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December 22, 2020
By Charles Maniani in Manokwari Indonesian Mobile Brigade (Brimob) paramilitary police, national police intelligence officers (intel) and the army’s special forces (Kopassus) have stormed the West Papua National Committee (KNPB) offices in the Almasuh area of Merauke regency, Papua, The raid last week was reported by a Suara Papua informant from Merauke on Monday. The ... <a title="Police, TNI raid Papuan secretariat in Merauke – 14 activists arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/22/police-tni-raid-papuan-secretariat-in-merauke-14-activists-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about Police, TNI raid Papuan secretariat in Merauke – 14 activists arrested">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. We in New Zealand hear so little about the tragedy unfolding in Eastern Europe, including the Baltic and Caucasian States. These countries have very cold winters, increased inequality, poverty, and popular nationalism (aka ‘populism’). But they are low on the queue for media coverage (and we don’t tend to regard anti ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worst Countries, pre-Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-worst-countries-pre-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: Worst Countries, pre-Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Jordan Bond, RNZ News reporter Million-dollar houses are now being sold in one of Auckland’s lowest-income suburbs and a local politician says New Zealand government failure is allowing the market to drive further inequality and hopelessness. Last month an unremarkable 1960s weatherboard house on less than a quarter acre section in Ōtara in South ... <a title="Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-residents-express-hopelessness-as-otara-house-sales-hit-1m/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific residents express ‘hopelessness’ as Ōtara house sales hit $1m">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mirko Bagaric, Professor of Law, Swinburne University of Technology The final report of the COVID-19 Hotel Quarantine Inquiry, issued by former judge Jennifer Coate, outlines monumental errors made by the Victorian government and its public servants. Despite this, the governmental failings that led to a second wave ... <a title="Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/hotel-quarantine-report-blasts-government-failures-but-political-fallout-is-likely-to-be-minimal-152175/" aria-label="Read more about Hotel quarantine report blasts government failures, but political fallout is likely to be minimal">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris James, Lecturer, Centre for Hypersonics, The University of Queensland There are many things humanity must overcome before any return journey to Mars is launched. The two major players are NASA and SpaceX, which work together intimately on missions to the International Space Station but have competing ... <a title="How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-get-people-from-earth-to-mars-and-safely-back-again-150167/" aria-label="Read more about How to get people from Earth to Mars and safely back again">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne Most of us can’t wait to see the back of 2020, a year that has been memorable for all the wrong reasons. While 2020 provided the ultimate stress test for countries to discover their vulnerabilities, we can ... <a title="Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/coronavirus-china-and-climate-where-australias-foreign-relations-attention-will-be-in-2021-150158/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus, China and climate: where Australia’s foreign relations attention will be in 2021">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claus T. Christophersen, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University It’s that time of year again, with Christmas parties, end-of-year get-togethers and holiday catch-ups on the horizon for many of us — all COVID-safe, of course. All that party food and takeaway, however, can have consequences for your gut ... <a title="How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/how-to-prepare-and-protect-your-gut-health-over-christmas-and-the-silly-season-151673/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare and protect your gut health over Christmas and the silly season">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Last month I came across a heartbreaking sight: a group of people standing around a young female kangaroo with horrific injuries. She appeared to have been hit by a ... <a title="10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/10-million-animals-are-hit-on-our-roads-each-year-heres-how-you-can-help-them-and-steer-clear-of-them-these-holidays-149733/" aria-label="Read more about 10 million animals are hit on our roads each year. Here’s how you can help them (and steer clear of them) these holidays">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Popular Culture, Auckland University of Technology Not long to go now before many of us get to spread some good tidings and joy as we celebrate Christmas. The main ways we understand and mark the occasion seem to be rather similar across the ... <a title="The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/the-borrowed-customs-and-traditions-of-christmas-celebrations-149527/" aria-label="Read more about The borrowed customs and traditions of Christmas celebrations">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University An end-of-year political poll appeared recently and virtually no one paid it any attention. After a year of high-stakes health, economic and electoral events, it was a sign New Zealanders are on the other side of something. It was a ... <a title="2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/2020-hindsight-can-new-zealand-apply-the-political-lessons-of-covid-19-in-the-year-ahead-151830/" aria-label="Read more about 2020 hindsight: can New Zealand apply the political lessons of COVID-19 in the year ahead?">Read more</a>
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December 21, 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 Parliament, and end of year reviews Claire Robinson (Guardian): Jacinda Ardern should make Speaker Trevor Mallard pay the price for his costly ‘mistake’ Tova O’Brien (Guardian): It’s been an ugly year for New Zealand politics but ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-21-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 21 2020">Read more</a>
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December 21, 2020
By Laurens Ikinia A journalist who sailed on board the bombed environmental ship Rainbow Warrior, was arrested at gunpoint in New Caledonia while investigating French military garrisons in pro-independence Kanak villages, and reported on social justice issues across the Pacific has stepped down as founding director of the Pacific Media Centre. Professor David Robie, 75, ... <a title="Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/21/pacific-media-centre-founder-takes-on-new-social-justice-journalism-role/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Centre founder takes on new social justice journalism role">Read more</a>
