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February 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Nationals have been again embarrassed by an incident involving one of their parliamentarians drinking. Their deputy leader, NSW senator Perin Davey, stumbled over words while at a Senate committee hearing last Tuesday, after attending the party’s regular staff drinks ... <a title="Now it’s Nationals deputy leader Perin Davey who’s had a glass too many" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/now-its-nationals-deputy-leader-perin-davey-whos-had-a-glass-too-many-223825/" aria-label="Read more about Now it’s Nationals deputy leader Perin Davey who’s had a glass too many">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The 39 men who arrived illegally on the coast of north Western Australia last week were flown to Nauru on Sunday. The men came in one boat, although they were found on Friday in two or three groups. There is ... <a title="Boat arrivals sent to Nauru, and Sovereign Borders commander warns against politicising the issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/boat-arrivals-sent-to-nauru-and-sovereign-borders-commander-warns-against-politicising-the-issue-223822/" aria-label="Read more about Boat arrivals sent to Nauru, and Sovereign Borders commander warns against politicising the issue">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University The verdicts keep coming. On Friday US time, the three-month hearing focused on Donald Trump’s business dealings in New York came to an end. Trump was ordered to pay back more than $US350 ... <a title="Donald Trump faces half a billion dollars of debt and several court cases. But that may not stop him from becoming president again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/donald-trump-faces-half-a-billion-dollars-of-debt-and-several-court-cases-but-that-may-not-stop-him-from-becoming-president-again-223813/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump faces half a billion dollars of debt and several court cases. But that may not stop him from becoming president again">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Alexei Navalny was a giant figure in Russian politics. No other individual rivalled the threat he posed to the Putin regime. His death in an Arctic labour camp is a blow to all those who dreamed he might emerge as ... <a title="Alexei Navalny had a vision of a democratic Russia. That terrified Vladimir Putin to the core" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/alexei-navalny-had-a-vision-of-a-democratic-russia-that-terrified-vladimir-putin-to-the-core-223812/" aria-label="Read more about Alexei Navalny had a vision of a democratic Russia. That terrified Vladimir Putin to the core">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has joined media freedom groups supporting Julian Assange, an Australian citizen whose unjust prosecution continues to undermine press freedoms and human rights. In light of recent developments and mounting concerns over Assange’s deteriorating health, JERAA said in a statement it had urged the ... <a title="JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/18/jeraa-urges-us-to-drop-spy-charges-return-assange-to-australia/" aria-label="Read more about JERAA urges US to drop spy charges – return Assange to Australia">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2024
The opposition group in Papua New Guinea’s Parliament staged a walkout yesterday after a fiery exchange, amid an ongoing political ruckus in the country. The walkout happened after the Acting Speaker suspended standing orders and put forward a motion for a vote of confidence in Prime Minister James Marape. The opposition, which is in the ... <a title="‘Psychological powerplay’ – vote of confidence in PNG PM Marape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/17/psychological-powerplay-vote-of-confidence-in-png-pm-marape/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Psychological powerplay’ – vote of confidence in PNG PM Marape">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The toll of four months of war in Gaza on journalism is “nothing short of horrifying” — Palestinian journalists killed, wounded, and prevented from working without any possibility of safe refuge, reports he Paris-based global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF). RSF has strongly condemned the “eradication of journalism and the right ... <a title="War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/17/war-on-gaza-palestinian-journalism-has-been-decimated-with-impunity/" aria-label="Read more about War on Gaza: Palestinian journalism has been decimated with impunity">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan pro-independence leader has accused Indonesia of new human rights atrocities this week while the republic has apparently elected a new president with a past record of violations in Timor-Leste and West Papua. Indonesian Defence Minister Prabowo Subianto has declared victory in the presidential election on Wednesday after unofficial vote ... <a title="Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/17/wenda-accuses-indonesia-of-more-human-rights-atrocities-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda accuses Indonesia of more human rights atrocities in Papua">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog Winston Peters says Israel’s actions getting ‘out of hand’ ahead of planned Rafah offensive Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has joined with the leaders of Australia and Canada to express grave concern about Israel’s planned ground offensive into the southern Gazan city of Rafah. It’s the ... <a title="NZ’s weak criticism of Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime too little too late" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/16/nzs-weak-criticism-of-israels-ethnic-cleansing-war-crime-too-little-too-late/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s weak criticism of Israel’s ethnic cleansing war crime too little too late">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australian Border Force officials are investigating the arrival of a group of more than 20 men by boat near the remote community of Beagle Bay in northern Western Australia. The ABC reported that the men, believed to be from Pakistan, ... <a title="Boat arrivals land on remote Western Australian coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/16/boat-arrivals-land-on-remote-western-australian-coast-223737/" aria-label="Read more about Boat arrivals land on remote Western Australian coast">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shima Ziajahromi, Advance Queensland Research Fellow, Griffith University Pixel-Shot, Shutterstock Australian wastewater treatment plants produce thousands of tonnes of treated sewage sludge every year. This nutrient-rich material is then dried to make “biosolids”, which are used to fertilise agricultural soil. Unfortunately every kilogram of biosolids also contains ... <a title="Australians are washing microplastics down the drain and it’s ending up on our farms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/16/australians-are-washing-microplastics-down-the-drain-and-its-ending-up-on-our-farms-223079/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are washing microplastics down the drain and it’s ending up on our farms">Read more</a>
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February 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian A. MacKenzie, Professor of Economics, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Leading Australian economists Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims this week sought to shake up the carbon policy debate in Australia, by proposing a tax on the nation’s fossil fuel production. They claim it could raise A$100 ... <a title="Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims have proposed a $100 billion-a-year fossil fuel tax – and it’s a debate Australia should embrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/16/ross-garnaut-and-rod-sims-have-proposed-a-100-billion-a-year-fossil-fuel-tax-and-its-a-debate-australia-should-embrace-223722/" aria-label="Read more about Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims have proposed a $100 billion-a-year fossil fuel tax – and it’s a debate Australia should embrace">Read more</a>
