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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Heemsbergen, Senior Lecturer, Digital, Political, Media, Deakin University With an impressive 60% of the US smartphone market, Apple is undeniably big, but not a clear monopoly. Yet, years of innovation by Apple have effectively given the company its own exclusive tech ecosystem. Now, the US Department ... <a title="The US is suing Apple for anti-competitive behaviour. But the company’s walled-off tech ecosystem has driven its bold innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/the-us-is-suing-apple-for-anti-competitive-behaviour-but-the-companys-walled-off-tech-ecosystem-has-driven-its-bold-innovation-226512/" aria-label="Read more about The US is suing Apple for anti-competitive behaviour. But the company’s walled-off tech ecosystem has driven its bold innovation">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Miller-Jones, Professor, Curtin University Nuclear explosions on a neutron star feed its jets. Danielle Futselaar and Nathalie Degenaar, Anton Pannekoek Institute, University of Amsterdam, CC BY-SA How fast can a neutron star drive powerful jets into space? The answer, it turns out, is about one-third the ... <a title="A cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/a-cosmic-speed-camera-just-revealed-the-staggering-speed-of-neutron-star-jets-in-a-world-first-226729/" aria-label="Read more about A cosmic ‘speed camera’ just revealed the staggering speed of neutron star jets in a world first">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Adair, Associate Professor of Sport Management, University of Technology Sydney Earlier this week, independent MP Andrew Wilkie accused the AFL of conducting “off the books” illicit drug testing to identify players using substances of abuse, then inappropriately withdrawing them from matches under false pretences. His comments ... <a title="Protection racket or fair medical model? Why the AFL’s illicit drugs policy is a necessary duty of care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/protection-racket-or-fair-medical-model-why-the-afls-illicit-drugs-policy-is-a-necessary-duty-of-care-226735/" aria-label="Read more about Protection racket or fair medical model? Why the AFL’s illicit drugs policy is a necessary duty of care">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Shutterstock The federal government has bowed to pressure from the car industry, announcing it will relax proposed emissions rules for utes and vans and delay enforcement of the new standards by six months. The legislation was introduced ... <a title="Australia must wean itself from monster utes – and the federal government’s weakening of vehicle emissions rules won’t help one bit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/australia-must-wean-itself-from-monster-utes-and-the-federal-governments-weakening-of-vehicle-emissions-rules-wont-help-one-bit-226724/" aria-label="Read more about Australia must wean itself from monster utes – and the federal government’s weakening of vehicle emissions rules won’t help one bit">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Rutland, Professor Emerita, University of Sydney In his latest book, Jewish Life in Medieval Spain, Jonathan Ray focuses on the tumult of the 14th century in Spain – a time of the plague, civil strife and war between the two largest kingdoms, Aragon and Castile, with ... <a title="When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? A Jewish historian’s perspective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/when-does-anti-zionism-become-antisemitism-a-jewish-historians-perspective-224865/" aria-label="Read more about When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? A Jewish historian’s perspective">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Nicholas, Senior Lecturer in Language and Literacy Education, Deakin University Earlier this month, the New South Wales government announced it would roll out programs for gifted students in every public school in the state. This comes amid concerns gifted school students are not achieving their potential. ... <a title="How can schools make sure gifted students get the help they need?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/how-can-schools-make-sure-gifted-students-get-the-help-they-need-225892/" aria-label="Read more about How can schools make sure gifted students get the help they need?">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney Massachusetts General Hospital In a world first, we heard last week that US surgeons had transplanted a kidney from a gene-edited pig into a living human. News reports said the procedure was a breakthrough in xenotransplantation – when an organ, ... <a title="The first pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. But we’re still a long way from solving organ shortages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/the-first-pig-kidney-has-been-transplanted-into-a-living-person-but-were-still-a-long-way-from-solving-organ-shortages-226393/" aria-label="Read more about The first pig kidney has been transplanted into a living person. But we’re still a long way from solving organ shortages">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tombs, Howard Paterson Chair of Theology and Public Issues, University of Otago The 5th-century Maskell panel showing Jesus in a loincloth. British Museum, CC BY-NC-SA When Jesus is shown on the cross, he is almost always depicted wearing a loincloth around his waist. We now know, ... <a title="Art depicts Jesus in a loincloth on the cross – the brutal truth is he would have been naked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/art-depicts-jesus-in-a-loincloth-on-the-cross-the-brutal-truth-is-he-would-have-been-naked-226229/" aria-label="Read more about Art depicts Jesus in a loincloth on the cross – the brutal truth is he would have been naked">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Panizza Allmark, Professor Visual & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock When you think about a red object, you might picture a red carpet, or the massive ruby in the Queen’s crown. Indeed, Western monarchies and marketing from brands such as Christian Louboutin have cemented our association ... <a title="How Spanish conquistadors, and a tiny cactus-dwelling insect, gave the world the colour red" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/how-spanish-conquistadors-and-a-tiny-cactus-dwelling-insect-gave-the-world-the-colour-red-224749/" aria-label="Read more about How Spanish conquistadors, and a tiny cactus-dwelling insect, gave the world the colour red">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
COMMENTARY: Jewish Voice for Peace The UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Monday — and for the first time since the beginning of the Israeli military’s genocide of Palestinians, the United States abstained rather than vetoing it. Security Council resolutions are legally binding, despite the Biden administration claiming ... <a title="Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire order" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/palestine-solidarity-must-keep-up-pressure-as-israel-defies-gaza-ceasefire-order/" aria-label="Read more about Palestine solidarity must keep up pressure as Israel defies Gaza ceasefire order">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A New Zealand investigative journalist and author says the US spy system hosted by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) appears to be a controversial intelligence system used in global capture-kill operations. Writing a commentary for RNZ News today, Nicky Hager, author of Secret Power, a 1996 book on New Zealand’s role ... <a title="Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/28/investigative-author-says-gcsb-hosted-spy-system-likely-to-be-one-used-in-capture-kill-ops/" aria-label="Read more about Investigative author says GCSB-hosted spy system likely to be one used in capture-kill ops">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2024
Jubi/West Papua Daily Repeated cases of Indonesian military (TNI) soldiers torturing civilians in Papua have been evident, as seen in the viral video depicting the torture of civilians in the Puncak Regency allegedly done by soldiers of Raider 300/Brajawijaya Infantry Battalion. There is a pressing need for stringent law enforcement and the evaluation of the ... <a title="Indonesian military impunity, poor training condemned over torture of Papuans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/27/indonesian-military-impunity-poor-training-condemned-over-torture-of-papuans/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military impunity, poor training condemned over torture of Papuans">Read more</a>
