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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, Monash University Kazuo Ota / Unsplash Social media contains enormous amounts of data about people, our everyday lives, and our interactions with our surroundings. As a byproduct, it also contains a vast trove of information about the natural world. In a new study ... <a title="Social media snaps map the sweep of Japan’s cherry blossom season in unprecedented detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/social-media-snaps-map-the-sweep-of-japans-cherry-blossom-season-in-unprecedented-detail-206574/" aria-label="Read more about Social media snaps map the sweep of Japan’s cherry blossom season in unprecedented detail">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Lukas Coch/AAP Relations between a centrist Labor government feeling its way and an ascendant Greens party have become surprisingly strained of late. The rancorous tone of public exchanges reveals deep-seated enmities born of an increasingly direct electoral contest ... <a title="Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/labor-and-the-greens-dont-get-along-heres-why-205581/" aria-label="Read more about Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Jefferson, Senior Lecturer Above the Bar, University of Canterbury Getty Images The recent decision in “one of the most complex and long running” trademark cases in New Zealand was a loss for the country’s mānuka honey producers. But it also served to highlight just how ill-equipped ... <a title="How NZ’s own law helped Australia win the Manuka Honey trademark war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/how-nzs-own-law-helped-australia-win-the-manuka-honey-trademark-war-206496/" aria-label="Read more about How NZ’s own law helped Australia win the Manuka Honey trademark war">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Ray, Affiliate Associate Lecturer, School of Medicine, Deakin University Shutterstock The number of people needing an organ transplant vastly outweighs the number of organs available. In 2022 there were about 1,800 Australians waiting for an organ but only about 1,200 people received an organ transplant. But ... <a title="People thinking of voluntary assisted dying may be able to donate their organs. We need to start talking about this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/people-thinking-of-voluntary-assisted-dying-may-be-able-to-donate-their-organs-we-need-to-start-talking-about-this-206298/" aria-label="Read more about People thinking of voluntary assisted dying may be able to donate their organs. We need to start talking about this">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University By the end of this year, native forest logging will cease in Victoria. Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of clearfelling and ... <a title="We can’t just walk away after the logging stops in Victoria’s native forests. Here’s what must happen next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/we-cant-just-walk-away-after-the-logging-stops-in-victorias-native-forests-heres-what-must-happen-next-206596/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t just walk away after the logging stops in Victoria’s native forests. Here’s what must happen next">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Roche, Research Director – Strategic Energy Collaborations, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Australia’s energy transition is well under way. Some 3 million households have rooftop solar and sales of medium-sized electric cars are surging. But as we work towards fully electric households powered by renewable energy, ... <a title="Using electric water heaters to store renewable energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries – and save us billions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/using-electric-water-heaters-to-store-renewable-energy-could-do-the-work-of-2-million-home-batteries-and-save-us-billions-204281/" aria-label="Read more about Using electric water heaters to store renewable energy could do the work of 2 million home batteries – and save us billions">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Karen Peel, Senior Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Southern Queenskand, University of Southern Queensland Shutterstock. There are an estimated 24,000-plus students who study by distance education in Australia. While their lessons are delivered remotely, by law, all of these students still need to be supervised ... <a title="Distance education tutors don’t need any formal qualifications – we should make this role a career" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/distance-education-tutors-dont-need-any-formal-qualifications-we-should-make-this-role-a-career-205848/" aria-label="Read more about Distance education tutors don’t need any formal qualifications – we should make this role a career">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L Hopkins, Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock Most of us look forward to a rare long weekend. But some Australians now enjoy a four-day week every week. They’re lucky enough to work for the small number of organisations that are trialling or have permanently ... <a title="10 Australian companies have embraced the 4-day week. Here’s what they say about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/10-australian-companies-have-embraced-the-4-day-week-heres-what-they-say-about-it-206761/" aria-label="Read more about 10 Australian companies have embraced the 4-day week. Here’s what they say about it">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C Van Dyk, Lecturer, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Hot soup on a cold day brings warmth and comfort so simple that we don’t think too much about its origins. But its long history runs from the Stone Age and antiquity through to modernity, encompassing the birth ... <a title="‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup, from cave to can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/05/good-soup-is-one-of-the-prime-ingredients-of-good-living-a-condensed-history-of-soup-from-cave-to-can-205656/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Good soup is one of the prime ingredients of good living’: a (condensed) history of soup, from cave to can">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2023
By Tess Brunton, RNZ News reporter New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins faced a grilling by University of Otago students during his trip to Ōtepoti yesterday. Students, staff and community members have been fighting against the university’s request for staff to consider redundancies in a bid to save $60 million. But the students did not ... <a title="Hipkins faces grilling from students over University of Otago staff cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/03/hipkins-faces-grilling-from-students-over-university-of-otago-staff-cuts/" aria-label="Read more about Hipkins faces grilling from students over University of Otago staff cuts">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2023
RNZ Pacific Transparency International Papua New Guinea has welcomed the conviction of lawyer Paul Paraka as the police confirm they are widening the investigation into the fraud case. The NGO admits the depths of Paraka’s activities, revealed by the case, are very worrying. Paraka, who had operated his own eponymous law firm, was convicted of ... <a title="Transparency PNG calls for further charges over ‘worrying’ Paraka case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/03/transparency-png-calls-for-further-charges-over-worrying-paraka-case/" aria-label="Read more about Transparency PNG calls for further charges over ‘worrying’ Paraka case">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian author-poet and advocate for West Papuan independence has condemned a reported threat against the life of a New Zealand hostage pilot, Philip Mehrtens, held by Papuan liberation fighters and appealed to them to “keep Philip safe”. Jim Aubrey, a human rights activist who has campaigned globally on freedom struggles in ... <a title="Author-poet condemns Papuan rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/03/author-poet-condemns-papuan-rebel-threat-to-shoot-nz-hostage-pilot-if-denied-talks/" aria-label="Read more about Author-poet condemns Papuan rebel threat to shoot NZ hostage pilot if denied talks">Read more</a>
