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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set a high bar for victory right at the start of the Gaza conflict: the complete destruction of Hamas and freedom for all of the approximately 250 hostages taken ... <a title="Facing enormous pressure at home and abroad, how much longer can Israel continue its war in Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/facing-enormous-pressure-at-home-and-abroad-how-much-longer-can-israel-continue-its-war-in-gaza-227350/" aria-label="Read more about Facing enormous pressure at home and abroad, how much longer can Israel continue its war in Gaza?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francois Guillard, Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Sydney Sinkholes are back in the news after a 13-year-old boy fell down a two metre deep hole in a waterlogged football field in Sydney over the weekend. The boy reportedly sank further into the hole every time ... <a title="What is a sinkhole? A geotechnical engineer explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/what-is-a-sinkhole-a-geotechnical-engineer-explains-227347/" aria-label="Read more about What is a sinkhole? A geotechnical engineer explains">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Morrison, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock Gossip flows through the offices and lunchrooms of our workplaces, seemingly filling idle time. But perhaps, through these ubiquitous and intriguing conversations, we are influencing our workplace relationships more than we realise. Is gossiping a route to friendship ... <a title="Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to build relationships" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/office-gossip-isnt-just-idle-chatter-its-a-valuable-but-risky-way-to-build-relationships-227220/" aria-label="Read more about Office gossip isn’t just idle chatter. It’s a valuable – but risky – way to build relationships">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Doddy Morris of the Vanuatu Daily Post It has been 60 years since Indonesia has been refused humanitarian agencies and international media access to enter West Papua, says a leading West Papuan leader and advocate. According to Benny Wenda, president of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), Indonesia is “comparable to North ... <a title="Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/wenda-challenges-indonesias-papua-never-colonised-claim-as-false/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda challenges Indonesia’s ‘Papua never colonised’ claim as false">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Armitage, Associate Professor in Vision Science, Optometry Course Director, Deakin University Shutterstock So, you got your eyesight tested and found out you need your first pair of glasses. Or you found out you need a stronger pair than the ones you have. You put them on ... <a title="Could my glasses be making my eyesight worse?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/could-my-glasses-be-making-my-eyesight-worse-225169/" aria-label="Read more about Could my glasses be making my eyesight worse?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former Australian Defence Force chief Mark Binskin has been given a very wide brief by the Albanese government in his role as its adviser on Israel’s response to the killing of seven aid workers. Among the victims, from the aid ... <a title="Government gives its special adviser on aid workers’ deaths a wide brief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/government-gives-its-special-adviser-on-aid-workers-deaths-a-wide-brief-227348/" aria-label="Read more about Government gives its special adviser on aid workers’ deaths a wide brief">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Townsend, Research Fellow, UQ School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland The Australian Football League (AFL) recently announced it is “considering appointing independent doctors at all AFL games to assist club medical staff in identifying and assessing players for potential head injuries.” ... <a title="Will introducing independent doctors at games help the AFL tackle its concussion problem?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/will-introducing-independent-doctors-at-games-help-the-afl-tackle-its-concussion-problem-226821/" aria-label="Read more about Will introducing independent doctors at games help the AFL tackle its concussion problem?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Maxwell, Associate Professor in Performance Studies, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Angus Cerini’s Into the Shimmering World is an unforgiving and, frankly, bleak meditation on what it is to be good; what it is to live a good life. The scene is the kitchen ... <a title="‘Strong theatre with unwavering precision’: Into the Shimmering World asks us what does it mean to be good?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/strong-theatre-with-unwavering-precision-into-the-shimmering-world-asks-us-what-does-it-mean-to-be-good-224864/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Strong theatre with unwavering precision’: Into the Shimmering World asks us what does it mean to be good?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
By Giff Johnson, editor, Marshall Islands Journal, and RNZ Pacific correspondent Majuro Mayor Ladie Jack is raising the alarm about criminal behaviour involving Marshallese deported from the United States, saying the “impact of these deportees on our local community has been nothing short of devastating”. Marshallese deported from the United States have been convicted over ... <a title="Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/alarm-raised-over-wave-of-havoc-by-marshallese-deported-from-us/" aria-label="Read more about Alarm raised over ‘wave of havoc’ by Marshallese deported from US">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology A mob set fire to a Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco last month as residents’ anger about the cars boiled over. Self-driving “robotaxis” run by Waymo and other operators such as Cruise have been causing ... <a title="Australians are open to self-driving vehicles, but want humans to retain ultimate control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/australians-are-open-to-self-driving-vehicles-but-want-humans-to-retain-ultimate-control-225282/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are open to self-driving vehicles, but want humans to retain ultimate control">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Just a third of New Zealanders now say they trust the news. That is the major finding of Auckland University of Technology’s research centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy (JMAD)’s fifth annual Trust in News in Aotearoa New Zealand report, reports RNZ News. Trust in news in general fell from 42 percent last ... <a title="New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/new-research-report-shows-major-drop-in-media-trust-in-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about New research report shows major drop in media trust in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University The indexation of student debt is arguably the federal government’s biggest political problem when it comes to universities. Last June, student debt balances increased by 7.1%, the highest rate in decades. While HELP loans ... <a title="How do we protect students from ballooning HELP debts? A fixed maximum indexation rate would help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/how-do-we-protect-students-from-ballooning-help-debts-a-fixed-maximum-indexation-rate-would-help-226497/" aria-label="Read more about How do we protect students from ballooning HELP debts? A fixed maximum indexation rate would help">Read more</a>
