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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Troath, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Canterbury Getty Images Australia’s recently announced defence review, intended to be the most thorough in almost four decades, will give us a good idea of how Australia sees its role in an increasingly tense strategic environment. As New Zealand’s only formal ... <a title="Australia’s pursuit of ‘killer robots’ could put the trans-Tasman alliance with New Zealand on shaky ground" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/australias-pursuit-of-killer-robots-could-put-the-trans-tasman-alliance-with-new-zealand-on-shaky-ground-188520/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s pursuit of ‘killer robots’ could put the trans-Tasman alliance with New Zealand on shaky ground">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute The Coalition’s carpark announcements before the 2019 election are among the best-known cases of pork-barrelling Shutterstock From sports rorts to regional slush funds and commuter carparks, it’s been one scandal after another in Australian politics in recent years. But what ... <a title="Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/pork-barrelling-is-unfair-and-wasteful-heres-a-plan-to-end-it-188898/" aria-label="Read more about Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University When floods swept the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales earlier this year, scores of people ignored official advice and rescued neighbours and friends from floodwaters using their boats, kayaks and jet skis, while ... <a title="‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/tinnie-army-leads-to-nsw-flood-inquiry-call-to-train-community-members-as-first-responders-how-will-that-work-188900/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne O’Mara, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University Image by Victoria_Borodinova from Pixabay , CC BY My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow for a Book Week costume for school? Book Week is ... <a title="Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/book-week-its-not-the-costume-that-matters-but-falling-in-love-with-reading-188748/" aria-label="Read more about Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorina L. Barker, Senior Lecturer, University of New England Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Amy Elwood, a Wangkumara/Adnyamathanha Elder and cultural repository of knowledge and grandmother to one of us (Lorina Barker), has inspired an array of ... <a title="An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/an-ode-to-my-grandmother-remaking-the-past-using-oral-histories-theatre-and-music-180575/" aria-label="Read more about An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
By Rebecca Kuku of The National, PNG One of the survivors of a horrifying sorcery accusation-related violence (SARV) attack and torture of nine women in Papua New Guinea falsely accused last month of using sorcery to kill a leading businessman tells her story of survival. She does not want to be named as the situation ... <a title="‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/her-screams-pierced-our-hearts-i-knew-i-was-going-to-die-too/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Her screams pierced our hearts, I knew I was going to die too’">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese flagged at the weekend he was open to calling an inquiry into the ramifications of Scott Morrison’s power grab, as Barnaby Joyce revealed he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison for overruling a Nationals minister. Albanese on Monday ... <a title="Barnaby Joyce says he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison over resources power grab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/21/barnaby-joyce-says-he-feared-retribution-if-he-crossed-morrison-over-resources-power-grab-189112/" aria-label="Read more about Barnaby Joyce says he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison over resources power grab">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
PNG Post-Courier The Southern Highlands capital — Mendi — has turned into a battlefield in Papua New Guinea this week as supporters of different candidates for the regional seat went on a warpath. The warring parties –– believed to be supporters of the incumbent governor against the other regional candidates –– shut down the town ... <a title="Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/mendi-a-battlefield-as-disgruntled-png-election-rivals-raid-police-station/" aria-label="Read more about Mendi a battlefield as disgruntled PNG election rivals raid police station">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
IndoLeft News Indonesia’s Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy says that the presidential decree (Keppres) on the formation of a team for the non-judicial resolution of past gross human rights violations — signed recently by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo — will reinforce impunity and absolve perpetrators of past human rights violations. According to Setara Institute ... <a title="Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/jokowi-accused-of-whitewashing-rights-crimes-in-latest-impunity-decree/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi accused of whitewashing rights crimes in latest ‘impunity’ decree">Read more</a>
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August 20, 2022
RNZ Pacific Residents of Nelson in Aotearoa New Zealand’s South Island are cleaning up and counting the cost of flood damage across the region, while authorities work to fix roads, clear slips and rebuild infrastructure. More than 400 homes had to be evacuated over the past few days after the Maitai River burst its banks ... <a title="A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/20/a-river-runs-through-city-nelson-surveys-damage-and-clean-up-ahead/" aria-label="Read more about A river runs through city – Nelson surveys damage and clean-up ahead">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vita Pilkington, Research Assistant, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne With the recent sudden death of former rugby league coach and player Paul Green, conversations about the mental health of elite coaching staff are paramount. Our research in 2020, published in July this year, found more than ... <a title="More than 40% of elite sport coaches we surveyed suffered mental ill-health. They need our support, not stigma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/more-than-40-of-elite-sport-coaches-we-surveyed-suffered-mental-ill-health-they-need-our-support-not-stigma-188728/" aria-label="Read more about More than 40% of elite sport coaches we surveyed suffered mental ill-health. They need our support, not stigma">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above shows New Zealand’s aggregate weekly deaths from 2015. The normal winter experience is obvious, with 2015 to 2019 influenza peaks mainly in July and August, though in late June in 2019. New Zealand is different from most European countries in that it has significantly faster population growth. (Although ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-demography-new-zealand-in-context-of-north-and-west-europe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid Demography: New Zealand in context of North and West Europe">Read more</a>
