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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, recently invested US$180 million into Retro Biosciences – a company seeking to extend human lifespans by ten healthy years. One way it plans to achieve ... <a title="The rich are pouring millions into life extension research – but does it have any ethical value?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/the-rich-are-pouring-millions-into-life-extension-research-but-does-it-have-any-ethical-value-201774/" aria-label="Read more about The rich are pouring millions into life extension research – but does it have any ethical value?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Hurst, Faculty of Arts Indigenous Postdoctoral Fellow, Indigenous and Settler Relations Collaboration, The University of Melbourne This is the third article in our series explaining Voice, Treaty and Truth. Read the other articles in the series here and here. Australia has never been good at listening ... <a title="First Nations people have made a plea for ‘truth-telling’. By reckoning with its past, Australia can finally help improve our future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/first-nations-people-have-made-a-plea-for-truth-telling-by-reckoning-with-its-past-australia-can-finally-help-improve-our-future-202137/" aria-label="Read more about First Nations people have made a plea for ‘truth-telling’. By reckoning with its past, Australia can finally help improve our future">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Boraman, Lecturer in Politics, Massey University Striking public sector workers in London, 1979. Getty Images Most people today are coping with the rising cost of living individually: cost cutting, looking for a better paid job, taking on “side hustles”, and so on. But not so long ... <a title="Strikes, protests and collective action: how fighting a cost-of-living crisis wasn’t always about tightening your own belt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/strikes-protests-and-collective-action-how-fighting-a-cost-of-living-crisis-wasnt-always-about-tightening-your-own-belt-203402/" aria-label="Read more about Strikes, protests and collective action: how fighting a cost-of-living crisis wasn’t always about tightening your own belt">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Jongenelis, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change, The University of Melbourne Kindel Media/Pexels You’re driving your teen home from school when they open up to you about their vaping. What started off as an occasional puff of an e-cigarette has turned into something more serious. ... <a title="How can I help my teen quit vaping?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/how-can-i-help-my-teen-quit-vaping-201558/" aria-label="Read more about How can I help my teen quit vaping?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Selinske, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University Australia’s rarest butterfly, the Australian fritillary. Garry Sankowsky, Author provided Last month, Sir David Attenborough called on United Kingdom residents to “go wild once per week”. By this, he meant taking actions which help rather than harm the natural world, ... <a title="Nature is in crisis. Here are 10 easy ways you can make a difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/nature-is-in-crisis-here-are-10-easy-ways-you-can-make-a-difference-202855/" aria-label="Read more about Nature is in crisis. Here are 10 easy ways you can make a difference">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Jefferson, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Many Year 10 students are beginning to think seriously about what subjects they might pick for years 11 and 12. These are important decisions – not just because they may form the basis of further university study ... <a title="Year 10 students are thinking about their final subjects – here’s how parents can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/year-10-students-are-thinking-about-their-final-subjects-heres-how-parents-can-help-203164/" aria-label="Read more about Year 10 students are thinking about their final subjects – here’s how parents can help">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ou Yang, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne The best word to describe the way Australia taxes alcoholic drinks is “incoherent”. It was the word used by the 2010 Henry Tax Review to describe a system in which some wine effectively faces no alcohol tax, expensive wine ... <a title="Australia’s system of taxing alcohol is ‘incoherent’, but our research suggests a single tax rate isn’t the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/australias-system-of-taxing-alcohol-is-incoherent-but-our-research-suggests-a-single-tax-rate-isnt-the-answer-195907/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s system of taxing alcohol is ‘incoherent’, but our research suggests a single tax rate isn’t the answer">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Lecturer, Screen Studies, University of New England Lionsgate At the beginning of the first John Wick film, the tools of his deadly trade lie entombed beneath concrete, buried alongside Wick’s worst self – the pitiless assassin only his happy marriage permitted him to retire. Fans ... <a title="How the John Wick franchise fits into the bloody tradition of the revenge film genre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/11/how-the-john-wick-franchise-fits-into-the-bloody-tradition-of-the-revenge-film-genre-203136/" aria-label="Read more about How the John Wick franchise fits into the bloody tradition of the revenge film genre">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2023
RNZ Pacific The authorities in Indonesia’s Papua region say the search for a New Zealand pilot taken hostage by West Papua Liberation Movement freedom fighters more than two months ago has been extended. Philip Mehrtens, a pilot for Susi Airlines, was taken hostage in the remote Nduga district on February 7. According to Antara News, ... <a title="Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/10/search-for-nz-pilot-taken-hostage-by-papua-rebels-extended-says-indonesia/" aria-label="Read more about Search for NZ pilot taken hostage by Papua rebels extended, says Indonesia">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2023
By Russell Palmer, RNZ News digital political journalist Unprecedented levels of disinformation will only get worse this election in Aotearoa New Zealand, but systems set up to deal with it during the pandemic have all been shut down, Disinformation Project researcher Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa has warned. He says the levels of vitriol and conspiratorial discourse ... <a title="Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/09/rise-in-nz-disinformation-conspiracy-theories-prompts-calls-for-election-protections/" aria-label="Read more about Rise in NZ disinformation, conspiracy theories prompts calls for election protections">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2023
By Anish Chand in Suva Post Fiji Ltd has engaged a law firm to recover $9.6 million from an Australia-based mail logistics company that used Post Fiji’s logo to conduct business dealings with postal agencies around the globe. This, according to the Auditor-General in his report on the review of public enterprises 2020-2021 that was ... <a title="$9.6m scandal – Post Fiji to pay huge bill to Australia-based mail company" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/08/9-6m-scandal-post-fiji-to-pay-huge-bill-to-australia-based-mail-company/" aria-label="Read more about $9.6m scandal – Post Fiji to pay huge bill to Australia-based mail company">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Jonathan Cook The late Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a Nobel laureate and tireless campaigner against South African apartheid, once observed: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” For decades, the BBC’s editorial policy in reporting on Israel and Palestine has consistently chosen the side of the oppressor — and ... <a title="Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/08/al-aqsa-raid-how-bbc-coverage-is-enabling-israeli-violence/" aria-label="Read more about Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence">Read more</a>
