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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Micaela Sahhar, Lecturer, History of Ideas, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne What is the significance of the Australian government signalling this week that it may finally recognise Palestinian statehood? Though not universally popular, Foreign Minister Penny Wong’s diplomatic gesture towards Palestinian statehood has been welcomed in ... <a title="The politics of recognition: Australia and the question of Palestinian statehood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/the-politics-of-recognition-australia-and-the-question-of-palestinian-statehood-227563/" aria-label="Read more about The politics of recognition: Australia and the question of Palestinian statehood">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naoise McDonagh, Senior Lecturer, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University IM Imagery/Shutterstock Australia is a trading nation. Its economy relies on a strong and open global trade environment. Australian governments have historically rejected protectionist industrial policies that undermine fair competition, and Canberra has long been ... <a title="Australia is playing catchup with the Future Made in Australia Act. Will it be enough?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/australia-is-playing-catchup-with-the-future-made-in-australia-act-will-it-be-enough-227762/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is playing catchup with the Future Made in Australia Act. Will it be enough?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
By Mark Rabago, RNZ Pacific Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas correspondent A man on Saipan has burned the official CNMI flag in protest, saying that it does not truly represent Indigenous people of the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas (CNMI). A public video of the flag-burning was posted by Raymond Quitugua that has stirred various ... <a title="Indigenous rights flag-burning protest rocks CNMI community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/indigenous-rights-flag-burning-protest-rocks-cnmi-community/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous rights flag-burning protest rocks CNMI community">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland CLICKMANIS/Shutterstock Beetroot has been in the news for all the wrong reasons. Supply issues in recent months have seen a shortage of tinned beetroot on Australian supermarket shelves. At one point, a tin was reportedly ... <a title="No, beetroot isn’t vegetable Viagra. But here’s what else it can do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/no-beetroot-isnt-vegetable-viagra-but-heres-what-else-it-can-do-222508/" aria-label="Read more about No, beetroot isn’t vegetable Viagra. But here’s what else it can do">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trang Nguyen, Southeast Asia Lead, Climateworks Centre Nguyen Quang Ngoc Tonkin, Shutterstock Next week, more than 100 green energy, technology, education and finance companies from Australia and Vietnam will gather in Ho Chi Minh City. The meeting is billed as the first “green economy summit” between the ... <a title="Green economy summit: how can Australia get more from its relationship with Vietnam?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/green-economy-summit-how-can-australia-get-more-from-its-relationship-with-vietnam-226822/" aria-label="Read more about Green economy summit: how can Australia get more from its relationship with Vietnam?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil G Sipe, Honorary Professor of Planning, The University of Queensland Forestville, Adelaide Renewal SA, CC BY Infill development is an increasingly hot topic in Australian cities. It involves building on unused or underutilised land within existing urban areas. City planners see infill development as essential. It’s ... <a title="City planners love infill development. So why are cities struggling with it, and how can they do better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/city-planners-love-infill-development-so-why-are-cities-struggling-with-it-and-how-can-they-do-better-223189/" aria-label="Read more about City planners love infill development. So why are cities struggling with it, and how can they do better?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Brand, Lecturer in Intelligence Studies, Macquarie University This year marks 70 years since Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov sensationally defected to Australia shortly before the 1954 election, beginning what came to be known as the “Petrov affair”. The defection itself is interesting – but what’s equally fascinating ... <a title="The Petrov affair: how a real-life Cold War defection became a soothing spy story for anxious Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/the-petrov-affair-how-a-real-life-cold-war-defection-became-a-soothing-spy-story-for-anxious-australians-226494/" aria-label="Read more about The Petrov affair: how a real-life Cold War defection became a soothing spy story for anxious Australians">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Martyn Bradbury, editor of The Daily Blog The day the news axe fell: Presenters, insiders fear ‘huge blow for democracy’ The future of New Zealand’s media landscape is becoming clearer by the day, with confirmation that it will no longer feature one of the country’s big two TV news networks. Warner Bros. Discovery ... <a title="Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s Newshub" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/geopolitical-reasons-why-warner-bros-were-always-going-to-mutilate-nzs-newshub/" aria-label="Read more about Geopolitical reasons why Warner Bros were always going to mutilate NZ’s Newshub">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Baker, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see ... <a title="Grant Robertson is swapping cabinet for academia – but should ex-politicians lead universities?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/grant-robertson-is-swapping-cabinet-for-academia-but-should-ex-politicians-lead-universities-227549/" aria-label="Read more about Grant Robertson is swapping cabinet for academia – but should ex-politicians lead universities?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
PNG Post-Courier The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the “valley of tears” in Wapenamanda, Enga, province. Feakes braved fears of tribal warfare when he visited Australian government-funded projects at a tribal fighting zone on Wednesday. The battlefields of Middle Lai, where more than ... <a title="Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/enga-isnt-that-bad-says-australian-diplomat-on-troubled-area-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Australia’s weather bureau copped harsh criticism after El Niño failed to deliver a much-vaunted dry summer in eastern Australia. Parts of northern Queensland in the path of Tropical Cyclone Jasper had a record wet December and ... <a title="Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/despite-what-you-might-hear-weather-prediction-is-getting-better-not-worse-225904/" aria-label="Read more about Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun carried an exclusive story on Sunday headed “Half a million extra on welfare”. It was subheaded: NDIS blowing the budget. The story said the number of Australians on welfare ... <a title="Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/half-a-million-more-australians-on-welfare-not-unless-you-double-count-227342/" aria-label="Read more about Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count">Read more</a>
