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February 14, 2025
By Lagi Keresoma in Apia The Miss Pacific Islands Pageant (MPIP) Committee has finally issued a statement — 5 days after damaging social media attacks following the 2025 Pageant finals hosted by the Solomon Islands last Saturday. The statement yesterday simply said the committee recognised and deeply regretted the distress caused by recent disputes concerning ... <a title="‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late, say critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/damage-has-been-done-miss-pacific-pageant-statement-too-late-say-critics/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Damage has been done’ – Miss Pacific pageant statement too late, say critics">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – The New Zealand government and the mainstream media have gone ballistic (thankfully not literally just yet) over the move by the small Pacific nation to sign a strategic partnership with China in Beijing this week. It is the latest in a string of island nations that ... <a title="Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/eugene-doyle-will-new-zealand-invade-the-cook-islands-to-stop-china-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about Eugene Doyle: Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2025
The Chinese have politely told the Kiwis to back off. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters that China and the Cook Islands have had diplomatic relations since 1997 which “should not be disrupted or restrained by any third party”. “New Zealand is rightly furious about it,” a TVNZ Pacific affairs writer editorialised to the ... <a title="Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/14/will-new-zealand-invade-the-cook-islands-to-stop-china-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about Will New Zealand invade the Cook Islands to stop China? Seriously">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When parliamentarians left Canberra on Thursday after the fortnight sitting, federal politics had the air of an uneasy waiting game. Waiting for the election date, although the campaign has been running for months. Waiting to know whether there will be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese and Trump put Australia in holding patterns on election timing and tariffs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/grattan-on-friday-albanese-and-trump-put-australia-in-holding-patterns-on-election-timing-and-tariffs-249843/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese and Trump put Australia in holding patterns on election timing and tariffs">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor & Principal Fellow in Urban Risk & Resilience, The University of Melbourne Public transport in Queensland now costs just 50 cents. Yet in the first six months of the trial, it’s been revealed that thousands of commuters were fined for fare evasion. More ... <a title="Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/heres-why-some-people-still-evade-public-transport-fares-even-when-theyre-50-cents-249739/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor, Griffith Law School, Griffith University Two federal politicians from opposing camps reached across the aisle this week to promote a valuable cause – the wellbeing of future Australian generations. Independent MP Sophie Scamps tabled the Wellbeing of Future Generations Bill 2025, which was ... <a title="Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/short-term-politics-keeps-stalling-long-term-fixes-this-bill-offers-a-way-forward-249598/" aria-label="Read more about Short-term politics keeps stalling long-term fixes. This bill offers a way forward">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Younger, Lecturer in Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Australia’s Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three bases – Mawson, Davis and Casey – as ... <a title="This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/this-is-australias-only-icebreaker-heres-why-experts-say-we-need-another-249714/" aria-label="Read more about This is Australia’s only icebreaker. Here’s why experts say we need another">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eliane Deschrijver, Senior Lecturer in Social Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Sydney Circles in a Circle (1923) Wassily Kandinsky / Philadelphia Museum of Art / The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 Imagine you are asked to give a small amount of money to a stranger. It’s ... <a title="Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/heads-vs-tails-a-simple-coin-flip-can-be-enough-to-change-how-we-treat-others-249611/" aria-label="Read more about Heads vs tails? A simple coin flip can be enough to change how we treat others">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Bushell, Clinical Associate Professor in Pharmacy, University of Canberra DimaBerlin/Shutterstock The federal government yesterday released its response to the Senate inquiry into issues related to menopause. The inquiry recommended the government examine options to make menopause hormone therapy (MHT, or sometimes called hormone replacement therapy) more ... <a title="Menopause hormone patches are in short supply. What are they? And how do they compare with other therapies?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/menopause-hormone-patches-are-in-short-supply-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-compare-with-other-therapies-245166/" aria-label="Read more about Menopause hormone patches are in short supply. What are they? And how do they compare with other therapies?">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Matt Byrne/STCSA Housework, a new play by Emily Steel, lifts the rock off politics to expose its crawling, ruthless, yet undeniably comic underside. The result is masterful, hilarious and deeply incisive. Housework opens with the day-to-day ... <a title="New play Housework is a future Australian classic – a Don’s Party for our time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/new-play-housework-is-a-future-australian-classic-a-dons-party-for-our-time-249019/" aria-label="Read more about New play Housework is a future Australian classic – a Don’s Party for our time">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Pacific Media Watch Papua New Guinea’s civic space has been rated as “obstructed” by the Civicus Monitor and the country has been criticised for pushing forward with a controversial media law in spite of strong opposition. Among concerns previously documented by the civil rights watchdog are harassment and threats against human rights defenders, particularly those ... <a title="Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/civicus-monitor-criticises-png-use-of-cybercrime-law-to-curb-free-speech/" aria-label="Read more about Civicus Monitor criticises PNG use of cybercrime law to curb free speech">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Younger, Lecturer in Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Australia’s Antarctic territory represents the largest sliver of the ice continent. For decades, Australian scientists have headed to one of our three bases – Mawson, Davis and Casey – as ... <a title="Antarctic research has long been hamstrung by reliance on one icebreaker and sporadic funding. That might be about to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/13/antarctic-research-has-long-been-hamstrung-by-reliance-on-one-icebreaker-and-sporadic-funding-that-might-be-about-to-change-249714/" aria-label="Read more about Antarctic research has long been hamstrung by reliance on one icebreaker and sporadic funding. That might be about to change">Read more</a>
