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June 30, 2023
By Giff Johnson, Editor, Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Following widespread media coverage of the collapse of what was a more than US$70 million trust fund for Bikini islanders displaced by American nuclear weapons testing, the United States Congress has demanded answers from the Interior Department about the status of the trust fund. ... <a title="Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been ‘squandered’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/congressmen-angry-that-bikini-islanders-nuclear-trust-fund-may-have-been-squandered/" aria-label="Read more about Congressmen angry that Bikini islanders’ nuclear trust fund may have been ‘squandered’">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Gallagher, PhD Candidate, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland Brisbane’s West End. Photo: Rachel Gallagher, Author provided For almost a century, zoning has been the key tool used by urban planners to influence how our cities grow and change. Our newly published ... <a title="Houses and high-rises (and nothing in between): why land zoning hasn’t been effective for improving urban density" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/houses-and-high-rises-and-nothing-in-between-why-land-zoning-hasnt-been-effective-for-improving-urban-density-204185/" aria-label="Read more about Houses and high-rises (and nothing in between): why land zoning hasn’t been effective for improving urban density">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jude McCulloch, Emeritus Professor Monash University, Monash University For over 15 years, the Victoria police used criminal barrister Nicola Gobbo as an informant against her own clients in what has become known as the Lawyer X scandal. The scandal has been accurately described as a massive blow ... <a title="Investigation into ‘reprehensible’ failure of police ends quietly with no charges – why we must learn from the Lawyer X scandal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/investigation-into-reprehensible-failure-of-police-ends-quietly-with-no-charges-why-we-must-learn-from-the-lawyer-x-scandal-208654/" aria-label="Read more about Investigation into ‘reprehensible’ failure of police ends quietly with no charges – why we must learn from the Lawyer X scandal">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan Willis, Senior Lecturer, School of Behavioural and Health Sciences, Australian Catholic University Shutterstock Our interest in narcissism has never been higher, with Google searches for the word “narcissist” having steadily increased over the past decade. This term has become part of everyday parlance, readily thrown around ... <a title="How many types of narcissist are there? A psychology expert sets the record straight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/how-many-types-of-narcissist-are-there-a-psychology-expert-sets-the-record-straight-207610/" aria-label="Read more about How many types of narcissist are there? A psychology expert sets the record straight">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandy Hagstrom, Senior Lecturer, Exercise Physiology. School of Health Sciences, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock When you lift weights, why are you doing what you are doing? Who told you to train that way – coach, a personal trainer, an online exercise guru? And where did they learn how ... <a title="New study: much of what we’re told about gym exercises and resistance training is from studies of males, by men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/new-study-much-of-what-were-told-about-gym-exercises-and-resistance-training-is-from-studies-of-males-by-men-205753/" aria-label="Read more about New study: much of what we’re told about gym exercises and resistance training is from studies of males, by men">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenni Adams, Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Canterbury IceCube Collaboration/Science Communication Lab for CRC 1491 Our Milky Way galaxy is an awe-inspiring feature of the night sky, viewable with the naked eye as a hazy band of stars stretching from horizon to horizon. For the first ... <a title="A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky Way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/a-neutrino-portrait-of-our-galaxy-reveals-high-energy-particles-from-within-the-milky-way-208622/" aria-label="Read more about A neutrino portrait of our galaxy reveals high-energy particles from within the Milky Way">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vivienne Lewis, Assistant professor – Psychology, University of Canberra Shutterstock “Food noise” or thinking about food constantly is not helpful to anyone’s mental health and wellbeing. When we become obsessed with any one line of thought (in this case, food), we can become consumed by it and ... <a title="Some Ozempic users say it silences ‘food noise’. But there are drug-free ways to stop thinking about food so much" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/some-ozempic-users-say-it-silences-food-noise-but-there-are-drug-free-ways-to-stop-thinking-about-food-so-much-208467/" aria-label="Read more about Some Ozempic users say it silences ‘food noise’. But there are drug-free ways to stop thinking about food so much">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Jill Marie Smith, Shutterstock The Northern Territory government’s plan to turn 100,000 hectares over to large-scale crops such as cotton and its support for onshore gas extraction is threatening the world’s ... <a title="Land clearing and fracking in Australia’s Northern Territory threatens the world’s largest intact tropical savanna" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/land-clearing-and-fracking-in-australias-northern-territory-threatens-the-worlds-largest-intact-tropical-savanna-208028/" aria-label="Read more about Land clearing and fracking in Australia’s Northern Territory threatens the world’s largest intact tropical savanna">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Larsen, Lecturer, University of New England Mary Taylor/Pexels If students have poor academic results early in school, do they continue to fall further and further behind as they move through their education? The intuitive answer to this question is yes. This perception is fuelled by relentless ... <a title="Our research shows Australian students who are behind in primary school can catch up by high school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/our-research-shows-australian-students-who-are-behind-in-primary-school-can-catch-up-by-high-school-208364/" aria-label="Read more about Our research shows Australian students who are behind in primary school can catch up by high school">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Turnbull, Senior Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong Prime Video You know how it starts: a drone shot across an expanse of grey water under a leaden sky accompanied by eerie music and a sense of foreboding. Clearly someone is going to die, ... <a title="How Deadloch flips the Nordic Noir crime genre on its arse and makes it funny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/how-deadloch-flips-the-nordic-noir-crime-genre-on-its-arse-and-makes-it-funny-208478/" aria-label="Read more about How Deadloch flips the Nordic Noir crime genre on its arse and makes it funny">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison had had his way, Gladys Berejiklian would have run for the Sydney seat of Warringah, held by independent Zali Steggall, at last year’s election. Imagine the situation Opposition leader Peter Dutton would be in now ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: ICAC shows it has the power to break public figures, but doesn’t escape criticism itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/grattan-on-friday-icac-shows-it-has-the-power-to-break-public-figures-but-doesnt-escape-criticism-itself-208756/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: ICAC shows it has the power to break public figures, but doesn’t escape criticism itself">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Peter Boyle in Sydney As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, Australian anti-nuclear activists are highlighting the complicity of Australian uranium exporting companies. While the Fukushima Daiichi power station operator, Tokyo Electric Power ... <a title="Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/japans-fukushima-nuclear-waste-plan-stirs-pacific-chernobyl-risk-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests">Read more</a>
