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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romain Fathi, Senior Lecturer, History, Flinders University Guilliame Horcajuelo/EPA/AP Emmanuel Macron has been reelected as President of the Republic of France for a second five-year term. He defeated far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the second round of the presidential election only hours ago, winning about 58.8% ... <a title="Emmanuel Macron is reelected but the French are longing for radical change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/emmanuel-macron-is-reelected-but-the-french-are-longing-for-radical-change-181488/" aria-label="Read more about Emmanuel Macron is reelected but the French are longing for radical change">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Nicole Sharwood, Public health and injury epidemiologist | Expert Witness, University of Sydney Shutterstock Child’s play involves risk and challenge, a vital part of development. Failing, falling and picking yourself up again are crucial life lessons. But children also need to be protected from severe and ... <a title="Giant tube slides and broken legs: why the latest playground craze is a serious hazard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/giant-tube-slides-and-broken-legs-why-the-latest-playground-craze-is-a-serious-hazard-181073/" aria-label="Read more about Giant tube slides and broken legs: why the latest playground craze is a serious hazard">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Declan Kuch, Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Parks Australia/AAP Last month former carbon market watchdog Andrew MacIntosh blew the whistle on Australia’s carbon offset market. He described the scheme as a “rort” with up to 80% of carbon offsets “markedly ... <a title="Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it’s time to get real about climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/now-we-know-the-flaws-of-carbon-offsets-its-time-to-get-real-about-climate-change-181071/" aria-label="Read more about Now we know the flaws of carbon offsets, it’s time to get real about climate change">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jun Yao, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Macquarie University shutterstock Have you noticed your favourite chocolate is a little smaller, there are fewer biscuits in the same-sized package or bags of chips contain more air? If you haven’t, you’re not alone. What marketers call a “contents reduction strategy” ... <a title="All new smaller size! Why getting less with shrinkflation is preferable to paying more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/all-new-smaller-size-why-getting-less-with-shrinkflation-is-preferable-to-paying-more-181326/" aria-label="Read more about All new smaller size! Why getting less with shrinkflation is preferable to paying more">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katrina Kell, Honorary Research Associate, Murdoch University HappyWaldo/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Chloé, the French nude by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, is an Australian cultural icon. Chloé made its debut at the 1875 Paris Salon and won medals at the 1879 Sydney and 1880 Melbourne international exhibitions. In December ... <a title="Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/chloe-how-a-19th-century-french-nude-ended-up-in-a-melbourne-pub-and-became-an-icon-for-australian-soldiers-180032/" aria-label="Read more about Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
RNZ Pacific Cook Islands has reported the country’s first covid-19 pandemic death. The 63-year-old woman died on the way to hospital on the island of Aitutaki, Prime Minister Mark Brown said in a statement posted on Facebook. “It is with great sadness that I announce that we have recorded our first in-country death attributed to ... <a title="Covid-19 in Pacific: Cook Islands reports first pandemic death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/covid-19-in-pacific-cook-islands-reports-first-pandemic-death/" aria-label="Read more about Covid-19 in Pacific: Cook Islands reports first pandemic death">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Pacific Media Watch newsdesk Following a district court order referring the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange back to the United Kingdom’s Home Office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has launched a new petition calling on Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject Assange’s extradition to the United States. RSF urges supporters to join the call on ... <a title="RSF launches new #FreeAssange petition as UK’s Home Secretary considers extradition order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/rsf-launches-new-freeassange-petition-as-uks-home-secretary-considers-extradition-order/" aria-label="Read more about RSF launches new #FreeAssange petition as UK’s Home Secretary considers extradition order">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As the government fights for its life, John Howard, the Liberals’ living icon, has been on the campaign trail. It’s not all been smooth sailing for the veteran, however. When Anthony Albanese had his now infamous numbers lapse, Howard’s first ... <a title="View from The Hill: Could going too negative on ‘teals’ do Liberals more harm than good?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/25/view-from-the-hill-could-going-too-negative-on-teals-do-liberals-more-harm-than-good-181837/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Could going too negative on ‘teals’ do Liberals more harm than good?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Marian Faa of ABC Pacific Beat As a child, Efika Kora remembers watching planes glide over her remote village in the Pacific. Transfixed, she imagined that one day she would be the one flying them. Now, just two semesters away from completing a diploma of aviation at an Adelaide school, the 24-year-old ... <a title="West Papuan students’ dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/west-papuan-students-dreams-dashed-after-scholarships-suddenly-cancelled/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan students’ dreams dashed after scholarships suddenly cancelled">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2022
RNZ Pacific Several pro-independence parties in New Caledonia are urging supporters to boycott the second round of the French presidential elections this Sunday. The election pits far-right National Rally (Rassemblement National) candidate Marine Le Pen against the incumbent President Emmanuel Macron. Before the first round the pro-independence parties advised supporters to vote for a left-oriented ... <a title="Kanak pro-independence parties urge supporters to boycott French election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/kanak-pro-independence-parties-urge-supporters-to-boycott-french-election/" aria-label="Read more about Kanak pro-independence parties urge supporters to boycott French election">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2022
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo says the country needs an economic solution to its instability problems, not a security solution. Lilo said he could not understand how current Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare could justify signing a security cooperation agreement with China to quell public discontent in ... <a title="Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/former-solomons-pm-says-country-needs-economic-solution-not-security/" aria-label="Read more about Former Solomons PM says country needs economic solution not security">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2022
COMMENTARY: By Professor Rod Jackson In a recent article (Weekend Herald, April 16) John Roughan wrote that the covid-19 pandemic has been an anticlimax in Aotearoa New Zealand. Surprisingly, he acknowledges covid-19 has killed about 25 million people worldwide, so hopefully he was referring to New Zealand’s 600 deaths. He goes on to ask how ... <a title="Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was proportionate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/23/rod-jackson-why-new-zealands-response-to-the-covid-pandemic-was-proportionate/" aria-label="Read more about Rod Jackson: Why New Zealand’s response to the covid pandemic was proportionate">Read more</a>
