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August 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will switch the government’s focus in Indigenous affairs policy towards the economic empowerment of First Nations communities, in a speech at the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday. Addressing the festival nearly a year after ... <a title="Government’s focus pivots to economic empowerment for Indigenous Australians in Garma speech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/03/governments-focus-pivots-to-economic-empowerment-for-indigenous-australians-in-garma-speech-236059/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s focus pivots to economic empowerment for Indigenous Australians in Garma speech">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
COMMENTARY: By David Robie Pacific Journalism Review (PJR) began life three decades ago in Papua New Guinea and recently celebrated a remarkable milestone in Fiji with its 30th anniversary edition and its 47th issue. Remarkable because it is the longest surviving Antipodean media, journalism and development journal published in the Global South. It is also ... <a title="Pacific Journalism Review at 30 – a strong media legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/pacific-journalism-review-at-30-a-strong-media-legacy/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Journalism Review at 30 – a strong media legacy">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Caitlin Johnstone President Biden — if you feel like pretending Biden is still serving as President and still making the decisions in the White House — has pledged to support Israel against any retaliations for its recent assassination spree in Iran and Lebanon which killed high-profile officials from Hamas and Hezbollah. A White House statement asserts that ... <a title="Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/promoting-peace-and-stability-in-the-middle-east-by-unconditionally-backing-its-worst-aggressor/" aria-label="Read more about Promoting peace and stability in the Middle East by unconditionally backing its worst aggressor">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University Sea Shepherd founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson has been arrested in Greenland and awaits potential extradition to Japan. The arrest relates to incidents in the Southern Ocean in February 2010. The charges against Watson include “accomplice to an assault” ... <a title="Former Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson arrested on a Japanese warrant from 2012 – what next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/former-sea-shepherd-captain-paul-watson-arrested-on-a-japanese-warrant-from-2012-what-next-235965/" aria-label="Read more about Former Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson arrested on a Japanese warrant from 2012 – what next?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology For many, tax time is an exciting part of the year – there’s the potential for a refund. However, it’s also an attractive time for fraudsters looking for ... <a title="It’s tax time and scammers are targeting your myGov account. Here’s how to stay safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/its-tax-time-and-scammers-are-targeting-your-mygov-account-heres-how-to-stay-safe-235785/" aria-label="Read more about It’s tax time and scammers are targeting your myGov account. Here’s how to stay safe">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Claude Raschella/State Theatre Company South Australia A blind dinner date in a small high-rise apartment between a blandly dressed neat-freak with a professed admiration for alt-right male online celebs, and a colourful gender studies grad with ... <a title="The Questions is a gorgeous and joyful piece of new Australian musical theatre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/the-questions-is-a-gorgeous-and-joyful-piece-of-new-australian-musical-theatre-235105/" aria-label="Read more about The Questions is a gorgeous and joyful piece of new Australian musical theatre">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrienne O’Neil, Professor, Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University Alexander Raths/shutterstock Around 3.2 million Australians live with depression. At the same time, few Australians meet recommended dietary or physical activity guidelines. What has one got to do with the other? Our world-first trial, published this week, shows ... <a title="Food and exercise can treat depression as well as a psychologist, our study found. And it’s cheaper" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/food-and-exercise-can-treat-depression-as-well-as-a-psychologist-our-study-found-and-its-cheaper-235952/" aria-label="Read more about Food and exercise can treat depression as well as a psychologist, our study found. And it’s cheaper">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Graham, Professor of Psychology, George Institute for Global Health Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock The Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has just released its much-anticipated landmark statement advocating for sex, gender, variations of sex characteristics and sexual orientation to be routinely considered in health and medical research. ... <a title="Australia has new health research gender standards – and centuries of inequity to fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/australia-has-new-health-research-gender-standards-and-centuries-of-inequity-to-fix-235769/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has new health research gender standards – and centuries of inequity to fix">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Stephen Wright in Kingston, Jamaica The obscure UN organisation attempting to set rules for the exploitation of deep-sea metals is facing a potential shake-up as more nations call for a mining moratorium and a new candidate for its leadership vows to address perceptions of corporate bias. The number of countries against the ... <a title="Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/nations-join-ranks-to-delay-deep-sea-mining-approval-by-un-regulator/" aria-label="Read more about Nations join ranks to delay deep-sea mining approval by UN regulator">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia It’s been a depressing year for regional aviation. Rex airlines has just become the second Australian airline to go into voluntary administration this year, after Bonza’s collapse in April. Is Qantas’ Chief Executive Vanessa Hudson right – that there simply ... <a title="What is ‘slot hoarding’ – and is it locking out regional airlines like Rex?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/what-is-slot-hoarding-and-is-it-locking-out-regional-airlines-like-rex-235960/" aria-label="Read more about What is ‘slot hoarding’ – and is it locking out regional airlines like Rex?">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ana Manero, Research Fellow, Australian National University Ever since Polynesian pioneers took to the ocean on wooden rafts, people have been hooked on riding waves. Today, surfing is one of the world’s fastest-growing sports and one of the latest additions to the Olympic games. Surfing is especially ... <a title="Save our waves: surfing pumps $2.71 billion into the Australian economy and boosts wellbeing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/save-our-waves-surfing-pumps-2-71-billion-into-the-australian-economy-and-boosts-wellbeing-235579/" aria-label="Read more about Save our waves: surfing pumps $2.71 billion into the Australian economy and boosts wellbeing">Read more</a>
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August 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University The photo of returning prisoners in an American plane, all grinning from ear to ear, says it all: the joy, the relief and the success of an incredibly complicated mission. The freeing of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan ... <a title="The US-Russia prisoner swap shows how journalists risk being used as geopolitical bargaining chips" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/02/the-us-russia-prisoner-swap-shows-how-journalists-risk-being-used-as-geopolitical-bargaining-chips-236052/" aria-label="Read more about The US-Russia prisoner swap shows how journalists risk being used as geopolitical bargaining chips">Read more</a>
