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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chloe Lucas, Research Fellow, Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania As thousands of homes remain underwater in what appears to be yet another historic flood event in New South Wales, insurance companies are being inundated with calls from worried customers. The Sydney Morning Herald is ... <a title="‘They lost our receipts three times’: how getting an insurance payout can be a full-time job" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/they-lost-our-receipts-three-times-how-getting-an-insurance-payout-can-be-a-full-time-job-157588/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They lost our receipts three times’: how getting an insurance payout can be a full-time job">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Two Papua New Guinean security companies currently providing services at the Jacksons International Airport terminal in the capital Port Moresby attacked each other today, damaging airport facilities and forcing the suspension of flights, reports the PNG Post-Courier. Guards from one security firm – armed with knives, iron pipes and sticks – ... <a title="Two PNG security firms fight running battle at country’s biggest airport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/two-png-security-firms-fight-running-battle-at-countrys-biggest-airport/" aria-label="Read more about Two PNG security firms fight running battle at country’s biggest airport">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
By Jasmine Chia in Bangkok It is an unlikely combination: the white stars of the West Papuan and Myanmar flags, side by side. “West Papua Stands with Myanmar,” the sign said, posted by Indonesian human rights lawyer Veronica Koman. In another poignant picture, a small group of West Papuans stand at Simora Bay at the ... <a title="How the Milk Tea Alliance has teamed up with the ‘West Papua Spring’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/how-the-milk-tea-alliance-has-teamed-up-with-the-west-papua-spring/" aria-label="Read more about How the Milk Tea Alliance has teamed up with the ‘West Papua Spring’">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
RNZ Pacific An 83-year-old woman in Wallis and Futuna has become the first fatality in the French territory’s covid-19 outbreak. Earlier this month, she had been transferred from Futuna to the Wallis hospital for other ailments. However, after her release from hospital, she tested positive for covid-19 a week ago, was rehospitalised and died at ... <a title="Wallis and Futuna reports first covid-19 fatality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/wallis-and-futuna-reports-first-covid-19-fatality/" aria-label="Read more about Wallis and Futuna reports first covid-19 fatality">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Timorese authorities have announced that they have detected a record surge in new covid-19 cases – 55 in one day. According to Lusa news agency yesterday, 43 new cases of covid-19 were reported in the previous 24 hours in the capital Dili, 11 in Baucau and one in Viqueque, bringing the ... <a title="Timor-Leste reports big surge in covid – 55 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/timor-leste-reports-big-surge-in-covid-55-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Timor-Leste reports big surge in covid – 55 new cases">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Grové, Senior Lecturer and Educational and Developmental Psychologist, Monash University The COVID pandemic has shone a light on the ongoing decline in young people’s mental health. Psychologists have warned if we don’t start to address the mental health emergency of young people’s anxiety and depression, it ... <a title="Youth anxiety and depression are at record levels. Mental health hubs could be the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/youth-anxiety-and-depression-are-at-record-levels-mental-health-hubs-could-be-the-answer-154722/" aria-label="Read more about Youth anxiety and depression are at record levels. Mental health hubs could be the answer">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Mossop, Dean of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney As the current New South Wales flooding highlights, it’s not enough to continue to build cities and towns based on business-as-usual planning principles — especially as these disasters tend to disproportionately affect disadvantaged populations, increasing ... <a title="Not ‘if’, but ‘when’: city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/not-if-but-when-city-planners-need-to-design-for-flooding-these-examples-show-the-way-157578/" aria-label="Read more about Not ‘if’, but ‘when’: city planners need to design for flooding. These examples show the way">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Yates, Assistant Professor, General Practice, Bond University Phase 1B of Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has started today, after a few teething troubles. Last week the federal government prematurely released the national online booking system, which went live before GPs were expecting it. Practices have been swamped ... <a title="The second phase of Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout is underway, despite a rocky start. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/the-second-phase-of-australias-covid-vaccine-rollout-is-underway-despite-a-rocky-start-heres-what-you-need-to-know-157426/" aria-label="Read more about The second phase of Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout is underway, despite a rocky start. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Woo, Postdoctoral Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, James Cook University The world’s oceans hold their secrets close, including clues about how people lived tens of thousands of years ago. For a large portion of humanity’s existence, sea levels were significantly lower ... <a title="Ancient undersea middens offer clues about life before rising seas engulfed the coast. Now we have a better way to study them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/ancient-undersea-middens-offer-clues-about-life-before-rising-seas-engulfed-the-coast-now-we-have-a-better-way-to-study-them-157413/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient undersea middens offer clues about life before rising seas engulfed the coast. Now we have a better way to study them">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garry Stevens, Director of Academic Programs, Western Sydney University New South Wales is currently in the grip of one of largest flood events in decades. The NSW SES is helping thousands of people evacuate and has received more than 2,000 calls for help in the last 24 ... <a title="Why do people try to drive through floodwater or leave it too late to flee? Psychology offers some answers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/why-do-people-try-to-drive-through-floodwater-or-leave-it-too-late-to-flee-psychology-offers-some-answers-157577/" aria-label="Read more about Why do people try to drive through floodwater or leave it too late to flee? Psychology offers some answers">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney Over 100 refugees have been abruptly and quietly released from immigration detention in Melbourne, Brisbane and Darwin hotels since early 2021. These releases are welcome and long overdue, following a sustained public campaign for their freedom. But their newly gained ... <a title="Scores of medevac refugees have been released from detention. Their freedom, though, remains tenuous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/scores-of-medevac-refugees-have-been-released-from-detention-their-freedom-though-remains-tenuous-156952/" aria-label="Read more about Scores of medevac refugees have been released from detention. Their freedom, though, remains tenuous">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Housing Jason Walls (Herald): Remedies for the hot housing market: What does Grant Robertson have up his sleeve? (paywalled) Elle Hunt ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 22 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/22/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-22-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 22 2021">Read more</a>
