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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia Ranald, Honorary research associate, University of Sydney Australian business figure Clive Palmer is suing the Australian government for almost A$300 billion in an international tribunal, having lost a case against the Western Australian government he took all the way to the High Court. The High Court ... <a title="How Clive Palmer is suing Australia for $300 billion with the help of an obscure legal clause (and Christian Porter)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/how-clive-palmer-is-suing-australia-for-300-billion-with-the-help-of-an-obscure-legal-clause-and-christian-porter-203111/" aria-label="Read more about How Clive Palmer is suing Australia for $300 billion with the help of an obscure legal clause (and Christian Porter)">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University Deportation of students, painting by Jacek Malczewski, 1884. Wikimedia Commons On March 17, the International Criminal Court cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children as a war crime for which President Vladimir Putin is being held responsible. By some reports, ... <a title="International Criminal Court has cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia’s long history of weaponising deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/international-criminal-court-has-cited-russias-deportation-of-ukrainian-children-a-war-crime-on-russias-long-history-of-weaponising-deportation-203040/" aria-label="Read more about International Criminal Court has cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia’s long history of weaponising deportation">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Walsh, Ethnoecologist, The University of Western Australia Drone photograph of ‘fairy circles’ in spinifex on Nyiyaparli people’s country, east Pilbara, Western Australia. Photo by Dave Wells, Author provided What are “fairy circles”? They are polka dots of bare earth, regularly scattered across arid grasslands. Scientists first ... <a title="First Peoples’ knowledge of ‘mysterious fairy circles’ in Australian deserts has upended a long-standing science debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/first-peoples-knowledge-of-mysterious-fairy-circles-in-australian-deserts-has-upended-a-long-standing-science-debate-202956/" aria-label="Read more about First Peoples’ knowledge of ‘mysterious fairy circles’ in Australian deserts has upended a long-standing science debate">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
By Jean Nuia in Kokopo, Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea’s fourth prime minister, Sir Rabbie Namaliu, has died — four days shy of his 76th birthday which would have been celebrated today. The late Sir Rabbie was born Rabbie Langanai Namaliu on April 3, 1947, to early local missionaries Darius and Utul Ioan Namaliu, ... <a title="PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big man, clever’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/pngs-sir-rabbie-blessed-at-birth-hell-be-a-big-man-clever/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Sir Rabbie blessed at birth – ‘he’ll be a big man, clever’">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The Australia West Papua Association has condemned an Indonesian crackdown on a peaceful Papua self-determination rally in Bali at the weekend after a militant nationalist group targeted the Papuan students. The Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) in Bali City held the rally on Saturday calling on the Indonesian government to hold a referendum ... <a title="Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in Bali" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/australian-advocacy-group-condemns-indonesian-crackdown-on-papuan-democracy-rally-in-bali/" aria-label="Read more about Australian advocacy group condemns Indonesian crackdown on Papuan ‘democracy’ rally in Bali">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Dominic O’Sullivan, Charles Sturt University As part of its aspiration to be “Tiriti-led”, the University of Otago has embarked on a consultation process to re-brand. The proposed change involves a new logo and a new, deeply symbolic Māori name: Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka. Universities occasionally change logos, names and marketing strategies. All New Zealand ... <a title="NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/nz-universities-are-not-normal-crown-institutions-they-shouldnt-be-tiriti-led/" aria-label="Read more about NZ universities are not normal Crown institutions – they shouldn’t be ‘Tiriti-led’">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle Malka Leifer, former principal of the Orthodox Jewish Adass Israel school in Melbourne, has been found guilty of sexually abusing two former students. A jury in the County Court of Victoria found Leifer guilty ... <a title="Malka Leifer found guilty of sexual abuse of former students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/malka-leifer-found-guilty-of-sexual-abuse-of-former-students-199582/" aria-label="Read more about Malka Leifer found guilty of sexual abuse of former students">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition spokesman for Indigenous Australians Julian Leeser has delivered a detailed critique of the government’s Voice proposal, ahead of Wednesday’s special Liberal Party meeting to determine its stand. Leeser, a long-time supporter of the Voice, also flagged he would like ... <a title="Liberals to meet on Voice, with Julian Leeser favouring campaign freedom for senior figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/liberals-to-meet-on-voice-with-julian-leeser-favouring-campaign-freedom-for-senior-figures-203157/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals to meet on Voice, with Julian Leeser favouring campaign freedom for senior figures">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Professor Marcia Langton, Foundation Chair in Australian Indigenous Studies, The University of Melbourne Peter Eve/Yothu Yindi Foundation Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Yunupiŋu’s family have given permission for his name and images to be used. ... <a title="Yunupiŋu was a great clan leader, a great family man and very much loved. I wish Australian political leaders could have learned more from him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/yunupinu-was-a-great-clan-leader-a-great-family-man-and-very-much-loved-i-wish-australian-political-leaders-could-have-learned-more-from-him-203160/" aria-label="Read more about Yunupiŋu was a great clan leader, a great family man and very much loved. I wish Australian political leaders could have learned more from him">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University Australia’s homicide rate has continued its overall downward trajectory in the latest crime data released last week. In fact, in 2020-21, Australia recorded the second-lowest number of homicides since the Australian Institute of Criminology began compiling ... <a title="Australia’s homicide rate is down over 50% from the 1990s, despite a small blip during COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/australias-homicide-rate-is-down-over-50-from-the-1990s-despite-a-small-blip-during-covid-202730/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s homicide rate is down over 50% from the 1990s, despite a small blip during COVID">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. A pandemic can end in three ways. Either the death rates attributed to the pandemic disease cease, or at least drop back to pre-pandemic levels. Or normality is re-established, with the pandemic disease still present, but displacing other causes of death. Or a ‘new normal’ is established, with higher ongoing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Post-Pandemic: Back to Normal?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/keith-rankin-analysis-covid19-post-pandemic-back-to-normal/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Covid19 Post-Pandemic: Back to Normal?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Clune, Honorary Associate, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Although Labor has returned to power in NSW, it will be in a minority government, with probably 45 seats, two short of a majority, to the Coalition’s 36 (assuming the Liberal Party wins the seat of ... <a title="It’s not easy, but history shows minority government has worked in NSW before. Here’s what Chris Minns must do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/03/its-not-easy-but-history-shows-minority-government-has-worked-in-nsw-before-heres-what-chris-minns-must-do-203138/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not easy, but history shows minority government has worked in NSW before. Here’s what Chris Minns must do">Read more</a>
