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May 31, 2023
By Vijay Narayan in Suva Fiji’s 2000 coup leader George Speight, who has been serving time in prison for more than 20 years, has applied for a presidential pardon so he can be released. When questioned by Fijivillage News, Attorney-General and Chair of the Mercy Commission, Siromi Turaga confirmed that Speight had made an application ... <a title="2000 Fiji coup leader George Speight applies for presidential pardon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/2000-fiji-coup-leader-george-speight-applies-for-presidential-pardon/" aria-label="Read more about 2000 Fiji coup leader George Speight applies for presidential pardon">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob van Zoelen, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Jacob van Zoelen, Author provided Today, 80% of Australia is arid, but it was not always that way. In the early Pliocene, 5.4 to 3.6 million years ago, Australia had a greenhouse climate, widespread forests and diverse marsupial animals. As ... <a title="Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/newly-described-enormous-marsupial-wandered-great-distances-across-australia-3-5-million-years-ago-206492/" aria-label="Read more about Newly described enormous marsupial wandered great distances across Australia 3.5 million years ago">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Wyatt, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Waikato Getty Images When Academy Awards boss Bill Kramer recently applauded comedian Chris Rock for speaking “his truth” about being slapped by Will Smith at the 2022 Oscars ceremony, he used a turn of phrase that is fast becoming ... <a title="With so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know what the truth really is?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/with-so-many-people-speaking-their-truth-how-do-we-know-what-the-truth-really-is-205388/" aria-label="Read more about With so many people speaking ‘their truth’, how do we know what the truth really is?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyllie Cripps, Professor, Director Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies (SOPHIS), School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Faculty of Arts, Monash University Readers please be advised this article mentions acts of intimate partner violence against First Nations people. Indigenous women are eight times ... <a title="New research reveals harrowing stories of murdered Indigenous women and the failure of police to act" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/new-research-reveals-harrowing-stories-of-murdered-indigenous-women-and-the-failure-of-police-to-act-205655/" aria-label="Read more about New research reveals harrowing stories of murdered Indigenous women and the failure of police to act">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Mazza, Director, SPHERE NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Women’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Primary Care and Professor and Head of the Department of General Practice, Monash University Lili Kovac/Unsplash When the American legal precedent protecting women’s right to an abortion in the United States, ... <a title="Australian women’s access to abortion is a postcode lottery. Here’s what needs to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/australian-womens-access-to-abortion-is-a-postcode-lottery-heres-what-needs-to-change-206504/" aria-label="Read more about Australian women’s access to abortion is a postcode lottery. Here’s what needs to change">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Young, Professor, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock A free trade agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom begins on Wednesday. When it was announced in 2021, then-prime ministers Boris Johnson and Scott Morrison cheerily exchanged packets of chocolate biscuits. Meanwhile, one British newspaper celebrated the prospect ... <a title="A new trade deal delivers cheaper Australian beef and British sweets – but does little to avert dangerous global warming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/a-new-trade-deal-delivers-cheaper-australian-beef-and-british-sweets-but-does-little-to-avert-dangerous-global-warming-206394/" aria-label="Read more about A new trade deal delivers cheaper Australian beef and British sweets – but does little to avert dangerous global warming">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johan Barthélemy, Developer Relations Manager, NVIDIA and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong Krystal Randall, Author provided The Antarctic continent conjures visions of white ice and blue sky. But not far from Australia’s Casey Station, 3,880km due south of Perth, moss beds emerge ... <a title="Photos from the field: spying on Antarctic moss using drones, MossCam, smart sensors and AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/photos-from-the-field-spying-on-antarctic-moss-using-drones-mosscam-smart-sensors-and-ai-204114/" aria-label="Read more about Photos from the field: spying on Antarctic moss using drones, MossCam, smart sensors and AI">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Muir, Professor in Education (STEM), Australian Catholic University Shutterstock Australian students’ performance and engagement in mathematics is an ongoing issue. International studies show Australian students’ mean performance in maths has steadily declined since 2003. The latest Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018 showed only ... <a title="From whiteboard work to random groups, these simple fixes could get students thinking more in maths lessons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/from-whiteboard-work-to-random-groups-these-simple-fixes-could-get-students-thinking-more-in-maths-lessons-203059/" aria-label="Read more about From whiteboard work to random groups, these simple fixes could get students thinking more in maths lessons">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University The excitement generated by the 2023 Eurovision contest was palpable. Members of my family, like thousands of Australians, were awake at 5am on a Sunday to cheer on Australia’s Eurovision contenders, Perth band Voyager. Their song Promise was the ... <a title="Why isn’t Australian music charting on the ARIA charts?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/why-isnt-australian-music-charting-on-the-aria-charts-206088/" aria-label="Read more about Why isn’t Australian music charting on the ARIA charts?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist A leaked document authored by a recently recruited senior University of the South Pacific academic has again put a spotlight on the affairs of the regional institution. The “strictly confidential” document, viewed by RNZ Pacific, is written by Professor Janusz Jankowski, the deputy vice-chancellor ... <a title="‘Nepotism, lack of transparency and accountability’ claims emerge at USP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/nepotism-lack-of-transparency-and-accountability-claims-emerge-at-usp/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Nepotism, lack of transparency and accountability’ claims emerge at USP">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adele Pentland, PhD candidate, Curtin University New research on old bones has shed light on pterosaur fossils from the early Cretaceous period of Australia, which took place roughly 107 million years ago. The bones were discovered in Victoria in the late 1980s at a fossil site called ... <a title="These magnificent 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones are the oldest ever found in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/31/these-magnificent-107-million-year-old-pterosaur-bones-are-the-oldest-ever-found-in-australia-206501/" aria-label="Read more about These magnificent 107-million-year-old pterosaur bones are the oldest ever found in Australia">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter New Caledonia’s pro-independence FLNKS (Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front) says the advice of the International Court of Justice is being sought over the contested 2021 referendum on independence from France. The movement — represented by Roch Wamytan, who is President of New Caledonia’s Congress — told a UN ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/30/kanaky-new-caledonias-flnks-wants-icj-advice-on-contested-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia’s FLNKS wants ICJ advice on contested vote">Read more</a>
