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February 9, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Air NZ work for Saudi Arabia military Benedict Collins (1News): Air NZ has been secretly helping Saudi Arabian military despite its role in Yemen humanitarian crisis RNZ: Air NZ apologises after revelations it helped Saudi Arabian ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 09 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-09-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 09 2021">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By The National in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has promised that the full force of the law and all resources at the Constabulary’s disposal will be used against policemen who flout the law and help criminals. Commissioner Manning’s warning followed recent threats against police detectives investigating a K286 million (NZ$105 million) ... <a title="Manning denounces threats against PNG K286m fraud probe detectives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/manning-denounces-threats-against-png-k286m-fraud-probe-detectives/" aria-label="Read more about Manning denounces threats against PNG K286m fraud probe detectives">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific There are signs Fiji’s deportation of the University of the South Pacific (USP) vice-chancellor was engineered to avoid his contract being given better security. Professor Pal Ahluwalia told RNZ Dateline Pacific that on Wednesday last week the USP chancellor, Nauru President Lionel Aingimea, had alerted the university’s governing body, the USP Council, ... <a title="Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/deportation-of-usp-academic-head-hinted-at-in-fiji-media-veiled-threat/" aria-label="Read more about Deportation of USP academic head hinted at in Fiji media veiled threat">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk The Chinese government has formally charged Australian journalist Cheng Lei with “illegally supplying state secrets overseas”, almost half a year after she was first detained, reports ABC News. Lei has been held since August last year under a form of detention that allows Chinese police to imprison and question a suspect ... <a title="China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/china-formally-charges-australian-journalist-cheng-lei-half-year-after-being-detained/" aria-label="Read more about China formally charges Australian journalist Cheng Lei – half year after being detained">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
By RNZ Pacific The Speaker of Fiji’s Parliament has rejected calls from the opposition to debate the controversial deportation of the University of the South Pacific’s vice-chancellor, Professor Pal Ahluwalia. Ratu Epeli Nailatikau ruled that an oral question from National Federation Party (NFP) leader Professor Biman Prasad, a former USP economics academic, and an adjournment ... <a title="Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/fiji-speaker-disallows-debate-on-usps-ahluwalia-deportation/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Speaker disallows debate on USP’s Ahluwalia deportation">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney We all know the queen can’t refuse assent to a bill just because she doesn’t like it. But can she secretly get a law changed, in her personal interest, before it is even introduced into parliament? The answer ... <a title="New evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-shows-how-her-majesty-wields-influence-on-legislation-154818/" aria-label="Read more about New evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Australia’s efforts to end a diplomatic deep freeze with China may not be getting anywhere fast on the surface, but there are nonetheless some signs of a potential thaw. China’s announcement it was “actively studying” joining a region-wide trade pact ... <a title="Australia has a great chance to engage in trade diplomacy with China, and it must take it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/australia-has-a-great-chance-to-engage-in-trade-diplomacy-with-china-and-it-must-take-it-154737/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has a great chance to engage in trade diplomacy with China, and it must take it">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachelle Meyer, Postdoctoral Fellow (Farm Systems Analysis), University of Melbourne Prime Minister Scott Morrison might be warming to the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, but federal Nationals leader Michael McCormack has thrown a spanner in the works by suggesting agriculture be excluded from the target. On ... <a title="Nationals’ push to carve farming from a net-zero target is misguided and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/nationals-push-to-carve-farming-from-a-net-zero-target-is-misguided-and-dangerous-154822/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals’ push to carve farming from a net-zero target is misguided and dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Crouch, Professor and Associate Dean Research, Law School, UNSW We all had hoped for a positive start to 2021, but that has not been the case for Australia’s engagement in the region. The Australian government has shown disregard for the importance of our ties with Asia ... <a title="Axing protection for national strategic languages is no way to build ties with Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/axing-protection-for-national-strategic-languages-is-no-way-to-build-ties-with-asia-154555/" aria-label="Read more about Axing protection for national strategic languages is no way to build ties with Asia">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen King, Adjunct professor, Monash University Australia and the United States have been waving through takeovers because the targets are small, something that’s usually good practice. Under Australian law takeovers are normally permitted unless they would have the effect, or be likely to have the effect, of ... <a title="Our corporate cops allowed Facebook to grow big by worrying about the wrong thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/our-corporate-cops-allowed-facebook-to-grow-big-by-worrying-about-the-wrong-thing-152190/" aria-label="Read more about Our corporate cops allowed Facebook to grow big by worrying about the wrong thing">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cecilia Leong-Salobir, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia In this series, our writers explore how food shaped Australian history – and who we are today. The first whiffs of Chinese cooking in mid-19th century Australia would have emanated from tiny huts owned by Chinese workers in ... <a title="From lurid orange sauces to refined, regional flavours: how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/from-lurid-orange-sauces-to-refined-regional-flavours-how-politics-helped-shape-chinese-food-in-australia-150283/" aria-label="Read more about From lurid orange sauces to refined, regional flavours: how politics helped shape Chinese food in Australia">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Nationals leader and Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack will have to navigate a slippery path when the Nationals begin discussing Scott Morrison’s evident desire to embrace a 2050 net-zero emissions target. Although Morrison has not adopted the target, and ... <a title="View from The Hill: Michael McCormack buffeted by Nationals climate battle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/08/view-from-the-hill-michael-mccormack-buffeted-by-nationals-climate-battle-154841/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Michael McCormack buffeted by Nationals climate battle">Read more</a>
