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September 20, 2021
By Johnny Blades, RNZ Pacific reporter Australia’s new security pact with the US and the UK has touched a nerve at the core of Pacific regionalism. The AUKUS alliance, announced by leaders of the three countries last week, finds them seeking strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific region with a focus on developing nuclear-powered submarines for ... <a title="AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/aukus-pact-strikes-at-heart-of-pacific-nuclear-free-regionalism/" aria-label="Read more about AUKUS pact strikes at heart of Pacific nuclear-free regionalism">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
RNZ Pacific The New Caledonian government has extended the current lockdown as well as the curfew, until October as the covid-19 pandemic worsens. On Thursday, seven deaths from covid-19 were recorded, the heaviest daily toll since the discovery of the first indigenous cases of the disease on September 6. It brings the death toll to ... <a title="New Caledonia extends lockdown – covid death toll now 24" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/new-caledonia-extends-lockdown-covid-death-toll-now-24/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia extends lockdown – covid death toll now 24">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The West Papua National Committee (KNPB) claims that an attack on a military post in Maybrat regency earlier this month is being used as a pretext to “force the KNPB into a corner” and to criminalise them, reports Suara Papua. The September 2 attack on Kisor sub-district military post in Maybrat ... <a title="Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/papuas-knpb-accuses-jakarta-of-using-military-post-attack-to-criminalise-them/" aria-label="Read more about Papua’s KNPB accuses Jakarta of using military post attack to criminalise them">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Lulu Mark in Port Moresby Ten people have died from Papua New Guinea’s covid-19 pandemic and 203 new cases were reported in five days from September 9 as National Pandemic Response Deputy Controller Dr Daoni Esorom made a red alert call on Independence Day “super spreader” events. “Papua New Guineans are just not heeding ... <a title="Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/covid-19-red-alert-over-png-super-spreader-independence-events/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 red alert over PNG ‘super spreader’ independence events">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Questions have been raised about why the head of Fiji’s Bureau of Statistics was fired by the Bainimarama government this week. Kemueli Naiqama recently published this year’s household income and expenditure survey that showed three quarters of Fiji’s poorest people are indigenous Fijians, or i-Taukei. It is the first ... <a title="Fiji government sacking of chief statistician branded ‘shameful’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/fiji-government-sacking-of-chief-statistician-branded-shameful/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji government sacking of chief statistician branded ‘shameful’">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison, whose COVID face masks have the Australian flag emblazoned on them, likes to talk about “the Australian way” of doing things and Australian values. But it is not “the Australian way” to secretly plan, over a very long ... <a title="View from The Hill: For Morrison AUKUS is all about the deal, never mind the niceties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/20/view-from-the-hill-for-morrison-aukus-is-all-about-the-deal-never-mind-the-niceties-168248/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: For Morrison AUKUS is all about the deal, never mind the niceties">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdown, released today, marks an important milestone. It’s a clear commitment to delivering on the National Plan, and provides much-needed clarity on where we are heading and what the next few months will look like. It ... <a title="With a post-lockdown Victoria in sight, the more we can contain transmission now, the easier the road ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/19/with-a-post-lockdown-victoria-in-sight-the-more-we-can-contain-transmission-now-the-easier-the-road-ahead-168245/" aria-label="Read more about With a post-lockdown Victoria in sight, the more we can contain transmission now, the easier the road ahead">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra AAP/Lukas Coch Industry Minister Christian Porter has been forced to resign from cabinet after declining to seek and provide to Scott Morrison the names of the anonymous benefactors who have helped fund his legal costs. Morrison has appointed energy minister ... <a title="Christian Porter quits cabinet, refusing to find out who gave him money for legal costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/19/christian-porter-quits-cabinet-refusing-to-find-out-who-gave-him-money-for-legal-costs-168246/" aria-label="Read more about Christian Porter quits cabinet, refusing to find out who gave him money for legal costs">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Porter, Senior Fellow (Indigenous Programs), The University of Melbourne Proposals to expand police powers, to criminalise coercive control and to establish specialist women’s police stations have all occupied a prominent place in Australia’s recent debate about responses to violence against women. The proposal to establish women’s ... <a title="Women’s police stations in Australia: would they work for ‘all’ women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/womens-police-stations-in-australia-would-they-work-for-all-women-165873/" aria-label="Read more about Women’s police stations in Australia: would they work for ‘all’ women?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David King, Senior Lecturer in General Practice, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Medical news is full of stories about promising new treatments for challenging conditions, or for additional health benefits of routine behaviours and habits. Who doesn’t want to feel good about drinking coffee or eating chocolate? ... <a title="Forget nose spray, good sex clears a stuffy nose just as effectively — and is a lot more fun" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/forget-nose-spray-good-sex-clears-a-stuffy-nose-just-as-effectively-and-is-a-lot-more-fun-167901/" aria-label="Read more about Forget nose spray, good sex clears a stuffy nose just as effectively — and is a lot more fun">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Dalziell, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University shutterstock Recently, two native Australian birds have stolen the limelight with their impressive vocal imitations. A superb lyrebird called Echo at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo has produced a painfully realistic vocal rendition of a human baby crying. Lyrebirds ... <a title="‘Bloody fool!’: why Ripper the musk duck, and many other talkative Aussie birds, are exciting biologists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/bloody-fool-why-ripper-the-musk-duck-and-many-other-talkative-aussie-birds-are-exciting-biologists-167709/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bloody fool!’: why Ripper the musk duck, and many other talkative Aussie birds, are exciting biologists">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Paddy discuss the revelation that anonymous donors covered some of former attorney-general Christian Porter’s ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Anglosphere’s reassertion in the Indo-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/17/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-anglospheres-reassertion-in-the-indo-pacific-168111/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Anglosphere’s reassertion in the Indo-Pacific">Read more</a>
