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July 21, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Dan McGarry, The Village Explainer I wasn’t invited to the inaugural Vanuatu media awards a couple of weeks ago. Nor was I asked to participate. Instead, I spent the weekend preparing the final draft of the Media Association of Vanuatu’s Code of Ethics and Practice. I am proud to say it was adopted ... <a title="Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/dan-mcgarry-the-truth-is-our-republic/" aria-label="Read more about Dan McGarry: The truth is our republic">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded 784 cases of covid-19 in the last 24 hours to 8am on Monday. That compares to 1043 cases in the previous 24-hour period. Among these were the first five cases recorded in the country’s eastern division, three from Ovalau and two from Gau. The Health Ministry also confirmed 15 deaths ... <a title="784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes 100" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/784-new-covid-cases-in-fiji-as-rising-death-toll-passes-100/" aria-label="Read more about 784 new covid cases in Fiji as rising death toll passes 100">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific A New Zealand explorer who trekked in West Papua before Indonesian rule says he is saddened to see what colonisation has done to the region’s indigenous people. Philip Temple, who is also a renowned author, was part of a small group who made the first recorded ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid in West ... <a title="NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/nz-should-raise-human-plight-of-west-papuans-at-un-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about NZ should raise human plight of West Papuans at UN, says author">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk As many as 714,066 Papuans and 112 organisations which are part of the Papuan People’s Petition (PRP) have rejected last week’s enactment into law of revisions to Law Number 21/2001 on Papua Special Autonomy (Otsus), reports CNN Indonesia. They believe that special autonomy is not the answer to resolving the problems ... <a title="714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/714000-papuans-112-organisations-oppose-failed-special-autonomy-law/" aria-label="Read more about 714,000 Papuans, 112 organisations oppose ‘failed’ special autonomy law">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2021
RNZ Pacific Several thousand people in French Polynesia have joined a march demanding France own up to the damage caused by its nuclear weapons tests. The rally yesterday was organised by nuclear veterans group and the pro-independence opposition to mark the day in 1974 when fallout from the Centaur atmospheric nuclear test covered all of ... <a title="Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/21/thousands-rally-in-tahiti-in-protest-over-nuclear-weapons-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands rally in Tahiti in protest over nuclear weapons legacy">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversations’s politics team. In this episode, politics + society editor Amanda Dunn ... <a title="Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/podcast-with-michelle-grattan-three-states-in-lockdown-164793/" aria-label="Read more about Podcast with Michelle Grattan: three states in lockdown">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kang, Clinical Associate Professor, University of Sydney Shutterstock The Delta variant has taken hold in NSW and Victoria, which are both in lockdown, and now in South Australia too, which will enter a lockdown tonight. The World Health Organization has predicted Delta will become the dominant ... <a title="Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/teens-should-have-a-say-in-whether-they-get-a-covid-vaccine-164388/" aria-label="Read more about Teens should have a say in whether they get a COVID vaccine">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Loosemore, Professor of Construction Management, University of Technology Sydney OlegDoroshin/Shutterstock The federal government has declared its “independent assessments” plan for the National Disability Insurance Scheme “dead”. But it has another plan to save money: get people with disabilities off welfare and into jobs. It is committing ... <a title="The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-problem-with-employment-services-providers-profit-more-than-job-seekers-162421/" aria-label="Read more about The problem with employment services: providers profit more than job seekers">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University Dean Lewins/AAP On Monday, a senate hearing produced yet more damning evidence about the “car park rorts” affair. The Australian National Audit Office told a parliamentary committee a list of the top 20 marginal electorates guided the distribution ... <a title="The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/the-car-park-rorts-story-is-scandalous-but-it-will-keep-happening-unless-we-close-grant-loopholes-164779/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘car park rorts’ story is scandalous. But it will keep happening unless we close grant loopholes">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australian Tax Office The biggest unstated message from the intergenerational report released during the lull between lockdowns is that we will need more tax. Not now. At the moment it’s a matter of throwing everything ... <a title="When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/when-covid-is-behind-us-australians-are-going-to-have-to-pay-more-tax-164707/" aria-label="Read more about When COVID is behind us, Australians are going to have to pay more tax">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phil Edwards, Program Director, Australia Telescope National Facility Science, CSIRO Event Horizon Telescope project/Nature Astronomy In 2019, when astronomers captured the first image of a black hole’s shadow — a bright orange doughnut-shaped halo created by the black hole’s intense gravity bending light around it — it ... <a title="A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/a-new-image-shows-jets-of-plasma-shooting-out-of-a-supermassive-black-hole-164709/" aria-label="Read more about A new image shows jets of plasma shooting out of a supermassive black hole">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rose Butler, DECRA Senior Research Fellow, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Mick Tsikas/AAP People from different class backgrounds often fall in love in books and on screen — think Sally Rooney’s Normal People, Melina Marchetta’s Looking For Alibrandi, or Arundhati Roy’s The God ... <a title="How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/20/how-does-class-impact-on-australians-love-lives-new-research-brings-a-complex-issue-into-the-open-163893/" aria-label="Read more about How does class impact on Australians’ love lives? New research brings a complex issue into the open">Read more</a>
