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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. The announcement came out of a ... <a title="Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/age-verification-for-porn-and-social-media-would-impact-all-of-us-we-asked-parents-and-kids-if-they-actually-want-it-230539/" aria-label="Read more about Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Liberation “must come” for Kanaky New Caledonia, says one of the few New Zealand journalists who have worked consistently on stories across the French Pacific territories. Journalist David Robie was arrested at gunpoint by French police in January 1987, and is no stranger to civil unrest in New Caledonia. ... <a title="‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/france-lost-the-plot-journalist-david-robie-on-kanaky-new-caledonia-riots/" aria-label="Read more about ‘France lost the plot’ – journalist David Robie on Kanaky New Caledonia riots">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Jevanto Productions/Shutterstock Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Consumers wanting ... <a title="Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/worried-your-address-birth-date-or-health-data-is-being-sold-you-should-be-and-the-law-isnt-protecting-you-230540/" aria-label="Read more about Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting you">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University On Tuesday, Telstra announced it will be cutting up to 2,800 jobs as part of a major restructure. Of these layoffs, 377 will take effect immediately from within the Telstra Enterprise business unit. Most of the remaining ... <a title="Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the business under pressure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/telstra-says-slashing-almost-a-tenth-of-its-workforce-will-help-save-350-million-why-is-the-business-under-pressure-230533/" aria-label="Read more about Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the business under pressure?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Sherlock, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, won February’s presidential election in a landslide victory of nearly 59% of the nationwide vote, more than double his nearest challenger. But his ... <a title="He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determine whether Prabowo can govern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/he-won-indonesias-election-in-a-landslide-now-backroom-meetings-and-horse-trading-will-determine-whether-prabowo-can-govern-228405/" aria-label="Read more about He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determine whether Prabowo can govern">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong “I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6’5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone to turn her sound bite ... <a title="‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/im-looking-for-a-man-in-finance-how-a-sampled-sound-bite-can-turn-a-dance-track-into-an-earworm-230542/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Pacific Media WatchThe Paris-based global media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called for guaranteed safety for journalists in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Capedonia after an increase in intimidation, threats, obstruction and attacks against them. After a week of violence that broke out in the capital of Nouméa following a controversial ... <a title="RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/rsf-calls-on-french-authorities-to-guarantee-journalist-safety-in-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about RSF calls on French authorities to guarantee journalist safety in Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with musicians and their work when they are found to have been abusive has arisen again this week, as distressing video footage of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his then girlfriend Cassandra ... <a title="Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/diddy-is-just-the-latest-in-a-long-line-of-musical-abusers-how-should-fans-respond-230426/" aria-label="Read more about Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Ashe, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of environmental and civil collapse caused by ... <a title="Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/turning-the-outback-into-post-apocalyptic-wasteland-what-mad-max-films-tell-us-about-filming-in-the-australian-desert-229632/" aria-label="Read more about Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Bartley, Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than US$100 million (A$150 million). They ... <a title="We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/we-tracked-secret-russian-missile-launchers-in-ukraine-using-public-satellite-data-230424/" aria-label="Read more about We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna DeMello, Research Fellow, University of Otago Getty Images Despite measures to reduce young people’s access to vapes, many countries are recording rising use by underage adolescents, especially since refillable “pod mods” and disposable devices have become widely available. In New Zealand, the legal age for buying ... <a title="Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to access" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/underage-vaping-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-young-new-zealanders-are-finding-it-so-easy-to-access-230384/" aria-label="Read more about Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to access">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also reports certain cancers are increasing among ... <a title="Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/exercise-therapy-and-diet-can-all-improve-life-during-cancer-treatment-and-boost-survival-heres-how-226720/" aria-label="Read more about Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s how">Read more</a>
