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March 19, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Australia and New Zealand – plus other key donors – need to urgently step up and provide assistance to Papuan New Guinea as a covid surge continues to grow, says the human rights watchdog Amnesty International. Both Australia and New Zealand “continue to fail to support calls by around 100 countries”, ... <a title="Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/amnesty-blasts-woeful-australia-nz-aid-for-png-covid-surge-seeks-action/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty blasts ‘woeful’ Australia, NZ aid for PNG covid surge, seeks action">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
By Wanshika Kumar in Suva Reports that Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama has pulled the plug on Fiji’s draft Police Bill 2020 has raised more questions than answers and left critics puzzled. What, when, where, why, and how were pressing questions people asked as they tried to unravel how the bill was thrust into the public ... <a title="Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/fiji-draft-bill-cops-boot-pms-move-on-proposed-police-law-puzzles-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji draft bill cops boot – PM’s move on proposed police law puzzles critics">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
RNZ Pacific A Tahitian academic living in Auckland whose family and home island of Mangareva were impacted on by three decades of French nuclear weapons tests says Paris must pay for the full extent of health and other damage caused. Ena Manuireva is a doctoral candidate at Auckland University of Technology. He responds to RNZ’s ... <a title="Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/tahitian-academic-says-paris-must-pay-for-impacts-of-french-nuclear-tests/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian academic says Paris must pay for impacts of French nuclear tests">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
A pioneering indigenous activist is being farewelled today after losing a short battle with cancer. Miriama Rauhihi Ness was a member of the Polynesian Panthers and Ngā Tamatoa movements, fighting for both Māori and Pasifika rights in New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia, a founding member of the Polynesian Panthers, said Rauhihi Ness was always on the ... <a title="Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/pioneering-polynesian-panther-indigenous-rights-activist-farewelled/" aria-label="Read more about Pioneering Polynesian Panther indigenous rights activist farewelled">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Despite hopes it might be otherwise, the new round of the gender wars has become as rugged and nasty as their cousins, the culture and history wars. Triggered by two separate rape allegations, and culminating in Monday’s national march, there’s ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: The gender wars become yet another partisan battlefield" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/19/grattan-on-friday-the-gender-wars-become-yet-another-partisan-battlefield-157435/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: The gender wars become yet another partisan battlefield">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra On Monday, women across the nation marched, demanding justice, safety and equality. But the government’s response was lacklustre, with Scott Morrisona and the Minister for Women Marise Payne refusing to go outside to the crowd. Morrison later chose his words ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Zali Steggall on Monday’s march and Scott Morrison’s response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/politics-with-michelle-grattan-zali-steggall-on-mondays-march-and-scott-morrisons-response-157427/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Zali Steggall on Monday’s march and Scott Morrison’s response">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The Australian government’s offer of half-price airfares to encourage domestic tourism highlights another item of unfinished COVID policy business: when will Australia’s international borders be reopened? The border questions, such as when to remove exit controls and lift hotel quarantine ... <a title="As Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout splutters, we need transparency about when international borders might reopen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/as-australias-covid-vaccine-rollout-splutters-we-need-transparency-about-when-international-borders-might-reopen-157399/" aria-label="Read more about As Australia’s COVID vaccine rollout splutters, we need transparency about when international borders might reopen">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Erhart, Senior Lecturer, Department of Screen and Media, Flinders University, Flinders University This year, with the nomination of both Chloé Zhao and Emerald Fennell in the Academy Awards’ Best Director category — and their films in Best Picture — it seems at last the Oscars powerbrokers ... <a title="How the Oscars finally made it less lonely for women at the top of their game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/how-the-oscars-finally-made-it-less-lonely-for-women-at-the-top-of-their-game-157240/" aria-label="Read more about How the Oscars finally made it less lonely for women at the top of their game">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya M. Smith, Professor in the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution & Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University Lead is a powerful toxin. It can affect almost every organ and system in the body, and babies are extremely vulnerable to its harmful effects. ... <a title="Teeth contain detailed records of lead contamination in humans and other primates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/teeth-contain-detailed-records-of-lead-contamination-in-humans-and-other-primates-156121/" aria-label="Read more about Teeth contain detailed records of lead contamination in humans and other primates">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Former Ambassador and Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland Until this week, it did not occur to most Australians to ask themselves how our nearest neighbours in Papua New Guinea were faring with coronavirus. Our minds and screens have ... <a title="‘A dam has been breached’: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/a-dam-has-been-breached-a-covid-crisis-on-our-doorstep-shows-how-little-we-pay-attention-to-png-157323/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A dam has been breached’: a COVID crisis on our doorstep shows how little we pay attention to PNG">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catriona Bradshaw, Professor, Head of Research Translation and Head of the Genital Mycoplasma and Microbiota Group, Monash University Mycoplasma genitalium (MG) is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) with many of the hallmarks of its better-known counterpart, chlamydia. You can have MG without knowing it, or have symptoms; ... <a title="What is Mycoplasma genitalium, the common STI you’ve probably never heard of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/18/what-is-mycoplasma-genitalium-the-common-sti-youve-probably-never-heard-of-157318/" aria-label="Read more about What is Mycoplasma genitalium, the common STI you’ve probably never heard of">Read more</a>
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March 18, 2021
Paul Buchanan and host Selwyn Manning discuss this week’s revelations by Paula Penfold and the Stuff Circuit team that a New Zealand tech company (with New Zealand Government investment) has been in business with iFlytec – a Chinese company alleged to be involved with surveillance of China’s oppressed Uyghur people. ALSO, we discuss Myanmar and the disturbing reality that Myanmar's military has overthrown once again the democratically elected government.
