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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Clark, Executive Producer, Fear and Wonder, The Conversation Climate change is the defining issue of our times, but this wasn’t always the case. Establishing a scientific consensus has taken decades. Behind the scenes, thousands of experts have worked countless hours amassing the evidence and sounding the ... <a title="Listen to The Conversation’s climate podcast Fear and Wonder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/listen-to-the-conversations-climate-podcast-fear-and-wonder-205934/" aria-label="Read more about Listen to The Conversation’s climate podcast Fear and Wonder">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation Agreement despite the cancellation of US President Joe Biden’s visit, and the leaking of a draft copy of the confidential document on Tuesday. He said PNG’s national interest was at ... <a title="PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/pngs-marape-confident-of-pulling-off-png-us-defence-pact-in-spite-of-leak/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Asked to grade Jim Chalmers’ second budget on his own criteria of delivering “relief, repair and restraint”, most of the 57 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society of Australia ... <a title="Economists award Chalmers top marks for budget, but less for fighting inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/economists-award-chalmers-top-marks-for-budget-but-less-for-fighting-inflation-203896/" aria-label="Read more about Economists award Chalmers top marks for budget, but less for fighting inflation">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Batagol, Associate Professor of Law, Monash University, Monash University The Labor government’s Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 is making its way quietly through Australia’s federal parliament. It will become one of the most important laws passed this year. It proposes to overhaul the family law system ... <a title="Government’s family law bill is a big step forward. But it doesn’t do enough to address family violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/governments-family-law-bill-is-a-big-step-forward-but-it-doesnt-do-enough-to-address-family-violence-205562/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s family law bill is a big step forward. But it doesn’t do enough to address family violence">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Minister of Finance Grant Robertson delivers his fifth Wellbeing Budget. Getty Images Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably ... <a title="For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/for-a-no-frills-new-zealand-budget-it-was-surprisingly-frilly-5-experts-on-labours-big-pre-election-calls-205925/" aria-label="Read more about For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Minister of Finance Grant Robertson delivers his fifth Wellbeing Budget. Getty Images Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably ... <a title="For a no-frills budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/for-a-no-frills-budget-it-was-surprisingly-frilly-5-experts-on-labours-big-pre-election-calls-205925/" aria-label="Read more about For a no-frills budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Shutterstock This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised that “non-sugar sweeteners should not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases” such ... <a title="The WHO says we shouldn’t bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/the-who-says-we-shouldnt-bother-with-artificial-sweeteners-for-weight-loss-or-health-is-sugar-better-205827/" aria-label="Read more about The WHO says we shouldn’t bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia’s anti-nuclear organisation Association 193 has criticised the latest French report about the impact of the France’s nuclear weapons tests. France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research evaluated additional declassified data from the tests at Moruroa Atoll and found that radiation from them had a “minimal” role ... <a title="Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/tahitian-anti-nuclear-group-criticises-france-for-downplaying-tests-health/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mick Tsikas/AAP The government’s planned Housing Australia Future Fund has hit a roadblock. Legislation for the $10 billion fund – the returns on which would be used to build social and affordable housing – is being blocked by an unusual ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather on the housing fund, rent freezes and migration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/politics-with-michelle-grattan-greens-max-chandler-mather-on-the-housing-fund-rent-freezes-and-migration-205921/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens’ Max Chandler-Mather on the housing fund, rent freezes and migration">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Readers please be advised this article discusses racism. We’ve heard many different arguments for and against the Voice to Parliament in ... <a title="The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/the-voice-isnt-apartheid-or-a-veto-over-parliament-this-misinformation-is-undermining-democratic-debate-205474/" aria-label="Read more about The Voice isn’t apartheid or a veto over parliament – this misinformation is undermining democratic debate">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joelle Gergis, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Australian National University Should poorer countries be compensated for climate disasters that aren’t their own making? The concept of “loss and damage” was one of the most contentious raised at the United Nations COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November ... <a title="Fear and Wonder podcast: how climate action can create a more liveable future for all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/fear-and-wonder-podcast-how-climate-action-can-create-a-more-liveable-future-for-all-205563/" aria-label="Read more about Fear and Wonder podcast: how climate action can create a more liveable future for all">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paola Magni, Adjunct Research fellow, The University of Western Australia; Research Fellow, Harry Butler Institute, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science, Murdoch University Roxane 134 Shutterstock While the iconic “crime scene – do not cross” tape may be a familiar sight on land, it’s a different story when ... <a title="Forensics are different when someone dies in a body of water. First, you need to locate them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/forensics-are-different-when-someone-dies-in-a-body-of-water-first-you-need-to-locate-them-204921/" aria-label="Read more about Forensics are different when someone dies in a body of water. First, you need to locate them">Read more</a>
