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December 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ranjodh B. Singh, Senior Lecturer, Curtin University Tunatura/Shutterstock It’s no secret that many different drugs, whether illicit or regulated and legal, are often consumed together or share a similar group of users. But the way people consume drugs together can vary, both with changes in their price ... <a title="Are tobacco and cannabis economic substitutes or complements? New research suggests it changes with age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/are-tobacco-and-cannabis-economic-substitutes-or-complements-new-research-suggests-it-changes-with-age-245155/" aria-label="Read more about Are tobacco and cannabis economic substitutes or complements? New research suggests it changes with age">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A Dutton government would keep coal working hard for much longer under its nuclear policy, while renewables would provide only a little over half the electricity generated in 2050. The opposition has finally put in place the last piece of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Dutton’s nuclear policy would have coal-fired power stations operating for a lot longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/13/grattan-on-friday-duttons-nuclear-policy-would-have-coal-fired-power-stations-operating-for-a-lot-longer-245839/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Dutton’s nuclear policy would have coal-fired power stations operating for a lot longer">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip — but three of the isolated nine countries that voted against are Pacific island states, including Papua New Guinea. The assembly passed a resolution yesterday demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which ... <a title="UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations vote against" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/un-overwhelmingly-backs-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-but-3-pacific-nations-vote-against/" aria-label="Read more about UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations vote against">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Report by Dr David Robie – Café Pacific. – Democracy Now! AMY GOODMAN: We begin today’s show with Syria and the aftermath of the historic collapse of the Assad regime. Israeli forces are continuing to attack key military sites, airports and army air bases in cities across Syria, including the capital Damascus. In just the ... <a title="‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/politics-is-finally-possible-after-surprise-fall-of-syrias-assad-in-protracted-civil-war-whats-next/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Politics is finally possible’: After surprise fall of Syria’s Assad in protracted civil war, what’s next?">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University gioele piccinini/Shutterstock The federal government has revealed a new bargaining chip in the gamble to bring big tech back to the table with news publishers. The “news media bargaining incentive” is essentially a new levy issued by the ... <a title="News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/news-bargaining-incentive-the-latest-move-in-the-governments-four-dimensional-chess-battle-with-meta-245838/" aria-label="Read more about News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia It has been a busy year for defamation lawyers. There has been a mixed bag of outcomes, too. The two highest profile cases delivered different results: a win for independent MP Alex Greenwich in ... <a title="Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language – not even politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/moira-deemings-defamation-win-shows-nobody-can-play-fast-and-loose-with-language-not-even-politicians-245837/" aria-label="Read more about Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language – not even politicians">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney DANIEL CONSTANTE.Shutterstock Big tech companies would have to either do deals with news organisations to help fund journalism or pay a charge to the Australian government, under a new plan announced by the Albanese government ... <a title="Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/big-tech-firms-like-meta-forced-to-pay-for-news-under-albanese-governments-news-bargaining-incentive-charge-245835/" aria-label="Read more about Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant ... <a title="A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/a-meta-outage-hit-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-more-heres-what-we-know-so-far-245834/" aria-label="Read more about A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney A prospective constitutional challenge to Victorian campaign finance laws may have flow-on consequences for Commonwealth campaign finance reforms, which have currently stalled in the Senate. Four independent candidates, who were defeated at the last Victorian election, have ... <a title="Victorian independents’ potential High Court challenge to political donations laws has merit – and there are federal implications too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/victorian-independents-potential-high-court-challenge-to-political-donations-laws-has-merit-and-there-are-federal-implications-too-245654/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian independents’ potential High Court challenge to political donations laws has merit – and there are federal implications too">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Murray, Bond University It has been a busy time in the Australian government’s sports diplomacy locker room. Recently, Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts met with 22 national sporting organisations in Melbourne for the inaugural Sports Diplomacy Consultative Group meeting. And today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, his ... <a title="Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/sports-diplomacy-why-the-australian-government-is-spending-600-million-on-a-new-nrl-team-in-png-245560/" aria-label="Read more about Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG">Read more</a>
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December 12, 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 This article is based on a presentation by the author to the Electoral Regulations Forum. At the November 5 US presidential election, Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat ... <a title="Republicans soared in the recent US elections, but Democrats have reasons for optimism for 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/republicans-soared-in-the-recent-us-elections-but-democrats-have-reasons-for-optimism-for-2026-245157/" aria-label="Read more about Republicans soared in the recent US elections, but Democrats have reasons for optimism for 2026">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta Stapleton, Professor in Psychology, Bond University Thanks to films and cartoons, you probably have a lot of vague ideas about what hypnosis involves. What do you picture? Maybe a fob watch swinging back-and-forth, a therapist saying “you are getting verrrry sleepy”. But clinical hypnotherapy isn’t a ... <a title="Hypnosis won’t put you under a spell. But it can open your mind to change – and help treat pain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/hypnosis-wont-put-you-under-a-spell-but-it-can-open-your-mind-to-change-and-help-treat-pain-243793/" aria-label="Read more about Hypnosis won’t put you under a spell. But it can open your mind to change – and help treat pain">Read more</a>
