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Year: 2022

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Coroner finds social media contributed to 14-year-old Molly Russell’s death. How should parents and platforms react?

October 4, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tama Leaver, Professor of Internet Studies, Curtin University Shutterstock Last week, London coroner Andrew Walker delivered his findings from the inquest into 14-year-old schoolgirl Molly Russell’s death, concluding she “died from an act of self harm while suffering from depression and the negative effects of online content”. ... <a title="Coroner finds social media contributed to 14-year-old Molly Russell’s death. How should parents and platforms react?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/coroner-finds-social-media-contributed-to-14-year-old-molly-russells-death-how-should-parents-and-platforms-react-191757/" aria-label="Read more about Coroner finds social media contributed to 14-year-old Molly Russell’s death. How should parents and platforms react?">Read more</a>

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Australia is well-placed to make the long-overdue repatriation of Islamic State women and children work

October 4, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University The al-Roj camp in northeast Syria. Save the Children/AAP National security is not a zero-sum game. If the past two decades have taught us anything about breaking the cycle of terrorist ... <a title="Australia is well-placed to make the long-overdue repatriation of Islamic State women and children work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/australia-is-well-placed-to-make-the-long-overdue-repatriation-of-islamic-state-women-and-children-work-191752/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is well-placed to make the long-overdue repatriation of Islamic State women and children work">Read more</a>

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NZ biggest firms will soon have to disclose their climate risk – but will it really curb climate change?

October 4, 2022

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilan Noy, Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Climate change has many catastrophic consequences, including droughts, floods, wildfires, heat waves, rising sea levels and biodiversity loss. These all have adverse implications for social cohesion, ... <a title="NZ biggest firms will soon have to disclose their climate risk – but will it really curb climate change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/04/nz-biggest-firms-will-soon-have-to-disclose-their-climate-risk-but-will-it-really-curb-climate-change-191490/" aria-label="Read more about NZ biggest firms will soon have to disclose their climate risk – but will it really curb climate change?">Read more</a>

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Outrage over a rapist’s home detention highlights the need for victims’ voices in NZ’s sentencing process

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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The magnificent Lake Eyre Basin is threatened by 831 oil and gas wells – and more are planned. Is that what Australians really want?

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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Politics Daily – Items of interest and importance today October 4, 2022

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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Tesla’s Optimus robot isn’t very impressive – but it may be a sign of better things to come

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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When is being Māori not enough? Why Māori politics are always personal

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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‘Indian Viagra’ – herbal drug Kamini contains morphine and can quickly lead to dependence

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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A deadly disease has driven 7 Australian frogs to extinction – but this endangered frog is fighting back

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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Orthodox thinking won’t cut it: why Mathias Cormann’s leadership of the OECD has economists worried

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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More than a piece of furniture: it is sometimes as if these old pianos have souls

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>