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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Brown, Postdoctoral research associate, Charles Darwin University Getty Mangroves ring the shores of many of Indonesia’s more than 17,000 islands. But in the most populated areas, the world’s largest mangrove forests have been steadily whittled away, and with them, the ability to store blue carbon. As ... <a title="After decades of loss, the world’s largest mangrove forests are set for a comeback" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/after-decades-of-loss-the-worlds-largest-mangrove-forests-are-set-for-a-comeback-182951/" aria-label="Read more about After decades of loss, the world’s largest mangrove forests are set for a comeback">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Dean Lewins/AAP A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity ... <a title="The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It’s time the grid returned to public hands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/the-national-electricity-market-is-a-failed-1990s-experiment-its-time-the-grid-returned-to-public-hands-185418/" aria-label="Read more about The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It’s time the grid returned to public hands">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University New federal Education Minister Jason Clare has announced a change to the National School Chaplaincy Program to allow schools to “choose” between having a religious chaplain and having a professionally qualified well-being worker. The opposition has criticised the ... <a title="To give schools real choice about secular school chaplains, latest change needs to go further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/to-give-schools-real-choice-about-secular-school-chaplains-latest-change-needs-to-go-further-185487/" aria-label="Read more about To give schools real choice about secular school chaplains, latest change needs to go further">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Markus Wagner, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the UOW Transnational Law and Policy Centre, University of Wollongong India’s minister of commerce Piyush Goyal and WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala celebrate the end of the WTO’s 12th Ministerial Conference. Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP After decades of conflict ... <a title="World Trade Organization steps back from the brink of irrelevance – but it’s not fixed yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/world-trade-organization-steps-back-from-the-brink-of-irrelevance-but-its-not-fixed-yet-185373/" aria-label="Read more about World Trade Organization steps back from the brink of irrelevance – but it’s not fixed yet">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Sydney Film Festival Back to June again, after the disruption of the last couple of years, and the twin festivals of light – Vivid and the Sydney Film Festival – once again galvanise the city. ... <a title="The 5 best films from the 2022 Sydney Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/the-5-best-films-from-the-2022-sydney-film-festival-185382/" aria-label="Read more about The 5 best films from the 2022 Sydney Film Festival">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Auckland GettyImages Aotearoa New Zealand will enjoy a new official public holiday on June 24, with the country marking Matariki – the start of the Māori New Year. But with it comes the temptation for businesses to use the ... <a title="Matariki falls during a quiet retail season – but businesses should be wary of cashing in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/matariki-falls-during-a-quiet-retail-season-but-businesses-should-be-wary-of-cashing-in-185398/" aria-label="Read more about Matariki falls during a quiet retail season – but businesses should be wary of cashing in">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s President Édouard Fritch has described the election of three candidates of the pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira party to the French National Assembly as “catastrophic”. They won all three seats in a run-off against candidates of his ruling Tapura Huiraatira party, which holds two-thirds of all seats in French Polynesia’s Assembly. Fritch said ... <a title="Fritch slams Tahiti pro-independence wins for Paris as ‘catastrophic’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/fritch-slams-tahiti-pro-independence-wins-for-paris-as-catastrophic/" aria-label="Read more about Fritch slams Tahiti pro-independence wins for Paris as ‘catastrophic’">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Three major parties have emerged as frontrunners to form the next government in Papua New Guinea with their party leaders eager to be next Prime Minister. These are current coalition leader PANGU, headed by incumbent Prime Minister James Marape, opposition leader Belden Namah’s PNG Party and the People’s National Congress led by former ... <a title="Namah challenges among frontrunners for PNG’s next prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/namah-challenges-among-frontrunners-for-pngs-next-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Namah challenges among frontrunners for PNG’s next prime minister">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Following the United Kingdom’s decision to extradite Julian Assange to face trial in the United States, the International Federation of Journalists’ (IFJ) Australian affiliate, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) has called on the Australian government to take swift steps to lobby for the dismissal of all charges against Assange. ... <a title="IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/ifj-calls-on-canberra-to-act-against-assange-extradition-order-to-us/" aria-label="Read more about IFJ calls on Canberra to act against Assange extradition order to US">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
ANALYSIS: By Holly Cullen, The University of Western Australia and Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle Last week on June 17 2022, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel issued a statement confirming she had approved the US government’s request to extradite Julian Assange. The Australian founder of WikiLeaks faces 18 criminal charges of computer misuse and espionage. ... <a title="UK government orders extradition of Julian Assange to US, but that isn’t end of the matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/uk-government-orders-extradition-of-julian-assange-to-us-but-that-isnt-end-of-the-matter/" aria-label="Read more about UK government orders extradition of Julian Assange to US, but that isn’t end of the matter">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
RNZ Pacific In an unprecedented result, French Polynesia’s pro-independence Tavini Huiraatira Party candidates have won a clean sweep of all three seats in the French National Assembly. The three will sit with the left-wing Nupes group which emerged as the second biggest force in the 577-strong National Assembly. The success of the alliance around Jean-Luc ... <a title="Tahiti pro-independence candidates sweep seats in French National Assembly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/tahiti-pro-independence-candidates-sweep-seats-in-french-national-assembly/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti pro-independence candidates sweep seats in French National Assembly">Read more</a>
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June 22, 2022
By Loreben Tuquero in Manila On social media, Ferdinand Marcos Jr needed to have all pieces in place to stage a Malacañang comeback: he had a network of propagandist assets, popular myths that justified his family’s obscene wealth, and narratives that distorted the horrors of his father’s rule. He had even asked Cambridge Analytica to ... <a title="Duterte ‘institutionalised’ disinformation, paved the way for a Marcos victory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/22/duterte-institutionalised-disinformation-paved-the-way-for-a-marcos-victory/" aria-label="Read more about Duterte ‘institutionalised’ disinformation, paved the way for a Marcos victory">Read more</a>
