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April 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ran Porat, Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University Close to midnight on April 13, hundreds of military drones were launched from both Iran and Iraq toward Israel. Subsequently, several waves of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and rockets followed, originating from Iran, Iraq, Yemen ... <a title="Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a strategic miscalculation. Can all-out war now be averted?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/14/irans-unprecedented-attack-on-israel-was-a-strategic-miscalculation-can-all-out-war-now-be-averted-227872/" aria-label="Read more about Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel was a strategic miscalculation. Can all-out war now be averted?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers has flagged substantial public investment, likely tax breaks and other incentives in next month’s budget to encourage industry, while stressing there won’t be a “free-for-all” of public funds. “We’re talking about incentivising private investment rather than replacing ... <a title="Jim Chalmers seeks to allay fears industry policy will be financial ‘free-for-all’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/14/jim-chalmers-seeks-to-allay-fears-industry-policy-will-be-financial-free-for-all-227871/" aria-label="Read more about Jim Chalmers seeks to allay fears industry policy will be financial ‘free-for-all’">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2024
This week the two biggest TV broadcasters in Aotearoa New Zealand confirmed plans to cut news programmes by midyear – and the jobs of a significant proportion of this country’s journalists. Many observers said this had been coming but few seemed to have a plan for it, including the government. Mediawatch looks at what viewers ... <a title="RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/14/rnz-mediawatch-end-of-the-news-in-nz-as-we-know-it/" aria-label="Read more about RNZ Mediawatch: End of the news in NZ as we know it?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Bond University There are few scenes more shocking than random acts of extreme violence against people simply going about their daily lives. Yet this is what Australians are coming to terms with after a man went on a ... <a title="As Australia reels from the Bondi attack, such mass murder incidents remain rare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/14/as-australia-reels-from-the-bondi-attack-such-mass-murder-incidents-remain-rare-227864/" aria-label="Read more about As Australia reels from the Bondi attack, such mass murder incidents remain rare">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s top economists overwhelmingly want Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to scrap a special deal with Western Australia that’s set to deliver it an extra A$40 billion in Commonwealth funding by the end of the decade. ... <a title="Scrap the West Australian GST deal set to cost $40 billion – leading economists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/14/scrap-the-west-australian-gst-deal-set-to-cost-40-billion-leading-economists-227551/" aria-label="Read more about Scrap the West Australian GST deal set to cost $40 billion – leading economists">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk Security forces reinforcements were sent from France ahead of two rival marches in the capital Nouméa today, at the same time and only two streets away one from the other. One march, called by Union Calédonienne party (a component of the pro-independence FLNKS umbrella) and its ... <a title="France security forces in Nouméa ahead of two opposing marches today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/france-security-forces-in-noumea-ahead-of-two-opposing-marches-today/" aria-label="Read more about France security forces in Nouméa ahead of two opposing marches today">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
RNZ Pacific More videos appear to have been released by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) showing New Zealand hostage Phillip Mehrtens. The New Zealander was taken hostage more than a year ago on February 7 in Paro in the highlands of the Indonesian-ruled region of West Papua while providing vital air links and ... <a title="More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/more-videos-of-kiwi-hostage-in-papua-warning-over-indonesian-air-strikes/" aria-label="Read more about More videos of Kiwi hostage in Papua – warning over Indonesian air strikes">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
Loop PNG Facilitated by ABC International Development, and conducted by veteran journalist Scott Waide, the first-of-its-kind training in Papua New Guinea aims to plug the skills gaps identified in the last 10 years, especially with news journalists. “While we have students graduating from the University of Technology, Divine Word, the Pacific Adventist University and the ... <a title="PNG public interest journalism training – ‘why we’re doing it’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/png-public-interest-journalism-training-why-were-doing-it/" aria-label="Read more about PNG public interest journalism training – ‘why we’re doing it’">Read more</a>
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April 13, 2024
By Sharon Muller of Arah Juang On Friday, March 22, a video circulated of TNI (Indonesian military) soldiers torturing a civilian in Papua. In the video, the victim is submerged in a drum filled with water with his hands tied behind his back. The victim was alternately beaten and kicked by the TNI members. The ... <a title="Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/13/indonesian-militarys-crimes-in-west-papua-and-the-democratic-solution/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military’s crimes in West Papua and the democratic solution">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Among the critics emerging to find fault with Anthony Albanese’s interventionist industry policy, the one who gave the most damaging prick to the Prime Ministerial balloon was Danielle Wood, the new head of the Productivity Commission, Wood, former chief of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Danielle Wood pricks Albanese’s industry policy balloon – but leaves him with good advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/view-from-the-hill-danielle-wood-pricks-albaneses-industry-policy-balloon-but-leaves-him-with-good-advice-227786/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Danielle Wood pricks Albanese’s industry policy balloon – but leaves him with good advice">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Among the critics emerging to find fault with Anthony Albanese’s interventionist industry policy, the one who gave the most damaging prick to the Prime Ministerial balloon was Danielle Wood, the new head of the Productivity Commission, Wood, former chief of ... <a title="Danielle Wood pricks Albanese’s industry policy balloon – but leaves him with some good advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/danielle-wood-pricks-albaneses-industry-policy-balloon-but-leaves-him-with-some-good-advice-227786/" aria-label="Read more about Danielle Wood pricks Albanese’s industry policy balloon – but leaves him with some good advice">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuanyuan Huang, Research Scientist, CSIRO TaraPatta / Shutterstock We all know about the carbon in Earth’s atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals. But a substantial fraction of the carbon in the planet’s land-based ecosystems is held in something so ... <a title="Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/trillions-of-tonnes-of-carbon-locked-in-soil-has-been-left-out-of-environmental-models-and-its-on-the-move-227597/" aria-label="Read more about Trillions of tonnes of carbon locked in soil has been left out of environmental models – and it’s on the move">Read more</a>
