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February 29, 2024
RNZ News The late Green Party MP Fa’anānā Efeso Collins has been remembered by his widow as an “extraordinary man” at a service in South Auckland. The 49-year-old husband and father-of-two died on February 21 after collapsing during a charity event in Auckland’s central city. Fa’anānā’s unexpected death came as a shock to many, with ... <a title="Fa’anānā Efeso Collins – an ‘extraordinary man’, says widow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/faanana-efeso-collins-an-extraordinary-man-says-widow/" aria-label="Read more about Fa’anānā Efeso Collins – an ‘extraordinary man’, says widow">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
RNZ News Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has designated the political wing of Hamas as a “terrorist” entity. New Zealand designated the military wing of Hamas as a terrorist entity in 2010. Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the government unequivocally condemned the “brutal” terrorist attacks by Hamas in October, and the move had been taken after ... <a title="NZ govt designates political wing of Hamas a ‘terrorist’ entity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/nz-govt-designates-political-wing-of-hamas-a-terrorist-entity/" aria-label="Read more about NZ govt designates political wing of Hamas a ‘terrorist’ entity">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Lecturer (Law), Southern Cross University Last night, ASIO boss Mike Burgess made another powerful public statement in delivering the Annual Threat Assessment for 2024. Burgess stated that ASIO has seen “terrorists and spies […] talking about sabotage, researching sabotage, sometimes conducting reconnaissance for sabotage”. ... <a title="Explainer: what is sabotage and why is the ASIO chief worried about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/explainer-what-is-sabotage-and-why-is-the-asio-chief-worried-about-it-224731/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is sabotage and why is the ASIO chief worried about it?">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steph Kershaw, Research Fellow, Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney Max kegfire/Shutterstock Methamphetamine, also known as ice or meth, is the drug Australians most associate with a drug problem and the drug they’re most concerned about, according to the latest ... <a title="Meth use is declining in Australia – but the public still sees it as the most worrying drug" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/meth-use-is-declining-in-australia-but-the-public-still-sees-it-as-the-most-worrying-drug-224620/" aria-label="Read more about Meth use is declining in Australia – but the public still sees it as the most worrying drug">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stan Karanasios, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are supercharging the problem of misinformation, disinformation and fake news. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and various image, voice and video generators have made it easier than ever to produce content, while making ... <a title="Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/algorithms-are-pushing-ai-generated-falsehoods-at-an-alarming-rate-how-do-we-stop-this-224626/" aria-label="Read more about Algorithms are pushing AI-generated falsehoods at an alarming rate. How do we stop this?">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Thomasson, Associate Lecturer of Law, The University of Western Australia Andriy B/Shutterstock This week, Queensland Supreme Court Justice Glenn Martin declared the state’s COVID vaccine mandate for police officers was unlawful. Martin also found the director-general of Queensland health did not have the power to make ... <a title="Queensland ruling doesn’t mean all COVID vaccine mandates were flawed. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/queensland-ruling-doesnt-mean-all-covid-vaccine-mandates-were-flawed-heres-why-224646/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland ruling doesn’t mean all COVID vaccine mandates were flawed. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Sweetman, Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University The health of Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce is in the news again, this time with a diagnosis of a sleep disorder made while filming a TV documentary. Joyce’s diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea arose ... <a title="Why Barnaby Joyce’s TV diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea is such a big deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/why-barnaby-joyces-tv-diagnosis-of-insomnia-plus-sleep-apnoea-is-such-a-big-deal-224616/" aria-label="Read more about Why Barnaby Joyce’s TV diagnosis of insomnia plus sleep apnoea is such a big deal">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gareth Evans, Distinguished Honorary Professor, Australian National University When Cambodia’s new prime minister, Hun Manet, visits Melbourne next week for the ASEAN Australia Summit, he may seem a welcome change from his long-serving authoritarian father Hun Sen. But hopes for a democratic and human rights renaissance in ... <a title="Cambodia’s new leader may sound like a reformer in Australia next week, but little has changed back home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/cambodias-new-leader-may-sound-like-a-reformer-in-australia-next-week-but-little-has-changed-back-home-224726/" aria-label="Read more about Cambodia’s new leader may sound like a reformer in Australia next week, but little has changed back home">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rentz, Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow, School of Marine and Tropical Biology, James Cook University David Rentz In recent weeks, Melburnians have reported thousands of crickets showing up in large numbers after dark, flying into homes and shops and taking up residence. The insect in question is ... <a title="From crickets in Melbourne to grasshoppers in Cairns, here’s what triggers an insect outbreak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/from-crickets-in-melbourne-to-grasshoppers-in-cairns-heres-what-triggers-an-insect-outbreak-224338/" aria-label="Read more about From crickets in Melbourne to grasshoppers in Cairns, here’s what triggers an insect outbreak">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University Shutterstock On this day, February 29, conversations the world over may conjure the name of Pope Gregory XIII – widely known for his reform of the calendar that bears his name. The need for calendar reform was driven by ... <a title="Pope Gregory XIII gave us the leap year – but his legacy goes so much further" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/pope-gregory-xiii-gave-us-the-leap-year-but-his-legacy-goes-so-much-further-223093/" aria-label="Read more about Pope Gregory XIII gave us the leap year – but his legacy goes so much further">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Themiya Nanayakkara, Senior Scientist at the James Webb Australian Data Centre, Swinburne University of Technology NASA / ESA / CSA / Ivo Labbe (Swinburne) / Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh) / Alyssa Pagan (STScI) About 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the cosmos was a very dark ... <a title="What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/what-ended-the-dark-ages-in-the-early-universe-new-webb-data-just-brought-us-closer-to-solving-the-mystery-224525/" aria-label="Read more about What ended the ‘dark ages’ in the early universe? New Webb data just brought us closer to solving the mystery">Read more</a>
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February 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saman Khalesi, Senior Lecturer and Discipline Lead in Nutrition, School of Health, Medical and Applied Sciences, CQUniversity Australia Pexels/Karolina Grabowska According to social media, carbs come in various guises: naked carbs, net carbs, complex carbs and more. You might be wondering what these terms mean or if ... <a title="‘Naked carbs’ and ‘net carbs’ – what are they and should you count them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/29/naked-carbs-and-net-carbs-what-are-they-and-should-you-count-them-223731/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Naked carbs’ and ‘net carbs’ – what are they and should you count them?">Read more</a>
