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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arvid O. I. Hoffmann, Professor of Marketing, University of Adelaide About half the states in the United States have introduced so-called universal demand laws that make it harder for aggrieved shareholders to sue company directors and hold managers personally liable for decisions that have harmed the company. ... <a title="Sue me, if you can. How laws that prevent directors being sued make firms less likely to recall potentially dangerous products" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/sue-me-if-you-can-how-laws-that-prevent-directors-being-sued-make-firms-less-likely-to-recall-potentially-dangerous-products-224360/" aria-label="Read more about Sue me, if you can. How laws that prevent directors being sued make firms less likely to recall potentially dangerous products">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg is mulling over whether to try to make a lunge for his old Melbourne seat of Kooyong, now that new circumstances have suddenly raised his political heart rate. Friday’s draft redistribution of Victorian federal electoral boundaries have opened ... <a title="View from The Hill: Josh Frydenberg mulls political temptation after Kooyong gets new draft boundaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/view-from-the-hill-josh-frydenberg-mulls-political-temptation-after-kooyong-gets-new-draft-boundaries-231456/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Josh Frydenberg mulls political temptation after Kooyong gets new draft boundaries">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Police Commissioner David Manning has commended the coordinated efforts between police and defence intelligence units in the lead up to and during the current sitting of Parliament. Commissioner Manning said claims made over the past five months, particularly on social media, had led to heightened public awareness of safety during ... <a title="PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/pngs-police-and-defence-force-close-ranks-to-foil-opportunist-crimes/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s police and defence force close ranks to foil ‘opportunist crimes’">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2024
By Alana Musselle of Te Waha Nui Cook Islands News, the national newspaper for the Cook Islands, is one of many Pacific news media agencies expecting change in the face of New Zealand’s NewsHub closure next month. The organisation has content-sharing agreements with traditional NZ media organisations including Stuff, New Zealand Herald, RNZ and TVNZ, ... <a title="Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/02/newshub-closures-creating-waves-of-change-across-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Newshub closures: creating waves of change across the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Cook Islands Prime Minister and Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) chair Mark Brown has written to the president of the government of New Caledonia to offer support in finding a way forward. Brown said the political situation in the French territory — which is a full member of the PIF ... <a title="‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/france-has-caused-this-crisis-pacific-islands-forum-offers-support-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France has caused this crisis’ – Pacific Islands Forum offers support to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University In the week leading up to the conviction delivered in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday, right-wing media was focused on Donald Trump’s innocence. Hosts of the popular podcast “Timcast IRL”, which scored an ... <a title="What Donald Trump’s fiery reaction to his conviction says about this moment in US politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/what-donald-trumps-fiery-reaction-to-his-conviction-says-about-this-moment-in-us-politics-231381/" aria-label="Read more about What Donald Trump’s fiery reaction to his conviction says about this moment in US politics">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
RNZ Pacific New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters says “calm wise heads” are needed to sort out the crisis in New Caledonia. A security force of more than 3000 personnel — more than half of them flown in from France — have returned to the capital Nouméa of the French territory to restore a sense ... <a title="NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/nz-foreign-minister-peters-calls-for-calm-wise-heads-in-new-caledonia-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about NZ foreign minister Peters calls for ‘calm wise heads’ in New Caledonia crisis">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape visited Wabag, the capital of Enga province, to meet authorities before flying to the site of last week’s landslide disaster to inspect the damage up close. Tribal violence between two clans in Tambitanis is still active, reportedly leading to 12 deaths ... <a title="12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/01/12-reportedly-dead-after-tribal-clashes-near-png-landslide-in-enga/" aria-label="Read more about 12 reportedly dead after tribal clashes near PNG landslide in Enga">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was often said of the former Morrison government that it found parliamentary sittings particularly fraught. The same has become true of its successor. Labor has had a very ragged sitting week, and there are several more weeks to go ... <a title="View from The Hill: parliamentary sittings have become as painful for Albanese as they were for Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/view-from-the-hill-parliamentary-sittings-have-become-as-painful-for-albanese-as-they-were-for-morrison-231395/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: parliamentary sittings have become as painful for Albanese as they were for Morrison">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Chen, Senior Lecturer, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Shutterstock This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights reported on its Inquiry into Australia’s Human Rights Framework. By majority, it recommended the federal government introduce an Australian Human Rights Act. This represents a generational milestone to ... <a title="Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/report-finds-clear-need-for-an-australian-human-rights-act-what-difference-would-it-make-231376/" aria-label="Read more about Report finds ‘clear need’ for an Australian Human Rights Act. What difference would it make?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Hanna, Honorary Associate Professor in Environmental Health, Australian National University Delhi is reeling from the most extreme heatwave India has ever seen. While the record-breaking maximum recorded temperature of 52.9°C has been called into question by India’s Meteorological Department, it’s entirely possible. The city has been ... <a title="The Delhi heatwave is testing the limits of human endurance. Other hot countries should beware and prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/the-delhi-heatwave-is-testing-the-limits-of-human-endurance-other-hot-countries-should-beware-and-prepare-230866/" aria-label="Read more about The Delhi heatwave is testing the limits of human endurance. Other hot countries should beware and prepare">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Jotzo, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University Love Silhouette/Shutterstock To support its climate agenda, the Albanese government is building new institutions. One of the most important will be the Net Zero Economy ... <a title="Why do we need a Net Zero Economy Authority? And how can it fulfil its promise?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/why-do-we-need-a-net-zero-economy-authority-and-how-can-it-fulfil-its-promise-228408/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we need a Net Zero Economy Authority? And how can it fulfil its promise?">Read more</a>
