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January 1, 2022
By Ian Chute in Suva Unionists and political activists are among seven prominent women who have brought a lawsuit against the Fiji government challenging new electoral laws requiring them to use their birth certificate names to be registered as voters. The seven are former government minister Bernadette Rounds Ganilau, politicians Priscilla Singh and Seni Nabou, ... <a title="Seven women challenge Fiji electoral law ‘discrimination’ over name changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/seven-women-challenge-fiji-electoral-law-discrimination-over-name-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Seven women challenge Fiji electoral law ‘discrimination’ over name changes">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
RNZ News As some North Island regions moved to the orange traffic light setting at 11.59pm last night, New Zealand has now found two omicron cases that were briefly in the community, and close contacts are urgently being chased up. As a British DJ outed himself as the omicron community case identified yesterday, Covid-19 Response ... <a title="Urgent NZ search for DJ’s close contacts, second omicron case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/urgent-nz-search-for-djs-close-contacts-second-omicron-case/" aria-label="Read more about Urgent NZ search for DJ’s close contacts, second omicron case">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist A human rights advocate in Fiji says the country should be ashamed of the exile of the now dead celebrated academic professor Brij Lal and his family. Professor Lal was expelled from Fiji in 2009 after speaking out against coup leader Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama’s FijiFirst government. Lal died ... <a title="‘Shame on you, Fiji’, says human rights advocate over Professor Lal’s exile" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/shame-on-you-fiji-says-human-rights-advocate-over-professor-lals-exile/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Shame on you, Fiji’, says human rights advocate over Professor Lal’s exile">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
RNZ News New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has confirmed that a border-related case with the omicron variant was briefly active in the community in the Auckland CBD earlier this week. The case arrived on a flight from the United Kingdom via Doha on December 16 and is fully vaccinated with a mRNA vaccine. They completed ... <a title="Omicron case was briefly active in NZ community, Health Ministry confirms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/omicron-case-was-briefly-active-in-nz-community-health-ministry-confirms/" aria-label="Read more about Omicron case was briefly active in NZ community, Health Ministry confirms">Read more</a>
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January 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra David Foote/National Archives of Australia 2001 was the final year of the Howard government’s second term in office. It began with the government on the political defensive, doing poorly in ... <a title="Cabinet papers 2001: how ‘securitisation’ became a mindset to dominate Australian politics for a generation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/01/cabinet-papers-2001-how-securitisation-became-a-mindset-to-dominate-australian-politics-for-a-generation-172056/" aria-label="Read more about Cabinet papers 2001: how ‘securitisation’ became a mindset to dominate Australian politics for a generation">Read more</a>
