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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Mortlock, Senior Risk Scientist, Risk Frontiers, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Most major airports in Australia are located on reclaimed swamps, sitting only a few metres above the present day sea level. And the risk of sea level rise from climate change poses a greater threat to ... <a title="Rising seas threaten Australia’s major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/rising-seas-threaten-australias-major-airports-and-it-may-be-happening-faster-than-we-think-115374/" aria-label="Read more about Rising seas threaten Australia’s major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Hyndes, Professor in Coastal Ecology, Edith Cowan 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/curious-kids-how-do-sea-creatures-drink-sea-water-and-not-get-sick-110979/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Craig, Professor University of Sydney and University of NSW Paediatric Endocrinologist, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, UNSW Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia. At least 1.2 million Australians live with diabetes, and about 10% of them have type 1 diabetes. Diabetes sees the body ... <a title="Flash glucose monitoring: the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/flash-glucose-monitoring-the-little-patches-that-can-make-managing-diabetes-a-whole-lot-easier-117249/" aria-label="Read more about Flash glucose monitoring: the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Fair Go assistant producer and a recent AUT graduate Blessen Tom and current postgraduate student Sri Krishnamurthi embarked in May on a storytelling project about Pacific Media Watch. They are interviewing the founders and some of the journalists and students involved on the media freedom project, which was launched in 1996 at the time of ... <a title="Pacific Media Watch documentary under way – the highlights 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/pacific-media-watch-documentary-under-way-the-highlights-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Watch documentary under way – the highlights 2019">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Broadbent, Associate Professor in Dental Public Health, University of Otago In New Zealand, wealth determines dental health. Inequalities in untreated tooth decay are wider in New Zealand than in Australia, Canada or the United States. The latest New Zealand Health Survey, run annually by the Ministry ... <a title="High cost means more than half of NZ’s young adults don’t access dental care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/high-cost-means-more-than-half-of-nzs-young-adults-dont-access-dental-care-117494/" aria-label="Read more about High cost means more than half of NZ’s young adults don’t access dental care">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Inter-government and Bougainville Relations Minister Timothy Masiu says the people of Bougainville are closely watching developments over the purported “appointment” of Sir Julius Chan as caretaker PM by Peter O’Neill. The following commentary was published on journalist Sylvester Gawi’s blog Graun Blong Mi – My Land. With ... <a title="Timothy Masiu: Bougainvilleans won’t forget Chan and Sandline mercenaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/timothy-masiu-bougainvilleans-wont-forget-chan-and-sandline-mercenaries/" aria-label="Read more about Timothy Masiu: Bougainvilleans won’t forget Chan and Sandline mercenaries">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Concern over China’s growing influence in the Pacific has featured prominently in recent high-level meetings, announcements and in news media. China was top of the agenda in an historic Whitehouse meeting between President Trump and the leaders of the Pacific’s Freely Associated States last week, reports RNZ Pacific. While it was ... <a title="Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/chinese-influence-in-the-pacific-prompts-high-level-meetings/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese influence in the Pacific prompts high-level meetings">Read more</a>
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May 28, 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 Francis Report, workplace bullying Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Why I believe man stood down from Parliament deserves an apology from Trevor Mallard Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): ‘I’m in a very dark place’: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 28 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-28-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 28 2019">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
In many other parts of the world, the close relationship between our Prime Minister and a leading business lobbyist would be considered corrupt, but in New Zealand it’s seen as “business as usual”. Does that make it right? Is it in the public interest to have the politicians and lobbyists in each other’s pockets? The ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should we worry about lobbyists’ influence on the Government?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-should-we-worry-about-lobbyists-influence-on-the-government/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Should we worry about lobbyists’ influence on the Government?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
By RNZ Pacific The Papua New Guinea government is planning to acquire more custom land and allow foreign companies to exploit it, claim two international NGOs. Large swathes of land are already alleged to be illegally under the control of foreign loggers and miners. A recent land summit has been dubbed a further land grab ... <a title="NGOs accuse PNG government of foreign logging land grab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/ngos-accuse-png-government-of-foreign-logging-land-grab/" aria-label="Read more about NGOs accuse PNG government of foreign logging land grab">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathal D. O’Connell, Researcher and Centre Manager, BioFab3D (St Vincent’s Hospital), University of Melbourne I work in the field of bioprinting, where the aim is to build biological tissues by printing living cells into 3D structures. Last month I found my Facebook news feed plastered with an ... <a title="Misreporting the science of lab-made organs is unethical, even dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/misreporting-the-science-of-lab-made-organs-is-unethical-even-dangerous-116987/" aria-label="Read more about Misreporting the science of lab-made organs is unethical, even dangerous">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marion Maddox, Professor, Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University Four years before his 2019 election miracle, Scott Morrison explained divine intervention to Annabel Crabb and viewers of her Kitchen Cabinet program over his famous “ScoMosas”. After 14 years of failed IVF, he and ... <a title="After his ‘miracle’ election, will Scott Morrison feel pressure from Christian leaders on religious freedom?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/after-his-miracle-election-will-scott-morrison-feel-pressure-from-christian-leaders-on-religious-freedom-117798/" aria-label="Read more about After his ‘miracle’ election, will Scott Morrison feel pressure from Christian leaders on religious freedom?">Read more</a>
