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June 14, 2020
By Evi Mariani in Jakarta The giant wave of the United States’ #BlackLivesMatter campaign has now swept across Indonesia. A number of groups have begun to discuss racism in the country and have touched upon a rarely discussed topic – racism against Papuans. For a long time, racism against Indonesians of Chinese descent, also called ... <a title="Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/14/call-for-chinese-indonesians-to-support-papuanlivesmatter/" aria-label="Read more about Call for Chinese-Indonesians to support #PapuanLivesMatter">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2020
By RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has suspended his hunger strike launched five days ago in protest at the French judiciary. Temaru, mayor of the largest municipality Faa’a and a former territorial president, made the announcement outside the courts in Pape’ete where he and his supporters gathered every day this week. He ... <a title="Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/tahitis-pro-independence-leader-oscar-temaru-suspends-justice-hunger-strike/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru suspends justice hunger strike">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2020
By Leigh-Marama McLachlan, RNZ Māori News Correspondent The future of the flagship Māori news show Te Karere is on the line as the New Zealand government proposes to create a single Māori news service run by Māori Television. The government this week released its much-aniticipated proposals for a major Māori media shake-up, Te Ao Pāpāho ... <a title="Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/fears-the-future-of-te-karere-maori-news-is-on-the-line/" aria-label="Read more about Fears the future of Te Karere Māori news is on the line">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2020
By Wansolwara staff Pacific leaders are echoing strong calls for USP Council members to work together to resolve the ongoing challenges currently faced by the region’s premier educational institution. The call by Tuvalu Prime Minister Kausea Natano yesterday comes in the wake of mounting pressure from staff, students and stakeholders for good governance to prevail ... <a title="Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/pacific-leaders-call-for-for-common-sense-to-prevail-in-usp-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific leaders call for for ‘common sense’ to prevail in USP impasse">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Langley, Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Archaeological excavations deep within the rainforests of Sri Lanka have unearthed the earliest evidence for hunting with bows and arrows outside Africa. At Fa-Hien Lena, a cave in the heart of Sri Lanka’s wet zone forests, we discovered numerous tools ... <a title="48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/13/48-000-year-old-arrowheads-reveal-early-human-innovation-in-the-sri-lankan-rainforest-139989/" aria-label="Read more about 48,000-year-old arrowheads reveal early human innovation in the Sri Lankan rainforest">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Award-winning Filipino-American filmmaker Ramona Diaz takes viewers to the Philippines where the free press has been under siege since President Rodrigo #Duterte took office three years ago. Video: BA News Pacific Media Watch PBS investigative documentary series Frontline has acquired A Thousand Cuts, the powerful documentary of award-winning Filipino-American director Ramona Diaz about a “lawless ... <a title="Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/frontline-snaps-up-ramona-diazs-powerful-doco-a-thousand-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Frontline snaps up Ramona Diaz’s powerful doco A Thousand Cuts">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It mightn’t sound much, but it had big consequences. Fifty years ago this week, the Senate voted to set up a system of committees to scrutinise government legislation, activity and spending. As it has evolved, this network has given teeth ... <a title="View from The Hill: Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/view-from-the-hill-senate-committees-are-one-of-the-few-bright-spots-in-the-battle-to-hold-government-to-account-140641/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Senate committees are one of the few bright spots in the battle to hold government to account">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Fiji’s NGO Coalition on Human Rights today condemned police for it called heavy-handed intimidation of students and staff at the regional University of the South Pacific, saying it was “deeply troubled” by the leadership saga. “It is appalling to see the continued interventions and intimidation by the Fiji government and Fiji police ... <a title="Civil society advocates condemn Fiji police ‘intimidation’ of USP students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/civil-society-advocates-condemn-fiji-police-intimidation-of-usp-students/" aria-label="Read more about Civil society advocates condemn Fiji police ‘intimidation’ of USP students">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne If you fondly remember May Gibbs’s Gumnut Baby stories about the adventures of Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, you may also remember the villainous Big Bad Banksia Men (perhaps you’re still having nightmares about them). But banksias are nothing to be ... <a title="The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/the-coastal-banksia-has-its-roots-in-ancient-gondwana-138434/" aria-label="Read more about The coastal banksia has its roots in ancient Gondwana">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnie Graham, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Stockholm Resilience Centre and University of Johannesburg, Stockholm University The recent Black Lives Matter protests in Australia have highlighted the pressing and continued need for non-Indigenous Australians to take responsibility for reconciliation. This requires non-Indigenous Australians to educate themselves about Indigenous and ... <a title="Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/non-indigenous-australians-need-to-educate-themselves-one-way-to-do-this-is-to-take-an-indigenous-tour-140442/" aria-label="Read more about Non-Indigenous Australians need to educate themselves. One way to do this is to take an Indigenous tour.">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics including: the protesters advocating police reform, the treatment of indigenous peoples, and to show solidarity with the black lives matter movement, the high ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/video-michelle-grattan-on-protests-social-distancing-and-domestic-borders-140630/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on protests, social-distancing, and domestic borders">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2020
Cook Islands campus backs University of the South Pacific’s attempts to clean out alleged corruption and mismanagement at its Laucala headquarters campus in Suva, Fiji. University of the South Pacific Cook Islands campus staff and students are backing the university’s suspended vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Campus director Dr Debi Futter-Puati said she was pleased there ... <a title="USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/12/usp-cook-islands-backs-clean-out-bid-in-fiji-avoids-student-disruption/" aria-label="Read more about USP Cook Islands backs ‘clean out’ bid in Fiji, avoids student disruption">Read more</a>
