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February 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Greening, Professor, Microbiology, Monash University Sunset over New Zealand from the ocean sampling voyage Guy Shelley/Monash University, Author provided There are more than a billion bacteria in just one litre of seawater. How do all of these organisms find the energy and nutrients they need to ... <a title="Bacteria use life’s original energy source to thrive in the ocean’s lightless depths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/07/bacteria-use-lifes-original-energy-source-to-thrive-in-the-oceans-lightless-depths-199177/" aria-label="Read more about Bacteria use life’s original energy source to thrive in the ocean’s lightless depths">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2023
RNZ News New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins has described today’s Waitangi Day dawn service as moving and says he welcomes the shift away from a focus on politics. Hundreds of people gathered before dawn to commemorate 183 years since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed. Hipkins said the national day had a greater focus ... <a title="Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/07/prime-minister-hipkins-welcomes-less-politics-more-commemoration-on-waitangi-day/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister Hipkins welcomes less politics, more commemoration on Waitangi Day">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2023
By Hilaire Bule, RNZ Pacific Vanuatu correspondent in Port Vila Vanuatu’s prime minister has stressed any future employment within the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) Secretariat must be from MSG member countries. Prime Minister Ishmael Kalsakau, who is also chair of the MSG Secretariat, made the statement following the recruitment of two Indonesian consultants to work ... <a title="Kalsakau wants Melanesian staff to work at MSG secretariat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/07/kalsakau-wants-melanesian-staff-to-work-at-msg-secretariat/" aria-label="Read more about Kalsakau wants Melanesian staff to work at MSG secretariat">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya On Friday 10 February 2023, it will be one month since the Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was “kidnapped” at a local restaurant during his lunch hour by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) and security forces. The crisis began in September 2022, when Governor Enembe was named a suspect by the ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: The fate of Papua’s governor Enembe – where is he now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/yamin-kogoya-the-fate-of-papuas-governor-enembe-where-is-he-now/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: The fate of Papua’s governor Enembe – where is he now?">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
By Kālino Lātū, editor of Kaniva News Dr Sitiveni Halapua, former deputy leader of Tonga’s Democratic Movement, has died aged 74. Born on February 13, 1949, he was a respected academic, a pioneer of Tonga’s democratic reforms and pioneer of a conflict resolution system based on traditional practices. Halapua earned a doctorate in economics from ... <a title="Tongan politician, democracy reformer and scholar Dr Sitiveni Halapua dies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/tongan-politician-democracy-reformer-and-scholar-dr-sitiveni-halapua-dies/" aria-label="Read more about Tongan politician, democracy reformer and scholar Dr Sitiveni Halapua dies">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Alexander Gillespie, University of Waikato; Claire Breen, University of Waikato, and Valmaine Toki, University of Waikato The heated (and often confused) debate about “co-governance” in Aotearoa New Zealand inevitably leads back to its source, Te Tiriti o Waitangi. But, as its long-contested meanings demonstrate, very little in the Treaty of Waitangi is straightforward. ... <a title="NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty deserves more attention in the age of ‘co-governance’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/nzs-waitangi-day-2023-why-article-3-of-the-treaty-deserves-more-attention-in-the-age-of-co-governance/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Waitangi Day 2023 – why Article 3 of the Treaty deserves more attention in the age of ‘co-governance’">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
COMMENTARY: By Richard Naidu in Suva Five weeks on from Christmas Eve, I think most of us are still a bit stunned at what has happened in Fiji. A new government came to power in dramatic circumstances. It took not one but two Sodelpa management board meetings to change it, with razor-thin margins. The same ... <a title="Richard Naidu: It’s your freedom – so speak up and step up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/richard-naidu-its-your-freedom-so-speak-up-and-step-up/" aria-label="Read more about Richard Naidu: It’s your freedom – so speak up and step up">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
By Red Tsounga Another house done, and onto the next . . . Volunteers working in Mount Roskill community over the past few days helping those suffering from Auckland’s flash flood devastation have done us proud. Tremendous work by everybody. Here are some random photos of our volunteer teams on the job. Many thanks to ... <a title="Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/gallery-after-aucklands-flash-floods-its-community-clean-up-time/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: After Auckland’s flash floods, it’s community clean-up time">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Mick Tsikas/AAP Senator Lidia Thorpe announced on Monday that she would be leaving the Greens. Thorpe had split with the Greens over the Indigenous Voice to parliament, ... <a title="Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens will make passing legislation harder for Labor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/lidia-thorpes-defection-from-the-greens-will-make-passing-legislation-harder-for-labor-199299/" aria-label="Read more about Lidia Thorpe’s defection from the Greens will make passing legislation harder for Labor">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis B. Desmond, Lecturer, Cyberintelligence and Cybercrime Investigations, University of the Sunshine Coast The news of a so-called “Chinese spy balloon” being shot down over the US has reignited interest in how nation-states spy on one another. It’s not confirmed that the balloon, seen floating over US ... <a title="Beyond spy balloons: here are 7 kinds of intelligence spies want, and how they get it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/beyond-spy-balloons-here-are-7-kinds-of-intelligence-spies-want-and-how-they-get-it-199289/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond spy balloons: here are 7 kinds of intelligence spies want, and how they get it">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Daniel Pockett/AAP Victorian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe has defected from the Greens to sit on the crossbench, declaring she wants to fully represent the “Blak Sovereign Movement” in parliament. The announcement by Thorpe, who has been the party’s spokesperson on ... <a title="View from The Hill: Lidia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote ‘Blak Sovereign Movement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/view-from-the-hill-lidia-thorpe-quits-greens-going-to-crossbench-to-promote-blak-sovereign-movement-199296/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Lidia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote ‘Blak Sovereign Movement’">Read more</a>
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February 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Daniel Pockett/AAP Victorian Indigenous Senator Lidia Thorpe has defected from the Greens to sit on the crossbench, declaring she wants to fully represent the “Blak Sovereign Movement” in parliament. The announcement by Thorpe, who has been the party’s spokesperson on ... <a title="View from The Hill: Lydia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote ‘Blak Sovereign Movement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/06/view-from-the-hill-lydia-thorpe-quits-greens-going-to-crossbench-to-promote-blak-sovereign-movement-199296/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Lydia Thorpe quits Greens, going to crossbench to promote ‘Blak Sovereign Movement’">Read more</a>
