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June 10, 2021
By Katie Todd, RNZ News Reporter Critics have hammered the Climate Change Commission’s agriculture goals in New Zealand, saying it has missed the mark on methane targets. In a final 419-page report handed to Parliament yesterday, the commission urged the government to get tough on the way New Zealanders live, move and work, through implementing ... <a title="Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’, say critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/10/climate-commission-report-gives-nz-dairy-industry-free-pass-to-pollute-say-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Climate Commission report gives NZ dairy industry ‘free pass to pollute’, say critics">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Nauru President Lionel Aingimea has rejected a Fiji minister’s claim that the decision of the University of the South Pacific to reappoint its vice-chancellor and base him in Apia, Samoa, instead of Suva is illegal. “I don’t see how it can be illegal,” said President Aingimea, who is also the university’s ... <a title="Nauru president defends Samoa contract decision for USP chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/10/nauru-president-defends-samoa-contract-decision-for-usp-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru president defends Samoa contract decision for USP chief">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2021
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu Supreme Court judge Justice Oliver Saksak has granted a stay on the vacation of 19 seats in the country’s Parliament. On Tuesday, the Speaker of Parliament, Gracia Shadrack, declared the seats of Prime Minister Bob Loughman and 18 of his MPs vacant because they had been absent from Parliament on three consecutive ... <a title="Vanuatu judge stays Speaker’s vacation of PM plus 18 parliamentary seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/10/vanuatu-judge-stays-speakers-vacation-of-pm-plus-18-parliamentary-seats/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu judge stays Speaker’s vacation of PM plus 18 parliamentary seats">Read more</a>
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June 10, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk In the latest twist in Samoa’s political rollercoaster, the FAST party has accused the rival HRPP leader of contempt of court, reports Pacific Media Network News. Tuila’epa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has been accused of ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to convene Parliament, when FAST should have been sworn in as government. ... <a title="Samoa’s caretaker PM Tuila’epa sued for contempt of court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/10/samoas-caretaker-pm-tuilaepa-sued-for-contempt-of-court/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa’s caretaker PM Tuila’epa sued for contempt of court">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk New Zealand’s leading daily newspaper has warned the country against complacency over the covid-19 pandemic and to look to Fiji for an example of how things can easily go wrong. In an editorial today, The New Zealand Herald has also criticised the government over its communication strategy and failure to counter ... <a title="Leading NZ newspaper warns nation against complacency over covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/leading-nz-newspaper-warns-nation-against-complacency-over-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Leading NZ newspaper warns nation against complacency over covid">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Charlie Dumavi in Port Moresby Women students at the University of Papua New Guinea silently suffering from persistent sexual harassment and abuse in the vicinity of the Waigani campus have become as national issue with a protest leading to a clash with media. The issue was brought to public attention when a woman student ... <a title="Angry male student mob targets media over UPNG sexual abuse protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/angry-male-student-mob-targets-media-over-upng-sexual-abuse-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Angry male student mob targets media over UPNG sexual abuse protest">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru says high-level talks on France’s nuclear legacy due in Paris this month should be held at the United Nations in New York instead. French President Emmanuel Macron called the meeting in response to a report which accused France of misleading the public about the fallout after a ... <a title="Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York – not Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/temaru-calls-for-tahiti-nuclear-tests-roundtable-in-new-york-not-paris/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru calls for Tahiti nuclear tests roundtable in New York – not Paris">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Christine Rovoi, RNZ Pacific journalist Calls for more action from the Fiji government are growing louder, as authorities appear to be losing their grip on a rapidly-growing outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic in the country. Authorities have confirmed 147 cases in the last two days alone, and the country’s main hospital has been effectively ... <a title="Fiji’s government goes quiet as covid crisis spirals out of control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/fijis-government-goes-quiet-as-covid-crisis-spirals-out-of-control/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s government goes quiet as covid crisis spirals out of control">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
RNZ Pacific The speaker of the Vanuatu Parliament has declared the seats of the prime minister, the deputy prime minister and 16 other government MPs vacant. The government had filed a motion to have the speaker, Gracia Shadrack, removed – a feud which saw the MPs and Prime Minister Bob Loughman boycott Parliament for three ... <a title="Vanuatu speaker declares vacant seats of PM, his deputy and 16 MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/vanuatu-speaker-declares-vacant-seats-of-pm-his-deputy-and-16-mps/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu speaker declares vacant seats of PM, his deputy and 16 MPs">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Jemimah Sukbat in Port Moresby A group of male students attacked the media covering a harassment protest by female students at the University of Papua New Guinea today. The rowdy group said they did not want the media to report on an issue of sexual and physical harassment by males, claiming it was an ... <a title="Male students at UPNG attack media for reporting on sexual harassment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/male-students-at-upng-attack-media-for-reporting-on-sexual-harassment/" aria-label="Read more about Male students at UPNG attack media for reporting on sexual harassment">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2021
By Luke Nacei in Suva Social media posts by two outspoken Suva-based lawyers have been raised in Parliament over a critical culture “that has been created”. Attorney-General Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum told Parliament the lawyers, Jon Apted and Richard Naidu, were from a law firm that specialised in commercial law. “But talking about confidence, let me read ... <a title="AG raises Suva lawyers’ ‘little confidence’ social media posts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/09/ag-raises-suva-lawyers-little-confidence-social-media-posts/" aria-label="Read more about AG raises Suva lawyers’ ‘little confidence’ social media posts">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2021
RNZ Pacific Samoa’s Prime Minister-elect, FAST party leader Fiame Naomi Mata’afa, says negotiations remain at an impasse between her party and the rival Human Rights Protection Party (HRPP). The parties met yesterday in Apia to try and resolve the stalemate resulting from the April 9 election. In a statement last night, Fiame maintained that FAST ... <a title="Samoa leadership talks fail to resolve political impasse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/06/08/samoa-leadership-talks-fail-to-resolve-political-impasse/" aria-label="Read more about Samoa leadership talks fail to resolve political impasse">Read more</a>
