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May 13, 2019
By Devina Halim in Jakarta Amnesty International Indonesia is calling for justice and truth from the government over the Trisakti student shooting tragedy through legal channels. This was revealed by AI executive director Usman Hamid in response to the 21st anniversary yesterday of the Trisakti student shootings on May 12, 1998. On that day, four ... <a title="Amnesty Indonesia calls for justice over 1998 Trisakti student shootings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/amnesty-indonesia-calls-for-justice-over-1998-trisakti-student-shootings/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty Indonesia calls for justice over 1998 Trisakti student shootings">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) has attracted widespread media attention after it found chemicals contained in sunscreen could get into people’s bloodstreams: A variety of different chemicals in sunscreen are ... <a title="Research Check: should we be worried that the chemicals from sunscreen can get into our blood?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/research-check-should-we-be-worried-that-the-chemicals-from-sunscreen-can-get-into-our-blood-116738/" aria-label="Read more about Research Check: should we be worried that the chemicals from sunscreen can get into our blood?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Coad, Senior Research Fellow, University of Adelaide We don’t often think of microscopic organisms such as fungi as being particularly athletic. Certainly not Olympic champions. But understanding more about fungi – which includes moulds and yeasts – could lead to new ways to prevent the devastating ... <a title="Australia’s in the Fungus Olympics, the race to find new ways to tackle disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/australias-in-the-fungus-olympics-the-race-to-find-new-ways-to-tackle-disease-115380/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s in the Fungus Olympics, the race to find new ways to tackle disease">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University As we enter the final straight of the Australian election campaign, we ask you: how much of your information about the issues and the candidates comes from social media? Today’s ... <a title="Media Files: Facebook’s Mia Garlick on #Ausvotes2019 and how Australian MPs use social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/media-files-facebooks-mia-garlick-on-ausvotes2019-and-how-australian-mps-use-social-media-116998/" aria-label="Read more about Media Files: Facebook’s Mia Garlick on #Ausvotes2019 and how Australian MPs use social media">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
James Shaw rates his Zero Carbon Bill as seven or eight out of ten. And former Green Party co-leader, Russel Norman – now with Greenpeace – rates it zero out of ten. Either way, it’s clear that the new legislation isn’t really the crucial planet-saving bill that many were hoping for. And it certainly doesn’t ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Watered-down Zero Carbon Bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-watered-down-zero-carbon-bill/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Watered-down Zero Carbon Bill">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
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 Paris summit, social media, free speech Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Jacinda Ardern’s Christchurch Call internet pledge will be weak on implementation Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern saw the Christchurch video and will try ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-13-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 13 2019">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel Stapledon, Research Fellow in Real Estate, Centre for Applied Economic Research, UNSW The Coalition has put forward a scheme to help first home buyers get into homes, under which the government will underwrite a loan of 15% of the value of the home, to be treated ... <a title="That election promise. It will help first home buyers, but they better be cautious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/that-election-promise-it-will-help-first-home-buyers-but-they-better-be-cautious-116993/" aria-label="Read more about That election promise. It will help first home buyers, but they better be cautious">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Bateman, Associate professor, Curtin University Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on ... <a title="Curious Kids: can snails fart?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/curious-kids-can-snails-fart-114747/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: can snails fart?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Preliminary results from New Caledonia’s provincial elections show that the anti-independence parties will retain their slim majority in the 54-member Congress. Local television projections show that the new anti-independence majority will get 28 seats, including three of a new party, Pacific Awakening, which emanates from the Wallisian community. This is two more ... <a title="Anti-independence bloc holds majority in New Caledonian provincial elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/anti-independence-bloc-holds-majority-in-new-caledonian-provincial-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-independence bloc holds majority in New Caledonian provincial elections">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Hienghéne Sport won their maiden OFC Champions League football title after a sensational 60 metre strike by substitute Amy Antoine Roine earned a 1-0 victory over AS Magenta in an all New Caledonian final in Noumea. With the match still scoreless approaching the halfway point of the second half at Stade Numa ... <a title="‘Great goal’ wins Hienghéne victory in Oceania Champions League" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/great-goal-wins-hienghene-victory-in-oceania-champions-league/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Great goal’ wins Hienghéne victory in Oceania Champions League">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Associate Professor of Politics, Monash University Today we run two longer reads on the men who are vying to become prime minister at the 2019 federal election. In this essay, Associate Professor Paul Strangio examines Labor leader Bill Shorten – where he’s come from and, ... <a title="After six years as opposition leader, history beckons Bill Shorten. Will the ‘drover’s dog’ have its day?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/after-six-years-as-opposition-leader-history-beckons-bill-shorten-will-the-drovers-dog-have-its-day-115490/" aria-label="Read more about After six years as opposition leader, history beckons Bill Shorten. Will the ‘drover’s dog’ have its day?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Today we run two longer reads on the men who are vying to become prime minister at the 2019 federal election. In this piece, Michelle Grattan examines Scott Morrison’s political history and his prime ministership. You can read Professor Paul ... <a title="Against the odds, Scott Morrison wants to be returned as prime minister. But who the bloody hell is he?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/13/against-the-odds-scott-morrison-wants-to-be-returned-as-prime-minister-but-who-the-bloody-hell-is-he-116732/" aria-label="Read more about Against the odds, Scott Morrison wants to be returned as prime minister. But who the bloody hell is he?">Read more</a>
