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May 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern speaks to parliament via video link from COVID isolation during budget day. Getty Images All budgets are about economics and politics, and 2022’s was no different. The Labour government continued its economic rebuild ... <a title="Labour’s fourth ‘well-being budget’ still comes up short on the well-being of women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/labours-fourth-well-being-budget-still-comes-up-short-on-the-well-being-of-women-182842/" aria-label="Read more about Labour’s fourth ‘well-being budget’ still comes up short on the well-being of women">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peggy Kern, Associate professor, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock It’s been a big week and you feel exhausted, and suddenly you find yourself crying at a nice nappy commercial. Or maybe you are struck with a cold or the coronavirus and the fact your partner used up ... <a title="Why do we get teary when we’re tired or sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/why-do-we-get-teary-when-were-tired-or-sick-180661/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we get teary when we’re tired or sick?">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Victor Grabarczyk/unsplash Dogs have an exceptional sense of smell. We take advantage of this ability in many ways, including by training them to find illicit drugs, dangerous goods and even people. In recent years, a dog’s sense of smell has ... <a title="Can sniffer dogs really detect COVID almost as well as a PCR test? Turns out they can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/can-sniffer-dogs-really-detect-covid-almost-as-well-as-a-pcr-test-turns-out-they-can-183363/" aria-label="Read more about Can sniffer dogs really detect COVID almost as well as a PCR test? Turns out they can">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific A total of NZ$196 million has been set aside for Pacific services in Aotearoa New Zealand in this year’s Budget. A big chunk of that — $76 million will go on Pacific health services. Finance Minister Grant Robertson said the cash injection would be used to support Pacific health providers, to improve infrastructure, ... <a title="Pacific services receive $196m boost in NZ Budget – new RNZ radio boost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/pacific-services-receive-196m-boost-in-nz-budget-new-rnz-radio-boost/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific services receive $196m boost in NZ Budget – new RNZ radio boost">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
By George Heagney of Stuff A group of students from West Papua, the Melanesian Pacific region in Indonesia, are fearful about their futures in New Zealand after their scholarships were cut off. A group of about 40 students have been studying at different tertiary institutions in New Zealand, but in December received a letter from ... <a title="West Papuan students face ‘hardship and stress’ over scholarship loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/west-papuan-students-face-hardship-and-stress-over-scholarship-loss/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan students face ‘hardship and stress’ over scholarship loss">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
By Craig McCulloch, RNZ News deputy political editor More than two million New Zealanders will get a one-off $350 sweetener as part of the Budget’s centrepiece $1 billion cost-of-living relief package. The temporary short-term support is counterbalanced by a record $11.1 billion for the health system as the government scraps district health boards (DHBs) and ... <a title="NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/nz-budget-2022-record-11-1-billion-post-covid-boost-for-health-system/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2022: Record $11.1 billion post-covid boost for health system">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A movement dedicated to peaceful self-determination among indigenous groups in the Pacific is the latest group in Aotearoa to add support for struggling Papuan students caught in Aotearoa New Zealand after an abrupt cancellation of their scholarships. About 70 Papuan students are currently in New Zealand but more than half have ... <a title="Pax Christi helps Papuan students stranded in NZ with $1000 grant in study plea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/pax-christi-helps-papuan-students-stranded-in-nz-with-1000-grant-in-study-plea/" aria-label="Read more about Pax Christi helps Papuan students stranded in NZ with $1000 grant in study plea">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific The pro-independence coalition parties of Kanaky New Caledonia have selected their candidates for the French Legislative elections next month. Wali Wahetra from the Palika Party is standing in one electoral district, and Gerard Reignier from Union Caledonienne is standing in the other. Speaking with La Premiere, Wahetra explained what the New Caledonian pro-independence ... <a title="New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties choose for French elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/new-caledonias-pro-independence-parties-choose-for-french-elections/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s pro-independence parties choose for French elections">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Nina Santos in Auckland On May 9, the Philippines went to the polls in what has been called “by far the most divisive and consequential electoral contest” in the Philippines. The electoral race had boiled down to two frontrunners: one was the current Vice-President Leni Robredo, running on a “people-led” campaign, and driven ... <a title="Pink tears for the Philippines, and transforming the rage into hope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/pink-tears-for-the-philippines-and-transforming-the-rage-into-hope/" aria-label="Read more about Pink tears for the Philippines, and transforming the rage into hope">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Governor-General Grand Chief Sir Bob Dadae has described Papua New Guinea’s late Deputy Prime Minister Sam Basil as a vibrant and visionary leader who was passionate about his people and the electorate. He said Basil loved and dedicated his life to the people of Bulolo until his unexpected death in a tragic vehicle ... <a title="PNG has lost a ‘vibrant and visionary’ leader, says grand chief Sir Bob" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/png-has-lost-a-vibrant-and-visionary-leader-says-grand-chief-sir-bob/" aria-label="Read more about PNG has lost a ‘vibrant and visionary’ leader, says grand chief Sir Bob">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Ukraine’s sea port of Mariupol, blockaded and now fallen to Russian forces. Getty Images Trying to gauge the worst aspect of the Russian invasion of Ukraine is difficult. For some, it will be the illegal invasion itself. For others, ... <a title="Russia’s blockade could cause mass famine beyond Ukraine – but it’s a crime without a name" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/russias-blockade-could-cause-mass-famine-beyond-ukraine-but-its-a-crime-without-a-name-183429/" aria-label="Read more about Russia’s blockade could cause mass famine beyond Ukraine – but it’s a crime without a name">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Gunn, Lecturer, Monash University Sand blown by wind into ripples within Victoria Crater at Meridiani Planum on Mars, as photographed by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on October 3, 2006. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Cornell/Ohio State University What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or ... <a title="What’s it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/20/whats-it-like-to-be-on-venus-or-pluto-we-studied-their-sand-dunes-and-found-some-clues-181241/" aria-label="Read more about What’s it like to be on Venus or Pluto? We studied their sand dunes and found some clues">Read more</a>
