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June 18, 2023
External experts are poring over the “inappropriate editing” of international news published online by RNZ. It has already tightened editorial checks and stood down an online journalist. Will this dent trust in RNZ — or news in general? Were campaigns propagating national propaganda a factor? Mediawatch asks two experts with international experience. MEDIAWATCH: By Colin ... <a title="Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/18/mediawatch-further-fallout-as-rnz-takes-out-the-kremlin-garbage/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Further fallout as RNZ takes out the ‘Kremlin garbage’">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Lukas Coch/AAP Federal parliament enters its last week before the winter break ready to approve legislation for the Voice referendum but with the government’s proposed $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund still in the balance. After marathon debates in both ... <a title="Referendum bill to pass on Monday while government pulls out stops to try to secure housing fund" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/18/referendum-bill-to-pass-on-monday-while-government-pulls-out-stops-to-try-to-secure-housing-fund-207988/" aria-label="Read more about Referendum bill to pass on Monday while government pulls out stops to try to secure housing fund">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Richard Naidu in Suva It has been six months now, but I have to make a strange admission. I miss the laughs I used to get over the pseudo-authoritative pronouncements of Fiji’s former attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (pictured). I recall that he got a bit over-excited in January this year. That was when he ... <a title="Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/17/richard-naidu-money-politics-and-fear-yet-ffps-millions-still-werent-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Richard Naidu: Money, politics and fear – yet FFP’s millions still weren’t enough">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2023
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific senior sports journalist Fiji Rugby Union (FRU) has confirmed it underpaid its women rugby players and still owes them their dues from last year’s World Cup. In an extraordinary admission of fault, FRU Trustees Board interim chairman Peter Mazey apologised to Fijiana players and acknowledged the women for their “strength ... <a title="‘I am sorry’ – Fiji Rugby admits it shortchanged women players" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/17/i-am-sorry-fiji-rugby-admits-it-shortchanged-women-players/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I am sorry’ – Fiji Rugby admits it shortchanged women players">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Seven regional executives representing all the customary regions of West Papua have declared their support for the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP) gaining full membership of the Melanesian Spearhead Group. The executives are of the ULMWP ‘provisional government’ in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. The ULMWP declared this political support in ... <a title="West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/17/west-papuas-customary-region-leaders-back-full-msg-membership/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua’s customary region leaders back full MSG membership">Read more</a>
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June 17, 2023
EDITORIAL: PNG Post-Courier Mister Speaker, our collective question without notice is to you mister Speaker. We want the Prime Minister and his deputy to take note Sir. Our question from the Media Gallery is specifically directed to you, Mr Speaker, because of events that have transpired in the last 48 hours in which the freedom ... <a title="Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or favour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/17/mr-speaker-were-not-your-enemies-were-reporting-without-fear-or-favour/" aria-label="Read more about Mr Speaker, we’re not your enemies. We’re reporting without fear or favour">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton on Friday declared Victorian Liberal senator David Van should leave parliament ASAP. The opposition leader told Sydney radio: “I think it’s in everyone’s best interests that he resign from the parliament and I hope he’s able to do ... <a title="View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal Party to meet about allegations against Senator David Van" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/view-from-the-hill-victorian-liberal-party-to-meet-about-allegations-against-senator-david-van-207931/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal Party to meet about allegations against Senator David Van">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn MacKay, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Researchers have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, according to media reports. Remarkably, these embryos have reportedly been created from embryonic stem cells, meaning they do not require sperm and ova. This development, widely described as ... <a title="Scientists have created synthetic human embryos. Now we must consider the ethical and moral quandaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/scientists-have-created-synthetic-human-embryos-now-we-must-consider-the-ethical-and-moral-quandaries-207911/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists have created synthetic human embryos. Now we must consider the ethical and moral quandaries">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The Adelaide Festival Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. Opened in 1973, the building was completed before the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and the Queensland ... <a title="Cuts in the state budget, a gallery on hold and millions on sports: the decline of arts support in South Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/cuts-in-the-state-budget-a-gallery-on-hold-and-millions-on-sports-the-decline-of-arts-support-in-south-australia-207612/" aria-label="Read more about Cuts in the state budget, a gallery on hold and millions on sports: the decline of arts support in South Australia">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University Shutterstock Do you sit or stand? That is the question about 7,000 men around the world have been asked about how they pee. We’ll get to their answers soon. But the media interest that followed prompted one ... <a title="Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/does-it-matter-if-you-sit-or-stand-to-pee-and-what-about-peeing-in-the-shower-206869/" aria-label="Read more about Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Former Papua New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill says the controversial US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement threatens the country’s sovereignty. He said the agreement negotiation was started in 2016 by his government but it was different in content from the one signed with the US. O’Neill said the agreement encroached ... <a title="O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/oneill-says-defence-pact-giving-us-forces-immunity-threatens-png-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For most voters, the cost of living is their major current concern. Rising interest rates and high prices for power, groceries and other necessities are hurting in particular lower and middle income people. Nowhere is this more the case than ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Community Independent Dai Le on what voters are saying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-community-independent-dai-le-on-what-voters-are-saying-207832/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Community Independent Dai Le on what voters are saying">Read more</a>
