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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Yellishetty, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University Shutterstock Newly announced closures of Glencore’s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University’s Resources Trinity ... <a title="Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/cleaning-up-australias-80-000-disused-mines-is-a-huge-job-but-the-payoffs-can-outweigh-the-costs-215447/" aria-label="Read more about Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Notley, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University Katerina Holmes/Pexels, CC BY-SA Adults might assume young people are not engaged in current affairs. But our survey reveals most Australian children and teenagers have a significant interest in the news. There has, however, been a drop ... <a title="Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/young-australians-increasingly-get-news-from-social-media-but-many-dont-understand-algorithms-215427/" aria-label="Read more about Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Andrews, Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage. Closing a plant that accounted for ... <a title="Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/heres-what-happens-to-workers-when-coal-fired-power-plants-close-it-isnt-good-215434/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening in Gaza and Israel. Mediawatch has asked BBC news boss Jonathan Munro how they’re handling it — even when it’s coming from the UK’s own government. “Palestinian health officials in Gaza ... <a title="Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/mediawatch-media-in-the-middle-of-gaza-claims-and-counterclaims/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The defrost in China-Australia relations started cautiously after the change of federal government last year. It then sped up, with developments culminating in the formal announcement at the weekend of the date for the much-anticipated visit by Anthony Albanese. The ... <a title="View from The Hill: China-Australia relations head back to room temperature, with Albanese’s November visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/view-from-the-hill-china-australia-relations-head-back-to-room-temperature-with-albaneses-november-visit-216151/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: China-Australia relations head back to room temperature, with Albanese’s November visit">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
About 5000 pro-Palestinian supporters gathered in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down Queen Street today calling for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in the War on Gaza. A co-organiser, Ming Al-Ansan, said: “We want our voices heard. Palestinian lives matter, so if we don’t do this then the media is not going to notice us.” ... <a title="Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/janfrie-wakim-time-to-take-action-over-the-gaza-bloodshed-hope-isnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Israeli authorities to end military pactices that “violate international law” with the deaths of civilians, including journalists. This came in the wake of seven journalists being killed by Israeli security forces in the space of a week — six in the ... <a title="RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/21/rsf-condemns-middle-east-bloody-week-with-seven-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns Middle East ‘bloody week’ with seven journalists killed">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Emeritus professor of politics, Monash University Who have been Australia’s most accomplished federal opposition leaders? The conventional answer to this question is Robert Menzies and Gough Whitlam, both renowned for rejuvenating their respective sides of politics and galvanising new constituencies of support. But what of ... <a title="Bill Hayden’s remarkable contribution to public life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/21/bill-haydens-remarkable-contribution-to-public-life-95853/" aria-label="Read more about Bill Hayden’s remarkable contribution to public life">Read more</a>
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October 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Loukas Koungoulos, Postdoctoral research fellow, Australian National University Shutterstock Dingoes are an iconic Australian wild animal, with close links to Australia’s First Peoples throughout the mainland. Yet the origins and history of these animals are shrouded in obscurity. The question of whether dingoes are a truly wild ... <a title="Did Australia’s First Peoples domesticate dingoes? They certainly buried them with great care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/21/did-australias-first-peoples-domesticate-dingoes-they-certainly-buried-them-with-great-care-205994/" aria-label="Read more about Did Australia’s First Peoples domesticate dingoes? They certainly buried them with great care">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2023
RNZ News Te Pāti Māori wants the incoming and outgoing governments of Aotearoa New Zealand to use the country’s strong international voice to insist on an urgent ceasefire between Israel and Gaza. And they say the government should be prepared to “kick the Israeli ambassador out” if the fighting does not stop and humanitarian aid ... <a title="Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire, ‘absolute peace’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/te-pati-maori-calls-for-nz-to-insist-on-israel-gaza-ceasefire-absolute-peace/" aria-label="Read more about Te Pāti Māori calls for NZ to insist on Israel-Gaza ceasefire, ‘absolute peace’">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Webb, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology NASA ODPO Reports this week suggest a near-collision between an Australian satellite and a suspected Chinese military satellite. Meanwhile, earlier this month, the US government issued the first ever space junk fine. The ... <a title="Space is getting crowded with satellites and space junk. How do we avoid collisions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/space-is-getting-crowded-with-satellites-and-space-junk-how-do-we-avoid-collisions-215545/" aria-label="Read more about Space is getting crowded with satellites and space junk. How do we avoid collisions?">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Cooper, Research Editor, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is due in Washington next week. He will be the fourth of US President Joe Biden’s international guests treated to the pomp and ceremony of an official state visit to the United ... <a title="As Albanese heads to Washington, what can he hope to bring home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/20/as-albanese-heads-to-washington-what-can-he-hope-to-bring-home-214834/" aria-label="Read more about As Albanese heads to Washington, what can he hope to bring home?">Read more</a>
