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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Adjunct Researcher, Swinburne University of Technology Fossilised bones belonging to enormous long-necked sauropod dinosaurs have been known from western Queensland since the 1930s, when Austrosaurus mckillopi was discovered on Clutha Station near Maxwelton. Since then, western Queensland has yielded many more sauropod bones and skeletons, ... <a title="We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/we-moved-hundreds-of-tonnes-of-rock-to-preserve-the-dinosaur-footprints-of-the-snake-creek-tracksite-161039/" aria-label="Read more about We moved hundreds of tonnes of rock to preserve the dinosaur footprints of the Snake Creek Tracksite">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
A View from Afar: Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan present this week’s podcast, A View from Afar, where they analyse how leaders of the G7, NATO and EU juxtapositioned behind the United States to form a consensus-pact immediately prior to the Biden-Putin Summit.
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne AAP/Luis Ascui A Victorian Resolve poll for The Age gave Labor 37% of the primary vote (42.9% at the 2018 election), the Coalition 36% (35.2%), the Greens 9% (10.7%) and independents 12% (6.1%). This ... <a title="Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/victorian-labor-holds-comfortable-lead-flawed-climate-change-question-in-federal-resolve-poll-162923/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian Labor holds comfortable lead; flawed climate change question in federal Resolve poll">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Siteri Sauvakacolo in Lautoka, Fiji Six infants who tested positive to covid-19 are in stable condition at Lautoka Hospital in the west of Fiji. Health Secretary Dr James Fong confirmed this to The Fiji Times this week. The infants and their mothers were from a community in lockdown in Nadi. They were recently assisted ... <a title="Fiji babies test positive for covid-19 as health officials report 121 new cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/fiji-babies-test-positive-for-covid-19-as-health-officials-report-121-new-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji babies test positive for covid-19 as health officials report 121 new cases">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Khalia Strong Hakeagapuletama Halo walks into the courtroom. He is a head taller than most, dressed in a crisp white shirt. He has a nervous smile and bright, eager eyes. Known as Hake to his family and friends, this is not the first time he has detailed the abuse he suffered at Lake Alice. ... <a title="A Niuean man’s story of Lake Alice: ‘The pain was so bad … [you feel] your body is off the bed’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/a-niuean-mans-story-of-lake-alice-the-pain-was-so-bad-you-feel-your-body-is-off-the-bed/" aria-label="Read more about A Niuean man’s story of Lake Alice: ‘The pain was so bad … [you feel] your body is off the bed’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mariner Fagaiava-Muller, RNZ Pacific Journalist In New Zealand, youth climate change movement School Strike 4 Climate Auckland has declared itself as racist, and disbanded, but young activists say going silent is not the answer. The group had organised large protests in centres throughout the country, becoming the biggest climate protest movement in ... <a title="Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/problem-of-racism-towards-pasifika-in-climate-change-we-want-to-be-valued/" aria-label="Read more about Problem of racism towards Pasifika in climate change: ‘We want to be valued’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
The Polynesian Panther Party will hold a three-day fonotaga commemoration event this weekend at the University of Auckland’s Fale Pasifika. Whakaako kia Whakaora – Educate to Liberate. Image: RNZ/Polynesian Panthers Dawn Raid apology The Panthers’ golden jubilee couldn’t be more forthcoming, given an announcement made this week of a formal government apology for the 1970s ... <a title="50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/50-years-of-the-polynesian-panthers-it-was-a-time-of-revolution/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of the Polynesian Panthers: ‘It was a time of revolution’">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Laurens Ikinia in Auckland Four fresh indigenous Papuan students have graduated with degrees from Aotearoa New Zealand universities in the past few weeks to fulfil the dreams of Papuan provincial government leaders Lukas Enembe and Dominggus Mandacan. The two governors of both Indonesian-Melanesian provinces, Enembe (Papua) province and Mandacan (West Papua) made a bold ... <a title="Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/indigenous-papuan-graduates-praise-aotearoa-and-their-governors/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous Papuan graduates praise Aotearoa – and their governors">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
By Barbara Dreaver, TVNZ News Pacific correspondent As the New Zealand government confirmed it would apologise for the 1970s Dawn Raids against Pacific Islanders, memories have surfaced for those traumatised by them, including one elderly man. The politically-driven crackdown on overstayers from the Pacific Islands involved special police squads raiding homes and workplaces, often in ... <a title="Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/elderly-pasifika-man-sobs-as-memories-of-dawn-raids-surface-over-apology/" aria-label="Read more about Elderly Pasifika man sobs as memories of Dawn Raids surface over apology">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Australia has a serious wage problem. Over the past decade wages for all but the top 20% of income earners have flat-lined. This is part of the longer-term problem concerning productivity ... <a title="Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/australias-2-5-minimum-wage-rise-theres-something-in-it-for-you-and-the-economy-162862/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 2.5% minimum wage rise: there’s something in it for you, and the economy">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hall, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences and Public Policy, Auckland University of Technology Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images With its emissions budgets, the Climate Change Commission’s final advice to the government charts a course towards a low-emissions economy. But its comprehensive policy package is arguably the more decisive ... <a title="Why a carbon price alone won’t be enough to drive down New Zealand’s emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/why-a-carbon-price-alone-wont-be-enough-to-drive-down-new-zealands-emissions-162657/" aria-label="Read more about Why a carbon price alone won’t be enough to drive down New Zealand’s emissions">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Shutterstock Almost a year ago, in July 2020, our calls for the government to urgently upgrade the guidelines to protect health workers from airborne SARS-CoV-2 fell on deaf ears. The ... <a title="At last, health, aged care and quarantine workers get the right masks to protect against airborne coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/17/at-last-health-aged-care-and-quarantine-workers-get-the-right-masks-to-protect-against-airborne-coronavirus-162601/" aria-label="Read more about At last, health, aged care and quarantine workers get the right masks to protect against airborne coronavirus">Read more</a>
