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May 21, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Seven more people have been detained in Indonesia for alleged treason since a complaint filed with the United Nations last month, says the human rights watchdog TAPOL. The complaint was submitted to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and UN Special Rapporteurs by Jennifer Robinson and Veronica Koman with the support ... <a title="Indonesia detains seven more people for treason, says TAPOL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/indonesia-detains-seven-more-people-for-treason-says-tapol/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia detains seven more people for treason, says TAPOL">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The chart above shows how a spending pie-chart may differ for a closed economy, compared to its income chart. For this example, the government sector has a financial deficit (ie a budget deficit) while the household sector has a financial surplus. In this case the government sector slice is 30% of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income, Spending and Debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-national-income-spending-and-debt/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – National Income, Spending and Debt">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices A book excerpt published by The Guardian narrates the survival of six shipwrecked Tongan boys on an island for 15 months in 1965. The story received more than seven million hits in just four days, but some Tongans have pointed out that the story, which foregrounds the point of ... <a title="Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/wheres-the-pacific-voice-in-the-viral-real-lord-of-the-flies-story/" aria-label="Read more about Where’s the Pacific voice in the viral ‘real Lord of the Flies’ story?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
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 National Party leadership Luke Malpass and Henry Cooke (Stuff): Simon Bridges vs Todd Muller: It’s all about the big W for National Ben Thomas (Spinoff): The National Party coup has gone public. Can ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 21 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-21-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 21 2020">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University No other event in our lifetimes has brought such sudden, drastic loss to Australia’s biodiversity as the last bushfire season. Governments, researchers and conservationists have committed to the long road to recovery. But in those vast burnt landscapes, where ... <a title="After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here’s how we did it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/after-the-bushfires-we-helped-choose-the-animals-and-plants-in-most-need-heres-how-we-did-it-138736/" aria-label="Read more about After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here’s how we did it">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ishita Chatterjee, PhD Candidate, Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne Informal settlements are experiencing a greater surge in COVID-19 cases than other urban neighbourhoods in Mumbai, India. Their high density, narrow streets, tight internal spaces, poor access to water and sanitation leave residents highly vulnerable to ... <a title="How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/how-mumbais-poorest-neighbourhood-is-battling-to-keep-coronavirus-at-bay-137504/" aria-label="Read more about How Mumbai’s poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Morrison government’s changes to welfare payments were among its most significant responses to the coronavirus crisis. In April, the new Coronavirus Supplement roughly doubled the level of benefits for unemployed people on the JobSeeker Payment ... <a title="When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/when-the-coronavirus-supplement-stops-jobseeker-needs-to-increase-by-185-a-week-138417/" aria-label="Read more about When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Chesters, Senior Lecturer/ Research Fellow, University of Melbourne It is well-established that recessions hit young people the hardest. We saw it in our early 1980s recession, our early 1990s recession, and in the one we are now entering. The latest payroll data shows that for most ... <a title="Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/recessions-scar-young-people-their-entire-lives-even-into-retirement-137236/" aria-label="Read more about Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Griffith University While discontent at the federal government’s lack of support for the cultural sector during the coronavirus epidemic continues to grow, the few people still in jobs are readying for the optimistically termed “recovery period”. Physical access to arts events ... <a title="Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/home-of-the-arts-inside-an-arts-centre-keeping-body-and-soul-together-138801/" aria-label="Read more about Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ipek Kurtböke, Senior Lecturer, Environmental Microbiology, University of the Sunshine Coast Qantas has unveiled a range of precautions to guard passengers against COVID-19. The safety measures expected to be rolled out on June 12 include contactless check-in, hand sanitiser at departure gates, and optional masks and sanitising ... <a title="Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here’s how they can clean up their act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/21/plane-cabins-are-havens-for-germs-heres-how-they-can-clean-up-their-act-134552/" aria-label="Read more about Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here’s how they can clean up their act">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
By RNZ Pacific The governor of Papua New Guinea’s West Sepik province says people are still defying the official border closure and crossing into Indonesia. Vanimo, the capital of PNG’s West Sepik province, a gateway into Indonesia’s Papua Province and its capital Jayapura Papua New Guinea closed its border with the neighbouring country three months ... <a title="People still slipping across Indonesian border, says PNG governor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/people-still-slipping-across-indonesian-border-says-png-governor/" aria-label="Read more about People still slipping across Indonesian border, says PNG governor">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahmoud Elkhodr, Lecturer in Information and Communication Technologies, CQUniversity Australia New Zealanders finally have access to the government’s new tracing app to help people monitor their movements as lockdown continues to ease. As businesses can now open, the NZ COVID Tracer app allows people to keep a ... <a title="New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tracer app won’t help open a ‘travel bubble’ with Australia anytime soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/20/new-zealands-covid-19-tracer-app-wont-help-open-a-travel-bubble-with-australia-anytime-soon-139026/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s COVID-19 Tracer app won’t help open a ‘travel bubble’ with Australia anytime soon">Read more</a>
