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April 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers has unveiled new rules governing company mergers that will bring more of them under scrutiny to ensure they don’t worsen competition. Chalmers says the changes – to be formally announced on Wednesday in a speech released ahead ... <a title="More mergers to come under scrutiny in another leg of Chalmers’ competition policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/10/more-mergers-to-come-under-scrutiny-in-another-leg-of-chalmers-competition-policy-227454/" aria-label="Read more about More mergers to come under scrutiny in another leg of Chalmers’ competition policy">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Foreign Minister Penny Wong has taken Australian policy a modest step towards embracing recognition of a Palestine state ahead of a two-state solution, as a pathway to a lasting Middle East peace. In a Tuesday speech to an Australian National ... <a title="Penny Wong floats recognising Palestine ahead of two-state solution to help path to peace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/penny-wong-floats-recognising-palestine-ahead-of-two-state-solution-to-help-path-to-peace-227456/" aria-label="Read more about Penny Wong floats recognising Palestine ahead of two-state solution to help path to peace">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University There are just five weeks until the budget, and the usual lists of winners and losers. Among last year’s winners were said to be single parents, renters and first home buyers. Among the losers were ... <a title="How about this time we try, just try, to report on budgets and tax differently?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/how-about-this-time-we-try-just-try-to-report-on-budgets-and-tax-differently-227353/" aria-label="Read more about How about this time we try, just try, to report on budgets and tax differently?">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The leader of a New Zealand solidarity group of Palestinian self-determination supporters has accused the country’s Foreign Minister Winston Peters of making a “bluff and bluster” speech at the United Nations that was misleading about inaction at home. National chair John Minto of the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) said in a ... <a title="PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/psnas-minto-slams-peters-over-bluster-speech-on-gaza-at-un/" aria-label="Read more about PSNA’s Minto slams Peters over ‘bluster’ speech on Gaza at UN">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University With Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visiting Washington this week, rumours have circulated that Japan might soon join the AUKUS security pact between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ... <a title="Is Japan joining AUKUS? Not formally – its cooperation will remain limited for now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/is-japan-joining-aukus-not-formally-its-cooperation-will-remain-limited-for-now-227442/" aria-label="Read more about Is Japan joining AUKUS? Not formally – its cooperation will remain limited for now">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Jefferson, Lecturer in Human Movement Studies (Health and PE) and Creative Arts, Charles Sturt University Recent changes in New Zealand sporting dress codes have led to a collective sigh of relief in women’s gymnastics. No longer will competitive gymnasts be penalised for accidentally revealing their underwear ... <a title="NZ gymnasts can now wear shorts over their leotards – why is this a big deal for female athletes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/nz-gymnasts-can-now-wear-shorts-over-their-leotards-why-is-this-a-big-deal-for-female-athletes-227159/" aria-label="Read more about NZ gymnasts can now wear shorts over their leotards – why is this a big deal for female athletes?">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist Broadband satellite service provider Starlink is now being used in the Pacific but not always legally, for now. In Vanuatu, border workers are confiscating equipment. Telecom regulator Brian Winji said people using the service had signed up overseas — likely in Australia and New Zealand — and have brought ... <a title="Pacific nations gradually embracing Elon Musk’s Starlink" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/pacific-nations-gradually-embracing-elon-musks-starlink/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nations gradually embracing Elon Musk’s Starlink">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liz Allen, Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University Jay Wennington/unsplash People form the foundation of society, determining all manner of things from housing needs to economic wellbeing. And population characteristics can tell us much about how the inhabitants of a place have changed ... <a title="Eight charts on how Australia’s population is growing – and changing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/eight-charts-on-how-australias-population-is-growing-and-changing-227153/" aria-label="Read more about Eight charts on how Australia’s population is growing – and changing">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Versitano, Academic, Master of Art Therapy Program, Western Sydney University An artwork made by a young person receiving mental health care in hospital during an art therapy session. Author provided Creating art for healing purposes dates back tens of thousands of years, to the practices of ... <a title="Lost for words? Research shows art therapy brings benefits for mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/lost-for-words-research-shows-art-therapy-brings-benefits-for-mental-health-221309/" aria-label="Read more about Lost for words? Research shows art therapy brings benefits for mental health">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Flash droughts strike suddenly and intensify rapidly. Often the affected areas are in drought after just weeks or a couple of months of well-below-average rainfall. They happen worldwide and are becoming more common, ... <a title="Flash droughts are becoming more common in Australia. What’s causing them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/flash-droughts-are-becoming-more-common-in-australia-whats-causing-them-227052/" aria-label="Read more about Flash droughts are becoming more common in Australia. What’s causing them?">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters has told the United Nations the situation in Gaza is an “utter catastrophe” and criticised the Security Council for failing to act decisively. In a speech to the UN General Assembly in New York, Peters said Gaza was a “wasteland” and that New Zealand was “gravely ... <a title="NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/nzs-peters-criticises-security-council-at-un-says-gaza-a-wasteland/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s Peters criticises Security Council at UN, says Gaza ‘a wasteland’">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandru Nichifor, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne MMXeon/Shutterstock Loyalty programs enable firms to offer significantly lower prices to some of their customers. You’d think this would encourage strong competition. But that isn’t always what actually happens. New research ... <a title="Loyalty programs may limit competition, and they could be pushing prices up for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/09/loyalty-programs-may-limit-competition-and-they-could-be-pushing-prices-up-for-everyone-220669/" aria-label="Read more about Loyalty programs may limit competition, and they could be pushing prices up for everyone">Read more</a>
