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May 19, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Green Party motion asking New Zealand MPs to recognise Palestine as a state has failed in the House, with opposition National and ACT MPs objecting to the effort. Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman, who arrived in New Zealand at an early age with her family as an Iranian-born refugee, today ... <a title="Green Party’s bid for NZ declaration of Palestine as a state fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/green-partys-bid-for-nz-declaration-of-palestine-as-a-state-fails/" aria-label="Read more about Green Party’s bid for NZ declaration of Palestine as a state fails">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
By Barney Orere in Port Moresby The five reserved seats for women being put forward by Papua New Guinea’s special parliamentary committee on gender-based violence has been rejected by women and a petition is on its way to demand different proposal. The women will petition the parliamentary committee to voice their disapproval about the five ... <a title="PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/png-women-reject-5-seat-gender-plan-as-a-farce-propose-new-scheme/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women reject 5-seat gender plan as a ‘farce’, propose new scheme">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
A heartfelt message from a sister in Gaza to her brother We are still fine. The “war front” in our neighborhood is still somewhat quiet, aside from loud explosions near and far. Gaza is a ghost town. It’s the Hiroshima of the 21st century. My daughter called me last night. She was crying in panic. ... <a title="Israeli onslaught against Gaza continues: ‘But we are still alive!’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/israeli-onslaught-against-gaza-continues-but-we-are-still-alive/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli onslaught against Gaza continues: ‘But we are still alive!’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Gavin Ellis, Knightly Views columnist Sometime this week Newsroom co-editor Mark Jennings is due to be interviewed under caution by the New Zealand police because he kicked the hornet’s nest. The particular hornet’s nest he disturbed was Oranga Tamariki, a state agency, and the reason it was given a boot was a now-discredited ... <a title="The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/the-man-who-kicked-the-hornets-nest-focus-on-the-newsroom-police-probe/" aria-label="Read more about The man who kicked the hornet’s nest – focus on the Newsroom police probe">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arjuna Dibley, Visiting Researcher, Climate and Energy College, The University of Melbourne The Morrison government today announced it’s building a new gas power plant in the Hunter Valley, committing up to A$600 million for the government-owned corporation Snowy Hydro to construct the project. Critics argue the plant ... <a title="Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/government-owned-firms-like-snowy-hydro-can-do-better-than-building-600-million-gas-plants-161180/" aria-label="Read more about Government-owned firms like Snowy Hydro can do better than building $600 million gas plants">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Even if every country meets its current climate targets, Earth’s temperature will still rise by a dangerous 2.1℃ this century, according to sobering findings from a new International Energy Agency ... <a title="New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/new-international-energy-agency-report-reprimands-any-new-fossil-fuel-development-guess-what-australia-did-next-161178/" aria-label="Read more about New International Energy Agency report reprimands any new fossil fuel development. Guess what Australia did next?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Live Postponed – New Time-Date To Be Announced A View from Afar: In this week’s podcast Selwyn Manning and Paul Buchanan discuss: The latest information on the Israel/Palestine conflict. Also, they will discuss the underlying causes of hostilities: What caused the most recent hostilities to flare? Is Israel guilty of an indiscriminate and disproportionate military operations ... <a title="Live Postponed – New Time-Date To Be Announced – Buchanan and Manning on the Israel-Palestine Conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/scheduled-live-buchanan-and-manning-on-the-israel-palestine-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about Live Postponed – New Time-Date To Be Announced – Buchanan and Manning on the Israel-Palestine Conflict">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In last week’s budget, $17.7 billion was allocated to the aged care sector, in response to the damning findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality & Safety. The commission’s final report painted a grim picture of a sector ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Colbeck on aged care and the Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/politics-with-michelle-grattan-richard-colbeck-on-aged-care-and-the-olympics-161192/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Richard Colbeck on aged care and the Olympics">Read more</a>
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May 19, 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 The small archipelago nation of Seychelles, northeast of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, has emerged as the world’s most vaccinated country for COVID-19. Around 71% of people have had at ... <a title="COVID is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/covid-is-surging-in-the-worlds-most-vaccinated-country-why-160869/" aria-label="Read more about COVID is surging in the world’s most vaccinated country. Why?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Carniel, Senior Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland Last year, the Eurovision Song Contest was cancelled for the first time in its then 64-year history. This year’s Eurovision is a socially distanced affair, with frequent COVID testing of participants. The Ahoy Arena in Rotterdam, where ... <a title="Australia is out of Eurovision but don’t write off filmed performances: they could make for a greener, more global contest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/australia-is-out-of-eurovision-but-dont-write-off-filmed-performances-they-could-make-for-a-greener-more-global-contest-161005/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is out of Eurovision but don’t write off filmed performances: they could make for a greener, more global contest">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bianka Vidonja Balanzategui, Adjunct Lecturer, James Cook University In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. The women of the tropical north Queensland frontier were a varied lot and included Melanesian indentured labourers brought to work on sugar cane plantations. Annie Etinside was one ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Melanesian indentured labourer Annie Etinside, hailed as a Queensland ‘pioneer’ on her death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/hidden-women-of-history-melanesian-indentured-labourer-annie-etinside-hailed-as-a-queensland-pioneer-on-her-death-155645/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Melanesian indentured labourer Annie Etinside, hailed as a Queensland ‘pioneer’ on her death">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben White, Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology Queensland has become the latest Australian state to move forward on the issue of voluntary assisted dying. Draft legislation, developed by the Queensland Law Reform Commission, is expected to ... <a title="Voluntary assisted dying could soon be legal in Queensland. Here’s how its bill differs from other states" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/19/voluntary-assisted-dying-could-soon-be-legal-in-queensland-heres-how-its-bill-differs-from-other-states-161092/" aria-label="Read more about Voluntary assisted dying could soon be legal in Queensland. Here’s how its bill differs from other states">Read more</a>
