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April 25, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Journalists who report on environmental issues are encountering growing difficulties in many parts of the world, reports Reporters Without Borders. According to the tally kept by RSF, 200 journalists have been subjected to threats and physical violence, including murder, in the past 10 years because they were working on stories linked to ... <a title="200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/200-journalists-targeted-over-their-environment-reporting-warns-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about 200 journalists ‘targeted’ over their environment reporting, warns RSF">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards, Democracy Project (https://democracyproject.nz) Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has surprised everyone with his ruthlessness in sacking two of his ministers from their crucial portfolios. Removing ministers for poor performance after only five months in the job just doesn’t normally happen in politics. That’s refreshing and will be extremely well received. The ... <a title="Bryce Edwards Analysis – Luxon’s ruthless show of strength is perfect for our angry era" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/bryce-edwards-analysis-luxons-ruthless-show-of-strength-is-perfect-for-our-angry-era/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards Analysis – Luxon’s ruthless show of strength is perfect for our angry era">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% ... <a title="Inflation is slowly falling while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain the CPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/inflation-is-slowly-falling-while-student-debt-is-climbing-6-graphs-that-explain-the-cpi-228368/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is slowly falling while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain the CPI">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918. Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership is not. As Australians reflect ... <a title="‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/it-bucked-our-lads-up-wonderfully-the-lightning-quick-battle-that-marked-the-birth-of-the-us-australia-military-alliance-228382/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena M.E. Bunbury, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD). Sándor Hegedűs, Hungarian National Museum, CC BY How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites and ... <a title="Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/ancient-nomads-youve-probably-never-heard-of-disappeared-from-europe-1-000-years-ago-now-dna-analysis-reveals-how-they-lived-228602/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Willis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO Xavier Boulenger/Shutterstock In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon emissions budget. Most of the plastic ... <a title="If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/if-plastic-manufacturing-goes-up-10-plastic-pollution-goes-up-10-and-were-set-for-a-huge-surge-in-production-227365/" aria-label="Read more about If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Students and activist staff at Australia’s University of Sydney (USyd) have set up a Gaza solidarity encampment in support of Palestinians and similar student-led protests in the United States. The camp was pitched as mass graves, crippled hospitals, thousands of civilian deaths and the near-total destruction of infrastructure haunted Gaza with Israel’s ... <a title="Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/sydney-university-students-set-up-gaza-solidarity-camp-as-war-marks-200-days/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney University students set up Gaza solidarity camp as war marks 200 days">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we know it’s not much fun. But ... <a title="Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/most-bees-dont-die-after-stinging-and-other-surprising-bee-facts-227162/" aria-label="Read more about Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/Flickr Victor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr was 20 when he died. © ... <a title="How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/how-anzac-deaths-changed-the-way-we-mourn-to-this-day-226746/" aria-label="Read more about How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for many decades. It was a fine ... <a title="Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/sugar-gums-have-a-reputation-as-risky-branch-droppers-but-theyre-important-to-bees-parrots-and-possums-227221/" aria-label="Read more about Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% ... <a title="Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/inflation-is-slowly-falling-while-student-debt-is-climbing-6-graphs-that-explain-todays-cpi-228368/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if ... <a title="Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/our-housing-system-is-broken-and-the-poorest-australians-are-being-hardest-hit-228511/" aria-label="Read more about Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit">Read more</a>
