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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>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Thompson, Associate Dean (Education) – Science, Monash University Shutterstock Aahh, the Australian summer. When the temperatures top 40℃ and only the bravest or most foolhardy would venture outside in bare feet, there’s a cherished old saying: “it’s so hot outside you could fry an egg on ... <a title="Sunny side up: can you really fry an egg on the footpath on a hot day?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/sunny-side-up-can-you-really-fry-an-egg-on-the-footpath-on-a-hot-day-172616/" aria-label="Read more about Sunny side up: can you really fry an egg on the footpath on a hot day?">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity Over the past week, Australians have heard Scott Morrison make several explicit references to his faith. Given Morrison has placed his faith front and centre of his public persona, it is helpful to ... <a title="Morrison’s Christian empathy needs to be about more than just prayer – it requires action, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/morrisons-christian-empathy-needs-to-be-about-more-than-just-prayer-it-requires-action-too-177248/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s Christian empathy needs to be about more than just prayer – it requires action, too">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. In this episode they review the penultimate sitting weeks in the parliamentary term, with only budget week left before the ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Morrison government weaponising national security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-morrison-government-weaponising-national-security-177440/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Morrison government weaponising national security">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreea Lachsz, PhD Candidate, University of Technology Sydney Content warning: This article contains details readers may find distressing including discussion of excessive or gratuitous violence, abuse and mental illness. In December, the Victorian Court of Appeal found certain routine strip searches in prison breach human rights to ... <a title="Strip searches in prison are traumatising breaches of human rights. So, why are governments still allowing them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/18/strip-searches-in-prison-are-traumatising-breaches-of-human-rights-so-why-are-governments-still-allowing-them-174463/" aria-label="Read more about Strip searches in prison are traumatising breaches of human rights. So, why are governments still allowing them?">Read more</a>
