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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ettore Camerlenghi, PhD student, Monash University Jenna Diehl, Author provided Multilevel societies are among the most complex societies known in nature. They are organised like Russian nesting dolls – individuals belong to family groups, which belong to clans, which belong to tribes. At each level, the relationships ... <a title="Fairy-wrens are more likely to help their closest friends but not strangers, just like us humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/fairy-wrens-are-more-likely-to-help-their-closest-friends-but-not-strangers-just-like-us-humans-198231/" aria-label="Read more about Fairy-wrens are more likely to help their closest friends but not strangers, just like us humans">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, Monash University Shutterstock As we progress through life, we learn many essential behaviours from more experienced people around us. For example, through observing adults, we go from being babbling babies, to using single words, to speaking in full sentences. This is an example of ... <a title="Is the honeybee’s iconic waggle dance learned or innate? New research provides the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/is-the-honeybees-iconic-waggle-dance-learned-or-innate-new-research-provides-the-answer-201297/" aria-label="Read more about Is the honeybee’s iconic waggle dance learned or innate? New research provides the answer">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute On March 11 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID as a pandemic. Three years on, it remains just that. As much as we don’t want it to be, and as much as it is off the front pages, ... <a title="Three years into the pandemic, it’s clear COVID won’t fix itself. Here’s what we need to focus on next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/three-years-into-the-pandemic-its-clear-covid-wont-fix-itself-heres-what-we-need-to-focus-on-next-201181/" aria-label="Read more about Three years into the pandemic, it’s clear COVID won’t fix itself. Here’s what we need to focus on next">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University Shutterstock This week, the Albanese government is attempting to reform the safeguard mechanism to try to make it actually cut emissions from our highest polluting industrial facilities. Experts and commentators see Labor’s plan as a cautious, incremental change ... <a title="A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/a-tonne-of-fossil-carbon-isnt-the-same-as-a-tonne-of-new-trees-why-offsets-cant-save-us-200901/" aria-label="Read more about A tonne of fossil carbon isn’t the same as a tonne of new trees: why offsets can’t save us">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine de Fontenay, Honorary Fellow, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Aged care is being hit both ways by the ageing of Australia’s population. While population ageing is increasing the number of Australians in need of formal care, it’s also reducing the proportion of working ... <a title="Carers of older Australians need more support – but we found unpaid extended leave isn’t the best solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/carers-of-older-australians-need-more-support-but-we-found-unpaid-extended-leave-isnt-the-best-solution-201109/" aria-label="Read more about Carers of older Australians need more support – but we found unpaid extended leave isn’t the best solution">Read more</a>
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March 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia IMDB Of the ten films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, six are really good. That’s a high percentage for a year – 2022 – in which most cinematic offerings seemed drab. This year sees ... <a title="Banshees, wives, women and mavericks: our predictions for the Oscars 2023 best pictures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/10/banshees-wives-women-and-mavericks-our-predictions-for-the-oscars-2023-best-pictures-198772/" aria-label="Read more about Banshees, wives, women and mavericks: our predictions for the Oscars 2023 best pictures">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s top prosecutor has sanctioned charges of abuse of office against former prime minister Voreqe Bainimarama and the suspended Police Commissioner Sitiveni Qiliho. In a statement today, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions said the charges relate to a complaint filed by the University of the South Pacific in July 2019. ... <a title="Former Fiji PM Bainimarama and suspended police chief charged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/former-fiji-pm-bainimarama-and-suspended-police-chief-charged/" aria-label="Read more about Former Fiji PM Bainimarama and suspended police chief charged">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra One of those closely watching the extraordinary legal face-off between independent Monique Ryan and her former high-profile staffer, Sally Rugg, will be Josh Frydenberg, who lost Kooyong to the “teal” at last year’s election. The outcome of the case, going ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Could Josh Frydenberg still have a path to the Liberal leadership?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/grattan-on-friday-could-josh-frydenberg-still-have-a-path-to-the-liberal-leadership-201463/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Could Josh Frydenberg still have a path to the Liberal leadership?">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Fiji police have apologised for “miscommunication” that led to an incident before the Reclaim the Night march last night that almost led to it being called off, Fijivillage News reports. Police Chief Operations Officer Acting Assistant Commissioner Livai Driu apologised, saying they had been following the conditions of the permit issued. However, ... <a title="Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the Night march" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/fiji-police-apologise-for-west-papua-politics-mix-up-before-reclaim-the-night-march/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji police apologise for West Papua politics ‘mix-up’ before Reclaim the Night march">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
PNG Post-Courier A recent cash payment by the state for the release of three hostages held captive by armed gunmen in Papua New Guinea’s Southern Highlands province has set a “dangerous precedent”, says the opposition. Deputy opposition leader Douglas Tomuriesa said in a statement that the Marape government had set a bad precedent in allowing ... <a title="Plea to PNG prime minister to tell truth about ransom paid to ‘terrorists’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/plea-to-png-prime-minister-to-tell-truth-about-ransom-paid-to-terrorists/" aria-label="Read more about Plea to PNG prime minister to tell truth about ransom paid to ‘terrorists’">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Foster, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne The United Kingdom’s Illegal Migration Bill, introduced in the House of Commons this week, will look very familiar to Australians. If passed, the bill would see asylum seekers who arrive in the UK without a visa deemed ... <a title="UK moves to copy Australia’s cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/uk-moves-to-copy-australias-cruel-asylum-seeker-policy-and-it-will-have-the-same-heavy-human-toll-201390/" aria-label="Read more about UK moves to copy Australia’s cruel asylum-seeker policy – and it will have the same heavy human toll">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Cresswell, Adjunct professor, UNSW Sydney Agami/Marc Guyt, Author provided Macquarie Island, around 1,500km southeast of Tasmania, is more than just a remote rocky outcrop. In fact, it’s the only piece of land on the planet formed completely from ocean floor, which rises above the waves to ... <a title="Penguin paradise and geological freak: why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/09/penguin-paradise-and-geological-freak-why-macquarie-island-deserves-a-bigger-marine-park-201368/" aria-label="Read more about Penguin paradise and geological freak: why Macquarie Island deserves a bigger marine park">Read more</a>
