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May 18, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist and Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific digital journalist Police have used tear gas and stun grenades on rioters at an airport near Nouméa as the chaos in New Caledonia stretched into its sixth day. Five people, including two police officers, have died and hundreds of people are injured amid clashes ... <a title="New Caledonia riots: Tear gas, stun grenades used as protesters swarm airport runway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/18/new-caledonia-riots-tear-gas-stun-grenades-used-as-protesters-swarm-airport-runway/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia riots: Tear gas, stun grenades used as protesters swarm airport runway">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has called on France to not “misuse” a crackdown in the ongoing unrest in the non-self-governing French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia in the wake of a controversial vote by the French Parliament to adopt a bill changing the territory’s voting rules. “The state ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia: Amnesty calls on France to ‘uphold rights’ of indigenous people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/18/kanaky-new-caledonia-amnesty-calls-on-france-to-uphold-rights-of-indigenous-people/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia: Amnesty calls on France to ‘uphold rights’ of indigenous people">Read more</a>
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May 18, 2024
By Lauren Crimp , RNZ News reporter New Zealanders stuck among riots and civil unrest in New Caledonia’s capital say they feel abandoned by their own country, having received little help from the government. Nouméa descended into chaos on Monday, with clashes between indigenous Kanak pro-independence protesters and French security forces. They were sparked by ... <a title="Tourists trapped by New Caledonia unrest feel ‘abandoned’ by NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/18/tourists-trapped-by-new-caledonia-unrest-feel-abandoned-by-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Tourists trapped by New Caledonia unrest feel ‘abandoned’ by NZ">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
ANALYSIS: By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report Jean-Marie Tjibaou, a revered Kanak visionary, was inspirational to indigenous Pacific political activists across Oceania, just like Tongan anthropologist and writer Epeli Hao’ofa was to cultural advocates. Tragically, he was assassinated in 1989 by an opponent within the independence movement during the so-called “les événements” in ... <a title="Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/kanaky-in-flames-five-takeaways-from-the-new-caledonia-independence-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky in flames: Five takeaways from the New Caledonia independence riots">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Benjamin, Professor in Art History, University of Sydney “She’s no oil painting”. Those were the unkind words of a colleague commenting on the subject of Vincent Namatjira’s acrylic painting, Gina. Every one of the prominent Australians and cultural heroes in Namatjira’s ensemble Australia in Colour (2021) ... <a title="Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/can-you-control-your-image-gina-rinehart-king-charles-and-moral-portraits-230297/" aria-label="Read more about Can you control your image? Gina Rinehart, King Charles and ‘moral portraits’">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney Martin Tobias Aakesson/Shutterstock Our government has great aspirations. It has committed to end extinctions and expand our protected areas to cover 30% of every Australian ecosystem by 2030. This is part of its Nature ... <a title="Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/threatened-species-have-declined-2-a-year-since-2000-nature-positive-far-from-it-230116/" aria-label="Read more about Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney This year the National Rugby League (NRL) opened its season in Las Vegas. It was an audacious move by the league’s ambitious head honcho Peter V’Landys to showcase the game in the United States – and ... <a title="Rugby league in Perth and Papua New Guinea? Here’s what could be next for the NRL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/rugby-league-in-perth-and-papua-new-guinea-heres-what-could-be-next-for-the-nrl-229999/" aria-label="Read more about Rugby league in Perth and Papua New Guinea? Here’s what could be next for the NRL">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University Leading music organisations have praised the federal budget for its investment in the live music sector. The budget includes A$8.6 million for a program called Revive Live: to provide essential support to live music venues and festivals showcasing Australian ... <a title="The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/the-budget-has-earmarked-8-6-million-for-live-music-is-it-enough-to-save-the-flailing-industry-230114/" aria-label="Read more about The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland The 2024 federal budget contains A$110 million for Indigenous education. This includes funding for various different organisations to represent and help Indigenous people as well as scholarships in a bid to close the gap between Indigenous ... <a title="There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/theres-110-million-for-indigenous-education-in-the-budget-but-wheres-the-evidence-it-will-work-230103/" aria-label="Read more about There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Air New Zealand has confirmed Nouméa’s Tontouta International airport in New Caledonia is closed until Tuesday. The airline earlier told RNZ it would update customers as soon as it could. Earlier today, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report government officials had been working on an “hourly basis” to see what could be ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/new-caledonias-noumea-airport-closed-until-tuesday-says-air-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Linley, PhD Candidate in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Grant Linley Australia’s unprecedented Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20 created ideal conditions for misinformation to spread, from the insidious to the absurd. It was within this context that a bizarre story went viral on social media. This was ... <a title="Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/cameras-reveal-wombat-burrows-can-be-safe-havens-after-fire-and-waterholes-after-rain-226396/" aria-label="Read more about Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney OpenAI executive Mira Murati launching GPT-4o. OpenAI Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more ... <a title="ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/chatgpt-is-now-better-than-ever-at-faking-human-emotion-and-behaviour-230254/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour">Read more</a>
