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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqui Stol, Senior Experimental Scientist, Ecologist, CSIRO Land and Water, CSIRO In box gum grassy woodlands, widely spaced eucalypts tower over carpets of wildflowers, lush native grasses and groves of flowering wattles. It’s no wonder some early landscape paintings depicting Australian farm life are inspired by this ... <a title="How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/how-drought-breaking-rains-transformed-these-critically-endangered-woodlands-into-a-flower-filled-vista-140638/" aria-label="Read more about How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim was inaccurate reporting over them seeking travel perks in the House. They have asked the Speaker, Nikki Rattle, to withdraw senior Cook Islands News journalist and political editor Rashneel Kumar ... <a title="Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-mps-seek-to-ban-political-editor-for-story-exposing-travel-perks/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johanna Reidy, Lecturer, Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine , University of Otago Māori have demonstrably poorer health outcomes than other New Zealanders and this disparity has persisted for decades. A recently released and long-awaited major review of New Zealand’s health and disability sector points ... <a title="Bandaid or cure: a major health review remains split on how to reduce persistent inequalities for Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/bandaid-or-cure-a-major-health-review-remains-split-on-how-to-reduce-persistent-inequalities-for-maori-141118/" aria-label="Read more about Bandaid or cure: a major health review remains split on how to reduce persistent inequalities for Māori">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
But their unanimous vote was not to introduce a new weapon in the fight against covid-19; it was to condemn Cook Islands News for its reporting on MPs’ travel allowances. They went further and asked Speaker Niki Rattle to require that Cook Islands News journalist Rashneel Kumar withdraw from reporting Parliament for an (as yet ... <a title="Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-news-on-journalist-ban-bid-mps-are-all-in-this-together/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Morrison, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology The Australian government recently announced plans to establish the country’s first taskforce devoted to fighting disinformation campaigns, under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Last week, Foreign Minister Marise Payne accused China and Russia of “using the ... <a title="China’s disinformation threat is real. We need better defences against state-based cyber campaigns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/chinas-disinformation-threat-is-real-we-need-better-defences-against-state-based-cyber-campaigns-141044/" aria-label="Read more about China’s disinformation threat is real. We need better defences against state-based cyber campaigns">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Pacific Media Centre PNG Defence Force soldiers are undergoing mass testing for covid-19 while there is controlled access into Murray Barracks to reduce further possible spread of the coronavirus, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Defence Minister Saki Soloma in response to a confirmed case of covid-19 at Murray Barracks said yesterday the case had been identified ... <a title="PNG Defence Force in lockdown over fears of coronavirus spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/png-defence-force-in-lockdown-over-fears-of-coronavirus-spread/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Defence Force in lockdown over fears of coronavirus spread">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Martin, Associate Professor in Criminology, Swinburne University of Technology The Australian government recently announced plans to establish the country’s first taskforce devoted to fighting disinformation campaigns, under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Last week, Foreign Minister Marise Payne accused China and Russia of ... <a title="China’s disinformation campaign is real. We need better defences against state-based cyberattacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/chinas-disinformation-campaign-is-real-we-need-better-defences-against-state-based-cyberattacks-141044/" aria-label="Read more about China’s disinformation campaign is real. We need better defences against state-based cyberattacks">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW As a female legal academic, former practising lawyer, and judge’s associate, I hope the explosive allegations raised by the inquiry into former High Court judge Dyson Heydon will create the Australian legal profession’s #metoo moment. It is my professional culture. ... <a title="Australia urgently needs an independent body to hold powerful judges to account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/australia-urgently-needs-an-independent-body-to-hold-powerful-judges-to-account-141272/" aria-label="Read more about Australia urgently needs an independent body to hold powerful judges to account">Read more</a>
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June 24, 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 Border, quarantine Katie Scotcher (RNZ): Rigorous border system ‘matter of life or death’, public health expert says Hannah Kronast and Delphine Herbert (Newshub): Siouxsie Wiles defends Government’s decision not to test for COVID-19 ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 24 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-24-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 24 2020">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne In May 2020, with the world still in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic, Margaret MacMillan, an historian at the University of Toronto, wrote an essay in The Economist about the possibilities for life after ... <a title="Media have helped create a crisis of democracy – now they must play a vital role in its revival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/media-have-helped-create-a-crisis-of-democracy-now-they-must-play-a-vital-role-in-its-revival-139653/" aria-label="Read more about Media have helped create a crisis of democracy – now they must play a vital role in its revival">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Lowy Institute’s 2020 “Understanding Australian Attitudes to the World” poll has found “unprecedented shifts” in Australian public opinion, with more people feeling unsafe in the world, optimism about the economy at an historic low, and a precipitate decline in ... <a title="Australians pessimistic about economic outlook and even more suspicious of China: 2020 Lowy poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/australians-pessimistic-about-economic-outlook-and-even-more-suspicious-of-china-2020-lowy-poll-141223/" aria-label="Read more about Australians pessimistic about economic outlook and even more suspicious of China: 2020 Lowy poll">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese has proposed negotiations for a bipartisan agreement on an energy policy framework to create greater certainty for investment. In a letter to Scott Morrison Albanese says the government’s recent draft technology roadmap “presents a technology transition story that ... <a title="Albanese calls on Morrison to negotiate a bipartisan energy framework" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/albanese-calls-on-morrison-to-negotiate-a-bipartisan-energy-framework-141319/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese calls on Morrison to negotiate a bipartisan energy framework">Read more</a>
