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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debra Wilson, Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canterbury Getty Images New Zealanders reacted with anger, confusion and disbelief at the sentencing in recent weeks of 18-year-old Jayden Meyer to home detention after his conviction for rape, sexual violation and indecent acts. Meyer’s sentence resulted in ... <a title="Outrage over a rapist’s home detention highlights the need for victims’ voices in NZ’s sentencing process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/outrage-over-a-rapists-home-detention-highlights-the-need-for-victims-voices-in-nzs-sentencing-process-191408/" aria-label="Read more about Outrage over a rapist’s home detention highlights the need for victims’ voices in NZ’s sentencing process">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney The heart-shaped Lake Eyre Basin covers about one-sixth of Australia. It contains one of the few remaining pristine river systems in the world. But new research shows oil and gas activity is extending its tentacles ... <a title="The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/the-magnificent-lake-eyre-basin-is-threatened-by-831-oil-and-gas-wells-and-more-are-planned-is-that-what-australians-really-want-191078/" aria-label="Read more about The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Politics Daily is produced by Dr Bryce Edwards of the Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS Josh Van Veen (Democracy Project): Efeso vs. Wayne: A different kind of mayor? Mike Yardley (Stuff): Who will lead Christchurch into the future? Phillip Mills (Herald): A healthy city runs on hope, not hostility (paywalled) 1News: New Zealand’s youngest local ... <a title="Politics Daily – Items of interest and importance today October 4, 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/politics-daily-items-of-interest-and-importance-today-october-4-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Politics Daily – Items of interest and importance today October 4, 2022">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wafa Johal, Senior Lecturer, Computing & Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Tesla In August 2021, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the electric car manufacturer was planning to get into the robot business. In a presentation accompanied by a human dressed as a robot, Musk said work ... <a title="Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/teslas-optimus-robot-isnt-very-impressive-but-it-may-be-a-sign-of-better-things-to-come-191761/" aria-label="Read more about Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury MP Karen Chhour, criticised for seeing things through a ‘vanilla lens’. Getty Images The truism that the personal is political and the political personal is very much the case with Māori (identity) politics. We’ve recently seen several ... <a title="When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/when-is-being-maori-not-enough-why-maori-politics-are-always-personal-191740/" aria-label="Read more about When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julaine Allan, Associate Professor, Mental Health and Addiction, Rural Health Research Institute, Charles Sturt University Shutterstock The herbal formulation Kamini has been in the news with a Brisbane drug and alcohol treatment program reporting 12 men accessing the service because they could not stop taking Kamini. A ... <a title="‘Indian Viagra’ – herbal drug Kamini contains morphine and can quickly lead to dependence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/indian-viagra-herbal-drug-kamini-contains-morphine-and-can-quickly-lead-to-dependence-191509/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Indian Viagra’ – herbal drug Kamini contains morphine and can quickly lead to dependence">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthijs Hollanders, PhD candidate, Southern Cross University Matthijs Hollanders, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. Frogs are among the world’s most imperilled animals, and ... <a title="A deadly disease has driven 7 Australian frogs to extinction – but this endangered frog is fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/a-deadly-disease-has-driven-7-australian-frogs-to-extinction-but-this-endangered-frog-is-fighting-back-189491/" aria-label="Read more about A deadly disease has driven 7 Australian frogs to extinction – but this endangered frog is fighting back">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Keen, Honorary Professor of Economics, UCL In June 2007, Jean-Philippe Cotis, the chief economist of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, declared that 2008 was going to be a great year. The economic situation was “better than what we have experienced in years”, he wrote, ... <a title="Orthodox thinking won’t cut it: why Mathias Cormann’s leadership of the OECD has economists worried" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/orthodox-thinking-wont-cut-it-why-mathias-cormanns-leadership-of-the-oecd-has-economists-worried-191665/" aria-label="Read more about Orthodox thinking won’t cut it: why Mathias Cormann’s leadership of the OECD has economists worried">Read more</a>
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October 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Davie, Deputy Head of School, Lecturer in Piano, School of Music, Australian National University Unsplash While restructuring a collection of historical keyboard instruments at the ANU School of Music, I’ve been led to ponder the mysterious significance that pianos can have in the human psyche. Due ... <a title="More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/more-than-a-piece-of-furniture-it-is-sometimes-as-if-these-old-pianos-have-souls-185777/" aria-label="Read more about More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Vladimir Putin’s bizarre ceremonies formalising Russia’s annexation of some 15% of Ukraine once again revealed the yawning chasm between Kremlin triumphalism and reality. Never mind Russian forces didn’t even fully control the territories Putin brought under ... <a title="Is this the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-vladimir-putin-191058/" aria-label="Read more about Is this the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin?">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Hutton, Professor, University of Newcastle Yudha Prabowo/AP At least 125 soccer fans have died in Indonesia, and more than 300 injured, in what is being reported as one of the worst sports stadium tragedies in history. The disaster happened on Saturday night at the Kanjuruhan stadium ... <a title="One of the worst stadium tragedies in history: an expert explains what led to the soccer stampede in Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/one-of-the-worst-stadium-tragedies-in-history-an-expert-explains-what-led-to-the-soccer-stampede-in-indonesia-191756/" aria-label="Read more about One of the worst stadium tragedies in history: an expert explains what led to the soccer stampede in Indonesia">Read more</a>
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October 3, 2022
Political Roundup: TOP offering the transformation lacking in other parties The Opportunities Party (TOP) is putting other political parties to shame with its bold and innovative policies. Yesterday TOP announced their latest tax, housing, and income policies, and they were the sort of bold and transformative innovations that supporters of parties like Labour and the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: TOP offering the transformation lacking in other parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/03/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-top-offering-the-transformation-lacking-in-other-parties/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: TOP offering the transformation lacking in other parties">Read more</a>
