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June 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Travis Holland, Senior Lecturer in Communication, Charles Sturt University IMDB In June 1993, director Steven Spielberg released a film that unleashed a wave of technological change in film-making and simultaneously helped to revive popular interest in dinosaurs. Jurassic Park, based on Michael Crichton’s novel, spawned five blockbuster ... <a title="How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/how-jurassic-park-changed-film-making-and-our-view-of-dinosaurs-203147/" aria-label="Read more about How Jurassic Park changed film-making and our view of dinosaurs">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2023
PNG Post-Courier Former Papua New Guinea prime minister Peter O’Neill has been charged with three counts of giving false evidence in a national US$1.2 billion loan inquiry contrary to Section 10 of the Commission of Inquiry Act. He met reporters outside Boroko Police Station in Port Moresby today stating “this is politically motivated”. O’Neill, who ... <a title="O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/13/oneill-claims-perjury-charges-over-pngs-ubs-loan-inquiry-political/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill claims perjury charges over PNG’s UBS loan inquiry ‘political’">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Brittany Higgins saga has damaged almost everyone it has touched, or who’s touched it. It will forever haunt Higgins, who alleged she was raped in 2019 in a minister’s office, and Bruce Lehrmann, who denied committing the alleged assault. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/view-from-the-hill-brittany-higgins-story-continues-its-damaging-trail-with-no-end-in-sight-207500/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Brittany Higgins story continues its damaging trail, with no end in sight">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney George Walker IV/AP/AAP Since Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy eight years ago this week, few words have been more overused than “unprecedented”. It was unprecedented for a previously unelected politician who had never served a ... <a title="Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/yes-federal-charges-against-a-former-president-are-unprecedented-but-so-is-trumps-political-power-207408/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, federal charges against a former president are unprecedented – but so is Trump’s political power">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
By Majeleen Yanei in Port Moresby Seventeen Papua New Guinean schoolgirls who were kidnapped, raped and held hostage by armed men in Bosavi, Hela, last Wednesday were released yesterday. The National’s source said they were released following a payment of 3300 kina (NZ$1500) and nine pigs as ransom to the gunmen. “The females were released ... <a title="PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/png-gunmen-kidnapped-raped-17-schoolgirls-before-freeing-them/" aria-label="Read more about PNG gunmen ‘kidnapped, raped’ 17 schoolgirls before freeing them">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Reports from Papua New Guinea say that 17 girls from a remote village have been held captive by a large group of armed men. The National reported this, according to an eyewitness, and the story has been corroborated by a government worker from Komo Hulia. The eyewitness said the men had been demanding $40,000 kina ... <a title="Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/armed-gunmen-kidnap-17-girls-from-remote-png-village-freed-for-ransom/" aria-label="Read more about Armed gunmen kidnap 17 girls from remote PNG village – freed for ransom">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
RNZ News A Ukrainian man who complained about an RNZ story last year having Russian propaganda says his concerns are only now being noticed. It comes after the revelation a staff member altered Reuters copy to include pro-Russian sentiment. Since Friday, 250 articles published on RNZ back to January last year have been audited. Of ... <a title="‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news stories must be taken seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/we-are-in-the-war-ukrainian-man-says-rnz-altered-news-stories-must-be-taken-seriously/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are in the war’: Ukrainian man says RNZ altered news stories must be taken seriously">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content TAX, GREENS’ TAX POLICY Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Greens’ wealth tax very clever – but income, corporate tax changes are risky Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Greens promise wealth tax as ... <a title="Newsletter: June 12 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/newsletter-june-12-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: June 12 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Brownlowe, Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney Michael Dziedzic / Unsplash Two weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming title “On the invariant subspace problem in Hilbert spaces”. The paper is just ... <a title="Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/has-a-mathematician-solved-the-invariant-subspace-problem-and-what-does-that-even-mean-206859/" aria-label="Read more about Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Powers, Lecturer In Buddhism Studies, The University of Melbourne Ashwini Bhatia/AP In China, a group of atheists (the Chinese Communist Party) has long dictated how the country’s religious groups should practice their faiths. Chinese Christians are told to reject salvation by faith and the Resurrection; their ... <a title="Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what’s at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/succession-on-the-tibetan-plateau-whats-at-stake-in-the-battle-over-the-dalai-lamas-reincarnation-202353/" aria-label="Read more about Succession on the Tibetan plateau: what’s at stake in the battle over the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Armour, Associate Professor at NICM Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University Shutterstock If you’ve been on social media recently you might have noticed sponsored posts and ads for a variety of small, portable electrical devices. These claim to manage period or endometriosis pain safely and without ... <a title="What’s a TENS machine? Can it help my period pain or endometriosis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/whats-a-tens-machine-can-it-help-my-period-pain-or-endometriosis-201389/" aria-label="Read more about What’s a TENS machine? Can it help my period pain or endometriosis?">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flavia Marcello, Professor of Design History, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock In 1985 photographer Rennie Ellis defined graffiti as “the result of someone’s urge to say something – to comment, inform, entertain, persuade, offend or simply to confirm his or her own existence here on earth”. Since ... <a title="Transgress to impress: why do people tag buildings – and are there any solutions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/12/transgress-to-impress-why-do-people-tag-buildings-and-are-there-any-solutions-205492/" aria-label="Read more about Transgress to impress: why do people tag buildings – and are there any solutions?">Read more</a>
