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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Blair Williams, Research Fellow, Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL), Australian National University Mick Tsikas/AAP This week, a new Australian political biography will appear on bookshelves. This is The Accidental Prime Minister, an examination of Scott Morrison by journalist Annika Smethurst. While a prime minister makes for ... <a title="I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/i-studied-31-australian-political-biographies-published-in-the-past-decade-only-4-were-about-women-167448/" aria-label="Read more about I studied 31 Australian political biographies published in the past decade — only 4 were about women">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charith Rathnayaka, Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock Potatoes can become more brittle, apples may be harder to dehydrate, and sultanas might be off the menu altogether — these are possible outcomes of recurring and intensifying droughts under climate change in Australia. It ... <a title="Climate change is coming for your snacks: why repeated drought threatens dried fruits and veggies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/14/climate-change-is-coming-for-your-snacks-why-repeated-drought-threatens-dried-fruits-and-veggies-166826/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is coming for your snacks: why repeated drought threatens dried fruits and veggies">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea has dispatched a team of government officials to investigate a covid-19 delta variant threat in its two frontline provinces bordering Indonesia’s Papua — Western and West Sepik. Health Minister Jelta Wong has revealed this in Parliament while responding to questions without notice. Admitting the rise of ... <a title="PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/png-dispatches-investigators-to-check-out-delta-threat-on-papuan-border/" aria-label="Read more about PNG dispatches investigators to check out ‘delta threat’ on Papuan border">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Auckland will stay in covid-19 alert level 4 for another week until 11.59pm next Tuesday, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says. Cabinet has made an in principle decision that Tāmaki Makaurau will then move to alert level 3. The rest of New Zealand will remain in alert level 2 until Tuesday next week. Alert ... <a title="Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/ardern-says-auckland-to-stay-in-lockdown-for-another-week/" aria-label="Read more about Ardern says Auckland to stay in lockdown for another week">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
COMMENTARY: By Jason Brown in Auckland Twenty years ago, I was on a plane from Rarotonga to Auckland. Lovely flight, with a path at the end I had never experienced before. Almost from the tip of the North Island, down to Tamaki Makaurau — the rising sun bathing the hills and coastline in rich, almost ... <a title="Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/jason-brown-9-11-and-a-mango-dawn-and-heres-to-the-end-of-being-pacific-pawns/" aria-label="Read more about Jason Brown: 9/11 and a mango dawn – and here’s to the end of being Pacific pawns">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk A Pasifika local government politician in New Zealand, the first from Kiribati to be elected to political office, has appealed to “Pasifika friends and family” to get vaccinated now as part of the national covid rollout. Victoria Short, deputy chair of Auckland’s Hibiscus and Bays Local Board, says not to wait. ... <a title="Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/plea-to-pasifika-friends-and-family-community-to-get-covid-shots/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to Pasifika ‘friends and family’, community to get covid shots">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva Nauru president Lionel Aingimea has accused Fiji of being “divisive” over its refusal to pay its share of funding for the 12-nation regional University of the South Pacific, saying the institution needs every member country to pay their contribution. Aingimea said all Pacific island country members of USP were present ... <a title="Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nauru-president-aingimea-accuses-fiji-of-being-divisive-over-usp-funding/" aria-label="Read more about Nauru president Aingimea accuses Fiji of being ‘divisive’ over USP funding">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
RNZ News Covid-19 numbers dropped slightly today to 20 new community cases, while Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced a deal with Denmark to bring 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine to this country. The number of new delta variant community cases in New Zealand dropped back to 20 cases from yesterday’s 23, which was the ... <a title="NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/nzs-covid-19-numbers-drop-to-20-new-cases-new-vaccine-deal/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s covid-19 numbers drop to 20 new cases – new vaccine deal">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
This Tonga Language Week, Pacific Media Network asked several people how they are celebrating being Tongan. PMN news journalist Khalia Strong shares her story. “Grandma, can I say I’m ‘afakasi?” I’m in the kitchen of my grandmother’s home on the North Shore, preparing for a video journalism piece on the Tongan tau’olunga. “No, you’re palagi”, she ... <a title="Khalia Strong: Confessions of a ‘token’ Tongan – the rest is up to you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/khalia-strong-confessions-of-a-token-tongan-the-rest-is-up-to-you/" aria-label="Read more about Khalia Strong: Confessions of a ‘token’ Tongan – the rest is up to you">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Olds, Professor of Health Sciences, University of South Australia Shutterstock For most of our lives, the rhythms of our days are governed by crystallised routines: we get up, have breakfast, go to school or work, have lunch, dinner, watch TV, go to bed. For families, weekly ... <a title="Kids’ fitness is at risk while they miss sport and hobbies — but mums are getting more physical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/kids-fitness-is-at-risk-while-they-miss-sport-and-hobbies-but-mums-are-getting-more-physical-167433/" aria-label="Read more about Kids’ fitness is at risk while they miss sport and hobbies — but mums are getting more physical">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Egliston, Postdoctoral research fellow, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Facebook/AP In partnership with eyewear brand Ray-Ban, Facebook has released its first pair of smart glasses, offering wearers the ability to capture photos and videos without even needing to pull out their phone. The ... <a title="Ray-Ban Stories let you wear Facebook on your face. But why would you want to?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/ray-ban-stories-let-you-wear-facebook-on-your-face-but-why-would-you-want-to-167708/" aria-label="Read more about Ray-Ban Stories let you wear Facebook on your face. But why would you want to?">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annamarie Jagose, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University Schools, University of Sydney K.C. Bailey/Netflix Our writers nominate the TV series keeping them entertained during a time of COVID. Those who, like us, grew up gay in the era before narrow-cast ... <a title="How we fell for Master of None and its queer retelling of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/09/13/how-we-fell-for-master-of-none-and-its-queer-retelling-of-ingmar-bergmans-scenes-from-a-marriage-166964/" aria-label="Read more about How we fell for Master of None and its queer retelling of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage">Read more</a>
