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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Dernelley, PhD Candidate in History, La Trobe University Panorama of the gold mining town, Graytown, Victoria, approx. 1861 National Library of Australia This article contains graphic depictions of historic domestic violence. For many women in colonial Victoria, home was not a place of security and comfort. ... <a title="Mrs Morland and Isabella Murrell: the brutal murder of a domestic angel on the diggings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/mrs-morland-and-isabella-murrell-the-brutal-murder-of-a-domestic-angel-on-the-diggings-169839/" aria-label="Read more about Mrs Morland and Isabella Murrell: the brutal murder of a domestic angel on the diggings">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hales, Director Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University AP After two hard-fought weeks of negotiations, the Glasgow climate change summit is, at last, over. All 197 participating countries adopted the so-called Glasgow Climate Pact, despite an 11th hour intervention by India in which the final agreement ... <a title="The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/15/the-ultimate-guide-to-why-the-cop26-summit-ended-in-failure-and-disappointment-despite-a-few-bright-spots-171723/" aria-label="Read more about The ultimate guide to why the COP26 summit ended in failure and disappointment (despite a few bright spots)">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
An epidemiologist says New Zealand’s record high covid-19 case numbers today and the spread across the North Island are a reminder that the whole country needs to be on the lookout for the virus. Dr Siouxsie Wiles of the University of Auckland said the 207 community cases today – just above the previous record high ... <a title="NZ reports new covid case high of 207 as ‘clock ticking’ for Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/nz-reports-new-covid-case-high-of-207-as-clock-ticking-for-christmas/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports new covid case high of 207 as ‘clock ticking’ for Christmas">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Chloé Farand, Joe Lo, Isabelle Gerretsen and Megan Darby After a series of tense huddles, more than 24 hours into overtime, the gavel went down on a climate deal in Glasgow, Scotland, last night. The Glasgow Climate Pact refers to coal for the first time in the UN process. It asks countries to come ... <a title="World strikes ‘uncomfortable’ pact at COP26 climate summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/world-strikes-uncomfortable-pact-at-cop26-climate-summit/" aria-label="Read more about World strikes ‘uncomfortable’ pact at COP26 climate summit">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
By Litia Cava in Suva Leaders of four political parties in Fiji are calling for a “complete clean-up” of the Elections Office before preparations for the 2022 election get underway. A joint statement endorsed by the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA) leader Viliame Gavoka, Freedom Alliance Party leader Jagath Karunaratne, Fiji Labour Party leader Mahendra ... <a title="Fiji political parties call for probe into elections chief Saneem’s ‘behaviour’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/fiji-political-parties-call-for-probe-into-elections-chief-saneems-behaviour/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji political parties call for probe into elections chief Saneem’s ‘behaviour’">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
RNZ News Auckland mayor Phil Goff has hit out at anti-lockdown protesters who held up traffic on roads throughout the country today, describing their actions as “crass and stupid”. Police are promising to follow up on any offences or breaches of the laws after the Freedoms and Rights Coalition protest group took to the roads, ... <a title="Auckland mayor Phil Goff calls NZ anti-lockdown protesters ‘stupid’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/auckland-mayor-phil-goff-calls-nz-anti-lockdown-protesters-stupid/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland mayor Phil Goff calls NZ anti-lockdown protesters ‘stupid’">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Perutskyi Petro/Shutterstock The government’s decision to target net-zero emissions by 2050 will leave each Australian nearly A$2,000 better off by then compared to no Australian action. That’s what we were told in a six-point summary ... <a title="How government modelling found net-zero would leave us better off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/how-government-modelling-found-net-zero-would-leave-us-better-off-171743/" aria-label="Read more about How government modelling found net-zero would leave us better off">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland AAP The response to Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s announcement of an electric vehicle policy has focused on its inconsistency with his derisive statements in 2019 that the technology would “end the weekend”. What’s more important, however, is ... <a title="Government assumes 90% of Australia’s new car sales will be electric by 2050. But its a destination without a route" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/14/government-assumes-90-of-australias-new-car-sales-will-be-electric-by-2050-but-its-a-destination-without-a-route-171741/" aria-label="Read more about Government assumes 90% of Australia’s new car sales will be electric by 2050. But its a destination without a route">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2021
RNZ Pacific A New Zealand medical and logistics support team with essential supplies to assist Papua New Guinea with its covid-19 crisis has departed New Zealand. Associate Foreign Minister Aupito William Sio said the PNG government had formally requested humanitarian and medical support from partner governments to respond to the health crisis, with rising case ... <a title="NZ sends medical team to PNG as covid-19 overwhelms health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/13/nz-sends-medical-team-to-png-as-covid-19-overwhelms-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about NZ sends medical team to PNG as covid-19 overwhelms health system">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French High Commissioner in New Caledonia, Patrice Faure, has confirmed the December 12 date for the independence referendum, fuelling tension over the ballot. Kanaky New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties had called on Paris to postpone the vote to the second half of 2022 because of the impact of the covid-19 outbreak, ... <a title="France keeps December 12 date for New Caledonia independence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/13/france-keeps-december-12-date-for-new-caledonia-independence-vote/" aria-label="Read more about France keeps December 12 date for New Caledonia independence vote">Read more</a>
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November 13, 2021
By Samisoni Pareti in Suva A major development out of the besieged University of the South Pacific has meant that two main characters in a saga that threatens the financial viability of the regional institution are now out of the University Council. Controversial chair of the USP Council audit sub-committee Mahmood Khan of Fiji was ... <a title="Fiji’s Thompson and Khan voted out of USP top jobs after education saga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/13/fijis-thompson-and-khan-voted-out-of-usp-top-jobs-after-education-saga/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Thompson and Khan voted out of USP top jobs after education saga">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s not often that leaders get the blunt question 3AW’s Neil Mitchell threw at the prime minister on Friday. “You ever told a lie in public life?” What could Morrison say? “Yes” – the frank answer, and the discussion would ... <a title="View from The Hill: Scott Morrison caught in catch-22 over the issue of his integrity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/11/12/view-from-the-hill-scott-morrison-caught-in-catch-22-over-the-issue-of-his-integrity-171750/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Scott Morrison caught in catch-22 over the issue of his integrity">Read more</a>
