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June 3, 2024
RNZ Pacific Tributes are pouring in for an acclaimed American Samoan poet and teacher who was murdered last Saturday in Apia allegedly by a fellow poet. According to local police Dr Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, a retired professor from the University of Hawai’i Manoa, was found dead at the Galu Moana Theatre in Vaivase-Uta. The Samoa Observer ... <a title="Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/outpouring-of-grief-following-death-of-acclaimed-samoan-poet-and-writer/" aria-label="Read more about Outpouring of grief following death of acclaimed Samoan poet and writer">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cahyani Widi Larasakti, PhD Student in International Relations, The University of Melbourne MMES Studio/Shutterstock Australia and Indonesia have long had an uneasy relationship, over issues ranging from Timor-Leste’s independence to asylum seekers and bans on live cattle export to the aftermath of the Bali bombings. While the ... <a title="Could a green investment deal help Indonesia and Australia overcome their past tensions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/could-a-green-investment-deal-help-indonesia-and-australia-overcome-their-past-tensions-229913/" aria-label="Read more about Could a green investment deal help Indonesia and Australia overcome their past tensions?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Raven, Senior Scientia Lecturer (Research), UNSW Sydney wk1003mike / Shutterstock Last week, at a conference in Geneva, the member states of the World Intellectual Property Organisation agreed on a new treaty aimed at preventing the for-profit piracy of traditional knowledge. So-called “biopiracy”, in which companies lift ... <a title="Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/patents-based-on-traditional-knowledge-are-often-biopiracy-a-new-international-treaty-will-finally-combat-this-231272/" aria-label="Read more about Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Senior lecturer, International Migration and Refugee Law, University of Technology Sydney Anyone following recent news reporting may rightly think Australia’s migration system is in “crisis”. Much of this reporting is fixated on the perceived threat posed by non-citizens to the safety or prosperity of the ... <a title="Migration has been in the news a lot lately. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/migration-has-been-in-the-news-a-lot-lately-whats-going-on-231270/" aria-label="Read more about Migration has been in the news a lot lately. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Being able to afford health care is a pressing issue for many Australians. And encouraging GPs to bulk bill is one measure the government is taking to ease the strain. So what would it ... <a title="Australia can afford to bulk bill all GP visits. So why don’t we?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/australia-can-afford-to-bulk-bill-all-gp-visits-so-why-dont-we-230204/" aria-label="Read more about Australia can afford to bulk bill all GP visits. So why don’t we?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Davern, Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Abdul Razak Latif/Shutterstock Less than 1% of the 12 million Australians who travelled to work on Census Day in 2021 rode a bicycle to get there. Bicycles are readily available and affordable. Cycling ... <a title="Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/why-do-so-few-people-cycle-for-transport-in-australia-6-ideas-on-how-to-reap-all-the-benefits-of-bikes-229811/" aria-label="Read more about Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Photoroyalty/Shutterstock As the government consults on potential reforms to points-tested visas for skilled migrants, the stakes couldn’t be higher. Skilled migrants contribute enormously to Australia’s prosperity – shaping our diverse society, making us more productive and boosting Australians’ earnings. ... <a title="How should the skilled migration points test be reformed? It’s an $84 billion question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/how-should-the-skilled-migration-points-test-be-reformed-its-an-84-billion-question-231283/" aria-label="Read more about How should the skilled migration points test be reformed? It’s an $84 billion question">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arvid O. I. Hoffmann, Professor of Marketing, University of Adelaide About half the states in the United States have introduced so-called universal demand laws that make it harder for aggrieved shareholders to sue company directors and hold managers personally liable for decisions that have harmed the company. ... <a title="Sue me, if you can. How laws that prevent directors being sued make firms less likely to recall potentially dangerous products" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/sue-me-if-you-can-how-laws-that-prevent-directors-being-sued-make-firms-less-likely-to-recall-potentially-dangerous-products-224360/" aria-label="Read more about Sue me, if you can. How laws that prevent directors being sued make firms less likely to recall potentially dangerous products">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg is mulling over whether to try to make a lunge for his old Melbourne seat of Kooyong, now that new circumstances have suddenly raised his political heart rate. Friday’s draft redistribution of Victorian federal electoral boundaries have opened ... <a title="View from The Hill: Josh Frydenberg mulls political temptation after Kooyong gets new draft boundaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/view-from-the-hill-josh-frydenberg-mulls-political-temptation-after-kooyong-gets-new-draft-boundaries-231456/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Josh Frydenberg mulls political temptation after Kooyong gets new draft boundaries">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has commended the coordinated efforts between police and defence intelligence units in the lead up to and during the current sitting of Parliament. Commissioner Manning said claims made over the past five months, particularly on social media, had led to heightened public awareness of safety during ... <a title="PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/pngs-police-and-defence-force-close-ranks-to-foil-opportunist-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s NewsHub closure next month. The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, ... <a title="Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/newshub-closures-creating-waves-of-change-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the government of New Caledonia to offer support in finding a way forward. Brown said the political situation in the French territory — which is a full member of the PIF ... <a title="‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/france-has-caused-this-crisis-pacific-islands-forum-offers-support-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
