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September 19, 2019
Op-Ed by Luis Alfonso de Alba – UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Climate Action Summit Climate change is not a far-away problem– it is causing huge damage right now in Asia-Pacific and around the world. From air pollution choking many major cities, to more extreme heat and natural disasters, to one million species at ... <a title="Op-Ed: Young people are right about climate change: it’s time to listen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/op-ed-young-people-are-right-about-climate-change-its-time-to-listen/" aria-label="Read more about Op-Ed: Young people are right about climate change: it’s time to listen">Read more</a>
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September 19, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Vanuatu and Solomon Islands have raised the issue of human rights abuses against West Papuans at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The two governments made a statement which also noted that Indonesia had not yet given access to Papua for the UN Human Rights Commissioner. The statement was delivered at ... <a title="Vanuatu and Solomons raise Papua at UN rights council" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/19/vanuatu-and-solomons-raise-papua-at-un-rights-council/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu and Solomons raise Papua at UN rights council">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Xie, Scientia PhD Scholar, School of Psychology, UNSW This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. This Friday in the lead-up to the United Nations climate summit, children and adults ... <a title="Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/18/why-attending-a-climate-strike-can-change-minds-most-importantly-your-own-122862/" aria-label="Read more about Why attending a climate strike can change minds (most importantly your own)">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed. But the reality ... <a title="The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/the-gloves-are-off-predatory-climate-deniers-are-a-threat-to-our-children-123594/" aria-label="Read more about The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2019
The National Party is in trouble again for its Facebook advertising campaigning. Late last week, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) ruled against one of the party’s social media ads targeting the Government’s vehicle efficiency feebate scheme. The authority ruled it was “likely to confuse or deceive consumers”. The ad had claimed that the feebate scheme ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Electioneering on Facebook under scrutiny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/16/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-electioneering-on-facebook-under-scrutiny/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Electioneering on Facebook under scrutiny">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy, Academic Director of the US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s official visit to Washington this week carries some prestige. It is just the second “official visit” (including a state dinner) by a foreign ... <a title="As Scott Morrison heads to Washington, the US-Australia alliance is unlikely to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/16/as-scott-morrison-heads-to-washington-the-us-australia-alliance-is-unlikely-to-change-121930/" aria-label="Read more about As Scott Morrison heads to Washington, the US-Australia alliance is unlikely to change">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
By Michael Andrew Members of the Pacific media have paid tribute to the late Tongan Prime Minster ‘Akilisi Pohiva, who died in New Zealand earlier this week. An enduring symbol of democracy in Tonga and the Pacific, Pohiva died at Auckland hospital after a long struggle with various health problems. “He fought for many years ... <a title="Media associates pay tribute to ‘Akilisi Pohiva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/media-associates-pay-tribute-to-akilisi-pohiva/" aria-label="Read more about Media associates pay tribute to ‘Akilisi Pohiva">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Its increasingly looking as if the Beehive has been involved in some sort of “cover-up” of sexual assault allegations in the Labour Party. For that reason, it’s almost inevitable that further heads will roll – it’s just a question of whose. The Prime Minister herself is under immense pressure ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Claims of a #MeTooLabour “cover-up” in the Beehive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-claims-of-a-metoolabour-cover-up-in-the-beehive/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Claims of a #MeTooLabour “cover-up” in the Beehive">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW The attention being given to possible covert influence being exercised by China in Australia shouldn’t distract us from recognising that very overt foreign influence now occurs through investment. Read more: Inside China’s vast influence network – how it works, ... <a title="Worried about agents of foreign influence? Just look at who owns Australia’s biggest companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/worried-about-agents-of-foreign-influence-just-look-at-who-owns-australias-biggest-companies-123343/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about agents of foreign influence? Just look at who owns Australia’s biggest companies">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – The integrity of Jacinda Ardern and the Labour Party is currently under question, following revelations about how allegations of sexual assault in Labour have been handled by the party. Party president, Nigel Haworth, has now resigned over the matter, but this is unlikely to resolve unanswered questions. Critics allege ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s #MeTooLabour problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-jacinda-arderns-metoolabour-problem/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Jacinda Ardern’s #MeTooLabour problem">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
OPINION: By Michael Andrew of Pacific Media Watch For the past three weeks, a wave of violent protest has been spreading across West Papua and Indonesia. Sparked by a racist attack on West Papuan students, the protests have featured the burning of government buildings, 6000 troops mobilised, an internet blackout, marauding, snake-wielding militias stabbing ... <a title="Michael Andrew: The NZ media’s coverage of the West Papua protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/michael-andrew-the-nz-medias-coverage-of-the-west-papua-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Michael Andrew: The NZ media’s coverage of the West Papua protests">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Rennie, Lecturer in Politics, University of Melbourne Recent jobs taken by former senior ministers Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne have brought on ire of the Australian Senate, which is now concluding an inquiry into the matter. The testimony before the inquiry has been extraordinary: not just ... <a title="Australia’s political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/australias-political-lobbying-regime-is-broken-and-needs-urgent-reform-123003/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform">Read more</a>
