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June 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University How does an image become an icon? It is estimated that we now produce more images in two minutes than we did in the entire 19th century. How, then, can one image be so powerful it can symbolise ... <a title="‘Accidental Napalm’ turns 50: the generation-defining image capturing the futility of the Vietnam war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/07/accidental-napalm-turns-50-the-generation-defining-image-capturing-the-futility-of-the-vietnam-war-175050/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Accidental Napalm’ turns 50: the generation-defining image capturing the futility of the Vietnam war">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavio Macau, Associate Dean – School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Lettuce prices are skyrocketing. Twitter users are posting photos of iceberg lettuces for A$10 and $11.99, well above the more usual $2.80. It’s not new, and it’s not only lettuce. The peak body ... <a title="Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won’t return to where they were" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/why-is-lettuce-so-expensive-costs-have-shot-up-and-wont-return-to-where-they-were-184449/" aria-label="Read more about Why is lettuce so expensive? Costs have shot up, and won’t return to where they were">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Indonesian President Joko Widowi takes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a tour of Bogor Palace in West Java. Alex Ellinghausen/SMH pool via AAP A ... <a title="It’s great Albanese is in Indonesia, but Australia needs to do a lot more to reset relations. Here are 5 ways to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/its-great-albanese-is-in-indonesia-but-australia-needs-to-do-a-lot-more-to-reset-relations-here-are-5-ways-to-start-184446/" aria-label="Read more about It’s great Albanese is in Indonesia, but Australia needs to do a lot more to reset relations. Here are 5 ways to start">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Lindsey, Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, The University of Melbourne Indonesian President Joko Widowi takes Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for a tour of Bogor Palace in West Java. Alex Ellinghausen/SMH pool via AAP A ... <a title="It’s great Albanese is in Indonesia, but Australia needs to do a lot more to reset relations. Here’s 5 ways to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/its-great-albanese-is-in-indonesia-but-australia-needs-to-do-a-lot-more-to-reset-relations-heres-5-ways-to-start-184446/" aria-label="Read more about It’s great Albanese is in Indonesia, but Australia needs to do a lot more to reset relations. Here’s 5 ways to start">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romy Zyngier, Senior Research Manager, Climateworks Centre Shutterstock We used to believe the world’s resources were almost limitless. But as we spread out across the planet, we consumed more and more of these resources. For decades, scientists have warned we are approaching the limits of what the ... <a title="Australia has overshot three planetary boundaries based on how we use land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/australia-has-overshot-three-planetary-boundaries-based-on-how-we-use-land-183728/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has overshot three planetary boundaries based on how we use land">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania While there is widespread nervousness at the victory of Ferdinand Marcos junior in the Philippines, for many of us it was a reminder that “blood” is still an important element in the politics of the developing world. Before ... <a title="Marcos junior is the latest beneficiary of ‘bloodlines’ in Southeast Asian politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/marcos-junior-is-the-latest-beneficiary-of-bloodlines-in-southeast-asian-politics-184246/" aria-label="Read more about Marcos junior is the latest beneficiary of ‘bloodlines’ in Southeast Asian politics">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Gibson, Author and Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney Daniel Boyd, Sir No Beard, 2007. Oil on canvas 183.5 x 121.5 cm. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, gift of Clinton Ng 2012, donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program 378.2012. Image: AGNSW, Felicity Jenkins © ... <a title="How the art of Daniel Boyd turns over the apple cart of accepted white Australian history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/how-the-art-of-daniel-boyd-turns-over-the-apple-cart-of-accepted-white-australian-history-183635/" aria-label="Read more about How the art of Daniel Boyd turns over the apple cart of accepted white Australian history">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By D. Bondy Valdovinos Kaye, Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology Netflix Netflix’s nostalgia-laden thriller Stranger Things returned last month and with it came the revival of another classic from the 1980s, Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush. The song plays a prominent part in the narrative connected ... <a title="Running Up That Hill: How Stranger Things and TikTok pushed Kate Bush’s 1985 pop classic back to the top of the charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/running-up-that-hill-how-stranger-things-and-tiktok-pushed-kate-bushs-1985-pop-classic-back-to-the-top-of-the-charts-184443/" aria-label="Read more about Running Up That Hill: How Stranger Things and TikTok pushed Kate Bush’s 1985 pop classic back to the top of the charts">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Fodor, PhD Candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Recently developed artificial intelligence (AI) models are capable of many impressive feats, including recognising images and producing human-like language. But just because AI can perform human-like behaviours doesn’t mean it can think or understand like ... <a title="We’re told AI neural networks ‘learn’ the way humans do. A neuroscientist explains why that’s not the case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/were-told-ai-neural-networks-learn-the-way-humans-do-a-neuroscientist-explains-why-thats-not-the-case-183993/" aria-label="Read more about We’re told AI neural networks ‘learn’ the way humans do. A neuroscientist explains why that’s not the case">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
RNZ Pacific An indigenous legal challenge in a bid to annul the result of last December’s referendum on New Caledonia’s independence from France has failed. The highest administrative court in Paris has rejected a claim by the Kanak customary Senate that the impact of the covid-19 pandemic was such that the referendum outcome was illegitimate. ... <a title="French court rejects Kanak Senate bid to annul New Caledonia referendum outcome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/french-court-rejects-kanak-senate-bid-to-annul-new-caledonia-referendum-outcome/" aria-label="Read more about French court rejects Kanak Senate bid to annul New Caledonia referendum outcome">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Yamin Kogoya A flurry of peaceful rallies and protests erupted in West Papua and Indonesia on Friday, June 3. Papuan People’s Petition (PRP), the National Committee for West Papua (Komite Nasional Papua Barat-KNPB) and civil society groups and youth from West Papua marched in protest of Jakarta’s plan to create more provinces. Thousands ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/yamin-kogoya-fatal-disconnect-between-jakarta-and-west-papua-worsens-settler-colonial-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Fatal disconnect between Jakarta and West Papua worsens settler-colonial occupation">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University Getty Good news, Australia – the environment is back. Our new government has introduced a new super-department covering climate change, energy, the environment and water. But while the ministry move sounds great in theory, it’s risky ... <a title="Our new environment super-department sounds great in theory. But one department for two ministers is risky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/06/our-new-environment-super-department-sounds-great-in-theory-but-one-department-for-two-ministers-is-risky-184386/" aria-label="Read more about Our new environment super-department sounds great in theory. But one department for two ministers is risky">Read more</a>
