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June 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University The Beatles began their first and only tour of Australia 60 years ago this week. It remains a landmark event in our social and cultural history. The Beatles spent almost three weeks in Australia and New Zealand. Touching down in ... <a title="‘Screaming, chanting, struggling teenagers’: the enduring legacy of the Beatles tour of Australia, 60 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/11/screaming-chanting-struggling-teenagers-the-enduring-legacy-of-the-beatles-tour-of-australia-60-years-on-227680/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Screaming, chanting, struggling teenagers’: the enduring legacy of the Beatles tour of Australia, 60 years on">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron, who visited Kanaky New Caledonia last month in a largely failed bid to solve the French Pacific territory’s political deadlock, has called a snap election following the decisive victory of the rightwing bloc among French members of the European Parliament. Don Wiseman reports. By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A ... <a title="History ‘replaying itself’ in Kanaky but growing Pacific solidarity, says Tau" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/history-replaying-itself-in-kanaky-but-growing-pacific-solidarity-says-tau/" aria-label="Read more about History ‘replaying itself’ in Kanaky but growing Pacific solidarity, says Tau">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
RNZ Pacific The founding members of the FijiFirst party, including former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and ex-attorney-general Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, have resigned. Sayed-Khaiyum confimed that party president Ratu Joji Satalaka, vice-president Selai Adimaitoga, acting general-secretary Faiyaz Koya and treasurer Hem Chand have also resigned from the party, according to local media reports. Sayed-Khaiyum said the other ... <a title="FijiFirst party founders Voreqe Bainimarama, Sayed-Khaiyum and others resign in shock move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/fijifirst-party-founders-voreqe-bainimarama-sayed-khaiyum-and-others-resign-in-shock-move/" aria-label="Read more about FijiFirst party founders Voreqe Bainimarama, Sayed-Khaiyum and others resign in shock move">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland Overnight, we learned of the tragic passing of Michael Mosley, who went missing last week while on holiday on the Greek island of Symi. The British celebrity doctor was a household name in many countries, ... <a title="Michael Mosley used science communication to advance health and wellbeing. We can learn a lot from his approach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/michael-mosley-used-science-communication-to-advance-health-and-wellbeing-we-can-learn-a-lot-from-his-approach-231934/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Mosley used science communication to advance health and wellbeing. We can learn a lot from his approach">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
Today, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning examine: At a micro level, how 'Post-Colonial Blowback' has impacted on New Caledonia, Gaza, South Africa, India and even New Zealand. And at a macro level, Paul and Selwyn assess how 'Post-Colonial Blowback' is a power giving rise to the Global South and its worldwide influence in global geopolitics.
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June 10, 2024
By Monika Singh in Suva New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) awardee Professor David Robie has called on young journalists to see journalism as a calling and not just a job. Dr Robie, who is also the editor of Asia Pacific Report and deputy chair of the Asia Pacific Media Network, was named in the ... <a title="Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/defend-pacific-voice-over-geopolitics-climate-crisis-keep-pressure-on-decolonisation-robie-tells-wansolwara/" aria-label="Read more about Defend ‘Pacific voice’ over geopolitics, climate crisis – keep pressure on decolonisation, Robie tells Wansolwara">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Jefferson, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury Getty Images The problem of “biopiracy” – the misappropriation and patenting for profit of Indigenous knowledge – has been on the rise for some time. So a global treaty aimed at protecting traditional knowledge and genetic resources ... <a title="Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/patently-insufficient-a-new-intellectual-property-treaty-does-little-to-protect-maori-traditional-knowledge-231264/" aria-label="Read more about Patently insufficient: a new intellectual property treaty does little to protect Māori traditional knowledge">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Peter Costello has long had an uneasy relationship with journalistic truth-telling. In 2005 he dined with three journalists from the Canberra press gallery, during which he told them the Coalition government led by John ... <a title="Costello goes, but the cultural problems at Nine Entertainment remain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/costello-goes-but-the-cultural-problems-at-nine-entertainment-remain-232007/" aria-label="Read more about Costello goes, but the cultural problems at Nine Entertainment remain">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
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 A national Newspoll, conducted June 3–7 from a sample of 1,232, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the ... <a title="Labor slumps in Newspoll to a tie with Coalition, with Albanese also down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/labor-slumps-in-newspoll-to-a-tie-with-coalition-with-albanese-also-down-231600/" aria-label="Read more about Labor slumps in Newspoll to a tie with Coalition, with Albanese also down">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby New Ireland Governor and a former Papua New Guinea prime minister Sir Julius Chan told the PNG Post-Courier in a “last man standing” interview at the weekend that this “media crime” should stop. He was responding to a fake press release allegedly released by New Ireland Deputy Governor Missen ... <a title="Sir Julius Chan ‘alive and well’ response to fake PNG media post" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/sir-julius-chan-alive-and-well-response-to-fake-png-media-post/" aria-label="Read more about Sir Julius Chan ‘alive and well’ response to fake PNG media post">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin today at 12:45pm June 10, 2024 (NZST) which is Sunday evening, 8:30pm (USEST). Today, political scientist Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will examine: At a micro level, how ‘Post-Colonial Blowback’ has impacted on New Caledonia, Gaza, South Africa, India and even New Zealand. And ... <a title="LIVE RECORDING: A View from Afar – Post-Colonial Blowback and Global Conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/live-recording-a-view-from-afar-post-colonial-blowback-and-global-conflict/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE RECORDING: A View from Afar – Post-Colonial Blowback and Global Conflict">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hoffmann, Professor of Economics, Tasmanian Behavioural Lab, University of Tasmania The Australian Defence Force is facing an acute recruitment crisis. Only 80% of the 69,000 personnel needed to meet future challenges have signed up. The government recently announced recruitment will be opened up to some foreign ... <a title="Gen Z is turning away from military service in record numbers. We’re trying to understand why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/10/gen-z-is-turning-away-from-military-service-in-record-numbers-were-trying-to-understand-why-230671/" aria-label="Read more about Gen Z is turning away from military service in record numbers. We’re trying to understand why">Read more</a>
