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May 19, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Diesendorf, Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Holli, Shutterstock Collectively we are driving Earth and civilisation towards collapse. Human activities have exceeded planetary boundaries. We are changing the climate, losing biodiversity, degrading land, contaminating freshwater, and damaging the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles upon which we all depend. ... <a title="Saving humanity: here’s a radical approach to building a sustainable and just society" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/19/saving-humanity-heres-a-radical-approach-to-building-a-sustainable-and-just-society-205566/" aria-label="Read more about Saving humanity: here’s a radical approach to building a sustainable and just society">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah O’Shea, Professor and Higher Education Researcher, Curtin University Shutterstock This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling for ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education, and set it up for the next decade and beyond”. ... <a title="These 5 equity ideas should be at the heart of the Universities Accord" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/19/these-5-equity-ideas-should-be-at-the-heart-of-the-universities-accord-203418/" aria-label="Read more about These 5 equity ideas should be at the heart of the Universities Accord">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Reading Margaret Simons’ recently released biography of Tanya Plibersek brought to mind an interesting question. What sort of Labor government would we have if Plibersek, rather than Anthony Albanese, had become Labor leader in 2019, and then won the 2022 ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese governs on softly-softly catchee monkey formula. Would Plibersek or Chalmers have been bolder?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/grattan-on-friday-albanese-governs-on-softly-softly-catchee-monkey-formula-would-plibersek-or-chalmers-have-been-bolder-205933/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese governs on softly-softly catchee monkey formula. Would Plibersek or Chalmers have been bolder?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wenju Cai, Chief Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO, CSIRO Human-caused greenhouse gas emissions mean strong El Niño and La Niña events are occurring more often, according to our new research, which provides important new evidence of the human fingerprint on Earth’s climate. For more than 30 ... <a title="New study helps solve a 30-year-old puzzle: how is climate change affecting El Niño and La Niña?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/new-study-helps-solve-a-30-year-old-puzzle-how-is-climate-change-affecting-el-nino-and-la-nina-205128/" aria-label="Read more about New study helps solve a 30-year-old puzzle: how is climate change affecting El Niño and La Niña?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Clark, Executive Producer, Fear and Wonder, The Conversation Climate change is the defining issue of our times, but this wasn’t always the case. Establishing a scientific consensus has taken decades. Behind the scenes, thousands of experts have worked countless hours amassing the evidence and sounding the ... <a title="Listen to The Conversation’s climate podcast Fear and Wonder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/listen-to-the-conversations-climate-podcast-fear-and-wonder-205934/" aria-label="Read more about Listen to The Conversation’s climate podcast Fear and Wonder">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
By Lawrence Fong and Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape is still confident of delivering the PNG-US Defence Cooperation Agreement despite the cancellation of US President Joe Biden’s visit, and the leaking of a draft copy of the confidential document on Tuesday. He said PNG’s national interest was at ... <a title="PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/pngs-marape-confident-of-pulling-off-png-us-defence-pact-in-spite-of-leak/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape confident of pulling off PNG-US defence pact in spite of leak">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Asked to grade Jim Chalmers’ second budget on his own criteria of delivering “relief, repair and restraint”, most of the 57 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society of Australia ... <a title="Economists award Chalmers top marks for budget, but less for fighting inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/economists-award-chalmers-top-marks-for-budget-but-less-for-fighting-inflation-203896/" aria-label="Read more about Economists award Chalmers top marks for budget, but less for fighting inflation">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Batagol, Associate Professor of Law, Monash University, Monash University The Labor government’s Family Law Amendment Bill 2023 is making its way quietly through Australia’s federal parliament. It will become one of the most important laws passed this year. It proposes to overhaul the family law system ... <a title="Government’s family law bill is a big step forward. But it doesn’t do enough to address family violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/governments-family-law-bill-is-a-big-step-forward-but-it-doesnt-do-enough-to-address-family-violence-205562/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s family law bill is a big step forward. But it doesn’t do enough to address family violence">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Minister of Finance Grant Robertson delivers his fifth Wellbeing Budget. Getty Images Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably ... <a title="For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/for-a-no-frills-new-zealand-budget-it-was-surprisingly-frilly-5-experts-on-labours-big-pre-election-calls-205925/" aria-label="Read more about For a no-frills New Zealand budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University Minister of Finance Grant Robertson delivers his fifth Wellbeing Budget. Getty Images Grant Robertson’s sixth budget was an exercise in threading various needles. Much of its substance had already been foreshadowed, and to begin with the mood music was suitably ... <a title="For a no-frills budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/for-a-no-frills-budget-it-was-surprisingly-frilly-5-experts-on-labours-big-pre-election-calls-205925/" aria-label="Read more about For a no-frills budget it was ‘surprisingly frilly’: 5 experts on Labour’s big pre-election calls">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Shutterstock This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) advised that “non-sugar sweeteners should not be used as a means of achieving weight control or reducing the risk of noncommunicable diseases” such ... <a title="The WHO says we shouldn’t bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/the-who-says-we-shouldnt-bother-with-artificial-sweeteners-for-weight-loss-or-health-is-sugar-better-205827/" aria-label="Read more about The WHO says we shouldn’t bother with artificial sweeteners for weight loss or health. Is sugar better?">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2023
By Walter Zweifel, RNZ Pacific reporter French Polynesia’s anti-nuclear organisation Association 193 has criticised the latest French report about the impact of the France’s nuclear weapons tests. France’s National Institute of Health and Medical Research evaluated additional declassified data from the tests at Moruroa Atoll and found that radiation from them had a “minimal” role ... <a title="Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/18/tahitian-anti-nuclear-group-criticises-france-for-downplaying-tests-health/" aria-label="Read more about Tahitian anti-nuclear group criticises France for ‘downplaying’ tests health">Read more</a>
