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February 23, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned Facebook for carrying out its threat to block the sharing of its journalistic news content in Australia in retaliation to the federal government’s plan to make platforms pay media outlets. The ban impacts on the reliability and pluralism of the information available on this social media ... <a title="RSF condemns Facebook news ban in Australia – block reported to be lifted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/rsf-condemns-facebook-news-ban-in-australia-block-reported-to-be-lifted/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Facebook news ban in Australia – block reported to be lifted">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
By a special Asia Pacific Report correspondent Intan Jaya has started Lent with bitter sorrow after losing three young Papuan men alleged to have been shot and brutally tortured to death by the Indonesian military in a local health centre. Sources said that the armed conflict has caused more than 1000 indigenous West Papuans in ... <a title="Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/three-papuan-youths-killed-in-torture-reprisal-by-indonesian-military/" aria-label="Read more about Three Papuan youths killed in torture reprisal by Indonesian military">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
By António Sampaio in Pante Macassar, Timor-Leste The fear that has led for years to silence dozens of children, allegedly victims of sexual abuse by a former priest who begins trial today in Timor-Leste’s western enclave, still shrouds the case. Witnesses, victims and others who knew about the abuse – including people involved in the ... <a title="Fear still marks the trial of a former priest in Timor-Leste enclave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/fear-still-marks-the-trial-of-a-former-priest-in-timor-leste-enclave/" aria-label="Read more about Fear still marks the trial of a former priest in Timor-Leste enclave">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Asia Pacific Report Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare, widely regarded as the founding father of independent Papua New Guinea, was in a critical condition in Port Moresby last night fighting cancer, reports The National today. The 84-year-old former politician and his wife, Lady Veronica, had been preparing this week to go overseas for treatment, the ... <a title="PNG’s founding father Sir Michael Somare ‘critically ill’, says family" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/pngs-founding-father-sir-michael-somare-critically-ill-says-family/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s founding father Sir Michael Somare ‘critically ill’, says family">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The base level of JobSeeker and related payments will increase by $50 a fortnight from April 1 under changes that will also toughen the obligations on people seeking work. The boost will take the payment to $307 a week. It ... <a title="$50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/50-a-fortnight-rise-in-jobseeker-comes-with-tougher-job-search-requirements-155858/" aria-label="Read more about $50 a fortnight rise in JobSeeker comes with tougher job search requirements">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage COHA’s Senior Research Fellow, professor Danny Shaw, opens a window to the mass movement in Haiti which is demanding President Jovenel Moïse step down and cease rule by decree. Demonstrators are also calling for the release of political prisoners, the restoration of the Supreme Court justices, Police Inspector ... <a title="COHA in Haiti: Danny Shaw Reporting on the Serious Political and Social Crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/coha-in-haiti-danny-shaw-reporting-on-the-serious-political-and-social-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about COHA in Haiti: Danny Shaw Reporting on the Serious Political and Social Crisis">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Shaw, Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Otago New Zealand has the highest per capita car ownership in the OECD, and reducing emissions from the transport sector is seen as a wicked problem. As part of its recently released advice for the government’s first emissions ... <a title="NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/nzs-smoking-rates-dropped-dramatically-thanks-to-a-hard-hitting-campaign-could-we-do-the-same-to-bring-emissions-down-153081/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s smoking rates dropped dramatically thanks to a hard-hitting campaign. Could we do the same to bring emissions down?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Liberal maverick Craig Kelly has defected to the crossbench, giving Prime Minister Scott Morrison no warning before his surprise announcement to Tuesday’s Coalition parties meeting. Kelly, who strongly promotes alternative, unproven treatments for COVID said: “If I’m to speak out ... <a title="Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/maverick-liberal-craig-kelly-defects-to-crossbench-vowing-to-continue-to-use-my-voice-on-controversial-covid-treatments-155857/" aria-label="Read more about Maverick Liberal Craig Kelly defects to crossbench, vowing to continue to ‘use my voice’ on controversial COVID treatments">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Greenberg, Dean of Arts, University of Auckland The world was excited by the news last week that NASA’s Perseverance rover had successfully landed in a Martian crater. The rover will now set about collecting samples from what scientists say was an ancient lake fed by a ... <a title="How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/how-did-nasas-martian-rover-come-to-land-in-a-crater-named-after-a-tiny-balkan-village-155740/" aria-label="Read more about How did NASA’s Martian rover come to land in a crater named after a tiny Balkan village?">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Pike, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The Open University In 2020, World Rugby undertook a painstaking policy process to address the issue of transwomen in rugby. This led to guidelines that exclude transwomen from competing in women’s rugby at the World Cup level — the first international ... <a title="Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/why-the-world-rugby-guidelines-banning-trans-athletes-from-the-womens-game-are-reasonable-152178/" aria-label="Read more about Why the World Rugby guidelines banning trans athletes from the women’s game are reasonable">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chandra Salgado Kent, Associate Professor, School of Science, Edith Cowan University Review: Whale Fall, written by Ian Sinclair and directed by Melissa Cantwell for The Kabuki Drop. Commissioned by PICA and co-presented with Perth Festival. Whale Fall follows the emotional journey of a 12-year-old boy, Caleb (Ashton ... <a title="Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/perth-festival-review-whale-fall-is-a-powerful-story-about-a-trans-boy-and-the-life-of-a-whale-155733/" aria-label="Read more about Perth Festival review: Whale Fall is a powerful story about a trans boy, and the life of a whale">Read more</a>
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February 23, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University What’s the difference between Google and Facebook? One difference is that in the past week Google has more-or-less agreed to pay Australian news outlets for their content faced with the threat of government action to ... <a title="One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/23/one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-others-why-facebook-is-beyond-our-control-155748/" aria-label="Read more about One of these things is not like the others: why Facebook is beyond our control">Read more</a>
