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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ana Manero, Research Fellow, Australian National University Recent flooding in the Sydney Basin pushed thousands from their homes and left others facing enormous insurance costs. These events show how traumatic and costly it can be to live in areas vulnerable to disaster. Too often, socio-economically disadvantaged populations ... <a title="How the water and sewage under your feet could end up flooding your home (and what to do about it)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/how-the-water-and-sewage-under-your-feet-could-end-up-flooding-your-home-and-what-to-do-about-it-158527/" aria-label="Read more about How the water and sewage under your feet could end up flooding your home (and what to do about it)">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Fiji has dropped three places in the latest Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index and been condemned for its treatment of “overly critical” journalists who are often subjected to intimidation or even imprisonment. The Paris-based global media freedom watchdog has criticised many governments in the Asia-Pacific region for censorship and ... <a title="Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/fiji-drops-three-places-in-rsf-press-freedom-index-over-gagging-critics/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji drops three places in RSF press freedom index over gagging critics">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Reporters Without Borders The Asia-Pacific region’s authoritarian regimes have used the covid-19 pandemic to perfect their methods of totalitarian control of information, while the “dictatorial democracies” have used it as a pretext for imposing especially repressive legislation with provisions combining propaganda and suppression of dissent. The behaviour of the region’s few real democracies have, meanwhile, ... <a title="RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/rsf-2021-index-censorship-and-the-disinformation-virus-hits-asia-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about RSF 2021 Index: Censorship and the disinformation virus hits Asia-Pacific">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Chinese President Xi Jinping’s muscular speech to the Boao Forum Asia annual conference was clearly designed to send a signal to the United States that China regarded the change of administration as an opportunity for a renewed dialogue on contentious ... <a title="Xi Jinping sends message to US on China’s rising power in Boao address" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/xi-jinping-sends-message-to-us-on-chinas-rising-power-in-boao-address-159324/" aria-label="Read more about Xi Jinping sends message to US on China’s rising power in Boao address">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Steyn, Research assistant, University of Auckland With the opening of a quarantine-free travel corridor between New Zealand and Australia this week, it’s easy to forget COVID-19 is still spreading globally, faster than ever, with more than three million deaths recorded worldwide. Within a day of the ... <a title="Why strict border control remains crucial if we want to keep the travel bubble safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/why-strict-border-control-remains-crucial-if-we-want-to-keep-the-travel-bubble-safe-159325/" aria-label="Read more about Why strict border control remains crucial if we want to keep the travel bubble safe">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Ihumātao unlawful government spend Henry Cooke (Stuff): Auditor-General rules the $29.9m the Government used to buy Ihumātao was unlawfully spent Tova O’Brien ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 21 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-21-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 21 2021">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Mintrom, Professor, Monash University On Monday, Scott Morrison announced a royal commission into veteran suicides — the fourth royal commission set up under his prime ministership. But while Morrison says he hopes this will be a “healing process” and it comes after sustained community lobbying, we ... <a title="We studied 50 years of royal commissions — here’s how they make a difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/we-studied-50-years-of-royal-commissions-heres-how-they-make-a-difference-159231/" aria-label="Read more about We studied 50 years of royal commissions — here’s how they make a difference">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University On Monday, Victorian health authorities released figures showing they’d received 389 reports of “gastro” outbreaks so far in 2021. The health department said this was four times higher than the average. There are many different types ... <a title="Victorian gastro outbreak: how does it spread, and how can we stop it? A gastroenterologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/victorian-gastro-outbreak-how-does-it-spread-and-how-can-we-stop-it-a-gastroenterologist-explains-159329/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian gastro outbreak: how does it spread, and how can we stop it? A gastroenterologist explains">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pauline Lenancker, Research scientist, James Cook University The invasive ant world is a competitive one, rife with territorial battles and colony raids. And yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes), one of the world’s worst invasive species, have an especially interesting trait: they’re the only invasive ant known to ... <a title="Tiny Game of Thrones: the workers of yellow crazy ants can act like lazy wannabe queens. So we watched them fight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/tiny-game-of-thrones-the-workers-of-yellow-crazy-ants-can-act-like-lazy-wannabe-queens-so-we-watched-them-fight-158426/" aria-label="Read more about Tiny Game of Thrones: the workers of yellow crazy ants can act like lazy wannabe queens. So we watched them fight">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romain Fathi, Senior Lecturer, History, Flinders University The number of Australians attending Anzac Day dawn services has fallen by about 70% between 2015 — the centenary of the Anzacs’ landing at Gallipoli — and 2019. Last year, Anzac Day dawn services were cancelled due to COVID-19, but ... <a title="Crowds at dawn services have plummeted in recent years. It’s time to reinvent Anzac Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/crowds-at-dawn-services-have-plummeted-in-recent-years-its-time-to-reinvent-anzac-day-157313/" aria-label="Read more about Crowds at dawn services have plummeted in recent years. It’s time to reinvent Anzac Day">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced next month’s budget will include a further $539.2 million government investment in new clean hydrogen and carbon capture, use and storage projects. This comes ahead of this week’s summit on climate convened by US ... <a title="Hydrogen and carbon capture receive extra funding, as Morrison prepares for Biden summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/21/hydrogen-and-carbon-capture-receive-extra-funding-as-morrison-prepares-for-biden-summit-159361/" aria-label="Read more about Hydrogen and carbon capture receive extra funding, as Morrison prepares for Biden summit">Read more</a>
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April 20, 2021
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Fiji Health Ministry’s Permanent Secretary Dr James Fong says the breach at the quarantine facility in Nadi was an incident waiting to happen. He was reported saying this by Fiji Village News as reports of random announcements of new cases were being made with journalists citing 10 active cases in Fiji. ... <a title="Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new cases cited" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/04/20/fiji-breach-at-quarantine-an-incident-waiting-to-happen-as-new-cases-cited/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji breach at quarantine ‘an incident waiting to happen’ as new cases cited">Read more</a>
