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June 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese sprang into action after his recalcitrant senator, young Muslim woman Fatima Payman, gave a defiant Sunday morning on the ABC Insiders program in which she vowed to cross the floor again if similar circumstances arose. There was no ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese suspends rebel senator Payman from participating in caucus indefinitely after she says she’d cross the floor again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/30/view-from-the-hill-albanese-suspends-rebel-senator-payman-from-participating-in-caucus-indefinitely-after-she-says-shed-cross-the-floor-again-233645/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese suspends rebel senator Payman from participating in caucus indefinitely after she says she’d cross the floor again">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Boyloso/Shutterstock Australia’s top economic forecasters expect the Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates by March next year, taking 0.35 points of its cash rate by June. If passed on in full, the cut would ... <a title="Cheaper mortgages, tamed inflation and even higher home prices: how 29 forecasters see Australia’s economic recovery in 2024-25" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/30/cheaper-mortgages-tamed-inflation-and-even-higher-home-prices-how-29-forecasters-see-australias-economic-recovery-in-2024-25-233244/" aria-label="Read more about Cheaper mortgages, tamed inflation and even higher home prices: how 29 forecasters see Australia’s economic recovery in 2024-25">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Voters in New Caledonia will go to the polls this weekend under tight security, almost eight weeks after destructive and violent unrest broke out in the French Pacific archipelago. They will vote for their two representatives in the 577-seat French National Assembly, which was dissolved by ... <a title="New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/new-caledonia-votes-first-under-tight-security-in-french-snap-election/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia votes first under tight security in French snap election">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Professor David Robie is among this year’s New Zealand Order of Merit awardees and was on the King’s Birthday Honours list earlier this month for his “services to journalism and Asia-Pacific media education.” His career in journalism has spanned five decades. He was the founding editor of the Pacific Journalism Review journal in 1994 and ... <a title="Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/decolonisation-the-climate-crisis-and-improving-media-education-in-the-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Decolonisation, the climate crisis, and improving media education in the Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lester Munson, Non-Resident Fellow, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Within minutes of the conclusion of this week’s presidential debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, it became clear to many that the 81-year-old Biden may not be capable of winning the general election in November. ... <a title="The most realistic way to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee – allow him a graceful exit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/the-most-realistic-way-to-replace-joe-biden-as-the-democratic-presidential-nominee-allow-him-a-graceful-exit-233637/" aria-label="Read more about The most realistic way to replace Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential nominee – allow him a graceful exit">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Pastore, Professor of the Practice of Law, University of Southern California Housing activists demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on April 22, 2024. Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images The Supreme Court has ruled that the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit cities ... <a title="Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/supreme-court-rules-cities-can-ban-homeless-people-from-sleeping-outdoors-sotomayor-dissent-summarizes-opinion-as-stay-awake-or-be-arrested-232955/" aria-label="Read more about Supreme Court rules cities can ban homeless people from sleeping outdoors – Sotomayor dissent summarizes opinion as ‘stay awake or be arrested’">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2024
By Laura Smith, Local Democracy Reporter Last night’s Matariki drone show was an emotional experience for some of the thousands who huddled under the glow at the edge of Lake Rotorua on the eve of Aotearoa’s national indigenous holiday today. The Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival is hosting the first ever matauranga Māori story told with ... <a title="‘Quite emotional’ – thousands crowd Rotorua lake edge to watch Matariki show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/29/quite-emotional-thousands-crowd-rotorua-lake-edge-to-watch-matariki-show/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Quite emotional’ – thousands crowd Rotorua lake edge to watch Matariki show">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Wardle, Professor of Public Health, Southern Cross University The Conversation, Pexels, Screenshot/NSW Health Several people across the country have recently been hospitalised after consuming mushroom gummies distributed by Australian brand Uncle Frog and made in the United States. Their reported symptoms included elevated heart rate, nausea, ... <a title="Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/not-quite-medicine-not-quite-food-how-a-product-like-mushroom-gummies-can-fall-through-the-regulatory-cracks-233459/" aria-label="Read more about Not quite medicine, not quite food: how a product like mushroom gummies can fall through the regulatory cracks">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Two years after the deal was first announced, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has today given the green light for ANZ to acquire the banking arm of Queensland-based insurer Suncorp. The A$4.9 billion deal will be the biggest in ... <a title="ANZ’s $4.9 billion Suncorp takeover will now go ahead. Is the government sending mixed messages on business competition?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/anzs-4-9-billion-suncorp-takeover-will-now-go-ahead-is-the-government-sending-mixed-messages-on-business-competition-233551/" aria-label="Read more about ANZ’s $4.9 billion Suncorp takeover will now go ahead. Is the government sending mixed messages on business competition?">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Khan, Professor and Head of School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney r.classen/Shutterstock A new Productivity Commission report has urged Australian governments to commit to providing universal access to safe and reliable drinking water, warning that public health depends on it. The report, National Water Reform ... <a title="Some of us don’t have high-quality drinking water, and it’s putting public health at risk. How do we deliver universal access?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/some-of-us-dont-have-high-quality-drinking-water-and-its-putting-public-health-at-risk-how-do-we-deliver-universal-access-233462/" aria-label="Read more about Some of us don’t have high-quality drinking water, and it’s putting public health at risk. How do we deliver universal access?">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University There are no parallels for the first debate of the 2024 US presidential election cycle. From the moment Joe Biden walked across the stage, stiff-backed and straight-armed, disaster unfolded for the sitting president. ... <a title="Muddled answers and outright lies: what the Biden-Trump debate says about the dire state of US politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/muddled-answers-and-outright-lies-what-the-biden-trump-debate-says-about-the-dire-state-of-us-politics-233347/" aria-label="Read more about Muddled answers and outright lies: what the Biden-Trump debate says about the dire state of US politics">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Buckley, Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University Stephen Beatty Climate change threatens plants and animals around the world, but some regions are particularly exposed. Some are vulnerable simply due to the huge diversity of species they harbour. Others will experience more acute ... <a title="‘Things started to look dire’: our deep-dive into past climates sounds a warning for this unique corner of Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/28/things-started-to-look-dire-our-deep-dive-into-past-climates-sounds-a-warning-for-this-unique-corner-of-australia-233340/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Things started to look dire’: our deep-dive into past climates sounds a warning for this unique corner of Australia">Read more</a>
