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January 28, 2023
RNZ News Three people are dead and at least one person is missing following the flooding overnight in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. About 1000 people were still stranded today after Auckland Airport was closed last night because of flooding of the arrival and departure foyers. Flights were cancelled for the morning but domestic flights ... <a title="Three dead, at least one missing, and airport closes in Auckland floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/three-dead-at-least-one-missing-and-airport-closes-in-auckland-floods/" aria-label="Read more about Three dead, at least one missing, and airport closes in Auckland floods">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Victoria Park near the Auckland CBD on January 27. Getty Images The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the eve of the city’s anniversary weekend, was caused ... <a title="The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/the-auckland-floods-are-a-sign-of-things-to-come-the-city-needs-stormwater-systems-fit-for-climate-change-198723/" aria-label="Read more about The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2023
RNZ News Mayor Wayne Brown has shut down criticism that he was too slow in declaring a state of emergency after severe flooding in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city. In a media stand-up late on Friday evening, Brown said he was following advice from experts and as soon as they said it was time to ... <a title="Auckland mayor declares emergency as wild weather lashes NZ’s north" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/auckland-mayor-declares-emergency-as-wild-weather-lashes-nzs-north/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland mayor declares emergency as wild weather lashes NZ’s north">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers has laid out an economic blueprint for pursuing “values-based capitalism”, involving public-private co-investment and collaboration and the renovation of key economic institutions and markets. In a 6000-word essay in The Monthly titled “Capitalism after the crises”, Chalmers ... <a title="Jim Chalmers lays out agenda for pursuit of ‘values-based capitalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/jim-chalmers-lays-out-agenda-for-pursuit-of-values-based-capitalism-198675/" aria-label="Read more about Jim Chalmers lays out agenda for pursuit of ‘values-based capitalism’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist The government of Tokelau has declared the results of the 2023 national general elections. Voting took place on all three atolls, and also in the Apia office of the administration on January 23. The final results for the election of 20 members of the General Fono, declared under 16.1 ... <a title="Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/tokelau-declares-2023-elections-result-in-spite-of-comms-problems/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau declares 2023 elections result in spite of comms problems">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
RNZ News Residents in flood-prone areas of West Auckland are being asked to prepare to evacuate as bad weather causes power cuts and car crashes across Tāmaki Makaurau, with a severe thunderstorm watch in place for the north of Aotearoa New Zealand. Auckland Emergency Management said the severe weather across the city was worsening and ... <a title="Wild weather lashes NZ’s Auckland, Northland regions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/wild-weather-lashes-nzs-auckland-northland-regions/" aria-label="Read more about Wild weather lashes NZ’s Auckland, Northland regions">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Ward, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Five years ago, bulldozers with chains cleared forests and woodlands almost triple the size of the Australian Capital Territory in a single year. Brazil? Indonesia? No – much closer: Queensland. In 2018-19, truly staggering land clearing, mostly by ... <a title="Why Queensland is still ground zero for Australian deforestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/why-queensland-is-still-ground-zero-for-australian-deforestation-196644/" aria-label="Read more about Why Queensland is still ground zero for Australian deforestation">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Tingay, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University Asteroid 20223 BU’s path in red, with green showing the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. NASA/JPL-Caltech There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means ... <a title="Asteroid 2023 BU just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth. Here’s why that’s exciting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/asteroid-2023-bu-just-passed-a-few-thousand-kilometres-from-earth-heres-why-thats-exciting-198656/" aria-label="Read more about Asteroid 2023 BU just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth. Here’s why that’s exciting">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide schankz/Shutterstock Have you ever worried if the play between your cats was getting too rough? A new study published in Scientific Reports has investigated play and fighting in cats. Their aim was to use ... <a title="Are your cats fighting or playing? Scientists analysed cat videos to figure out the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/are-your-cats-fighting-or-playing-scientists-analysed-cat-videos-to-figure-out-the-difference-198501/" aria-label="Read more about Are your cats fighting or playing? Scientists analysed cat videos to figure out the difference">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
REVIEW: By Rowan Callick Radio Australia was conceived at the beginning of the Second World War out of Canberra’s desire to counter Japanese propaganda in the Pacific. More than 70 years later its rebirth is being driven by a similarly urgent need to counter propaganda, this time from China. Set up within the towering framework ... <a title="Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/speaking-to-the-world-but-mirroring-australias-off-again-on-again-pacific-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about Speaking to the world, but mirroring Australia’s off-again, on-again Pacific engagement">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rolf Gerritsen, Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University The supposed dimensions of the “crisis” in Alice Springs have been exhaustively portrayed in the media, both nationally and in the Northern Territory. The stories abound: shopfront windows repeatedly broken, groups of young children wandering the streets ... <a title="Beneath the Alice Springs ‘crime wave’ are complex issues – and a lot of politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/beneath-the-alice-springs-crime-wave-are-complex-issues-and-a-lot-of-politics-198530/" aria-label="Read more about Beneath the Alice Springs ‘crime wave’ are complex issues – and a lot of politics">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamara Borovica, Research assistant and early career researcher, Critical Mental Health research group, RMIT University Shutterstock If your new year’s resolutions include getting healthier, exercising more and lifting your mood, dance might be for you. By dance, we don’t mean watching other people dance on TikTok, as ... <a title="Let’s dance! How dance classes can lift your mood and help boost your social life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/lets-dance-how-dance-classes-can-lift-your-mood-and-help-boost-your-social-life-197692/" aria-label="Read more about Let’s dance! How dance classes can lift your mood and help boost your social life">Read more</a>
