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March 1, 2023
Vanuatu Daily Post A number of ni-Vanuatu Recognised Seasonal Employer (RSE) workers have also been impacted on by New Zealand’s Cyclone Gabrielle devastation, particularly those in the Hawke’s Bay region. This has been a difficult time for people in Aotearoa New Zealand, but also for families of workers back in Vanuatu trying to understand what ... <a title="Cyclone Gabrielle: Vanuatu RSE workers ‘safe and cared for’, say officials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/cyclone-gabrielle-vanuatu-rse-workers-safe-and-cared-for-say-officials/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Gabrielle: Vanuatu RSE workers ‘safe and cared for’, say officials">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today ROB CAMPBELL Luke Malpass (Stuff): Labour happy to show Rob Campbell the door as he lashes out at crabwalk away from ‘co-governance’ Craig ... <a title="Newsletter: March 1 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/newsletter-march-1-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: March 1 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Grealy, Research Projects Officer, CSIRO Gifford Miller, Author provided Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new ... <a title="Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/extinct-elephant-birds-were-3-metres-tall-and-weighed-700kg-now-dna-from-fossil-eggshells-reveals-how-they-lived-200628/" aria-label="Read more about Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ash Porter, Research officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Bird flu has been causing growing concern in recent months, with hundreds of millions of birds dying of the virus since October 2021. This is the largest global outbreak. Last week, an 11-year-old child in ... <a title="When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/when-should-we-worry-about-bird-flu-making-us-sick-when-we-see-human-to-human-transmission-and-theres-no-evidence-of-that-yet-200710/" aria-label="Read more about When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Foley, CEO of Aboriginal Carbon Foundation, Indigenous Knowledge Shutterstock The Albanese government is embarking on a suite of environmental reforms: beefing up Australia’s carbon credit scheme, and establishing a market to fund environmental restoration. These big policy changes may seek to justify colonial practices imposed on ... <a title="‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-stench-of-tokenism-how-environmental-reforms-ignore-first-nations-knowledge-198393/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Lehmann, Honorary Lecturer, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Shutterstock There is a story doing the media rounds that international students – particularly from China – will now “flood” back to Australia. It is claimed this will push up already high rents for ... <a title="‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/are-you-asking-us-to-sleep-under-the-harbour-bridge-3-myths-about-international-students-and-the-housing-crisis-200274/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney Shutterstock Dixi et salvavi animam meam. This Latin phrase – I have spoken and saved my soul – sits at the end of Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme. Written in 1875, this text imagines a ... <a title="The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-at-50-how-marx-trauma-and-compassion-all-influenced-pink-floyds-masterpiece-198400/" aria-label="Read more about The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Health New Zealand’s board chairperson Rob Campbell has been sacked over a political attack he made about the National Party’s Three Waters policy. Video: RNZ Checkpoint “I thank Mr Campbell for his contribution since the establishment of Te Whatu Ora last year.” In a statement, Campbell said the removal from his position was “an inappropriate ... <a title="Health NZ chair fired over ‘political’ post, but says govt ‘overreacted’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/health-nz-chair-fired-over-political-post-but-says-govt-overreacted/" aria-label="Read more about Health NZ chair fired over ‘political’ post, but says govt ‘overreacted’">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Barbara Dreaver, Pacific correspondent of 1News The appointment of Baron Waqa, former President of Nauru, to head the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) next year was a jaw-droppingly poor decision and an insult to everything the regional body is meant to represent. What were the Forum leaders thinking? Here’s the thing, they were probably ... <a title="Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/barbara-dreaver-pacific-leaders-poor-choice-for-top-forum-job-an-insult/" aria-label="Read more about Barbara Dreaver: Pacific leaders’ poor choice for top Forum job an insult">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
By Nathan Woti in Port Moresby Prime Minister James Marape has approved the building of a monument of the late Grand Chief Sir Michael Somare at the University of Papua New Guinea. During the ground-breaking ceremony on Friday, Marape said the monument would symbolise what the nation’s founding fathers stood for, and the legacy of ... <a title="UPNG monument plan for ‘inspired leader’ Sir Michael Somare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/upng-monument-plan-for-inspired-leader-sir-michael-somare/" aria-label="Read more about UPNG monument plan for ‘inspired leader’ Sir Michael Somare">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The look on the faces of their families said it all, as they cried awaiting anxiously for their loved ones who made their way from the aircraft into the airport terminal at the capital Port Moresby. For the families of the last three Papua New Guinea hostage crisis captives, ... <a title="Nightmare over for final 3 PNG freed hostages – police hunt their captors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/nightmare-over-for-final-3-png-freed-hostages-police-hunt-their-captors/" aria-label="Read more about Nightmare over for final 3 PNG freed hostages – police hunt their captors">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Asia Pacific Report Distinguished Professor Steven Ratuva has added yet another first to his long list of accomplishments, becoming the University of Canterbury’s first Te Amorangi, or pro-vice-chancellor Pacific. The university’s Tumu Whakarae vice-chancellor Professor Cheryl de la Rey has confirmed the appointment of Dr Ratuva, director of the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, ... <a title="Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/canterbury-appoints-ratuva-as-first-te-amorangi-in-pacific-leadership-team/" aria-label="Read more about Canterbury appoints Ratuva as first Te Amorangi in Pacific leadership team">Read more</a>
