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December 4, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk December 1 flag day protests have taken place in several cities around Indonesia including the capital Jakarta, Yogyakarta (Central Java), Ternate (North Maluku) and Sinjai (South Sulawesi), reports Arah Juang. The actions were launched to commemorate West Papua Independence Day. But even before the actions were launched, security forces attempted to ... <a title="Papuan flag day protests in Yogya, Jakarta reject ‘special autonomy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/papuan-flag-day-protests-in-yogya-jakarta-reject-special-autonomy/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan flag day protests in Yogya, Jakarta reject ‘special autonomy’">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Paddy discuss the bilateral relationship between Australia and China, including a ‘repugnant’ tweet from ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the difficult bilateral relationship between Australia and China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-difficult-bilateral-relationship-between-australia-and-china-151471/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the difficult bilateral relationship between Australia and China">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan G. Howell, Casual Academic and PhD Candidate | School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle More and more threatened species are relying on captive breeding to avoid extinction. Some species on the brink only exist in captivity, and others depend on captive breeding for ... <a title="Human reproductive technologies like sperm freezing and IVF could be used to save threatened species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/human-reproductive-technologies-like-sperm-freezing-and-ivf-could-be-used-to-save-threatened-species-148637/" aria-label="Read more about Human reproductive technologies like sperm freezing and IVF could be used to save threatened species">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Wade, Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University Review: Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, directed by Ric Burns Apropos of nothing but a bowl of jello placed before him, a stifled laugh escapes from Oliver Sacks, the famed neurologist, writer and public intellectual. “What are you ... <a title="Film review: the immoderate adventures of Oliver Sacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/film-review-the-immoderate-adventures-of-oliver-sacks-151023/" aria-label="Read more about Film review: the immoderate adventures of Oliver Sacks">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael P.H. Stumpf, Professor for Theoretical Systems Biology, University of Melbourne How do you know that something you are looking for is not there? Looking for a needle in a haystack is fundamentally easy – however laborious and tedious – if you know it’s definitely there. Looking ... <a title="Almost half a million tests, zero positives: how statistics shows we can be confident COVID-19 is gone from Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/almost-half-a-million-tests-zero-positives-how-statistics-shows-we-can-be-confident-covid-19-is-gone-from-victoria-151281/" aria-label="Read more about Almost half a million tests, zero positives: how statistics shows we can be confident COVID-19 is gone from Victoria">Read more</a>
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December 4, 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 Climate change Peter Dunne: It is now stand and deliver time for Labour on climate change Rachel Thomas (RNZ): Carbon neutrality by 2050 requires taking a financial hit – economist Marc Daalder (Newsroom): What if we create ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-04-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 04 2020">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Jomeen, Professor of Midwifery and Dean in the Faculty of Health Sciences, Southern Cross University Many pregnant women worry about birth. Some, however, suffer from a much more serious condition called tokophobia: a severe and unreasoning dread of childbirth, which is sometimes accompanied by a disgust ... <a title="Tokophobia is an extreme fear of childbirth. Here’s how to recognise and treat it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/tokophobia-is-an-extreme-fear-of-childbirth-heres-how-to-recognise-and-treat-it-149264/" aria-label="Read more about Tokophobia is an extreme fear of childbirth. Here’s how to recognise and treat it">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The Northern Marianas is ready for its allocation of covid-19 vaccines from Pfizer after acquiring 10 ultra-cold freezers from South Korea. The acquisition of the freezers came as the CNMI waits for the Pfizer vaccines to get Emergency Use Authorisation approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. Even though the vaccines ... <a title="Northern Marianas gets vaccine freezers for covid-19 treatment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/northern-marianas-gets-vaccine-freezers-for-covid-19-treatment/" aria-label="Read more about Northern Marianas gets vaccine freezers for covid-19 treatment">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Steer, Senior Lecturer in English, Massey University Just as writers and artists today are responding to the Anthropocene through climate fiction and eco art, earlier generations chronicled an environmental crisis that presaged humanity’s global impact. The Anthropocene is a proposed geological epoch that powerfully expresses the ... <a title="The forgotten environmental crisis: how 20th century settler writers foreshadowed the Anthropocene" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/the-forgotten-environmental-crisis-how-20th-century-settler-writers-foreshadowed-the-anthropocene-150727/" aria-label="Read more about The forgotten environmental crisis: how 20th century settler writers foreshadowed the Anthropocene">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Ireland, Professor of Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Australian National University Before most people wake up this Sunday morning, a small space capsule will be dropped off to Earth, landing in Woomera, South Australia. The capsule contains fragments of the surface of a near-Earth-orbit asteroid, Ryugu, collected by ... <a title="The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to drop a chunk of asteroid in the Australian outback" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/the-hayabusa2-spacecraft-is-about-to-drop-a-chunk-of-asteroid-in-the-australian-outback-151280/" aria-label="Read more about The Hayabusa2 spacecraft is about to drop a chunk of asteroid in the Australian outback">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia The United Kingdom yesterday became the first country to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for widespread use. Following a review by the country’s drug regulator, the UK government announced it will begin rolling out the vaccine ... <a title="A vaccine will be a game-changer for international travel. But it’s not everything" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/a-vaccine-will-be-a-game-changer-for-international-travel-but-its-not-everything-151214/" aria-label="Read more about A vaccine will be a game-changer for international travel. But it’s not everything">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Attard, Associate Professor, Mathematics Education, Western Sydney University The Victorian government this week announced it would ban all banking schemes from operating in public schools from 2021. This includes the controversial Dollarmites program, run by Commonwealth Bank, which teaches primary school children to save money and ... <a title="We don’t need banks teaching kids about money. Schools have it covered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/04/we-dont-need-banks-teaching-kids-about-money-schools-have-it-covered-151093/" aria-label="Read more about We don’t need banks teaching kids about money. Schools have it covered">Read more</a>
