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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury GettyImages In the beginning there was no New Zealand honours system at all. New Zealanders received British honours as British subjects. So the very local honours handed out this Queen’s Birthday weekend also recognise how far Aotearoa New Zealand ... <a title="Queen’s Birthday honours reveal a New Zealand slowly recovering from its ‘imperial hangover’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/queens-birthday-honours-reveal-a-new-zealand-slowly-recovering-from-its-imperial-hangover-161675/" aria-label="Read more about Queen’s Birthday honours reveal a New Zealand slowly recovering from its ‘imperial hangover’">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University from www.shutterstock.com The idea of cute puppy dogs playing a role in leading us out of this pandemic is about as tantalising a story anyone could conjure up right now. It’s the type of good-news story you see at the ... <a title="Yes, dogs can sniff out COVID. But not after dinner, when they need a nap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/yes-dogs-can-sniff-out-covid-but-not-after-dinner-when-they-need-a-nap-161669/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, dogs can sniff out COVID. But not after dinner, when they need a nap">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Pirotta, Wildlife scientist, Macquarie University Shutterstock If you gaze at the ocean this winter, you might just be lucky enough to spot a whale migrating along Australia’s coastline. This is the start of whale season, when the gentle giants breed in the warm northern waters off ... <a title="Humpback whales have been spotted ‘bubble-net feeding’ for the first time in Australia (and we have it on camera)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/humpback-whales-have-been-spotted-bubble-net-feeding-for-the-first-time-in-australia-and-we-have-it-on-camera-157355/" aria-label="Read more about Humpback whales have been spotted ‘bubble-net feeding’ for the first time in Australia (and we have it on camera)">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Stone, Senior Lecturer in Transport Planning, The University of Melbourne NH53/Flickr, CC BY As part of efforts to decarbonise urban transport, Australian states and the ACT have announced various zero-emission bus trials and targets for replacing diesel buses. These trials are designed to help resolve some ... <a title="Don’t forget the need for zero-emission buses in the push for electric cars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/dont-forget-the-need-for-zero-emission-buses-in-the-push-for-electric-cars-160933/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t forget the need for zero-emission buses in the push for electric cars">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The Australian Securities & Investment Commission issued an information sheet this week regarding so-called “activist short selling”. The document outlines a number of “better practices” it wants short sellers to adhere to, and some “actions that we may take” if they ... <a title="Vital Signs: ASIC’s crusade against activist short sellers will be bad for regular folk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/vital-signs-asics-crusade-against-activist-short-sellers-will-be-bad-for-regular-folk-161906/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: ASIC’s crusade against activist short sellers will be bad for regular folk">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Bradley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, James Cook University A crocodile known locally as ‘Barrat’ emerges from the water of the lower Daintree River, Far North Queensland. Kevin Crook The wet season in tropical Australia begins with tension. Physical tension, caused by the friction of earth and clouds. ... <a title="Friday essay: reckoning with an animal that sees us as prey — living and working in crocodile country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/friday-essay-reckoning-with-an-animal-that-sees-us-as-prey-living-and-working-in-crocodile-country-160260/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: reckoning with an animal that sees us as prey — living and working in crocodile country">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Indonesia has cut off the internet in West Papua to conceal its crackdown on the peaceful liberation movement, says a leading Papuan campaigner. Benny Wenda, interim president of the United Liberation Movement of West Papua (ULMWP), has condemned the internet gag while Indonesia’s leading English-language daily newspaper, The Jakarta Post, has ... <a title="Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/papuan-resistance-slams-indonesian-internet-gag-amid-leader-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan resistance slams Indonesian internet gag amid leader crackdown">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
By Richard Ewart on ABC’s Pacific Beat Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Climate Change is calling on the international community to take responsibility for a food security crisis in the Carteret Islands, and some of the other remote atolls of Bougainville. Minister Wera Mori recently returned from a fact finding mission to the region and ... <a title="‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/step-up-over-carterets-food-crisis-png-minister-warns-rich-nations/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Step up’ over Carterets food crisis, PNG minister warns rich nations">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison operates on former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson’s well-tried “whatever it takes” principle. “What it takes” in the COVID era is never-ending public money and policy flexibility. We’ve seen both from the Morrison government. It also takes highly competent ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Bringing Scott Morrison to heel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/04/grattan-on-friday-bringing-scott-morrison-to-heel-161992/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Bringing Scott Morrison to heel">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Fuimaono Dylan Asafo Samoa’s Court of Appeal (CA) ruled yesterday that Article 44(1A) of the Constitution requires that six women should sit in Parliament. With all due respect, I believe that the CA’s decision was incorrect. This is on the grounds that the CA has overreached its powers by encroaching on the law-making ... <a title="Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/fuimaono-dylan-asafo-samoan-ruling-an-unfortunate-case-of-judicial-overreach/" aria-label="Read more about Fuimaono Dylan Asafo: Samoan ruling an unfortunate case of judicial overreach">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama describes FRIEND as a “proxy for the opposition”. Video: Fiji Village By Dhanjay Deo in Suva Opposition National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad says this week’s attack by Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum on the non-government organisation, Foundation for Rural Integrated Enterprises Development (FRIEND) is “shameful and disgraceful”. Prasad said ... <a title="Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/prasad-condemns-fiji-ags-attack-on-friend-as-shameful-disgraceful/" aria-label="Read more about Prasad condemns Fiji AG’s attack on FRIEND as ‘shameful, disgraceful’">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2021
RNZ Pacific The leaders of Samoa’s two main political parties have finally found something to agree upon since the April 9 general election – they will meet. Following yesterday’s Court of Appeal ruling, both the caretaker prime minister Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi and prime minister-elect, FAST Party leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, announced they plan to meet. ... <a title="Samoa’s two leaders both keen to meet following appeal court ruling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/03/samoas-two-leaders-both-keen-to-meet-following-appeal-court-ruling/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s two leaders both keen to meet following appeal court ruling">Read more</a>
