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February 21, 2021
By Kalinga Seneviratne in Sydney The tech juggernaut Facebook’s shock decision to block all news feeds from Australian media outlets this week in response to a proposed new Media Bargaining law, that will force social media giants to pay for news content that is posted on their platforms, has created fury among Australians. But it ... <a title="Facebook news ban turns attention to tech giants’ impact on journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/21/facebook-news-ban-turns-attention-to-tech-giants-impact-on-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook news ban turns attention to tech giants’ impact on journalism">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2021
By Sheldon Chanel in Suva Facebook’s ban on Australian news will cut off a vital source of authoritative information for the Pacific region, government and industry analysts have warned. Across the Pacific, thousands have found their access to news blocked, or severely limited, after the tech giant wiped all news on the platform in Australia ... <a title="Facebook’s Australia ban threatens to leave Pacific without key news source" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/21/facebooks-australia-ban-threatens-to-leave-pacific-without-key-news-source/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook’s Australia ban threatens to leave Pacific without key news source">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2021
In this episode of A View from Afar, Selwyn Manning is joined by political scientist and former Pentagon analyst Paul Buchanan to discuss: * Australia and New Zealand – are these two Pacific nations culturally and politically too distant and different to sustain their traditional ‘special relationship’? * The latest spat between New Zealand’s Prime ... <a title="PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/18/podcast-buchanan-manning-on-the-australia-new-zealand-special-relationship/" aria-label="Read more about PODCAST: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship">Read more</a>
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February 17, 2021
A View from Afar: Security analyst Paul Buchanan and political journalist Selwyn Manning went live (Thursday, midday NZ DST) (6pm Wednesday, US EST) to discuss the Australia-New Zealand special relationship. Has Australia acted in bad faith, revoking the citizenship of a woman detained in Turkey and suspected of being a terrorist, forcing New Zealand to ... <a title="VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/17/live-episode-midday-thursday-buchanan-manning-on-the-australia-new-zealand-special-relationship/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Buchanan + Manning on the Australia-New Zealand Special Relationship">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Chinese government has formally charged Australian journalist Cheng Lei with “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”, almost half a year after she was first detained, reports ABC News. Lei has been held since August last year under a form of detention that allows Chinese police to imprison and question a suspect ... <a title="China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/china-formally-charges-australian-journalist-cheng-lei-half-year-after-being-detained/" aria-label="Read more about China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Alex Baumann, Western Sydney University and Samuel Alexander, University of Melbourne Among the many hard truths exposed by covid-19 is the huge disparity between the world’s rich and poor. As economies went into freefall, the world’s billionaires increased their already huge fortunes by 27.5 percent. And as many ordinary people lost their jobs ... <a title="We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/27/we-are-the-1-the-wealth-of-many-australians-puts-them-in-an-elite-club-wrecking-the-planet/" aria-label="Read more about We are the 1% – the wealth of many Australians puts them in an elite club wrecking the planet">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the arbitrary and opaque experiments that Google is conducting with its search engine in Australia, with the consequence that many national news websites are no longer appearing in the search results seen by some users. The Australian, ABC, Australian Financial Review, The Age, The Guardian ... <a title="RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/26/rsf-condemns-google-for-dropping-australian-media-searches-in-tests/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Google for dropping Australian media searches in ‘tests’">Read more</a>
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January 11, 2021
ANALYSIS: By Margaret Kristin Merga, Edith Cowan University and Shannon Mason, Nagasaki University Academics are increasingly expected to share their research widely beyond academia. However, our recent study of academics in Australia and Japan suggests Australian universities are still very much focused on supporting the production of scholarly outputs. They offer relatively limited support for ... <a title="Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/01/11/unis-want-research-shared-widely-so-why-dont-they-properly-back-academics-to-do-it/" aria-label="Read more about Unis want research shared widely. So why don’t they properly back academics to do it?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi of the Pacific Media Centre Australian authorities’ heavy-handedness and the use of the covid-19 pandemic to curb civic and media freedoms are major concerns in the latest report, People Power Under Attack 2020, released by the international non-profit organisation CIVICUS. Australia was downgraded last year (2019) and is still rated as having ... <a title="CIVICUS criticises Pacific countries over use of covid to curb freedoms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/civicus-criticises-pacific-countries-over-use-of-covid-to-curb-freedoms/" aria-label="Read more about CIVICUS criticises Pacific countries over use of covid to curb freedoms">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre newsdesk Indonesia’s Presidential Staff Office says it regrets the raising of the Morning Star flag – which is identified with Papuan independence – at the Indonesian Consulate General (KJRI) in Melbourne, Australia, this week. Presidential Staff Office deputy for political, legal, security and human rights affairs Jaleswari Pramowardhani insisted that the area ... <a title="Jakarta ‘regrets’ Morning Star flag protest at Melbourne consulate after video goes viral" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/06/jakarta-regrets-morning-star-flag-protest-at-melbourne-consulate-after-video-goes-viral/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta ‘regrets’ Morning Star flag protest at Melbourne consulate after video goes viral">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
PODCAST: Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning present A View from Afar. This week we discuss: How around the world, in international relations, we see examples of strategic hedging, miscalculation, escalation, reputation, and face-saving. Two of the most current examples of this are happening in the Middle East – after the killing of Iran’s leading ... <a title="PODCAST: Iran Assassination & China V Australia Examples of a Deterioration of International Relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/podcast-iran-assassination-china-v-australia-examples-of-a-deterioration-of-international-relations/" aria-label="Read more about PODCAST: Iran Assassination & China V Australia Examples of a Deterioration of International Relations">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2020
VIDEO: Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning present A View from Afar. This week we discuss: How around the world, in international relations, we see examples of strategic hedging, miscalculation, escalation, reputation, and face-saving. Two of the most current examples of this are happening in the Middle East – after the killing of Iran’s leading nuclear ... <a title="VIDEO: Paul G. Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss: Iran & Australia Targets of a Deterioration of International Relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/03/live-video-paul-g-buchanan-selwyn-manning-discuss-iran-australia-targets-of-a-deterioration-of-international-relations/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Paul G. Buchanan + Selwyn Manning Discuss: Iran & Australia Targets of a Deterioration of International Relations">Read more</a>
