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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This election is acquiring quite a few back-to-the-future touches. There’s John Howard, in robust campaign mode. One of those he’s spruiking for is the embattled Tony Abbott, with a letter to Warringah voters, a video and a planned street walk. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/grattan-on-friday-all-is-forgiven-in-the-liberal-embrace-of-palmer-116011/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This election is acquiring quite a few back-to-the-future touches. There’s John Howard, in robust campaign mode. One of those he’s spruiking for is the embattled Tony Abbott, with a letter to Warringah voters, a video and a planned street walk. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in Liberal-Palmer embrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/grattan-on-friday-all-is-forgiven-in-liberal-palmer-embrace-116011/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in Liberal-Palmer embrace">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Wurster, Senior Research Associate of Stable Isotope Geochemistry, James Cook University The islands of Sumatra, Borneo and Java were once part of a much larger landmass connected to Asia called Sundaland. But there are some species that are unique to each island today – such as ... <a title="Bat and bird poo can tell you a lot about ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/bat-and-bird-poo-can-tell-you-a-lot-about-ancient-landscapes-in-southeast-asia-115628/" aria-label="Read more about Bat and bird poo can tell you a lot about ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day by Dr Bryce Edwards It’s a very different Anzac Day this year. In recent years this remembrance day has been steadily transforming. Most notably, becoming more popular, with attendance at ceremonies up, and an apparently more interested population in general. Last year’s centenary also bolstered the importance ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-different-sort-of-anzac-day/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A different sort of Anzac Day">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
By Rosalie Nongebatu, editor of Wansolwara A Solomon Islands academic says the only body that can find a legitimate solution to his country’s current crisis is the National Parliament. Senior politics lecturer at the Suva-based University of the South Pacific, Dr Gordon Nanau, said this following the unrest and rioting in Honiara yesterday by a ... <a title="‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/leave-it-up-to-parliament-says-usp-academic-in-wake-of-honiara-riots/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Leave it up to Parliament,’ says USP academic in wake of Honiara riots">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Police say some people decided to take the law into their own hands and marched through some streets of the capital, fighting, causing public disturbances and property damage, reports the Solomon Star. RNZ Pacific reports that an uneasy calm has returned to the capital while Sogavare rejected accusations his past governments have “failed” Malaita over ... <a title="30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/30-arrested-in-honiara-post-election-riots-as-calm-returns-to-capital/" aria-label="Read more about 30 arrested in Honiara post-election riots as calm returns to capital">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University In the wake of any tragedy, it should be enough to grieve and stand in solidarity with those who mourn. With a massive toll – at least 359 dead and around ... <a title="Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka terror attack. Here’s what that means" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/islamic-state-has-claimed-responsibility-for-the-sri-lanka-terror-attack-heres-what-that-means-115915/" aria-label="Read more about Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka terror attack. Here’s what that means">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne With 23 days to go until the May 18 election, Newspoll had seat polls of Herbert, Lindsay, Deakin and Pearce. All four polls were conducted April 20 from samples of 500-620. Clive Palmer’s United Australia ... <a title="Poll wrap: Palmer’s party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/25/poll-wrap-palmers-party-has-good-support-in-newspoll-seat-polls-but-is-it-realistic-115802/" aria-label="Read more about Poll wrap: Palmer’s party has good support in Newspoll seat polls, but is it realistic?">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Rioting in Honiara today after the parliamentary election of Manasseh Sogavare as Prime Minister. Image: Screenshot from Dan Dãñzõ Kakadi video By RNZ Pacific Police in Solomon Islands called for calm today after rioting broke out in the capital of Honiara over the election of Manasseh Sogavare as the new prime minister. Sogavare’s win – ... <a title="Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/solomons-police-call-for-calm-to-counter-riots-after-pm-elected/" aria-label="Read more about Solomons police call for calm to counter riots after PM elected">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Milford, Professor, Queensland University of Technology At the end of Avengers: Infinity War half the people (including heroes and villains) in the universe were gone in the snap of a finger from Thanos (Josh Brolin). So how can Avengers: Endgame (in cinemas from this week) try ... <a title="Avengers: Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/avengers-endgame-exploits-time-travel-and-quantum-mechanics-as-it-tries-to-restore-the-universe-115705/" aria-label="Read more about Avengers: Endgame exploits time travel and quantum mechanics as it tries to restore the universe">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Williams, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University An estimated one in ten Australians were taking antidepressants in 2015. That’s double the number using them in 2000, and the second-highest rate of antidepressant use among all OECD countries. Yet some studies have found antidepressants might be no more ... <a title="Psychedelics to treat mental illness? Australian researchers are giving it a go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/psychedelics-to-treat-mental-illness-australian-researchers-are-giving-it-a-go-112952/" aria-label="Read more about Psychedelics to treat mental illness? Australian researchers are giving it a go">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne Just as fiction’s George Smiley made sense of the world – and even made his baffling way about a world at war through knowing the works of minor German poets – our own very real Michael Sharkey ... <a title="Victorian women poets of WW1: capturing the reverberations of loss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/victorian-women-poets-of-ww1-capturing-the-reverberations-of-loss-108084/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian women poets of WW1: capturing the reverberations of loss">Read more</a>
