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October 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University It may have been largely overlooked in the election debates, but New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions are finally on the way down. Annual emissions of carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels are the lowest since 1999 and ... <a title="New Zealand’s carbon emissions are on the way down – thanks in part to policies now under threat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/new-zealands-carbon-emissions-are-on-the-way-down-thanks-in-part-to-policies-now-under-threat-214640/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s carbon emissions are on the way down – thanks in part to policies now under threat">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Rice, Senior Lecturer, Education Policy and Leadership, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Australia’s teaching workforce does not reflect the diversity of the Australian community, a situation that has far-reaching implications for our education system. As we outline in our new research, published today, teachers are predominantly ... <a title="Australia’s teacher workforce has a diversity problem. Here’s how we can fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/australias-teacher-workforce-has-a-diversity-problem-heres-how-we-can-fix-it-214564/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s teacher workforce has a diversity problem. Here’s how we can fix it">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Yao, Senior Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock Youth unemployment is a global problem, but in China the rate – 21.3% – is particularly alarming, not just because it’s high, but because it could affect other economies and geopolitical relations. The release ... <a title="China’s youth unemployment problem has become a crisis we can no longer ignore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/chinas-youth-unemployment-problem-has-become-a-crisis-we-can-no-longer-ignore-213751/" aria-label="Read more about China’s youth unemployment problem has become a crisis we can no longer ignore">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Golding, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology Pexels/Polina Tankilevitch An enthusiastic, sellout crowd arrived at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall in September to hear an evening of music from Orchestra Victoria. The program consisted largely of Australian music and premiere performances. If the sight of 3,500 filled seats ... <a title="Australian video-game music is an exciting area of cultural activity – and you should be paying attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/09/australian-video-game-music-is-an-exciting-area-of-cultural-activity-and-you-should-be-paying-attention-214837/" aria-label="Read more about Australian video-game music is an exciting area of cultural activity – and you should be paying attention">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
COMMENTARY: By John Minto The Hamas attack on Israel yesterday has brought the usual round of systemic misreporting by New Zealand news outlets as they repost stories from the BBC, AP and Reuters which bend the truth in favour of Israeli narratives of “terrorism” and “victimhood”. The worst comes from the BBC which is dutifully ... <a title="John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/john-minto-systemic-nz-misreporting-on-israeli-occupation-of-palestine-and-palestinian-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about John Minto: Systemic NZ misreporting on Israeli occupation of Palestine and Palestinian resistance">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s efforts to tackle Indigenous disadvantage will not be as effective if Saturday’s referendum fails, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said. Albanese has also reconfirmed that if there is a “no” vote he will not seek to legislate a ... <a title="A ‘no’ win will make it harder for government to tackle Indigenous disadvantage: Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/a-no-win-will-make-it-harder-for-government-to-tackle-indigenous-disadvantage-albanese-215232/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘no’ win will make it harder for government to tackle Indigenous disadvantage: Albanese">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eyal Mayroz, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war – a shock attack on its borders by a coalition of Arab states. Now, it appears ... <a title="After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fallout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/after-a-shocking-hamas-assault-on-israel-both-sides-brace-for-the-devastating-fallout-215230/" aria-label="Read more about After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fallout">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eyal Mayroz, Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney Almost 50 years ago to the day, Israel failed to anticipate the outbreak of the 1973 Yom Kippur war – a shock attack on its borders by a coalition of Arab states. Now, it appears ... <a title="After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fall-out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/after-a-shocking-hamas-assault-on-israel-both-sides-brace-for-the-devastating-fall-out-215230/" aria-label="Read more about After a shocking Hamas assault on Israel, both sides brace for the devastating fall-out">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has hailed the news that Narges Mohammadi — an Iranian journalist RSF has been defending for years — has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her “fight against the oppression of women in Iran,” her courage and determination. Persecuted by the Iranian authorities since the late 1990s ... <a title="RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/rsf-hails-decision-to-award-nobel-peace-prize-to-iranian-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails decision to award Nobel Peace Prize to Iranian journalist">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The New Zealand government bears heavy responsibility for loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis in the latest fighting in Israel/Palestine and must revisit its policy, says the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) national chair John Minto. “Whatever the eventual outcome of the Hamas attacks on Israel today [Saturday], the New Zealand ... <a title="Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/08/palestine-solidarity-group-calls-on-nz-to-end-blind-eye-policy-over-brutal-israeli-occupation/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity group calls on NZ to end ‘blind eye’ policy over brutal Israeli occupation">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fan Yang, Research fellow at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society., The University of Melbourne Some 1.4 million Australians are of Chinese ancestry, or about 5.5% of the population. Given the size of the community, ... <a title="‘No’ campaign is dominating the Voice debate among Chinese Australians on WeChat: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/07/no-campaign-is-dominating-the-voice-debate-among-chinese-australians-on-wechat-new-research-214383/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No’ campaign is dominating the Voice debate among Chinese Australians on WeChat: new research">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The state of civic space in Indonesia has been rated as “obstructed” in the latest CIVICUS Monitor report. The civic space watchdog said that ongoing concerns include the arrest, harassment and criminalisation of human rights defenders and journalists as well as physical and digital attacks, the use of defamation laws to silence ... <a title="Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/crackdown-on-activists-free-expression-in-papua-as-indonesia-eyes-un-human-rights-role/" aria-label="Read more about Crackdown on activists, free expression in Papua as Indonesia eyes UN Human Rights role">Read more</a>
