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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Alidoust, Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland www.shutterstock.com The severe lack of affordable housing is hurting Australians right across the community – from young renters, to families seeking to buy and older people needing a stable home. The number of Australians over 55 who are ... <a title="‘Where would we live otherwise?’: the rise of house-sitting among older Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/where-would-we-live-otherwise-the-rise-of-house-sitting-among-older-australians-173984/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Where would we live otherwise?’: the rise of house-sitting among older Australians">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Wong, Lecturer/Research Fellow in Psychology, Flinders University Eduardo Barrios/Unsplash, CC BY-SA Many of us will have experienced some unexpected honesty from the older people in our lives. Whether it’s grandma telling you your outfit is unflattering or grandpa saying he doesn’t like the meal you’ve prepared, ... <a title="Do we really ‘lose our filter’ as we age?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/do-we-really-lose-our-filter-as-we-age-176248/" aria-label="Read more about Do we really ‘lose our filter’ as we age?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Baak, Senior Lecturer, UniSA Education Futures, University of South Australia Shutterstock After August 2012, the Australian government introduced “deterrence policies” for asylum seekers who arrive here by boat. Part of this is keeping them on temporary visas and giving them almost no feasible pathway to permanent ... <a title="Education is a human right, but for most asylum seekers in Australia, university is an impossible dream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/education-is-a-human-right-but-for-most-asylum-seekers-in-australia-university-is-an-impossible-dream-174881/" aria-label="Read more about Education is a human right, but for most asylum seekers in Australia, university is an impossible dream">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney ABS/Shutterstock Thursday brought news that Australia’s official unemployment rate in January remained at a historically low 4.2%. In parliament, Prime Minister Scott Morrision boasted of the nation being on track to achieve a rate “with a 3 in front of ... <a title="Vital Signs: Unemployment steady at 4.2%, but it will need to go lower still to lift wages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/vital-signs-unemployment-steady-at-4-2-but-it-will-need-to-go-lower-still-to-lift-wages-177218/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Unemployment steady at 4.2%, but it will need to go lower still to lift wages">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The national news team of Papua New Guinea’s major television channel, EMTV, walked out last night in protest over a decision earlier this month to suspend head of news Sincha Dimara for alleged insubordination. They have condemned the political “endless intimidation” of the news service which has led to the suspension ... <a title="EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their chief editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/emtv-news-team-walk-out-in-protest-over-suspension-of-their-chief-editor/" aria-label="Read more about EMTV news team walk out in protest over suspension of their chief editor">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If you were to believe the Morrison government, you’d think Anthony Albanese as prime minister would sell out Australia’s interests to China, give criminals a break, and perhaps sneak in a death tax. You’d question whether this man, who held ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison has sown the seeds for a scare campaign, and Albanese doesn’t know whether they’ll grow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/grattan-on-friday-morrison-has-sown-the-seeds-for-a-scare-campaign-and-albanese-doesnt-know-whether-theyll-grow-177368/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison has sown the seeds for a scare campaign, and Albanese doesn’t know whether they’ll grow">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News Wellington iwi leaders have called for an end to Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10-day-old anti-covid mandates protest in Parliament grounds and condemned comparisons made by protesters to the 1881 colonial assault at Parihaka. The parliament complex and surrounding streets form part of the historic Pipitea Pā. Port Nicholson Block Settlement Trust chairperson Kara Puketapu-Dentice ... <a title="Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/maori-iwi-leaders-call-for-an-end-to-nzs-protest-in-parliament-grounds/" aria-label="Read more about Māori iwi leaders call for an end to NZ’s protest in Parliament grounds">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ Pacific A group of church ministers in Fiji have resigned because they do not want to be vaccinated against covid-19. There has been growing pressure on the clergy to get the injections since the Fiji government’s “No jab, no job” policy for public servants was announced last June. The Methodist Church said this week ... <a title="11 Fiji church ministers refuse to be vaccinated against covid – and resign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/11-fiji-church-ministers-refuse-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-and-resign/" aria-label="Read more about 11 Fiji church ministers refuse to be vaccinated against covid – and resign">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
By Susan Botting, Local Democracy Reporting journalist A Kaipara district councillor’s almost week-long participation in New Zealand’s anti-covid-19 mandate protest at Parliament is jeopardising the safety of Kaipara residents, warns Mayor Dr Jason Smith. Dr Smith said he was particularly worried about those in the councillor’s West Coast/Central council ward which had Kaipara’s lowest vaccination ... <a title="Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/mayor-slams-kaipara-councillors-protest-role-as-health-risk/" aria-label="Read more about Mayor slams Kaipara councillor’s protest role as ‘health risk’">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Police Commissioner admits some tow companies are reluctant to help with the removal of vehicles near Parliament but says some towing will begin today. The anti-mandate protest on Parliament’s grounds and neighbouring streets is entering its ninth day. Commissioner Andrew Coster told RNZ Morning Report he expected to see some of ... <a title="Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/police-act-against-nz-protester-vehicles-but-admit-towies-unwilling-to-help/" aria-label="Read more about Police act against NZ protester vehicles but admit towies unwilling to help">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Gavin Ellis It is common practice for journalists to share contact details and locations in hostile environments such as war zones. Something is very wrong when news organisations in New Zealand share those details about their staff covering a story in downtown Wellington. Stuff’s head of news Mark Stevens disclosed last Friday that ... <a title="Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/gavin-ellis-copycat-media-abuse-from-ragtag-bag-of-protesters/" aria-label="Read more about Gavin Ellis: Copycat media abuse from ragtag bag of protesters">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If you were to believe the Morrison government, you’d think Anthony Albanese as prime minister would sell out Australia’s interests to China, give criminals a break, and perhaps sneak in a death tax. You’d question whether this man, who held ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison has sown the seeds for a negative campaign, and Albanese doesn’t know whether they’ll grow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/grattan-on-friday-morrison-has-sown-the-seeds-for-a-negative-campaign-and-albanese-doesnt-know-whether-theyll-grow-177368/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison has sown the seeds for a negative campaign, and Albanese doesn’t know whether they’ll grow">Read more</a>
