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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Lawrence, Professor, Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University This is an edited extract from SLUDGE: disaster on Victoria’s goldmines. Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, 6 November 2015 Wet, orange mud covers everything: streets, houses, cars, animals, trees, fields. The violent force of a torrent of mud ... <a title="Gold rush-era rules to stop mining pollution are still in use – but they’re failing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/gold-rush-era-rules-to-stop-mining-pollution-are-still-in-use-but-theyre-failing-120887/" aria-label="Read more about Gold rush-era rules to stop mining pollution are still in use – but they’re failing">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Eckstein, Senior Lecturer in Law and Medicine, University of Tasmania Working your way around the health-care system can be overwhelming. This is especially hard when care takes place in health systems under stress. However as a patient, you have rights about how you’re treated. This includes ... <a title="Patients have rights. Here’s how to use yours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/patients-have-rights-heres-how-to-use-yours-121637/" aria-label="Read more about Patients have rights. Here’s how to use yours">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tonga is mulling a Facebook ban as the Kingdom struggles to contain a torrent of online abuse and threats on the platform directed at the monarchy by pro-government forces. It’s the latest fallout in an escalating digital war between the pro-democracy camp and those firmly backing Tonga’s constitutional monarchy, which bestows the ... <a title="‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/we-cant-control-the-demons-tonga-mulls-facebook-ban/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t control the demons’ – Tonga mulls Facebook ban">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
By Michael Andrew The devastating loss of life and suffering from the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been remembered in Auckland. Organised by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the 74th anniversary of the bombings brought activists and members of the public to the Ellen Melville Centre to commemorate ... <a title="Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance bolsters peace and protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/hiroshima-and-nagasaki-remembrance-bolsters-peace-and-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Hiroshima and Nagasaki remembrance bolsters peace and protest">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne After the first Democratic presidential debate on June 25-26, Joe Biden fell in Democratic national presidential polls, and Kamala Harris surged. In the lead-up to the July 30-31 debate, Biden recovered lost support while Harris ... <a title="Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump’s ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/biden-still-leads-us-democratic-primaries-trumps-ratings-fall-slightly-after-gun-massacres-plus-australian-preference-flows-121439/" aria-label="Read more about Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump’s ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerry Groot, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Adelaide As China grows more powerful and influential, our New Superpower series looks at what this means for the world – how China maintains its power, how it wields its power and how its power might be threatened. ... <a title="Explainer: what is China’s United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/explainer-what-is-chinas-united-front-and-how-much-influence-does-it-have-in-australia-119174/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is China’s United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk As four more journalists were assaulted in the North Point in Hong Kong area on Sunday August 11th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called on the authorities to put an end to the violence against the press. In the past two months, journalists covering the anti-extradition bill protests were increasingly the ... <a title="RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/rsf-condemns-journalist-assault-as-hong-kong-violence-escalates/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Seadon, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology Recycling in Australia used to be fairly simple. Our older readers may remember bottle drives, paper and cardboard collections, and the trip to the scrap metal merchant to sell metals. This is called, in recycling parlance, sorting the “streams”. ... <a title="How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/how-recycling-is-actually-sorted-and-why-australia-is-quite-bad-at-it-121120/" aria-label="Read more about How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique de Andrade, The University of Queensland This is the third in a series of articles discussing a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for liquor regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia. ... <a title="Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/unwanted-sexual-attention-plagues-young-women-going-out-at-night-121116/" aria-label="Read more about Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University The Morrison government is at risk of losing control of China policy. Push-back from within its own ranks is complicating its ability to manage relations with Beijing. China policy is being subjected to a buffeting from hawkish ... <a title="Morrison needs to take control of China policy – but leave room for dissent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/morrison-needs-to-take-control-of-china-policy-but-leave-room-for-dissent-121739/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison needs to take control of China policy – but leave room for dissent">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra An analysis from The Australia Institute accuses Scott Morrison of planning to exploit a “pollution loophole” equivalent to about eight years of fossil-fuel emissions from the rest of the Pacific and New Zealand. The “loophole” is using Kyoto credits to ... <a title="Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison’s climate policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/australia-institute-analysis-adds-to-pacific-pile-on-over-morrisons-climate-policy-121817/" aria-label="Read more about Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison’s climate policy">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington The terrorist attacks on the Christchurch Muslim community on 15 March this year resulted in a political response that was decidedly different from what usually follows mass ... <a title="Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/survey-reveals-a-third-of-nz-gun-owners-distrust-gun-lobby-121736/" aria-label="Read more about Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby">Read more</a>
