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April 30, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The Pacific state of Hawai’i’s House of Representatives has joined the state’s Senate in calling for a ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza, becoming the first state to pass such a resolution, reports Hawaii News Now. In March, the Senate passed a ceasefire resolution with a 24–1 vote, and now the House ... <a title="Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza ceasefire resolutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/pacific-state-of-hawaii-first-in-us-to-pass-dual-gaza-ceasefire-resolutions/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific state of Hawai’i first in US to pass dual Gaza ceasefire resolutions">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ferrie, A/Prof, UTS Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research and ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Technology Sydney PsiQuantum The Australian government has announced a pledge of approximately A$940 million (US$617 million) to PsiQuantum, a quantum computing start-up company based in Silicon Valley. Half of the funding will come from ... <a title="Australia just made a billion-dollar bet on building the world’s first ‘useful’ quantum computer in Brisbane. Will it pay off?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/australia-just-made-a-billion-dollar-bet-on-building-the-worlds-first-useful-quantum-computer-in-brisbane-will-it-pay-off-228992/" aria-label="Read more about Australia just made a billion-dollar bet on building the world’s first ‘useful’ quantum computer in Brisbane. Will it pay off?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Bennett, Lecturer in Exercise Science, University of South Australia Cameron Prins/Shutterstock If you spend a lot of time exploring fitness content online, you might have come across the concept of heart rate zones. Heart rate zone training has become more popular in recent years partly because ... <a title="What are heart rate zones, and how can you incorporate them into your exercise routine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/what-are-heart-rate-zones-and-how-can-you-incorporate-them-into-your-exercise-routine-228520/" aria-label="Read more about What are heart rate zones, and how can you incorporate them into your exercise routine?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
SPECIAL REPORT: By Eugene Doyle He is the most popular Palestinian leader alive today — and yet few people in the West even know his name. Absolutely no one in Gaza or the West Bank does not know him. That difference speaks volumes about who dominates the media narrative that we are spoon-fed every day. ... <a title="27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/27-years-in-captivity-free-marwan-barghouti-palestines-mandela/" aria-label="Read more about 27 years in captivity – free Marwan Barghouti, ‘Palestine’s Mandela’">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will McCallum, PhD Candidate – School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Earlier this year, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of not supporting Operation Sovereign Borders – the military-led border security operation that has “closed Australia’s borders to unauthorised maritime arrivals”. It’s ... <a title="Long before politicians called to ‘stop the boats’, First Nations people welcomed arrivals from Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/long-before-politicians-called-to-stop-the-boats-first-nations-people-welcomed-arrivals-from-indonesia-228614/" aria-label="Read more about Long before politicians called to ‘stop the boats’, First Nations people welcomed arrivals from Indonesia">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Condo, Senior Lecturer in Sports Nutrition, Deakin University Microgen/Shutterstock There was, perhaps unsurprising, outcry from some sections of the sports media when it was revealed the AFL was removing body composition testing (including skinfold testing) in its junior (under the age of 18) talent pathways system, ... <a title="Does the AFL ban on skinfold testing avoid fat shaming – or has footy ‘gone soft’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/does-the-afl-ban-on-skinfold-testing-avoid-fat-shaming-or-has-footy-gone-soft-228515/" aria-label="Read more about Does the AFL ban on skinfold testing avoid fat shaming – or has footy ‘gone soft’?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
By Melyne Baroi in Port Moresby A Papua New Guinea MP, Peter Isoaimo, who had been ousted by the National Court in an alleged bribery case, has been reinstated by the Supreme Court on appeal. A three-member Supreme Court bench found that the National Court had erred in finding that Kairuku MP Isoaimo had committed ... <a title="Supreme Court reinstates PNG MP after bribery ruling overturned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/supreme-court-reinstates-png-mp-after-bribery-ruling-overturned/" aria-label="Read more about Supreme Court reinstates PNG MP after bribery ruling overturned">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shireen Morris, Associate Professor and Director of the Radical Centre Reform Lab at Macquarie University Law School, Macquarie University Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock Foreign interference in Australian democracy poses a growing risk to our national sovereignty. It refers to coercive, corrupt or deceptive activities by or on behalf of ... <a title="‘Abject failure’: why Australia’s scheme to curb foreign influence doesn’t work and can’t be fixed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/abject-failure-why-australias-scheme-to-curb-foreign-influence-doesnt-work-and-cant-be-fixed-228292/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Abject failure’: why Australia’s scheme to curb foreign influence doesn’t work and can’t be fixed">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney Jodi Rowley, CC BY-NC-ND In winter 2021, Australia’s frogs started dropping dead. People began posting images of dead frogs on social media. Unable to travel to investigate the deaths ourselves because of COVID lockdowns, we ... <a title="We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested. Did these cause mass deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/we-found-pesticides-in-a-third-of-australian-frogs-we-tested-did-these-cause-mass-deaths-228194/" aria-label="Read more about We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested. Did these cause mass deaths?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wasay Majid, Research Assistant , University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau New Zealand’s accommodation supplement scheme is facing scrutiny, with Social Development Minister Louise Upston recently saying “there is merit in considering whether the current settings are fair and sustainable long-term”. The means-tested accommodation supplement is a ... <a title="364,000 New Zealanders rely on an accomodation supplement – but these 3 flaws need fixing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/364-000-new-zealanders-rely-on-an-accomodation-supplement-but-these-3-flaws-need-fixing-227667/" aria-label="Read more about 364,000 New Zealanders rely on an accomodation supplement – but these 3 flaws need fixing">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor The first prime ministerial candidate has been announced in Solomon Islands and it is not Manasseh Sogavare. The man of the hour is Jeremiah Manele, the MP for Hograno/Kia/Havulei constituency in Isabel Province, who served as minister of foreign affairs in the last government. Manele’s candidacy was announced by ... <a title="Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/manasseh-sogavare-bows-out-of-prime-ministerial-race-in-solomon-islands/" aria-label="Read more about Manasseh Sogavare bows out of prime ministerial race in Solomon Islands">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Schmidt, Professor of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney Albert Russ / Shutterstock The icebreaker of many a barbeque conversation is something like “what do you do for a crust?” “I teach chemistry at university,” is what we usually reply. Then silence. Our new friend will usually go on ... <a title="Think all chemicals are bad? From our food to your phone, modern life relies on them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/30/think-all-chemicals-are-bad-from-our-food-to-your-phone-modern-life-relies-on-them-227768/" aria-label="Read more about Think all chemicals are bad? From our food to your phone, modern life relies on them">Read more</a>
