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April 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Little, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Chanel Contos’ recent petition called for an overhaul of sexual education at schools and for consent to be taught earlier on, and better. Adequate, formal sexual education is important for young people, but discussions about consent can take place in many ... <a title="Young people learn about relationships from media. You can use books and movies to start discussions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/26/young-people-learn-about-relationships-from-media-you-can-use-books-and-movies-to-start-discussions-158784/" aria-label="Read more about Young people learn about relationships from media. You can use books and movies to start discussions">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Davies, Professor of Human Geography, The University of Western Australia In a year of lockdowns, social distancing and working from home, Australia’s volunteering rate plunged. In 2020, two out of every three volunteers stopped volunteering. This equates to a loss of 12.2 million hours per week ... <a title="Loss of two-thirds of volunteers delivers another COVID blow to communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/26/loss-of-two-thirds-of-volunteers-delivers-another-covid-blow-to-communities-159327/" aria-label="Read more about Loss of two-thirds of volunteers delivers another COVID blow to communities">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Wilkins, Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne It’s not just the end of JobKeeper that will push up unemployment in April. The most-recently published figures, for March, had the unemployment rate coming ... <a title="Post-JobKeeper, unemployment could head north of 7%: here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/26/post-jobkeeper-unemployment-could-head-north-of-7-heres-why-159428/" aria-label="Read more about Post-JobKeeper, unemployment could head north of 7%: here’s why">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathomi Gatwiri, Senior lecturer, Southern Cross University Film review: Rosemary’s Way, directed by Ros Horin. I love finding myself new heroes. Rosemary Kariuki is an extraordinary change-maker and leader I have recently added to my list. As the 2021 recipient of the Australian of the Year Local ... <a title="‘She beams goodness and light’: Rosemary’s Way is about a hero transforming the lives of migrant and refugee women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/26/she-beams-goodness-and-light-rosemarys-way-is-about-a-hero-transforming-the-lives-of-migrant-and-refugee-women-159124/" aria-label="Read more about ‘She beams goodness and light’: Rosemary’s Way is about a hero transforming the lives of migrant and refugee women">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
RNZ Pacific The Marshall Islands has issued a plea for help and a call to action at the US Leaders Summit on Climate Change. Addressing the virtual meeting on Friday, President David Kabua laid out the existential threat facing his country and the Pacific. Kabua was the lone Pacific leader invited by US President Joe ... <a title="Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/marshall-islands-as-lone-pacific-voice-at-climate-summit-pleads-for-help/" aria-label="Read more about Marshall Islands as lone Pacific voice at climate summit pleads for help">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Chinese official characterised the US return to the international climate scene, not unfairly, as a “truant getting back to class”, reports Climate Change News. Joe Biden just about scraped a pass with his first assignment this week, and inspired varying degrees of improvement from his slacker pals Japan, Canada and ... <a title="Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/bidens-pledge-a-start-to-restoring-us-climate-change-credibility/" aria-label="Read more about Biden’s pledge a start to restoring US climate change credibility">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
RNZ News A New Zealand veteran who fought in Korea told of his experience of war and the horror of seeing napalm used for the first time. Gordon Sutherland, from Johnsonville, attended today’s Anzac Day dawn national service in Wellington. “I’ll always remember what an experience it was to see, sitting on the hill, on ... <a title="Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/anzac-day-war-stories-the-horror-of-napalm-in-korea/" aria-label="Read more about Anzac Day war stories: The horror of napalm in Korea">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
By Michael Field of The Pacific Newsroom In late 1913 one of the most famous men in Britain arrived in Pago Pago. Rupert Brooke, 26, was a literary sensation at the time and was taking an escape from celebrity to explore the South Seas: “I want to walk a thousand miles, and write a thousand ... <a title="An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/an-anzac-story-samoas-link-to-that-wartime-foreign-field/" aria-label="Read more about An Anzac story: Sāmoa’s link to that wartime foreign field">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2021
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The struggle of the Palestinians is integral to a larger struggle for fundamental human rights that can be witnessed throughout the Middle East. IMAGE: France 24 By RAMZY BAROUD COVID-19 cases in Palestine, especially in Gaza, have reached record highs, largely due to the arrival of ... <a title="A Palestinian prayer for Ramadan: May the voices of the oppressed be heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/25/a-palestinian-prayer-for-ramadan-may-the-voices-of-the-oppressed-be-heard/" aria-label="Read more about A Palestinian prayer for Ramadan: May the voices of the oppressed be heard">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, La Trobe University Perth is the latest Australian city to head into a snap lockdown aimed at stamping out a coronavirus cluster resulting from another breach in CBD hotel quarantine. The three-day lockdown, covering Perth and the Peel region south of the city, ... <a title="Here we go again — Perth’s snap lockdown raises familiar hotel quarantine questions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/24/here-we-go-again-perths-snap-lockdown-raises-familiar-hotel-quarantine-questions-159649/" aria-label="Read more about Here we go again — Perth’s snap lockdown raises familiar hotel quarantine questions">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While, for Covid19, India is the big news story this week, there has been a general upsurge in the wider region, with substantial upsurges in Nepal, Bangladesh (which seems to have peaked), and Thailand. Malaysia had many cases around January, and is now facing another resurgence. Re India, we should note that ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: South and East Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/24/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-south-and-east-asia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19: South and East Asia">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2021
By Reza Gunadha and Chyntia Sami Bhayangkara in Jayapura Victor Mambor, journalist and editor of the Papua-based Tabloid Jubi, has become the target of a terrorist act this week. A car that he owns which was parked on the road near his home in the Papuan capital of Jayapura was vandalised by unknown individuals between ... <a title="Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/23/tabloid-jubi-journalist-victor-mambor-terrorised-over-papua-reports/" aria-label="Read more about Tabloid Jubi journalist Victor Mambor ‘terrorised’ over Papua reports">Read more</a>
