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July 6, 2022
By Marjorie Finkeo and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Six suspects, including a woman, have been charged in connection with more than K1 million in cash seized at Komo airport in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province last weekend. The six were charged on Monday with two counts each of money laundering and being in possession ... <a title="Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as PNG votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/six-charged-with-money-laundering-over-k1-3-million-in-suitcase-as-png-votes/" aria-label="Read more about Six charged with money laundering over K1.3 million in suitcase as PNG votes">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Federal Education Minister Jason Clare has committed to a “reset” of relations between government and universities, and promised more effort to boost the proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds, in a major speech on higher education. He is also speeding ... <a title="Jason Clare promises ‘reset’ of government’s relations with universities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/jason-clare-promises-reset-of-governments-relations-with-universities-186472/" aria-label="Read more about Jason Clare promises ‘reset’ of government’s relations with universities">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra New Education Minister Jason Clare is travelling the country taking soundings in the education sector. This, he says, is “the best way to get across this big, vast portfolio that stretches from the education of our youngest children right through ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jason Clare on Australia’s education challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jason-clare-on-australias-education-challenges-186473/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jason Clare on Australia’s education challenges">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has confirmed reports his eldest son is one of two men arrested in relation to a suitcase found with US$440,000 at a domestic airport in the Highlands province of Hela last weekend. The arrests occurred after police became suspicious of the suitcase amid heightened security in ... <a title="PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/png-leader-marape-confirms-son-arrested-over-money-in-suitcase/" aria-label="Read more about PNG leader Marape confirms son arrested over money in suitcase">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific France’s abolition of the status of an overseas minister has received mixed reactions in both France and its overseas territories, with a pro-independence Tahitian member of the National Assembly condemning the “bad signal”. The position was abolished in yesterday’s government reshuffle and replaced with a minister delegate, a post given to Jean-Francois Carenco. ... <a title="Tahitian pro-independence MP slams ‘bad signal’ for French Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/tahitian-pro-independence-mp-slams-bad-signal-for-french-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian pro-independence MP slams ‘bad signal’ for French Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
By Frank Rai in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea went to the polls yesterday to begin electing the 11th national Parliament only to find out that there were names missing on the common roll while some polling stations were short of ballot papers around the country. The distribution of ballot papers and the common roll ... <a title="Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing names" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/papua-new-guinea-goes-to-the-polls-amid-controversy-over-missing-names/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea goes to the polls amid controversy over missing names">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Australia is facing serious labour and skills shortages both now and in the longer term. The immediate priority is to help employers fill current vacancies. In the longer term, the government needs to ensure its investments ... <a title="Migration offers an urgent fix for the skills we need right now, but education and training will set us up for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/migration-offers-an-urgent-fix-for-the-skills-we-need-right-now-but-education-and-training-will-set-us-up-for-the-future-186374/" aria-label="Read more about Migration offers an urgent fix for the skills we need right now, but education and training will set us up for the future">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW Sydney John Turnbull, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. On the surface, it looks like any other bay ... <a title="Photos from the field: diving with Tasmania’s rare and elusive red handfish, your new favourite animal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/photos-from-the-field-diving-with-tasmanias-rare-and-elusive-red-handfish-your-new-favourite-animal-180962/" aria-label="Read more about Photos from the field: diving with Tasmania’s rare and elusive red handfish, your new favourite animal">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sallie Cowan, Senior Research Fellow and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, La Trobe University Netball is one of the biggest team sports in Australia with more than 1.2 million men, women and children playing each week, underpinned by a nationwide footprint of more than 4,000 community clubs. Across the world ... <a title="Is netball actually bad for knees and ankles? What does the research say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/is-netball-actually-bad-for-knees-and-ankles-what-does-the-research-say-183619/" aria-label="Read more about Is netball actually bad for knees and ankles? What does the research say?">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Australian consumers and businesses lost more than A$2 billion to scams in 2021, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) annual Targeting Scams report released ... <a title="Australians lost $2b to fraud in 2021. This figure should sound alarm bells for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/australians-lost-2b-to-fraud-in-2021-this-figure-should-sound-alarm-bells-for-the-future-186459/" aria-label="Read more about Australians lost $2b to fraud in 2021. This figure should sound alarm bells for the future">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Andrews, Professor Indigenous Research & Convenor of Aboriginal Studies, La Trobe University There are now almost one million Indigenous people in Australia, according to the 2021 Census. The estimated Indigenous population of 983,300 people in August 2021 has increased from 798,000 in 2016. This translates into ... <a title="What it means to identify as Indigenous in Australia, and how this might have contributed to the increase in the census" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/what-it-means-to-identify-as-indigenous-in-australia-and-how-this-might-have-contributed-to-the-increase-in-the-census-185954/" aria-label="Read more about What it means to identify as Indigenous in Australia, and how this might have contributed to the increase in the census">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James C. Murphy, Lecturer & Tutor (Teaching Intensive) in Politics and Public Policy, The University of Melbourne Federal infrastructure policy has been rife with controversy for years: from the sports rorts scandal and dubious commuter car parks to overpriced land for the second Sydney airport. So notorious ... <a title="Can a new department head get the politics out of infrastructure? (And is that a good idea anyway?)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/can-a-new-department-head-get-the-politics-out-of-infrastructure-and-is-that-a-good-idea-anyway-185876/" aria-label="Read more about Can a new department head get the politics out of infrastructure? (And is that a good idea anyway?)">Read more</a>
