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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Zametzer, PhD Candidate at Timescales of Mineral Systems Group, Curtin University Shutterstock Meteorite impacts can be cataclysmic events in the history of a planet, melting rock, changing atmospheric chemistry, and wreaking general havoc. However, impacts may also have created Earth’s continents, supported ecological niches that kick-started ... <a title="How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/how-the-worlds-oldest-known-meteorite-impact-structure-changed-the-chemistry-of-earths-crust-201228/" aria-label="Read more about How the world’s oldest known meteorite impact structure changed the chemistry of Earth’s crust">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amin Naeni, PhD candidate at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Atomic Energy Organization of Iran/AP The on-again, off-again talks between Iran and western powers over Tehran’s nuclear program have stalled yet again due to disagreements between the two sides. US Secretary of State ... <a title="With Iran purportedly capable of making a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, what will its leaders do next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/with-iran-purportedly-capable-of-making-a-nuclear-bomb-in-a-matter-of-months-what-will-its-leaders-do-next-202234/" aria-label="Read more about With Iran purportedly capable of making a nuclear bomb in a matter of months, what will its leaders do next?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University Australia is currently experiencing the longest break between infection peaks since Omicron arrived in late 2021 and community-wide transmission took off. With winter looming, it’s worth taking stock of where we are with COVID and what we might expect over ... <a title="Another COVID winter is coming. Is this the calm before another peak?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/another-covid-winter-is-coming-is-this-the-calm-before-another-peak-203149/" aria-label="Read more about Another COVID winter is coming. Is this the calm before another peak?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Bennett, Adjunct Professor in Ecology, La Trobe University Shutterstock When faced with uncertainty, we often look for predictions by experts: from election result forecasts, to the likely outcomes of medical treatment. In nature conservation, we turn to expert opinion to assess extinction risk, or predict the ... <a title="We rely on expert predictions to guide conservation. But even experts have biases and blind spots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/we-rely-on-expert-predictions-to-guide-conservation-but-even-experts-have-biases-and-blind-spots-202733/" aria-label="Read more about We rely on expert predictions to guide conservation. But even experts have biases and blind spots">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anita Wreford, Professor Applied Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand Fiona Goodall/Getty Images The recent report issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underscores the urgency of emissions reductions. For Aotearoa New Zealand, where 50% of emissions come from agriculture in the form of methane and ... <a title="NZ farmers worry about ‘carbon leakage’ if they have to pay for emissions, but they could benefit from playing the long game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/nz-farmers-worry-about-carbon-leakage-if-they-have-to-pay-for-emissions-but-they-could-benefit-from-playing-the-long-game-202839/" aria-label="Read more about NZ farmers worry about ‘carbon leakage’ if they have to pay for emissions, but they could benefit from playing the long game">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter The leader of New Caledonia’s Pacific Awakening party has presented his vision on the territory’s development to the French government. Milakulo Tukumuli met the French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ahead of talks between French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and New Caledonia’s pro- and anti-independence politicians. The two rival sides ... <a title="New Caledonia, France need a new plan to break sovereignty stalemate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/new-caledonia-france-need-a-new-plan-to-break-sovereignty-stalemate/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia, France need a new plan to break sovereignty stalemate">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2023
By Timoci Vula in Suva Fiji’s Department of Information spent $889,234.84 in taxpayer funds to the Fiji-owned company Vatis Communications until its contract was terminated earlier this year. Prime Minister and Minister for Information and Public Enterprises Sitiveni Rabuka revealed this in Parliament last week in response to questions raised surrounding the engagement of Vatis ... <a title="$889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/12/889k-plus-in-fiji-taxpayer-funds-paid-out-to-vatis-communications/" aria-label="Read more about $889k-plus in Fiji taxpayer funds paid out to Vatis Communications">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute No one likes spending cuts and tax hikes, but on our estimate the government will soon need more of them if they are going to make a dent in looming A$70 billion a year budget deficits. A new Grattan Institute ... <a title="Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/treasurer-chalmers-has-a-70-billion-a-year-budget-hole-weve-found-13-ways-to-fill-it-203331/" aria-label="Read more about Treasurer Chalmers has a $70 billion a year budget hole: we’ve found 13 ways to fill it">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Introducing ABC’s The Pacific – first episode. Video: ABC SPECIAL REPORT: By ABC Backstory editor Natasha Johnson When Tahlea Aualiitia talks about hosting the ABC’s new Pacific-focused news and current affairs TV programme, The Pacific, her voice breaks and she becomes emotional. Personally, it’s a career milestone, anchoring her first TV show after a decade ... <a title="ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/abc-launches-new-tv-show-the-pacific-and-their-storytellers/" aria-label="Read more about ABC launches new TV show, The Pacific – and their storytellers">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The decision of Julian Leeser, who has resigned from the opposition frontbench to campaign for a yes vote on the Voice to parliament, is both principled and pragmatic. Principled because only rarely in politics do we see people make a ... <a title="View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/view-from-the-hill-julian-leeser-shifts-his-own-dial-in-the-liberal-party-203574/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Julian Leeser shifts his own dial in the Liberal Party">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, VC Fellow LaTrobe University, La Trobe University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong joined 50,000 people to march in support of queer rights across the Sydney Harbour Bridge for World Pride in early March. A week earlier, Albanese became the first sitting ... <a title="There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/theres-a-growing-gap-between-countries-advancing-lgbtq-rights-and-those-going-backwards-203329/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a growing gap between countries advancing LGBTQ+ rights, and those going backwards">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne Australia’s health system is under significant pressure. The Labor government has inherited a system with declining bulk-billing rates for GP visits. These fell from almost 90% of ... <a title="What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/what-if-medicare-was-restricted-to-gps-who-bulk-billed-this-kind-of-reform-is-possible-203543/" aria-label="Read more about What if Medicare was restricted to GPs who bulk billed? This kind of reform is possible">Read more</a>
