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May 24, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian advocacy group has called for West Papua to be reinscribed on the United Nations list of “non self-governing territories”, citing the “sham” vote in 1969 and the worsening human rights violations in the Indonesian-ruled Melanesian region. The UN Special Committee on Decolonisation began its 2023 Pacific Regional Seminar in Bali, ... <a title="Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/protesters-call-for-west-papua-to-be-included-on-un-decolonisation-list/" aria-label="Read more about Protesters call for West Papua to be included on UN ‘decolonisation’ list">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation’s politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda ... <a title="Word from The Hill: On the Voice, the Quad, and Indian PM Modi’s visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/word-from-the-hill-on-the-voice-the-quad-and-indian-pm-modis-visit-206305/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: On the Voice, the Quad, and Indian PM Modi’s visit">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Major state tax reforms are few and far between in Australia, which is what makes Tuesday‘s Victorian budget very, very significant. Victoria’s government announced it will abolish stamp duty for commercial and industrial properties and replace it with ... <a title="Victoria shows Australia how to finally abolish stamp duty once and for all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/victoria-shows-australia-how-to-finally-abolish-stamp-duty-once-and-for-all-205646/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria shows Australia how to finally abolish stamp duty once and for all">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By KB Heylen, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University More than 6 million Australians have used the “buy now, pay later” lending services offered by Afterpay, Zip and more than a dozen other companies. Buy now, pay later offers an easy and convenient alternative to credit card services. You can ... <a title="The rules for Afterpay, Zip and other ‘buy now, pay later’ providers are changing. What it means for you, and them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/the-rules-for-afterpay-zip-and-other-buy-now-pay-later-providers-are-changing-what-it-means-for-you-and-them-206184/" aria-label="Read more about The rules for Afterpay, Zip and other ‘buy now, pay later’ providers are changing. What it means for you, and them">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
INTERACTIVE WEBCAST: Join the LIVE recording of Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning’s podcast A View from Afar at midday Thursday (New Zealand time) and Wednesday 8pm (US EDT). In this the second episode of A View from Afar podcast for 2023, political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse the question: How ... <a title="LIVE PODCAST@Midday Thurs: How Stable is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Hold on Power?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/live-podcastmidday-thurs-how-stable-is-russian-president-vladimir-putins-hold-on-power/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE PODCAST@Midday Thurs: How Stable is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Hold on Power?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University The Andrews government’s ninth budget is its toughest. The bill from Victoria’s COVID experience, as well as the state government’s ambitious infrastructure spending, has finally come due. The pandemic has added more than $30 billion to the state’s total net ... <a title="Victoria bites $117 billion bullet, begins the long march of land tax reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/victoria-bites-117-billion-bullet-begins-the-long-march-of-land-tax-reform-206066/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria bites $117 billion bullet, begins the long march of land tax reform">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Dale, Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland Australian entertainer and artist Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93. After a prominent career as an artist, particularly in the UK, in 2014 Harris was convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault. ... <a title="Even after his death, Rolf Harris’ artwork will stand as reminders of his criminal acts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/even-after-his-death-rolf-harris-artwork-will-stand-as-reminders-of-his-criminal-acts-206282/" aria-label="Read more about Even after his death, Rolf Harris’ artwork will stand as reminders of his criminal acts">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Ryan, Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University Shutterstock The use of a Taser to subdue a 95-year-old dementia patient at an aged care home in Cooma, New South Wales, last week is yet another sickening example of what can go wrong when police rely too heavily on ... <a title="Why doesn’t Australia have greater transparency around Taser use by police?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/why-doesnt-australia-have-greater-transparency-around-taser-use-by-police-206085/" aria-label="Read more about Why doesn’t Australia have greater transparency around Taser use by police?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University A new pact between Australia and the United States highlights the pivotal role our nation’s mineral wealth will play in the clean energy transition. But it also underscores the massive effort now required from Australia. Prime Minister Anthony ... <a title="Cooperation with the US could drive Australia’s clean energy shift – but we must act fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/cooperation-with-the-us-could-drive-australias-clean-energy-shift-but-we-must-act-fast-206199/" aria-label="Read more about Cooperation with the US could drive Australia’s clean energy shift – but we must act fast">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been hit with an eye-watering €1.2 billion fine (about A$1.9 billion) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Unfortunately for Meta and its shareholders, earlier penalties ... <a title="Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/meta-just-copped-a-a-1-9bn-fine-for-keeping-eu-data-in-the-us-but-why-should-users-care-where-data-are-stored-206186/" aria-label="Read more about Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Tobler, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Shutterstock Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human scattering across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research published ... <a title="Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/ancient-humans-may-have-paused-in-arabia-for-30-000-years-on-their-way-out-of-africa-206200/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Patterson, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Shutterstock Hallucinations are often depicted in the movies as terrifying experiences. Think Jake Gyllenhaal seeing a monstrous rabbit in Donnie Darko, Leonardo DiCaprio experiencing the torture of Shutter Island, Natalie Portman in Black Swan, or Joaquin Phoenix ... <a title="Hallucinations in the movies tend to be about chaos, violence and mental distress. But they can be positive too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/hallucinations-in-the-movies-tend-to-be-about-chaos-violence-and-mental-distress-but-they-can-be-positive-too-204547/" aria-label="Read more about Hallucinations in the movies tend to be about chaos, violence and mental distress. But they can be positive too">Read more</a>
