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February 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tensions between Australia and China have increased further, after the Chinese shone a laser at a RAAF surveillance aircraft that was observing Chinese naval activity in Australia’s exclusive economic zone. The incident comes as the government is set on ramping ... <a title="Chinese laser incident feeds into national security debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/chinese-laser-incident-feeds-into-national-security-debate-177526/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese laser incident feeds into national security debate">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University A Chinese PLA-N guided missile frigate prepares to dock in Manila in 2019. AAP/AP/Bullit Marquez Just after midnight last Thursday, a transiting Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA-N) vessel shone a military-grade laser at an Australian ... <a title="Explainer: what was the Chinese laser attack about and why does it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/explainer-what-was-the-chinese-laser-attack-about-and-why-does-it-matter-177524/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what was the Chinese laser attack about and why does it matter?">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Australia’s leading economists have overwhelmingly endorsed a return to the highest immigration intake on record, saying Australia should aim for at least 190,000 migrants per year as it opens its ... <a title="When we open up, let’s open up big: top economists say we need more migrants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/when-we-open-up-lets-open-up-big-top-economists-say-we-need-more-migrants-177359/" aria-label="Read more about When we open up, let’s open up big: top economists say we need more migrants">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand police have moved to start clearing up the roads near Parliament in the capital Wellington, where protesters have clogged the roads with vehicles for more than a week. But there has also been a significant increase in illegally parked vehicles in the area. Some streets around Parliament could not be used ... <a title="NZ police begin to clear up some of blockade near Parliament protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/nz-police-begin-to-clear-up-some-of-blockade-near-parliament-protest/" aria-label="Read more about NZ police begin to clear up some of blockade near Parliament protest">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Mary Argue of the Wairarapa Times-Age Screams erupted as the sound of gunshots ricocheted around the open-air market. People ran. It was bloody. “I saw from my own eyes the gun violence,” says Laurens Ikinia. “It was just crazy.” Ikinia was still a child when he witnessed Indonesian security forces open fire ... <a title="Overcoming trauma, Papuan students in NZ now face new challenge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/overcoming-trauma-papuan-students-in-nz-now-face-new-challenge/" aria-label="Read more about Overcoming trauma, Papuan students in NZ now face new challenge">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
RNZ News Many central Wellington shops face a crisis, university buildings have been closed for eight weeks and many report major disruptions from the illegal anti-vaccination mandates protest at New Zealand’s Parliament, with people’s patience wearing thin and calls for more decisive action. Retail NZ said the road blocks and disruption were a disaster for ... <a title="Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/parliament-disruption-growing-calls-for-nz-protesters-to-go-home/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament disruption: Growing calls for NZ protesters to go home">Read more</a>
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February 20, 2022
Last week the Bougainville Autonomous Government announced an agreement had been reach with Panguna landowners to reopen the island’s controversial gold and copper mine. Once the backbone of the Papua New Guinea economy, Panguna has been idle since the civil war began more than 30 years ago — a war the mine was at least ... <a title="PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/20/png-faces-dilemma-over-momentous-decision-to-reopen-bougainvilles-panguna-mine/" aria-label="Read more about PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News Almost 30 community leaders of New Zealand’s capital Wellington have banded together to urge an immediate end of the illegal protest activities at Parliament. Among those who have signed the joint statement are the region’s mayors, MPs, principals and business leaders. The letter says Wellingtonians and city workers have been “intimidated” by protesters, ... <a title="‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s who’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/weve-had-enough-call-to-nz-capital-protesters-from-city-whos-who/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ve had enough’ call to NZ capital protesters from city ‘who’s who’">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Australasia Now that we are having to confront what a post-covid world may look like, it is important to get a sense of respiratory viruses in context, and especially to appreciate the extent that they determine the timing of our deaths; death being the great certainty of life. The first five ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-respiratory-viruses-seasonal-mortality-compared/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Respiratory Viruses: Seasonal Mortality Compared">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Ward, Fellow in Historical Studies, The University of Melbourne The Australian government has decided not to establish a federal anti-corruption watchdog this parliamentary term, despite a promise in December 2018 to deliver an integrity commission with teeth, resources and proper processes that will protect the integrity ... <a title="Perceptions of corruption are growing in Australia, and it’s costing the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/perceptions-of-corruption-are-growing-in-australia-and-its-costing-the-economy-176562/" aria-label="Read more about Perceptions of corruption are growing in Australia, and it’s costing the economy">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rahul Sen, Senior Lecturer, School of Economics, Auckland University of Technology GettyImages You don’t have to be an economist to know New Zealand faces its highest annual inflation rate in 30 years – 5.9% as of December 2021. Visit a supermarket or petrol station and the evidence ... <a title="The pandemic exposes NZ’s supply chain vulnerability – be ready for more inflation in the year ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/the-pandemic-exposes-nzs-supply-chain-vulnerability-be-ready-for-more-inflation-in-the-year-ahead-176232/" aria-label="Read more about The pandemic exposes NZ’s supply chain vulnerability – be ready for more inflation in the year ahead">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Australia is losing its birds at an alarming rate – one in six species are now threatened with extinction, predominantly due to climate change, land clearing and worsening bushfires. Last year, when we met in a ... <a title="How our album of birdsong recordings rocketed to #2 on the ARIA charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/how-our-album-of-birdsong-recordings-rocketed-to-2-on-the-aria-charts-177070/" aria-label="Read more about How our album of birdsong recordings rocketed to #2 on the ARIA charts">Read more</a>
