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May 12, 2024
PNG Post-Courier New Zealand High Commissioner Peter Zwart and PNG Defence Minister Dr Billy Joseph welcomed a C-130 Hercules to Port Moresby this week to support Papua New Guinea’s response to the March 24 earthquake and recent severe flooding. “Papua New Guinea has requested New Zealand’s assistance to transport emergency relief items from Port Moresby ... <a title="NZ delivers humanitarian supplies to disaster-hit PNG provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/12/nz-delivers-humanitarian-supplies-to-disaster-hit-png-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about NZ delivers humanitarian supplies to disaster-hit PNG provinces">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
RNZ News Television New Zealand has breached its collective agreement with the E tū union when deciding on discontinuing programmes, the Employment Relations Authority has ruled. It was announced in March that 68 staff members who work for news programmes Midday and Tonight, consumer justice programme Fair Go, current affairs programme Sunday, and the youth ... <a title="TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/tvnz-breached-union-pact-when-deciding-on-programme-cuts-era-rules/" aria-label="Read more about TVNZ breached union pact when deciding on programme cuts, ERA rules">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Barangay New Zealand’s Rene Molina has interviewed the country’s first Filipino Green MP Francisco Hernandez who was sworn into Parliament yesterday as the party’s latest member. This is the first interview with Hernandez who replaces former Green Party co-leader James Shaw after his retirement from politics to take up a green investment ... <a title="NZ’s first Pinoy Green MP Francisco Hernandez talks climate policy and activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/nzs-first-pinoy-green-mp-francisco-hernandez-talks-climate-policy-and-activism/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s first Pinoy Green MP Francisco Hernandez talks climate policy and activism">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University Shutterstock This article contains information on deaths in custody and the violence experienced by First Nations people in encounters with the Australian carceral system. It also contains references to and the names of people who ... <a title="Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/indigenous-women-are-most-affected-by-domestic-violence-but-have-struggled-to-be-heard-its-time-we-listened-229720/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Television New Zealand Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to investigative journalism and Pacific communities in a ceremony at Government House, reports 1News. She has been the Pacific correspondent for 1News since 2002, breaking many stories uncovering social and economic ... <a title="TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/tvnz-pacific-correspondent-barbara-dreaver-awarded-onzm-for-investigative-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about TVNZ Pacific correspondent Barbara Dreaver awarded ONZM for investigative journalism">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tuesday’s budget will respond to the deepening public agitation over Australia’s housing shortages by pouring new money into crisis accommodation for women and children, social housing and infrastructure. A specially-convened national cabinet late Friday ticked off on the package, much ... <a title="Budget to pledge billions more in funds and fresh effort to tackle intractable housing crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/budget-to-pledge-billions-more-in-funds-and-fresh-effort-to-tackle-intractable-housing-crisis-229818/" aria-label="Read more about Budget to pledge billions more in funds and fresh effort to tackle intractable housing crisis">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
By Kaneta Naimatu in Suva Journalists in the Pacific region play an important role as the “eyes and ears on the ground” when it comes to reporting the climate crisis, says the European Union’s Pacific Ambassador Barbara Plinkert. Speaking at The University of the South Pacific (USP) on World Press Freedom Day last Friday, Plinkert ... <a title="Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says EU envoy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/pacific-journalists-are-worlds-eyes-and-ears-on-climate-crisis-says-eu-envoy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific journalists are world’s ‘eyes and ears’ on climate crisis, says EU envoy">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Authorities in the small town of Boulouparis have commemorated Armistice Day on May 8 with a new memorial honouring New Zealand soldiers who were stationed in New Caledonia during World War II. The ceremony took place in the township on the southwest coast of the main ... <a title="New Caledonia marks Armistice Day with new NZ war memorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/new-caledonia-marks-armistice-day-with-new-nz-war-memorial/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia marks Armistice Day with new NZ war memorial">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Senior lecturer, international migration and refugee law, University of Technology Sydney The High Court unanimously ruled today that the Australian government can keep asylum seekers in immigration detention indefinitely in cases where they do not “voluntarily” cooperate with their own deportation. This includes, for example, ... <a title="High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/high-court-dismisses-key-challenge-to-indefinite-immigration-detention-what-does-it-mean-229628/" aria-label="Read more about High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Munro, Lecturer, Creative Industries and Digital Media, University of South Australia Twenty-four hours after the release of Macklemore’s pro-Palestine protest song Hind’s Hall on social media on May 7, the video had already notched up over 24 million views. In two minutes and 49 seconds, the ... <a title="A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/a-brief-history-of-found-footage-video-art-and-where-macklemores-hinds-hall-fits-in-229638/" aria-label="Read more about A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Helal, Assistant Dean (Sustainability), The University of Melbourne Dubai skyline AleksandarPasaric/Pexels Since ancient times, people have built structures that reach for the skies – from the steep spires of medieval towers to the grand domes of ancient cathedrals and mosques. Today the quest is to build ... <a title="Sky-high vanity: constructing the world’s tallest buildings creates high emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/sky-high-vanity-constructing-the-worlds-tallest-buildings-creates-high-emissions-229183/" aria-label="Read more about Sky-high vanity: constructing the world’s tallest buildings creates high emissions">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Williams, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne Canna Obscura/Shutterstock At the end of this month, a senate inquiry by the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee is due to hand down its report on a bill to legalise cannabis. Legalisation aims to redirect profits away ... <a title="How can we measure the size of Australia’s illegal cannabis market – and the billions in taxes that might flow from legalising it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/how-can-we-measure-the-size-of-australias-illegal-cannabis-market-and-the-billions-in-taxes-that-might-flow-from-legalising-it-229287/" aria-label="Read more about How can we measure the size of Australia’s illegal cannabis market – and the billions in taxes that might flow from legalising it?">Read more</a>
