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July 17, 2021
RNZ Pacific Susana Lei’ataua has been appointed news editor of RNZ Pacific. She will join RNZ Pacific officially in August and brings a wealth of experience, having worked both in New Zealand and overseas. Of Samoan and Palagi descent, Lei’ataua is no stranger to the RNZ Pacific family. She was first employed by RNZ as ... <a title="Susana Lei’ataua named as RNZ Pacific’s new news editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/susana-leiataua-named-as-rnz-pacifics-new-news-editor/" aria-label="Read more about Susana Lei’ataua named as RNZ Pacific’s new news editor">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
RNZ Pacific Fiji has recorded a daily record 1405 new cases of covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8am on Friday. That compares to 1220 cases and 10 deaths in the previous 24-hour period. The government also confirmed six more deaths last night, taking the death toll to 80 – 78 of these from the ... <a title="Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/covid-19-infections-and-deaths-soar-in-fiji-total-now-80/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 infections and deaths soar in Fiji – total now 80">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordana Silverstein, Historian, The University of Melbourne AAP/AP This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the 20th century, and ... <a title="How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish state" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/how-golda-meir-israels-iron-lady-helped-establish-an-independent-jewish-state-156374/" aria-label="Read more about How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish state">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordana Silverstein, Historian, The University of Melbourne AAP/AP This piece is part of a new series in collaboration with the ABC’s Saturday Extra program. Each week, the show will have a “who am I” quiz for listeners about influential figures who helped shape the 20th century, and ... <a title="How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish homeland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/how-golda-meir-israels-iron-lady-helped-establish-an-independent-jewish-homeland-156374/" aria-label="Read more about How Golda Meir, Israel’s ‘Iron Lady’, helped establish an independent Jewish homeland">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
By Jean-Pierre Viatge in Pape’ete Fifteen days after Tahiti Nui’s anti-nuclear protest on July 2, the Tavini Huiraatira party has organised a march Mā’ohi Lives Matter this weekend with support from the Mā’ohi Protestant Church, Association 193 and Moruroa e Tatou. Former territorial president of Tahiti and pro-independence leader Oscar Temaru has called for an ... <a title="Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/temaru-calls-for-massive-turnout-for-maohi-lives-matter-nuclear-free-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Temaru calls for massive turnout for Mā’ohi Lives Matter nuclear-free rally">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
By Josefa Babitu in Suva If it was not for his friend who broke into his home after he was gasping for air, Antonio Ratuvili would be among dozens of Fijians who have died from covid-19 this year. Ratuvili was “grey-faced spectra, gasping for every breath, and in a thoroughly confused state” on his deathbed ... <a title="How Fiji’s Antonio escaped death from ‘normal flu’ that was actually covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/how-fijis-antonio-escaped-death-from-normal-flu-that-was-actually-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about How Fiji’s Antonio escaped death from ‘normal flu’ that was actually covid-19">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk On 10 July 1985 the Greenpeace flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, was sunk at an Auckland wharf. Two French secret agents planted two limpet mines on the ship while it was berthed at Marsden wharf. The second explosion killed Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira when he got trapped on board while retrieving his cameras. ... <a title="Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/case-017-rnz-podcast-the-bombing-of-the-rainbow-warrior/" aria-label="Read more about Case #017 RNZ podcast – The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2021
RNZ News Groundswell NZ organised the “Howl of a Protest” in more than 40 towns and cities across New Zealand over recent environmental regulations, the “ute tax” and a Pacific seasonal worker shortage. Co-founder Laurie Paterson said the “ute tax” was the issue people pointed the finger at, but farmers were also unhappy with the ... <a title="NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/17/nz-farmers-in-tractor-protest-against-environmental-ute-tax-rules/" aria-label="Read more about NZ farmers in tractor protest against environmental ‘ute tax’ rules">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Lim, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University The forty-spotted pardalote is one of Australia’s rarest birds Shutterstock It’s no secret the world’s wildlife is in dire straits. New data shows a heatwave in the Pacific Northwest killed more than 1 billion sea creatures in June, ... <a title="Repeating mistakes: why the plan to protect the world’s wildlife falls short" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/16/repeating-mistakes-why-the-plan-to-protect-the-worlds-wildlife-falls-short-164497/" aria-label="Read more about Repeating mistakes: why the plan to protect the world’s wildlife falls short">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lei Zhang, Associate Professor of Public Health, Monash University Victoria has entered a five-day lockdown to control its growing outbreak of the more infectious Delta variant. Until midnight on Tuesday restrictions mean residents are only allowed to leave home for essential reasons, can only travel five kilometres ... <a title="Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/16/victorias-5-day-lockdown-may-not-quash-delta-heres-what-our-modelling-predicts-instead-164548/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s 5-day lockdown may not quash Delta. Here’s what our modelling predicts instead">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George A. Tanewski, Professor in Accounting, Deakin University Joeahead/Shutterstock Australia’s long run of economic growth from the early 1990s to early 2020 inspired much boasting by incumbent politicians. But behind the hubris and headlines lies a less flattering story — about Australia riding a wave of dumb ... <a title="Exports and immigrants have masked Australia’s poor R&D record. Here are some simple fixes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/16/exports-and-immigrants-have-masked-australias-poor-randd-record-here-are-some-simple-fixes-164074/" aria-label="Read more about Exports and immigrants have masked Australia’s poor R&D record. Here are some simple fixes">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Shutterstock I’m puzzled as to why the planets, stars and moons are all round (when) other large and small objects such as asteroids and meteorites are irregular shapes? — Lionel Young, age 74, Launceston, Tasmania This is a fantastic ... <a title="I’ve always wondered: why are the stars, planets and moons round, when comets and asteroids aren’t?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/07/16/ive-always-wondered-why-are-the-stars-planets-and-moons-round-when-comets-and-asteroids-arent-160541/" aria-label="Read more about I’ve always wondered: why are the stars, planets and moons round, when comets and asteroids aren’t?">Read more</a>
