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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Senior research fellow, Southern Cross University All humans alive today can claim a common ancestral link to some hominin. Hominins include modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors. Recent discoveries of hominin remains, including the skull of a Homo erectus in South ... <a title="Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn’t just belong to whoever digs them up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/who-owns-the-bones-human-fossils-shouldnt-just-belong-to-whoever-digs-them-up-140060/" aria-label="Read more about Who owns the bones? Human fossils shouldn’t just belong to whoever digs them up">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lawrence English, Adjunct Lecturer, The University of Queensland Protest has, by default, always been aligned with sound. It is an action concerned with the amplification of a message – wanting to make sure it is heard. Over the past 50 years, protesters’ voices have found power in ... <a title="Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/voices-hearts-and-hands-how-the-powerful-sounds-of-protest-have-changed-over-time-140192/" aria-label="Read more about Voices, hearts and hands – how the powerful sounds of protest have changed over time">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of Pacific Media Watch After Australia’s misguided attempts at handing over $17.1 of Australian-made television content to the Pacific region last month with programmes such as Neighbours and Border Control, questions have been asked about a $10 million New Zealand grant made in 2018. At the 2018 Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) meeting ... <a title="NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-10m-grant-for-pasifika-tv-channel-mfat-clears-the-air/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s $10m grant for Pasifika TV channel – MFAT clears the air">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Tolhurst, Hon. Assoc. Prof., Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne Last season’s bushfires directly killed 34 people and devastated more than 8 million hectares of land along the south-eastern fringe of Australia. A further 445 people are estimated to have died from smoke-induced respiratory problems. ... <a title="It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/its-12-months-since-the-last-bushfire-season-began-but-dont-expect-the-same-this-year-139757/" aria-label="Read more about It’s 12 months since the last bushfire season began, but don’t expect the same this year">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Baker, Lecturer in Business Strategy, Auckland University of Technology To paraphrase Winston Churchill, it is curious to see The Warehouse Group (TWG) not letting a good crisis go to waste. Despite recently receiving NZ$68 million in government wage subsidies as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, ... <a title="By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/by-sacking-staff-and-closing-stores-big-businesses-like-the-warehouse-could-hurt-their-own-long-term-interests-140420/" aria-label="Read more about By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
By RNZ Pacific Fiji police have raided the headquarters of Fiji’s National Federation Party, apparently in search of information related to social media posts. In a video shared to the party’s social media, it showed several plain clothes officers rifling through files, papers and storage last night. Speaking to RNZ Pacific shortly after the raid, ... <a title="Fiji police raid opposition party headquarters in social media blitz" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/fiji-police-raid-opposition-party-headquarters-in-social-media-blitz/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police raid opposition party headquarters in social media blitz">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
INDEPTH: By Guyon Espiner, RNZ News investigative reporter, with contributor John Daniell New Zealand has lost some of its independence within the Five Eyes intelligence alliance and been “drawn in a lot closer” to the US-led spy network, former Prime Minister Helen Clark says. She made the comments in new RNZ podcast The Service, which ... <a title="NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nzs-independence-from-five-eyes-has-slipped-says-former-pm-clark/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s independence from Five Eyes has slipped, says former PM Clark">Read more</a>
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June 10, 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 Police Zane Small (Newshub): Celebration or failed consultation? Police Association still at odds with Greens on armed cops Vita Molyneux (Newshub): Green Party overjoyed at police decision to dump Armed Response Teams RNZ: Petitioner ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 10 2020">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage Book ReviewBy John PerryFrom Nicaragua Who Killed Berta Cáceres?: Dams, Death Squads, and an Indigenous Defender’s Battle for the Planet, by Nina Lakhani. Verso, 2020. 336 pp. “They build dams and kill people.” These words, spoken by a witness when the murderers of environmental defender Berta Cáceres were ... <a title="Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: On the Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous and Environmental Leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/nina-lakhanis-who-killed-berta-caceres-on-the-life-death-and-legacy-of-a-courageous-honduran-indigenous-and-environmental-leader/" aria-label="Read more about Nina Lakhani’s “Who Killed Berta Cáceres?”: On the Life, Death, and Legacy of a Courageous Honduran Indigenous and Environmental Leader">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University “What’s in it for us?” This is the first question Prime Minister Scott Morrison should have asked himself when US President Donald Trump invited him to join an expanded G7 gathering at Camp David in September. The ... <a title="Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/attending-the-g7-in-the-us-carries-great-diplomatic-risks-for-australia-140331/" aria-label="Read more about Attending the G7 in the US carries great diplomatic risks for Australia">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Divna Haslam, Senior Research Fellow (Faculty of Law/ Health) & Clinical Psychologist, Queensland University of Technology Parents have many things to worry about. It’s easy to stick our heads in the sand and assume bad things – like sexual abuse – won’t happen to our kids. But ... <a title="Be careful with photos, talk about sex: how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/be-careful-with-photos-talk-about-sex-how-to-protect-your-kids-from-online-sexual-abuse-139971/" aria-label="Read more about Be careful with photos, talk about sex: how to protect your kids from online sexual abuse">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Divna Haslam, Senior Research Fellow (Faculty of Law/ Health) & Clinical Psychologist, Queensland University of Technology We know it can seem easier to bury your head in the sand, when it comes to the hideous issue of child sexual abuse. But child sexual abuse is disturbingly common. ... <a title="Use proper names for body parts, don’t force hugs: how to protect your kids from in-person sexual abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/10/use-proper-names-for-body-parts-dont-force-hugs-how-to-protect-your-kids-from-in-person-sexual-abuse-139970/" aria-label="Read more about Use proper names for body parts, don’t force hugs: how to protect your kids from in-person sexual abuse">Read more</a>
