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January 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Australia’s leading forecasters expect the Reserve Bank to resist pressure to lift interest rates all year, despite rising interest rates overseas, much higher inflation, plunging unemployment, and financial market traders ... <a title="Top economists expect RBA to hold interest rates low in 2022, as real wages fall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/30/top-economists-expect-rba-to-hold-interest-rates-low-in-2022-as-real-wages-fall-175054/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists expect RBA to hold interest rates low in 2022, as real wages fall">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2022
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific journalist Concern is growing around low covid-19 vaccine rates in the Pacific. People in developing nations are generally missing out due to accessibility issues, a slow roll out of vaccines, difficulties getting to remote areas, a lack health of resources and misinformation resulting in vaccine hesitancy. But ChildFund director of ... <a title="Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/30/vaccine-inequity-in-the-pacific-we-need-to-support-our-neighbours/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccine inequity in the Pacific: ‘We need to support our neighbours’">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Deputy Police Commissioner Operations Anton Billie has given the green light for Papuan New Guinean police in the National Capital District to carry out a major eviction operation. Settlers who have built their homes on land at the back of the University of PNG, bordering with Gerehu stage 3B and Morata stage one ... <a title="Mass eviction back on again near UPNG as police give green light" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/mass-eviction-back-on-again-near-upng-as-police-give-green-light/" aria-label="Read more about Mass eviction back on again near UPNG as police give green light">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
RNZ Pacific Three more children have died from covid-19 in Fiji, taking the death toll since the pandemic hit the country in 2020 to 791. The Fiji government also confirmed on Wednesday that a 10-day-old infant, 8-year-old girl and 13-year-old boy are among 12 covid-19 patients who have died. There are 223 new cases in ... <a title="Covid-19: Three more children among 12 latest deaths in Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/covid-19-three-more-children-among-12-latest-deaths-in-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Three more children among 12 latest deaths in Fiji">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
RNZ Pacific Three more people have died of covid-19 in Solomon Islands raising the national tally to five. Health authorities confirmed the country’s first two deaths on Tuesday. During a media conference last night, Health Minister Dr Culwick Togamana said the government was expecting more cases in the coming days. He said community transmission was ... <a title="Covid-19: Three more deaths in Solomons as outbreak ‘overwhelms’ health staff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/covid-19-three-more-deaths-in-solomons-as-outbreak-overwhelms-health-staff/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19: Three more deaths in Solomons as outbreak ‘overwhelms’ health staff">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content 1News Kantar Public Poll 1 News: Poll: National rises, Ardern’s preferred PM result ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 28 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-28-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 28 2022">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By BJ Newton, Senior Research Fellow in Social Policy and Social Work, UNSW Getty Images We are edging closer to another anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s National Apology to the Stolen Generations on February 13. At the time of the National Apology in 2008, there were 9,070 Aboriginal and ... <a title="Reunifying First Nations families: the only way to reduce the overrepresentation of children in out-of-home care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/reunifying-first-nations-families-the-only-way-to-reduce-the-overrepresentation-of-children-in-out-of-home-care-175513/" aria-label="Read more about Reunifying First Nations families: the only way to reduce the overrepresentation of children in out-of-home care">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margie Danchin, Paediatrician at the Royal Childrens Hospital and Associate Professor and Clinician Scientist, University of Melbourne and MCRI, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Shutterstock Many parents across Australia will be COVID testing their kids at home using rapid antigen tests (RATs), as school returns across many states ... <a title="Go low, go slow: how to rapid antigen test your kid for COVID as school returns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/go-low-go-slow-how-to-rapid-antigen-test-your-kid-for-covid-as-school-returns-175615/" aria-label="Read more about Go low, go slow: how to rapid antigen test your kid for COVID as school returns">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aleasha McCallion, Strategic Projects Manager, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Shutterstock At the beginning of the pandemic, many of us opted to buy reusable fabric masks to help fight the spread of COVID – they’re better for the environment than disposables, can be locally made, and ... <a title="Have you stopped wearing reusable fabric masks? Here’s how to cut down waste without compromising your health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/have-you-stopped-wearing-reusable-fabric-masks-heres-how-to-cut-down-waste-without-compromising-your-health-175243/" aria-label="Read more about Have you stopped wearing reusable fabric masks? Here’s how to cut down waste without compromising your health">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As election year opens, Michelle Grattan speaks with Tanya Plibersek, Labor’s spokeswoman on education and women, about the opposition’s agenda in these two critical areas. Violence against women is one of our society’s most pressing and intractable issues, and front ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tanya Plibersek on parents’ role in reducing violence against women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/politics-with-michelle-grattan-tanya-plibersek-on-parents-role-in-reducing-violence-against-women-175907/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tanya Plibersek on parents’ role in reducing violence against women">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Masafumi Monden, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sydney KYDPL KYODO/AP Princess Aiko, the only child of Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, came of age last month as she turned 20. Despite her royal lineage, Aiko may never ascend to the throne. Japanese consistently tell poll ... <a title="With male imperial descendants dwindling, will Japan’s leaders finally accept a female emperor?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/with-male-imperial-descendants-dwindling-will-japans-leaders-finally-accept-a-female-emperor-174867/" aria-label="Read more about With male imperial descendants dwindling, will Japan’s leaders finally accept a female emperor?">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University Bettmann / Contributor In a few weeks’ time, a rocket launched in 2015 is expected to crash into the Moon. The fast-moving piece of space junk is the upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ... <a title="A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won’t be the first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/28/a-rogue-rocket-is-on-course-to-crash-into-the-moon-it-wont-be-the-first-175834/" aria-label="Read more about A rogue rocket is on course to crash into the Moon. It won’t be the first">Read more</a>
