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June 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Apo Aporosa, Post-doctoral research fellow, University of Waikato The Australian government is considering an increase in the amount of kava travellers can bring into the country. The consultation process includes a proposed pilot program to ease restrictions on kava importation for personal use from two to four ... <a title="Australia’s discussion of kava imports reflects lack of cultural understanding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/10/australias-discussion-of-kava-imports-reflects-lack-of-cultural-understanding-115662/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s discussion of kava imports reflects lack of cultural understanding">Read more</a>
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June 9, 2019
By Chris Baria at PNG Mine Watch The chairman of Bougainville Hardliners Group and former combatant-turned-businessman, James Onartoo, has called on the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) Police Minister to explain what the Australian Federal Police (AFP) were doing at the site of the controversial Panguna mine last Wednesday (June 5). According to Onartoo, members of ... <a title="‘Please explain’ call by hardliners over Australian police at Bougainville mine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/09/please-explain-call-by-hardliners-over-australian-police-at-bougainville-mine/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Please explain’ call by hardliners over Australian police at Bougainville mine">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Alexandra Menzies of Central News in Sydney As I stood out the front of the ABC’s Sydney headquarters on Wednesday morning (June 5), I couldn’t help but feel the conflicting senses of both pride and anxiety. Just moments earlier, a group of first-year UTS Journalism students, including myself, had raced from our lecture ... <a title="Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/08/police-raids-on-abc-the-day-news-theory-became-reality/" aria-label="Read more about Police raids on ABC: The day news theory became reality">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, The University of Queensland A few days ago, Waleed Aly asked a not-so-rhetorical question in The Sydney Morning Herald. He wondered how many Australians were worried about the fact that the Australian Federal Police had spent a good portion of ... <a title="To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/08/to-protect-press-freedom-we-need-more-public-outrage-and-an-overhaul-of-our-laws-118457/" aria-label="Read more about To protect press freedom, we need more public outrage – and an overhaul of our laws">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s new Prime Minister James Marape has overseen a shake-up of cabinet which he says will drive reform the country needs. The new National Executive Council, announced by Marape this afternoon in Port Moresby, includes two leading members of the opposition in recent years. The Madang MP ... <a title="Marape unveils new-look PNG cabinet with reformist aims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/marape-unveils-new-look-png-cabinet-with-reformist-aims/" aria-label="Read more about Marape unveils new-look PNG cabinet with reformist aims">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. In Dr Seuss’s The Lorax, his titular ... <a title="This centuries-old river red gum is a local legend – here’s why it’s worth fighting for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/this-centuries-old-river-red-gum-is-a-local-legend-heres-why-its-worth-fighting-for-117666/" aria-label="Read more about This centuries-old river red gum is a local legend – here’s why it’s worth fighting for">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wilson, Associate professor, University of Wollongong Buying the contraceptive pill from the pharmacy without a prescription, as is being considered by Australia’s drug regulator, might be convenient for women or even save the health system money. But it risks women’s health for a number of reasons. ... <a title="Leave pill prescribing to GPs, not pharmacists, for the sake of women’s health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/leave-pill-prescribing-to-gps-not-pharmacists-for-the-sake-of-womens-health-118120/" aria-label="Read more about Leave pill prescribing to GPs, not pharmacists, for the sake of women’s health">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriele Gratton, Associate Professor of Economics and Scientia Fellow, UNSW Exactly two weeks before the Reserve Bank of Australia cut interest rates to a record low, the bank’s head, Philip Lowe, outlined a predicament to the Economic Society of Australia. He is faced with a global problem, ... <a title="Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/our-economic-model-looks-broken-but-trying-to-fix-it-could-be-a-disaster-118397/" aria-label="Read more about Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss Labor’s shadow cabinet, including Shorten’s new role in the area of the NDIS where he will be going up against ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Labor’s shadow cabinet – and the media raids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/video-michelle-grattan-on-labors-shadow-cabinet-and-the-media-raids-118454/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Labor’s shadow cabinet – and the media raids">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hall, Senior Researcher in Politics, Auckland University of Technology When you’re in politics, words are a high-stakes game. Voters and journalists hold you to them and there is a risk in using words that are hard to live up to. This is particularly true for politicians ... <a title="NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern’s government be transformational?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/nz-has-dethroned-gdp-as-a-measure-of-success-but-will-arderns-government-be-transformational-118262/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has dethroned GDP as a measure of success, but will Ardern’s government be transformational?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heshani Edirisinghe, PhD student, Massey 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: why don’t ladybirds have tails?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/curious-kids-why-dont-ladybirds-have-tails-117749/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why don’t ladybirds have tails?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Valentin Christiaens, Research Fellow in Astrophysics, Monash University When Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei first spotted four moons of Jupiter through a telescope, he realised that not everything goes around the Earth, as was the prevailing theory in 1610. The presumed origin of the Galilean moons was in ... <a title="A disc of dust and gas found around a newborn planet could be the birthplace of moons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/07/a-disc-of-dust-and-gas-found-around-a-newborn-planet-could-be-the-birthplace-of-moons-118260/" aria-label="Read more about A disc of dust and gas found around a newborn planet could be the birthplace of moons">Read more</a>
