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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra “Big Tech” is celebrating one victory over the Albanese government, but is set to lose on another front. Ahead of the final parliamentary sitting week for 2024, the government has not just withdrawn its bill aimed at curbing misinformation and ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese government crumples on misinformation bill and gambling advertising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/view-from-the-hill-albanese-government-crumples-on-misinformation-bill-and-gambling-advertising-244485/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese government crumples on misinformation bill and gambling advertising">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is still discussing the details for the remaining five of the “Bali nine” to be repatriated to Australia, Special Minister of Sate Don Farrell has said. The planned repatriation follows the representations from Anthony Albanese to new ... <a title="Remaining members of ‘Bali nine’ set for repatriation, with conditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/remaining-members-of-bali-nine-set-for-repatriation-with-conditions-243597/" aria-label="Read more about Remaining members of ‘Bali nine’ set for repatriation, with conditions">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam War protest on Auckland’s Albert Street as a high school student in 1967, to Hīkoi mō te Tiriti last week, Miller has focused much of his work on the ... <a title="Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/protest-photographer-john-miller-records-hikoi-mo-te-tiriti-with-his-historic-lens/" aria-label="Read more about Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens ">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are heading for home. The meeting achieved incremental progress. Negotiators ... <a title="From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/from-a-us-300-billion-climate-finance-deal-to-global-carbon-trading-heres-what-was-and-wasnt-achieved-at-the-cop29-climate-talks-243697/" aria-label="Read more about From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua has ordered an inquiry into the “possible unauthorised issuance of passports” by immigration staff and “offered to step aside temporarily from role”. In a statement on Thursday night, Tikoduadua said the passports in question were issued to the children of the South Korean Christian doomsday ... <a title="Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult members" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/fijis-immigration-minister-steps-down-temporarily-over-unauthorised-passports-for-cult-members/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult members">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University JPL-Caltech/NASA Water is ubiquitous on Earth – about 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside rocks. Geologic evidence suggests water has been ... <a title="A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/a-4-45-billion-year-old-crystal-from-mars-reveals-the-planet-had-water-from-the-beginning-243172/" aria-label="Read more about A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Selma Hedlund, Postdoctoral Associate at Center of Forced Displacement, Boston University History is full of examples of governments using forced segregation against ethnic minorities. From settler colonialists coercing Indigenous peoples into reservations, Nazis forcing Jews into ghettos or the United States segregating Black Americans through redlining and ... <a title="Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/denmarks-uprooting-of-settled-residents-from-ghettos-forms-part-of-aggressive-plan-to-assimilate-nonwhite-inhabitants-243424/" aria-label="Read more about Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Grantham, Lecturer in Communication, Griffith University Shutterstock The federal government’s proposed social media ban for under-16s has sparked widespread debate, affecting millions of young Australians, their families and educators. But will it actually work? While the aim behind this ban is to protect children from online ... <a title="Educating young people about social media would be far more effective than a ban – Finland can show us how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/22/educating-young-people-about-social-media-would-be-far-more-effective-than-a-ban-finland-can-show-us-how-244304/" aria-label="Read more about Educating young people about social media would be far more effective than a ban – Finland can show us how">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Robinson, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland AG-PHOTOS/Shutterstock With the start of summer just days away, many of us will be looking forward to long sunny days spent at the beach, by the pool, out camping or picnicking in the park. ... <a title="Ant stings can be painful. Here’s how to avoid getting stung this summer (and what to do if you do)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/22/ant-stings-can-be-painful-heres-how-to-avoid-getting-stung-this-summer-and-what-to-do-if-you-do-241582/" aria-label="Read more about Ant stings can be painful. Here’s how to avoid getting stung this summer (and what to do if you do)">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University Chichimaru/Shutterstock Australia has a seriously big “nest egg”. The Future Fund – our sovereign wealth fund set up in 2006 – now manages about $230 billion. Specifically, its remit is to “invest for the benefit of future generations of Australians”. That’s long ... <a title="Is using the Future Fund for housing, energy and infrastructure really ‘raiding Australia’s nest egg’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/22/is-using-the-future-fund-for-housing-energy-and-infrastructure-really-raiding-australias-nest-egg-244293/" aria-label="Read more about Is using the Future Fund for housing, energy and infrastructure really ‘raiding Australia’s nest egg’?">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Stokes-Parish, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Bond University Pixel-Shot/Shutterstock If someone’s heart suddenly stops beating, they may only have minutes to live. Doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resusciation) can increase their chances of survival. CPR makes sure blood keeps pumping, providing oxygen to the brain and vital organs until ... <a title="Women are less likely to receive CPR than men. Training on manikins with breasts could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/22/women-are-less-likely-to-receive-cpr-than-men-training-on-manikins-with-breasts-could-help-242702/" aria-label="Read more about Women are less likely to receive CPR than men. Training on manikins with breasts could help">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2024
Democracy Now! NERMEEN SHAIKH: In The Hague, the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed during Israel’s assault on Gaza. In a statement, the ICC said the Israeli leaders had, “intentionally and knowingly deprived the ... <a title="‘Wanted’ for war crimes over Gaza: Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant face ICC arrest warrants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/22/wanted-for-war-crimes-over-gaza-israels-netanyahu-gallant-face-icc-arrest-warrants/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Wanted’ for war crimes over Gaza: Israel’s Netanyahu, Gallant face ICC arrest warrants">Read more</a>
