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April 21, 2021
A View from Afar: In this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan debate: How this week, New Zealand’s minister of foreign affairs, Nanaia Mahuta, delivered a significant speech detailing how this Labour-led Government defines its foreign policy. BACKGROUND: In short, Mahuta anchored New Zealand within the Asia Pacific region as an independent Pacific Island state, ... <a title="Video: Buchanan and Manning on NZ Govt’s Commitment to Foreign Policy Independence – Is it an Achievable Quest?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/scheduled-video-buchanan-and-manning-on-nz-govts-commitment-to-foreign-policy-independence-is-it-an-achievable-quest/" aria-label="Read more about Video: Buchanan and Manning on NZ Govt’s Commitment to Foreign Policy Independence – Is it an Achievable Quest?">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick Stokes, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University In the 1840s, a series of strange books started to appear in Copenhagen. The books were credited to outlandish pseudonyms: Victor Eremita (“victorious hermit”), Hilarious Bookbinder, Vigilius Haufniensis (“the watcher in the marketplace”), and more. The author of these ... <a title="Safe space or shirking accountability? A new Journal of Controversial Ideas will allow academics to write under pseudonyms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/safe-space-or-shirking-accountability-a-new-journal-of-controversial-ideas-will-allow-academics-to-write-under-pseudonyms-159433/" aria-label="Read more about Safe space or shirking accountability? A new Journal of Controversial Ideas will allow academics to write under pseudonyms">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia A drink with your breakfast, lunch or dinner can make your meal more enjoyable. But have you considered whether your drink of choice may affect the way your body absorbs the nutrients in your ... <a title="What to drink with dinner to get the most iron from your food (and what to avoid)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/what-to-drink-with-dinner-to-get-the-most-iron-from-your-food-and-what-to-avoid-156579/" aria-label="Read more about What to drink with dinner to get the most iron from your food (and what to avoid)">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Prime Minister Scott Morrison has highlighted workforce skills as the “single biggest challenge facing the Australian economy” in recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Employer surveys also show it’s a top concern. Adding to these concerns is an ... <a title="Migration is a quick fix for skills shortages. Building on Australians’ skills is better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/migration-is-a-quick-fix-for-skills-shortages-building-on-australians-skills-is-better-159207/" aria-label="Read more about Migration is a quick fix for skills shortages. Building on Australians’ skills is better">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Corbould, Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University The unprecedented conviction of police officer Derek Chauvin for the murder and manslaughter of George Floyd is testament to the hard work of Black Lives Matter organisers and protesters. It might seem as though someone who spent ... <a title="Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction a sign of long history of police brutality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/relief-at-derek-chauvin-conviction-a-sign-of-long-history-of-police-brutality-159212/" aria-label="Read more about Relief at Derek Chauvin conviction a sign of long history of police brutality">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ana Manero, Research Fellow, Australian National University Recent flooding in the Sydney Basin pushed thousands from their homes and left others facing enormous insurance costs. These events show how traumatic and costly it can be to live in areas vulnerable to disaster. Too often, socio-economically disadvantaged populations ... <a title="How the water and sewage under your feet could end up flooding your home (and what to do about it)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/how-the-water-and-sewage-under-your-feet-could-end-up-flooding-your-home-and-what-to-do-about-it-158527/" aria-label="Read more about How the water and sewage under your feet could end up flooding your home (and what to do about it)">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment of “overly critical” journalists who are often subjected to intimidation or even imprisonment. The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog has criticised many governments in the Asia-Pacific region for censorship and ... <a title="Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/fiji-drops-three-places-in-rsf-press-freedom-index-over-gagging-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Reporters Without Borders The Asia-Pacific region’s authoritarian regimes have used the covid-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the “dictatorial democracies” have used it as a pretext for imposing especially repressive legislation with provisions combining propaganda and suppression of dissent. The behaviour of the region’s few real democracies have, meanwhile, ... <a title="RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/rsf-2021-index-censorship-and-the-disinformation-virus-hits-asia-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Chinese President Xi Jinping’s muscular speech to the Boao Forum Asia annual conference was clearly designed to send a signal to the United States that China regarded the change of administration as an opportunity for a renewed dialogue on contentious ... <a title="Xi Jinping sends message to US on China’s rising power in Boao address" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/xi-jinping-sends-message-to-us-on-chinas-rising-power-in-boao-address-159324/" aria-label="Read more about Xi Jinping sends message to US on China’s rising power in Boao address">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Steyn, Research assistant, University of Auckland With the opening of a quarantine-free travel corridor between New Zealand and Australia this week, it’s easy to forget COVID-19 is still spreading globally, faster than ever, with more than three million deaths recorded worldwide. Within a day of the ... <a title="Why strict border control remains crucial if we want to keep the travel bubble safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/why-strict-border-control-remains-crucial-if-we-want-to-keep-the-travel-bubble-safe-159325/" aria-label="Read more about Why strict border control remains crucial if we want to keep the travel bubble safe">Read more</a>
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April 21, 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 Ihumātao unlawful government spend Henry Cooke (Stuff): Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumātao was unlawfully spent Tova O’Brien ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 21 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-21-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 21 2021">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Mintrom, Professor, Monash University On Monday, Scott Morrison announced a royal commission into veteran suicides — the fourth royal commission set up under his prime ministership. But while Morrison says he hopes this will be a “healing process” and it comes after sustained community lobbying, we ... <a title="We studied 50 years of royal commissions — here’s how they make a difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/we-studied-50-years-of-royal-commissions-heres-how-they-make-a-difference-159231/" aria-label="Read more about We studied 50 years of royal commissions — here’s how they make a difference">Read more</a>
