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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland IMDB The dark side of films has always had a strong relationship with the light side. Mixing comedy with horror often ensured a hit even in the early days of cinema –comedian Harold Lloyd was ... <a title="30 years since The Addams Family hit the big screen, it is still the perfect blend of horror and comedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/30-years-since-the-addams-family-hit-the-big-screen-it-is-still-the-perfect-blend-of-horror-and-comedy-172042/" aria-label="Read more about 30 years since The Addams Family hit the big screen, it is still the perfect blend of horror and comedy">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk The French government’s decision to press ahead with the third and final referendum vote for self-determination in Kanaky New Caledonia was “unjust and unfair” for the Indigenous Kanak people, says a coalition of nine pan-Pacific civil society groups. The groups have also accused the French state of “colonial manoeuvring in the ... <a title="Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/pacific-civil-society-groups-slam-new-caledonia-ballot-as-unjust-unfair/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific civil society groups slam New Caledonia ballot as ‘unjust … unfair’">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Thursday’s budget update will forecast one million jobs will be created over the next four years and unemployment will fall to 4.25% by June 2023. In an upbeat economic assessment, the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook will estimate that more ... <a title="Budget update forecasts unemployment falling to 4.25% by mid-2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/budget-update-forecasts-unemployment-falling-to-4-25-by-mid-2023-173851/" aria-label="Read more about Budget update forecasts unemployment falling to 4.25% by mid-2023">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
Kaniva News Tonga’s Parliament has elected a new prime minister to replace Dr Pōhiva Tu’i’onetoa. Siaosi Sovaleni, 51, the current Minister of Education, has won convincingly with 16 votes, against former Minister of Finance and MP Dr ‘Aisake Eke, who got 10 votes. The Interim Speaker, Lord Tangi, announced the results this afternoon after he ... <a title="Education minister Sovaleni elected as Tonga’s new prime minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/education-minister-sovaleni-elected-as-tongas-new-prime-minister/" aria-label="Read more about Education minister Sovaleni elected as Tonga’s new prime minister">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ Pacific A leftwing candidate in the French presidential race, Jean-Luc Melenchon, says the outcome of New Caledonia’s independence referendum is a catastrophe. He held a news conference after several leading French politicians welcomed Sunday’s overwhelming rejection of independence, with just 3.5 percent voting for it. Melenchon, leader of the France Unbowed (La France Insoumise) ... <a title="France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/frances-new-caledonia-policy-labelled-a-catastrophe-by-left-leader/" aria-label="Read more about France’s New Caledonia policy labelled a ‘catastrophe’ by left leader">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
RNZ News Aucklanders are travelling out of New Zealand’s largest city today as the border around Tāmaki Makaurau opens for the first time in 120 days. Police said traffic was flowing freely early this morning. Waka Kotahi and the police removed checkpoints to the north and south of the region since the midnight change in ... <a title="Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/auckland-lockdown-boundary-lifts-as-thousands-make-exodus/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland lockdown boundary lifts as thousands make exodus">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2021
By Marjorie Finkeo in Port Moresby Hundreds of settlers from the controversial Garden Hills settlement along Waigani Drive in Papua New Guinea’s National Capital District (NCD) have been thrown out of their homes after a court order enforced by police. Their homes on church-owned land were razed by bulldozers yesterday. Policemen deployed at the eviction ... <a title="Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/16/garden-hills-squatters-evicted-in-port-moresby-crackdown-on-church-land/" aria-label="Read more about Garden Hills squatters evicted in Port Moresby crackdown on church land">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Zhang, Lecturer, Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, Macquarie University Shutterstock Many Australians have never heard of the Pension Loans Scheme, and many more assume it’s just for pensioners, which is understandable given its name. That’s why the government is poised to rename it the ... <a title="That reverse mortgage scheme the government is about to re-announce, how does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/that-reverse-mortgage-scheme-the-government-is-about-to-re-announce-how-does-it-work-171671/" aria-label="Read more about That reverse mortgage scheme the government is about to re-announce, how does it work?">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin Zhang, Lecturer, Department of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics, Macquarie University Shutterstock Many Australians have never heard of the Pension Loans Scheme, and many more assume it’s just for pensioners, which is understandable given its name. That’s why the government is reportedly poised to give it ... <a title="That reverse mortage scheme the government is about to re-announce, how does it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/that-reverse-mortage-scheme-the-government-is-about-to-re-announce-how-does-it-work-171671/" aria-label="Read more about That reverse mortage scheme the government is about to re-announce, how does it work?">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Op-Ed by United Nations Secretary General António Guterres GCC GCL. New York, December 2021 – We live in worrying times. The climate crisis, stark inequalities, bloody conflicts and human rights abuses, and the personal and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have put our world under greater stress than it has faced in my lifetime. ... <a title="OP-ED: UN Secretary General on the Tenth Review Conference on the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/op-ed-un-secretary-general-on-the-tenth-review-conference-on-the-parties-to-the-treaty-on-the-non-proliferation-of-nuclear-weapons/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: UN Secretary General on the Tenth Review Conference on the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Hine, Lecturer in Criminology, University of the Sunshine Coast Last week, it was announced police in South Wales and Gwent would be the first in the UK to deploy real-time facial recognition technology (FRT) in a mobile app. The app allows police officers to rapidly identify ... <a title="Information is key to public support for police use of facial recognition technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/information-is-key-to-public-support-for-police-use-of-facial-recognition-technology-173584/" aria-label="Read more about Information is key to public support for police use of facial recognition technology">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pat McGorry, Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Melbourne Keagan Henman/Unsplash Psychotic illnesses such as schizophrenia cause severe distress and suffering for people who experience them and for their families. All too often, these illnesses prevent those affected from completing education, starting work or keeping a job, ... <a title="Early intervention for psychosis might cost more initially but delivers a greater return on investment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/early-intervention-for-psychosis-might-cost-more-initially-but-delivers-a-greater-return-on-investment-173729/" aria-label="Read more about Early intervention for psychosis might cost more initially but delivers a greater return on investment">Read more</a>
