australia’s wine industry can adapt to climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/pass-the-shiraz-please-how-australias-wine-industry-can-adapt-to-climate-change-140024/" aria-label="Read more about Pass the shiraz, please: how Australia’s wine industry can adapt to climate change">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University Only 566 people have ever travelled to space. Sixty-five of them, or about 11.5%, were women. NASA recently proclaimed it will put the “first woman and next man” on the Moon by 2024. Despite nearly 60 ... <a title="Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/almost-90-of-astronauts-have-been-men-but-the-future-of-space-may-be-female-125644/" aria-label="Read more about Almost 90% of astronauts have been men. But the future of space may be female">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Freeman, Senior Research Fellow, University of Sydney The decision, handed down on June 9 by the World Trade Organisation’s appeals body, that Australia’s plain packaging tobacco control policy doesn’t flout WTO laws marks the end of almost a decade of legal wrangling over this landmark public ... <a title="Australia’s decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/australias-decisive-win-on-plain-packaging-paves-way-for-other-countries-to-follow-suit-140553/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s decisive win on plain packaging paves way for other countries to follow suit">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage In the context of police brutality in the US, which has many similar dynamics around the world, stories like that of Alejandro Treuquil in Chile call our attention. His assassination is still under investigation, but declarations by his family verify that the Mapuche leader was regularly harassed and ... <a title="The Death of Alejandro Treuquil and the disregard for Mapuche lives in Chile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/16/the-death-of-alejandro-treuquil-and-the-disregard-for-mapuche-lives-in-chile/" aria-label="Read more about The Death of Alejandro Treuquil and the disregard for Mapuche lives in Chile">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison is casting himself as the “can-do” prime minister, and what’s notable is how he is forging institutions around his style. The national cabinet was born of the COVID crisis, but has been made permanent with a broader purpose; ... <a title="View from The Hill: ‘Can do’ Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/view-from-the-hill-can-do-scott-morrison-needs-to-take-care-in-deregulating-140743/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: ‘Can do’ Scott Morrison needs to take care in deregulating">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
By Ted Regencia in Manila A court in the Philippines has found Rappler chief executive and executive editor Maria Ressa, and a former Rappler reporter, Reynaldo Santos Jr, guilty of cyber libel, in a controversial case seen as a major test of press freedom under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. In a ruling delivered ... <a title="Maria Ressa found guilty in blow to Philippines’ press freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/maria-ressa-found-guilty-in-blow-to-philippines-press-freedom/" aria-label="Read more about Maria Ressa found guilty in blow to Philippines’ press freedom">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Waller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Lincoln University, New Zealand Large-scale reforestation projects such as New Zealand’s One Billion Trees programme are underway in many countries to help sequester carbon from the atmosphere. But there is ongoing debate about whether to prioritise native or non-native plants to fight climate ... <a title="Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/planting-non-native-trees-accelerates-the-release-of-carbon-back-into-the-atmosphere-139841/" aria-label="Read more about Planting non-native trees accelerates the release of carbon back into the atmosphere">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History at the University of Canterbury, University of Canterbury The global furore about the meaning and relevance of statues, memorials and place names from a racist, imperial past presents a special challenge to Aotearoa-New Zealand. In this former colonial outpost we are dealing ... <a title="Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/15/removing-monuments-to-an-imperial-past-is-not-the-same-for-former-colonies-as-it-is-for-former-empires-140546/" aria-label="Read more about Removing monuments to an imperial past is not the same for former colonies as it is for former empires">Read more</a>
