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December 7, 2021
SPECIAL REPORT: By Michael Field, co-editor of The Pacific Newsroom Extensive damage to food crops across South Pacific atolls has followed three days of high spring tides in the region. Reports into The Pacific Newsroom show the tides have afflicted Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Solomon Islands and the archipelago islands of Papua New ... <a title="Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/tidal-damage-cuts-swathe-across-wide-area-of-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Tidal damage cuts swathe across wide area of Pacific">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
By Robert Iroga in Honiara After a day of political showdown that at times involved shouting battles and personal clashes, the much anticipated motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare was defeated by 32 votes to 15 with two abstentions. With the capital city Honiara virtually closed for business yesterday, attention turned to ... <a title="Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/solomon-islands-political-battle-ends-with-sogavare-winning-confidence-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands political battle ends with Sogavare winning confidence vote">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
RNZ Pacific Health authorities in Fiji have confirmed two people who had arrived in the country from southern Africa last month have now tested positive to the omicron variant of covid-19. The pair travelled to Fiji from Nigeria on November 25. They both tested positive to covid-19 while in a border quarantine facility. Health Secretary ... <a title="Two Fijians from Nigeria test positive for omicron variant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/two-fijians-from-nigeria-test-positive-for-omicron-variant/" aria-label="Read more about Two Fijians from Nigeria test positive for omicron variant">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Handley, Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University The eruption of Mount Semeru in Indonesia on Saturday tragically claimed the lives of 22 people, with another 22 still missing and 56 injured. More than 5,000 people have been affected by the eruption, and more than 2,000 people have ... <a title="Mount Semeru’s deadly eruption was triggered by rain and storms, making it much harder to predict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/mount-semerus-deadly-eruption-was-triggered-by-rain-and-storms-making-it-much-harder-to-predict-173240/" aria-label="Read more about Mount Semeru’s deadly eruption was triggered by rain and storms, making it much harder to predict">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sonya Suares, Guest Lecturer, WAAPA, Edith Cowan University Global Creatures/ Michelle Grace Hunder Review: Moulin Rouge! The Musical Someone wise once observed that theatre is the only artform to acknowledge its audience, and that’s why it will never die. As patrons press eagerly into Melbourne’s Regent Theatre, ... <a title="Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a spectacular feast for the senses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/moulin-rouge-the-musical-is-a-spectacular-feast-for-the-senses-172866/" aria-label="Read more about Moulin Rouge! The Musical is a spectacular feast for the senses">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Andrew Harnik/AP Last week, the US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that is the most significant threat to abortion rights in the US in decades. The case, Dobbs ... <a title="Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/will-roe-v-wade-be-overturned-and-what-would-this-mean-the-us-abortion-debate-explained-173156/" aria-label="Read more about Will Roe v Wade be overturned, and what would this mean? The US abortion debate explained">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Swanson, PhD Student, University of Otago Conservative and liberal: new National Party leader Christopher Luxon with deputy leader Nicola Willis. GettyImages Christopher Luxon’s ascendancy to the National Party leadership has highlighted – once again – the precarious balance between the party’s liberal and conservative wings. So ... <a title="History made the National Party a ‘broad church’ – can it hold in the MMP era?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/history-made-the-national-party-a-broad-church-can-it-hold-in-the-mmp-era-173319/" aria-label="Read more about History made the National Party a ‘broad church’ – can it hold in the MMP era?">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
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 National Party reshuffle, leadership change Audrey Young (Herald): Luxon’s best MPs vs Ardern’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-07-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2021">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Finance Minister Grant Robertson with his 2021 Budget, which signalled an unemployment insurance scheme was coming. GettyImages When Minister of Finance Grant Robertson announced in this year’s budget that his ... <a title="NZ’s unemployment insurance scheme will be the biggest welfare shakeup in generations – is it justified?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/nzs-unemployment-insurance-scheme-will-be-the-biggest-welfare-shakeup-in-generations-is-it-justified-170710/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s unemployment insurance scheme will be the biggest welfare shakeup in generations – is it justified?">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women’s Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University Matthew Henry/Unsplash At age 35, one in four Australian women and one in three men were hoping to have a child or more children in the future. But by ... <a title="Half of women over 35 who want a child don’t end up having one, or have fewer than they planned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/half-of-women-over-35-who-want-a-child-dont-end-up-having-one-or-have-fewer-than-they-planned-173151/" aria-label="Read more about Half of women over 35 who want a child don’t end up having one, or have fewer than they planned">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diana Bogueva, Team Manager/ Adjunct Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Sydney Shutterstock Eating meat comes with an enormous environmental footprint, with food systems responsible for an estimated 34% of global emissions. And yet, in most countries, meat consumption is continuing to rise. Our new study investigated whether meat ... <a title="How much meat do we eat? New figures show 6 countries have hit their peak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/how-much-meat-do-we-eat-new-figures-show-6-countries-have-hit-their-peak-172507/" aria-label="Read more about How much meat do we eat? New figures show 6 countries have hit their peak">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Shutterstock While southern Australia experienced a wet winter and a soggy spring, northern Australia has seen the opposite. Extreme fire weather in October and November led to bushfires across 120,000 square kilometres of southern savanna regions. Significant ... <a title="We are professional fire watchers, and we’re astounded by the scale of fires in remote Australia right now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/07/we-are-professional-fire-watchers-and-were-astounded-by-the-scale-of-fires-in-remote-australia-right-now-172773/" aria-label="Read more about We are professional fire watchers, and we’re astounded by the scale of fires in remote Australia right now">Read more</a>
