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July 22, 2020
An interview with filmmaker Anna Marbrook on the making of Loimata. Video: Tagata Pasifika/Sunpix DOCUMENTARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, who talks to Jim Marbrook about the making of Loimata – The Sweetest Tears. Loimata isn’t just a true story of one of the Pacific’s great waka builders and sailors that has been captured in a stirring ... <a title="Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/loimata-a-poignant-family-to-family-story-of-the-revival-of-waka-voyaging/" aria-label="Read more about Loimata – a poignant family-to-family story of the revival of waka voyaging">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2020
By Grace Auka-Salmang in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Port Moresby General Hospital is scaling down its services due to covid-19 cases being detected on its premises. The hospital chief executive officer, Dr Paki Molumi, said that since yesterday the hospital had gone into emergency mode. “For PMGH operations, it is mandatory for all staff ... <a title="Port Moresby hospital scales down services due to covid breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/21/port-moresby-hospital-scales-down-services-due-to-covid-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby hospital scales down services due to covid breach">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2020
By IndoLeft News in Yogyakarta Papuan students and activists have held a protest action against Special Autonomy(Otsus) Chapter II at the zero kilometre point in Indonesia’s central Java city of Yogyakarta. The joint action was initiated by the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) and the Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP). READ MORE: Indonesian government ... <a title="Papuan activists in Yogya protest against extended special autonomy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/21/papuan-activists-in-yogya-protest-against-extended-special-autonomy/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan activists in Yogya protest against extended special autonomy">Read more</a>
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July 21, 2020
More coronavirus cases in Papua New Guinea. Video: EMTV News By EMTV News Papua New Guinea’s National Command Center has announced two new covid-19 cases in Port Moresby. The 18th case is a 53-year-old man with no history of travel and who was experiencing fever, cough, shortness of breath and was tested via GeneXpert Testing. ... <a title="Two more covid-19 cases in Port Moresby with targeted testing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/21/two-more-covid-19-cases-in-port-moresby-with-targeted-testing/" aria-label="Read more about Two more covid-19 cases in Port Moresby with targeted testing">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A 48-year-old woman from Papua New Guinea’s Central Province who has died after a battle with stage 4 breast cancer has been identified as the 17th covid-19 case in the country. This is the first covid-19 death recorded in PNG, reports the PNG Post-Courier. The National Control Centre said last night ... <a title="PNG suffers first reported covid death – woman with breast cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/png-suffers-first-reported-covid-death-woman-with-breast-cancer/" aria-label="Read more about PNG suffers first reported covid death – woman with breast cancer">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Grant Duncan, of Massey University The starting gates in New Zealand’s September 19 election race are finally full. Labour’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the bookies’ favourite and the opposition took a long time to settle. All the same, punters may still want to hedge their bets. While the National Party’s internal disarray ... <a title="National gambles on Collins crushing Ardern’s charisma in NZ election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/national-gambles-on-collins-crushing-arderns-charisma-in-nz-election/" aria-label="Read more about National gambles on Collins crushing Ardern’s charisma in NZ election">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Graham Davis in Sydney The man with his hands on the tiller of the Fijian economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, has always been a great admirer of Gough Whitlam’s “crash through or crash” approach to leadership and never more so than with the F$3.67 billion budget he announced on Friday night. Allowing for a sobering ... <a title="Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting on a tourism bubble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/19/graham-davis-fijis-great-crash-through-or-crash-budget-is-counting-on-a-tourism-bubble/" aria-label="Read more about Graham Davis: Fiji’s great ‘crash through or crash’ budget is counting on a tourism bubble">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2020
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Wake in Melbourne How disappointing to read another opinion piece in Australian papers repeating time-old arguments that fail to acknowledge the excellent education in journalism provided by universities around the country, an education many working journalists – and therefore readers – have benefited from. It is concerning that anyone would argue that ... <a title="Alexandra Wake: In defence of journalism schools and underpinning civil society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/19/alexandra-wake-in-defence-of-journalism-schools-and-underpinning-civil-society/" aria-label="Read more about Alexandra Wake: In defence of journalism schools and underpinning civil society">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2020
By Robert Iroga in Honiara Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) has publicly thanked one of the Solomon islands’ longest serving journalists and newspaper editors Ofani Eremae for his dedication and commitment in keeping the work of the media alive. Eremae, was reportedly dishonorably and undiplomatically terminated as editor by the Solomon Star newspaper, a family owned ... <a title="Transparency Solomon Islands pays tribute to Eremae for editor’s legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/18/transparency-solomon-islands-pays-tribute-to-eremae-for-editors-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency Solomon Islands pays tribute to Eremae for editor’s legacy">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years since I made my documentary Mind The Gap in which I unpacked the socially disastrous consequences of the neoliberal economic agenda, introduced by the 4th Labour government led by ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/bryan-bruce-economics-and-the-nz-election-unpacking-neoliberal-agendas/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
By RNZ News Iconic New Zealand magazine titles NZ Woman’s Weekly and the NZ Listener will resume publication immediately, with Bauer Media’s titles officially sold to an Australian investment company. The magazine titles have been officially taken over by Mercury Capital. The Sydney-based company has taken ownership of magazine titles Woman’s Day, New Zealand Woman’s ... <a title="Woman’s Weekly and Listener to resume after Bauer sale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/womans-weekly-and-listener-to-resume-after-bauer-sale/" aria-label="Read more about Woman’s Weekly and Listener to resume after Bauer sale">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
By Thierry Lepani in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Controller of the Pandemic Act, Dr Paison Dakulala, has announced four new covid-19 cases in Port Moresby, taking the country’s confirmed cases to 15. Dr Dakulala initially announced two positive cases and then about a couple of hours added another two. All four cases are ... <a title="PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/png-confirms-4-new-covid-cases-breach-in-testing-lab/" aria-label="Read more about PNG confirms 4 new covid cases – breach in testing lab">Read more</a>
