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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donald Rothwell, Professor of International Law, Australian National University The Chinese-Australian academic and writer, Yang Hengjun, has been detained in China for five years on suspicion of spying for Australia. A secret trial was held in 2021 with no family, friends or Australian consular officials permitted in ... <a title="Does Yang Hengjun have any legal hopes left after receiving a suspended death sentence in China?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/does-yang-hengjun-have-any-legal-hopes-left-after-receiving-a-suspended-death-sentence-in-china-222750/" aria-label="Read more about Does Yang Hengjun have any legal hopes left after receiving a suspended death sentence in China?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
RNZ News Aotearoa New Zealand coalition government leaders have rejected allegations they are degrading tino rangatiratanga, saying the proposed Treaty Principles Bill will not “delegitimise” Māori. The criticism was levelled by protesters at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds today. The leaders of National, ACT and NZ First faced a confronting reception, with the crowd booing NZ ... <a title="Waitangi Day 2024: NZ government denies it’s ‘delegitimising’ Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/waitangi-day-2024-nz-government-denies-its-delegitimising-maori/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi Day 2024: NZ government denies it’s ‘delegitimising’ Māori">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Ghin, Research fellow, Future Of Work Lab, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne Kat von Wood/Unsplash More than 20 million Australians have at least one long-term health condition, 63% of whom are in the workforce. The causes of chronic illness are complex and ... <a title="Millions of Australians have a chronic illness. So why aren’t employers accommodating them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/millions-of-australians-have-a-chronic-illness-so-why-arent-employers-accommodating-them-219612/" aria-label="Read more about Millions of Australians have a chronic illness. So why aren’t employers accommodating them?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Tingay, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University Mars has been a source of myth, lore and inspiration since antiquity. It is also an interesting place to research – a legitimate candidate for us to find some form of alien life. Since the 1960s, Mars ... <a title="NASA is looking for commercial Mars missions. Do people still want to go to Mars?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/nasa-is-looking-for-commercial-mars-missions-do-people-still-want-to-go-to-mars-222607/" aria-label="Read more about NASA is looking for commercial Mars missions. Do people still want to go to Mars?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Rose, Research Associate, University of Adelaide Michael Rose, Author provided In September, Timor-Leste will mark a quarter century since its vote for independence from Indonesia, the conclusion of a 24-year long struggle that left few Timorese families untouched. Reconciliation with its giant neighbour stands out as ... <a title="Sovereignty is sacred: in Timor-Leste’s remote Oecusse Enclave, a border dispute threatens to open old wounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/sovereignty-is-sacred-in-timor-lestes-remote-oecusse-enclave-a-border-dispute-threatens-to-open-old-wounds-222384/" aria-label="Read more about Sovereignty is sacred: in Timor-Leste’s remote Oecusse Enclave, a border dispute threatens to open old wounds">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Larkin, Senior Lecturer in Musicology, University of Sydney The sheer familiarity of The Magic Flute, Mozart’s most-performed opera, can blind one to its inherent oddness. It draws on a range of influences, from ancient Egyptian symbolism and freemasonry to European politics (the character of the Queen ... <a title="Campy, playful and funny: Opera Australia finds the joy in The Magic Flute, Mozart’s most-performed opera" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/campy-playful-and-funny-opera-australia-finds-the-joy-in-the-magic-flute-mozarts-most-performed-opera-221595/" aria-label="Read more about Campy, playful and funny: Opera Australia finds the joy in The Magic Flute, Mozart’s most-performed opera">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
RNZ News The crowd booed a combative Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters and drowned out Associate Treaty Minister David Seymour, while Prime Minister Christopher Luxon sombrely reflected on history at the Waitangi Treaty Grounds today. It was a confronting reception for the coalition government. Thousands gathered for the annual commemorations and to carry on the ... <a title="Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/waitangi-luxon-faces-questions-after-day-of-speeches-at-treaty-grounds/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi: Luxon faces questions after day of speeches at Treaty Grounds">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The mother of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh has died at a hospital in Gaza due to illness, reports Al Jazeera. Dahdouh, who has become a symbol for the perseverance of Palestinian journalists in Gaza, had lost his wife Amna, son Mahmoud, daughter Sham and grandson Adam to an ... <a title="Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/al-jazeeras-wael-dahdouhs-mother-dies-after-he-wins-global-award/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh’s mother dies after he wins global award">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolina Loch, Senior Lecturer in Oral Biology, University of Otago The diet of early anthropoids – the ancestors of apes and monkeys – has long been debated. Did these early primates display behaviours and diets similar to modern species, or did they have much humbler beginnings? Research ... <a title="Our ancient primate ancestors had an appetite for soft fruits – and their diet shaped human evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/our-ancient-primate-ancestors-had-an-appetite-for-soft-fruits-and-their-diet-shaped-human-evolution-220218/" aria-label="Read more about Our ancient primate ancestors had an appetite for soft fruits – and their diet shaped human evolution">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Grose, Climate Projections Scientist, CSIRO In 2023, we saw a raft of news stories about climate tipping points, including the accelerating loss of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, the potential dieback of the Amazon rainforest and the likely weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation. The ... <a title="Dangerous climate tipping points will affect Australia. The risks are real and cannot be ignored" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/dangerous-climate-tipping-points-will-affect-australia-the-risks-are-real-and-cannot-be-ignored-222282/" aria-label="Read more about Dangerous climate tipping points will affect Australia. The risks are real and cannot be ignored">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Tang Yan Song/Shutterstock The Albanese government decision to revise the Stage 3 tax cuts has ignited a political firestorm. The government argues revising the plan to give bigger tax cuts to low-and middle-income earners struggling with the cost of ... <a title="Middle Australia wins from the government’s tax plan, but the budget is the biggest loser" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/middle-australia-wins-from-the-governments-tax-plan-but-the-budget-is-the-biggest-loser-222383/" aria-label="Read more about Middle Australia wins from the government’s tax plan, but the budget is the biggest loser">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Newspoll, conducted January 31 to February 3 from a sample of 1,245, gave Labor a 52–48 lead, unchanged since the previous Newspoll in mid-December. Primary ... <a title="Labor’s Newspoll lead unchanged since December as 62% support stage three changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/05/labors-newspoll-lead-unchanged-since-december-as-62-support-stage-three-changes-222257/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s Newspoll lead unchanged since December as 62% support stage three changes">Read more</a>
