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January 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Percy Allan, Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney In January a year ago, two-thirds of the leading economists surveyed by the World Economic Forum forecast a global recession for 2023. We didn’t get one. This year at the forum they are talking ... <a title="There are 4 economic scenarios for the rest of the decade: I’ve reluctantly picked one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/22/there-are-4-economic-scenarios-for-the-rest-of-the-decade-ive-reluctantly-picked-one-217519/" aria-label="Read more about There are 4 economic scenarios for the rest of the decade: I’ve reluctantly picked one">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John L Hopkins, Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology LightField Studios/Shutterstock Working from home introduced in response to the harsh pandemic lockdowns in 2020 was expected to be a short term arrangement with staff returning to the office as soon as restrictions were lifted. Yet, almost four ... <a title="Is linking time in the office to career success the best way to get us back to work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/22/is-linking-time-in-the-office-to-career-success-the-best-way-to-get-us-back-to-work-220845/" aria-label="Read more about Is linking time in the office to career success the best way to get us back to work?">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney Encountering my brother and his wax double. Cherine Fahd Spitting image, dead ringer, chip off the old block. Doubles, twins and doppelgangers have a funny way of tricking us. When I encountered Anne Zahalka’s photo portrait of ... <a title="I felt nothing at Madame Tussauds – until I found my brother’s statue, and felt love" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/22/i-felt-nothing-at-madame-tussauds-until-i-found-my-brothers-statue-and-felt-love-218523/" aria-label="Read more about I felt nothing at Madame Tussauds – until I found my brother’s statue, and felt love">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2024
By Timoci Vula Fiji’s Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka says the decision to dismiss Education Minister Aseri Radrodro from cabinet was taken after due process had been followed. Rabuka had issued a public statement to announce Radrodro’s dismissal on January 19 with effect from tomorrow (January 22), citing “insubordination and disobedience” to his directive. He said ... <a title="Fiji’s Radrodro dismissed after ‘due process’, says Rabuka" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/22/fijis-radrodro-dismissed-after-due-process-says-rabuka/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Radrodro dismissed after ‘due process’, says Rabuka">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2024
EDITORIAL: By The Fiji Times editor-in-chief Fred Wesley What is happening to us in Fiji? How did we get to this stage? The brutal attack and senseless death of [35-year-old carpenter] Apakuki Tavodi in [a roadside stabbing] in Saweni, Lautoka, is a shocking reminder about how fragile life can be. THE FIJI TIMES It is ... <a title="The Fiji Times: Call for action – let’s see this death as a wake-up call" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/21/the-fiji-times-call-for-action-lets-see-this-death-as-a-wake-up-call/" aria-label="Read more about The Fiji Times: Call for action – let’s see this death as a wake-up call">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2024
RNZ News New Zealand’s opposition parties have seized on a leaked ministerial memo about the coalition government’s proposed Treaty Principles bill, saying the prime minister should put a stop to it. ACT is defending the bill, while National has repeated its position of supporting it no further than select committee. Te Pāti Māori co-leader Rawiri ... <a title="NZ opposition parties urge PM Luxon to shut down ‘erase treaty’ bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/21/nz-opposition-parties-urge-pm-luxon-to-shut-down-erase-treaty-bill/" aria-label="Read more about NZ opposition parties urge PM Luxon to shut down ‘erase treaty’ bill">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
By Binoy Kampmark The Age has revealed the dismissal of ABC broadcaster Antoinette Lattouf last December 20 was the nasty fruit of a campaign waged against chair Ita Buttrose and managing director David Anderson. The official reason for Lattouf’s dismissal was ordinary: she shared a post by Human Rights Watch about Israel “using starvation of civilians as a ... <a title="Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/cancelling-the-journalist-furore-over-abcs-coverage-of-israel-war-on-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelling the journalist: Furore over ABC’s coverage of Israel war on Gaza">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
RNZ Pacific Waikato Tainui estimate at least 10,000 people have been welcomed onto Tūrangawaewae marae to participate in an Aotearoa New Zealand national hui called by Kiingi Tuuheitia. Kiingi Tuuheitia extended the invite last month after iwi leaders highlighted the need for a unified response to coalition government policy impacting Māori and the 1840 Te ... <a title="More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/more-than-10000-turn-out-for-nzs-national-hui-a-iwi-at-turangawaewae/" aria-label="Read more about More than 10,000 turn out for NZ’s national Hui-ā-Iwi at Tūrangawaewae">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Ramsay, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, and Research Affiliate, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University 2023 was the hottest year on record. Humidity is rising too. Heat and humidity are a dangerous combination, threatening all aspects of our lives and livelihoods. Climate change is pushing ... <a title="1 billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/1-billion-people-left-dangerously-exposed-to-heat-stress-by-gaps-in-climate-monitoring-221313/" aria-label="Read more about 1 billion people left dangerously exposed to heat stress by gaps in climate monitoring">Read more</a>
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January 20, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Cassandra Mudgway, University of Canterbury The high-stress nature of working in politics is increasingly taking a toll on staff and politicians. But an additional threat to the personal wellbeing and safety of politicians resides outside Parliament, and the threat is ubiquitous: online violence against women MPs. Since her election in 2017, Green Party ... <a title="Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/20/golriz-ghahramans-exit-from-politics-shows-the-toll-of-online-bullying-on-female-mps/" aria-label="Read more about Golriz Ghahraman’s exit from politics shows the toll of online bullying on female MPs">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In the European Union at least, mortality data is now available until close to the end of 2023. In northern Europe, mortality has been markedly higher than it should have been in the ‘Fall’ – autumn – of 2023. The main exception is Poland. Respiratory illness is most likely the culprit. ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Excess Mortality to Fall 2023: mainly Northeast Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/19/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-excess-mortality-to-fall-2023-mainly-northeast-europe/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Excess Mortality to Fall 2023: mainly Northeast Europe">Read more</a>
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January 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard de Grijs, Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University Illustration of the Japanese moon lander separating in orbit. JAXA Early on Saturday, January 20 2024, Japan hopes to become the fifth country to successfully land a probe on the Moon. To date, the United States, the Soviet Union, ... <a title="Japan is about to land its first lunar probe. As more nations race to the Moon, how will we keep the peace?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/19/japan-is-about-to-land-its-first-lunar-probe-as-more-nations-race-to-the-moon-how-will-we-keep-the-peace-221223/" aria-label="Read more about Japan is about to land its first lunar probe. As more nations race to the Moon, how will we keep the peace?">Read more</a>
