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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology The topic of homophobia in sport has recently made headlines in Australia, with a series of homophobic incidents involving men’s AFL players. These homophobic incidents are usually well-reported in news media, but research has rarely explored the impact on ... <a title="‘Too difficult to work out’ – new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/too-difficult-to-work-out-new-research-reveals-just-how-few-lgbtqi-people-play-sport-229482/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Too difficult to work out’ – new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
RNZ News A New Zealand man has described scenes of chaos in the New Caledonia capital of Nouméa during the escalating civil unrest. Four people have died and hundreds have been injured during rioting by pro-independence supporters over electoral changes. French president Emmanuel Macron has declared a 12-day state of emergency and about 1200 police ... <a title="Nouméa ‘was on fire’ – New Zealander in New Caledonia tells of unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/noumea-was-on-fire-new-zealander-in-new-caledonia-tells-of-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Nouméa ‘was on fire’ – New Zealander in New Caledonia tells of unrest">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Asia Pacific Report France has declared a state of emergency on the Pacific territory of New Caledonia — New Zealand’s closest neighbour — after four people, including a police officer, have been killed in pro-independence riots over voting changes that further marginalise indigenous Kanaks, news agencies report. The move came as the French government confirmed ... <a title="France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia – four die in riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/france-declares-state-of-emergency-in-new-caledonia-four-die-in-riots/" aria-label="Read more about France declares state of emergency in New Caledonia – four die in riots">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Marie Cumming-Potvin, Associate Professor/ Director of Research (School of Education), Murdoch University Shutterstock Despite social change, LGBTQI+ people still face discrimination at school and in the community. Language for diverse genders and sexualities is continually changing. LGBTQI+ allyship is part of this change. But what is ... <a title="What is allyship? A brief history, present and future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/what-is-allyship-a-brief-history-present-and-future-220668/" aria-label="Read more about What is allyship? A brief history, present and future">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakob Weis, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Tasmania Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC, Author provided The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the ... <a title="Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/floating-robots-reveal-just-how-much-airborne-dust-fertilises-the-southern-ocean-a-key-climate-shock-absorber-225793/" aria-label="Read more about Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years. ... <a title="Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/cancer-is-increasingly-survivable-but-it-shouldnt-depend-on-your-ability-to-wrangle-the-health-system-228774/" aria-label="Read more about Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mona Nikidehaghani, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has been tabled. In ... <a title="Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/choice-and-control-what-can-the-accc-do-to-stop-ndis-price-gouging-and-reduce-costs-228512/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University National Archives of Australia In 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alighted from a helicopter to announce a grand plan: Snowy Hydro 2.0. It would turn the famous hydroelectric scheme into a giant battery, ready to power the ... <a title="Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/stirring-films-made-the-snowy-scheme-a-nationbuilding-project-could-the-troubled-snowy-2-0-do-the-same-229365/" aria-label="Read more about Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession. This month is the first anniversary of the Judicial Commission of Victoria’s conduct guideline about judicial bullying. Yet, ... <a title="Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/like-being-slapped-or-kicked-judicial-bullying-is-a-problem-in-australian-courtrooms-229501/" aria-label="Read more about Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
RNZ Pacific Outgoing Secretary-General Henry Puna of the Pacific Islands Forum is “not surprised” with the violent unrest in New Caledonia which has shut down the French Pacific territory. New Caledonia has come to a virtual stop after three days of civil unrest, resulting in burning, shooting and looting, as leaders call for calm. French ... <a title="New Caledonia violence ‘unfortunate’ but ‘not surprising’, says Pacific Forum chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/new-caledonia-violence-unfortunate-but-not-surprising-says-pacific-forum-chief/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia violence ‘unfortunate’ but ‘not surprising’, says Pacific Forum chief">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. I’ve respected and appreciated their ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/antoinette-lattouf-a-disheartening-feminist-silence-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Asia Pacific Report As Israel drives the Palestinians deeper into another Nakba in Gaza with its assault on Rafah, the Palestine Youth Aotearoa (PYA) and solidarity supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand tonight commemorated the original Nakba — “the Catastrophe” — of 1948. The 1948 Nakba . . . more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced to ... <a title="Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/gallery-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free">Read more</a>
