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May 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Professor of Environmental and Climate Law, The University of Melbourne Three global fossil fuel giants have just suffered embarrassing rebukes over their inadequate action on climate change. Collectively, the developments show how courts, and frustrated investors, are increasingly willing to force companies to reduce their ... <a title="Four seismic climate wins show Big Oil, Gas and Coal are running out of places to hide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/31/four-seismic-climate-wins-show-big-oil-gas-and-coal-are-running-out-of-places-to-hide-161741/" aria-label="Read more about Four seismic climate wins show Big Oil, Gas and Coal are running out of places to hide">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Silvia Griselda, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne Boys perform better than girls in tests made up of multiple-choice questions. Multiple-choice questions are considered objective and easy to mark. But my research shows they give an advantage to males. I compared around 500,000 test results of ... <a title="Multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/31/multiple-choice-exams-favour-boys-over-girls-worsening-the-maths-gender-gap-160724/" aria-label="Read more about Multiple-choice exams favour boys over girls, worsening the maths gender gap">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Australia should not target skills shortages when it selects workers for permanent residency. That’s the firm conclusion from our new Grattan Institute report released this morning entitled Rethinking permanent skilled migration after the pandemic. At present, the government allocates ... <a title="Selecting what matters: skill shortages are no basis for picking permanent migrants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/31/selecting-what-matters-skill-shortages-are-no-basis-for-picking-permanent-migrants-161579/" aria-label="Read more about Selecting what matters: skill shortages are no basis for picking permanent migrants">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Rebel federal backbencher Joel Fitzgibbon says Labor should scrap the rank and file’s role in electing the leader, returning all the power to the caucus. Fitzgibbon, speaking on Sky, said introducing the system that divides power in electing the leader ... <a title="Joel Fitzgibbon says rank and file ballots for Labor leader should be scrapped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/30/joel-fitzgibbon-says-rank-and-file-ballots-for-labor-leader-should-be-scrapped-161790/" aria-label="Read more about Joel Fitzgibbon says rank and file ballots for Labor leader should be scrapped">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By David Robie in Auckland Bananas, balaclavas and banners … these were stock-in-trade for human rights activists of the New Zealand-based Coalition for Democracy in Fiji who campaigned against then Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka’s original two coups in 1987 and the “banana republic” coup culture that emerged. Many of the activists, politicians, trade unionists, civil society ... <a title="Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/days-of-fiji-banana-republic-protests-remembered-in-bavadra-reunion/" aria-label="Read more about Days of Fiji ‘banana republic’ protests remembered in Bavadra reunion">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s incoming leader has condemned the actions of the former government and demanded it hand over power. Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, speaking formally as the country’s elected prime minister, slammed the behaviour of Tuila’epa Sa’ilele Malielegaoi and his Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). Fiame’s FAST party, which won 26 seats in last month’s election ... <a title="Samoa’s Fiame condemns defeated PM Tuilaepa’s ‘perverse’ actions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/samoas-fiame-condemns-defeated-pm-tuilaepas-perverse-actions/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s Fiame condemns defeated PM Tuilaepa’s ‘perverse’ actions">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
RNZ Saturday Morning Samoa found itself in a constitutional crisis this week when the caretaker Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP) government locked the doors to Parliament in an attempt to stop prime minister-elect Fiame Naomi Mata’afa being sworn in to office following her FAST party’s one-seat election win. Samoa now finds itself in the position ... <a title="RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/rnz-saturday-morning-how-will-the-samoan-constitutional-crisis-end/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Saturday Morning: How will the Samoan constitutional crisis end?">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
COMMENT: By Fred Wesley, editor-in-chief, The Fiji Times Bula. The big announcement last night must be a very firm reminder for us all in Fiji about what we are dealing with. Permanent Secretary for Health and Medical Services Dr James Fong confirmed 46 new cases. That must inch out some concern if it hasn’t already ... <a title="The Fiji Times: A warning – funerals are the common exposure factor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/the-fiji-times-a-warning-funerals-are-the-common-exposure-factor/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: A warning – funerals are the common exposure factor">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. Should we give more power to the politicians so that they can get things done? It’s an increasingly popular idea in New Zealand that we should hold elections every four years, rather than three, so Governments can implement more change. This week the Act Party gave the idea another push with ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Growing momentum for four-yearly elections, and why it’s a mistake" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-growing-momentum-for-four-yearly-elections-and-why-its-a-mistake/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Growing momentum for four-yearly elections, and why it’s a mistake">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By Lice Movono, RNZ Pacific correspondent in Suva Forty six people from Fiji’s central division where the capital Suva is located, have covid-19 taking the national total to 195 active cases. Fiji has had 360 cases in total since the first case was reported in March 2020, with 161 recoveries and 4 deaths. Health Secretary ... <a title="Fiji records 46 fresh covid cases – highest recorded in a day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/fiji-records-46-fresh-covid-cases-highest-recorded-in-a-day/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji records 46 fresh covid cases – highest recorded in a day">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
By Charles Maniani in Manokwari, West Papua A joint unit of Indonesian military and police have broken up a West Papuan rally against the extension of special autonomy and at least 140 demonstrators were arrested – but later released. The detainees were taken to the West Papua regional police Mobile Brigade (Brimob) command headquarters after ... <a title="Police break up protest against Papua special autonomy, 140 arrested" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/police-break-up-protest-against-papua-special-autonomy-140-arrested/" aria-label="Read more about Police break up protest against Papua special autonomy, 140 arrested">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2021
EDITORIAL: By the Samoa Observer’s editorial board Amid a mountainload of work this week in the [Samoan] Attorney-General’s Office – as the caretaker government’s lawyers look over the constitution for ways to “delegitimise” Monday’s Parliament swearing-in of Fa’atuatua i le Atua Samoa ua Tasi (FAST) party members – Attorney-General Savalenoa Mareva Betham-Annandale still finds time ... <a title="Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/29/samoa-observer-the-attorney-generals-fall-from-grace/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa Observer: The Attorney-General’s fall from grace">Read more</a>
