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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Beth Spacey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Medieval History, The University of Queensland A total eclipse of a super blood moon will be visible in Australia for around 15 minutes tomorrow evening, and it promises to be spectacular. During a lunar eclipse, the Earth passes directly in between ... <a title="Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/medieval-christians-saw-the-lunar-eclipse-as-a-sign-from-god-but-they-also-understood-the-science-160759/" aria-label="Read more about Medieval Christians saw the lunar eclipse as a sign from God — but they also understood the science">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Sitting Ducks – Analysis by Keith Rankin. Covid19 is far from finished in the world’s more economically developed countries. And we – who live in these countries – continue to display a restrained racism towards large culturally different nations such as India and China. For example, we kept assuming that the main Covid19 risk country ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Covid19 is far from gone, though probably not as bad in India as many believe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/keith-rankin-covid19-is-far-from-gone-though-probably-not-as-bad-in-india-as-many-believe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Covid19 is far from gone, though probably not as bad in India as many believe">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Samoa’s judiciary sent a powerful message today to the other two branches of the country’s democracy amid a political crisis branded by critics as an attempted coup by the outgoing government that has held power for four decades. Chief Justice Satiu Simativa Perese along with all members of the Samoan judiciary ... <a title="Samoan judiciary sends powerful rule of law message over ‘coup bid’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/samoan-judiciary-sends-powerful-rule-of-law-message-over-coup-bid/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan judiciary sends powerful rule of law message over ‘coup bid’">Read more</a>
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May 24, 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 News of four new positive cases of COVID-19 in Melbourne’s northern suburbs has prompted renewed discussion about the vaccine rollout. The Victorian department of health is urging people to get ... <a title="Four cases in Melbourne’s north as vaccine push rolls on but what if I’ve already been recently exposed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/four-cases-in-melbournes-north-as-vaccine-push-rolls-on-but-what-if-ive-already-been-recently-exposed-161417/" aria-label="Read more about Four cases in Melbourne’s north as vaccine push rolls on but what if I’ve already been recently exposed?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Baka, Adjunct Fellow, Olympic Scholar and Co-Director of the Olympic Research Network, Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University With just 60 days to go until the start of the Tokyo Olympics, there are more questions than answers about how such a massive event will take ... <a title="The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead, but they will be a much compromised and watered-down event" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/the-tokyo-olympics-are-going-ahead-but-they-will-be-a-much-compromised-and-watered-down-event-160104/" aria-label="Read more about The Tokyo Olympics are going ahead, but they will be a much compromised and watered-down event">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A recent Resolve poll of New South Wales voters for The Sydney Morning Herald has given the Coalition 44% of the primary vote, Labor 28%, the Greens 12% and the Shooters Fishers and Farmers ... <a title="Coalition has large lead in NSW as Nats easily hold Upper Hunter at byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/coalition-has-large-lead-in-nsw-as-nats-easily-hold-upper-hunter-at-byelection-161273/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition has large lead in NSW as Nats easily hold Upper Hunter at byelection">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Hill, Honorary Fellow of the University of Melbourne and Senior Curator (Astronomy), Museums Victoria On Wednesday evening, May 26, the Moon will slip into Earth’s shadow, creating a total lunar eclipse. No matter where you are across Australia, you’ll be well placed to see it. Lunar ... <a title="How to watch Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse from Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/how-to-watch-wednesdays-total-lunar-eclipse-from-australia-160262/" aria-label="Read more about How to watch Wednesday’s total lunar eclipse from Australia">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tiziana Ferrero-Regis, Senior Lecturer, Study Area Coordinator, Fashion, Queensland University of Technology Australian Fashion Week, which starts next Monday, is touting itself as one of the first live fashion shows since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Runway shows will feature labels Romance Was Born and Zimmermann as well ... <a title="5-metre pedestals, an Anna Wintour puppet… COVID-19 changed fashion shows but the runway will survive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/5-metre-pedestals-an-anna-wintour-puppet-covid-19-changed-fashion-shows-but-the-runway-will-survive-161001/" aria-label="Read more about 5-metre pedestals, an Anna Wintour puppet… COVID-19 changed fashion shows but the runway will survive">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
By Jamie Tahana, RNZ Pacific journalist Samoa’s constitutional crisis deepened today with the party that commands the majority of seats locked out of Parliament, but still insisting it can form a government today. The FAST party, its leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa and a large number of supporters gathered in a tent on the lawn in ... <a title="FAST party locked out of Samoa’s Fale Fono as election turmoil continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/fast-party-locked-out-of-samoas-fale-fono-as-election-turmoil-continues/" aria-label="Read more about FAST party locked out of Samoa’s Fale Fono as election turmoil continues">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has appealed for people in Samoa to uphold its democracy and institutions. Speaking on RNZ’s Morning Report today, she said New Zealand was closely watching events. “We have faith in Samoa’s democracy and institutions,” she said. [embedded content]The scene outside the Fale ... <a title="NZ’s Ardern appeals to Samoans to uphold democracy as crisis deepens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/nzs-ardern-appeals-to-samoans-to-uphold-democracy-as-crisis-deepens/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Ardern appeals to Samoans to uphold democracy as crisis deepens">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
COMMENT: By Rukuwai Tīpene-Allan “Welfare dependent”, “inferior”, “savages”, “natives”… Walking through Parliament, I head to my office in the press gallery, passing gilded portraits of reporters who came before, and I recall that the people who adorn these walls were the same people who published some of the most racist rhetoric that has ever been ... <a title="Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/maori-in-the-gallery-coping-with-daily-racism-in-the-beehive-as-a-maori-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about Māori in the gallery: Coping with daily racism in the Beehive as a Māori journalist">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2021
Editor’s Note: This NZ Politics Daily newsletter will be the last from Bryce Edwards for a time. Bryce will be focussing more on his own analysis, Political Roundup, which you can subscribe to here. Evening Report thanks Bryce for having made his Politics Daily available for republishing on ER. It has been a most valuable ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 24 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-24-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 24 2021">Read more</a>
