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May 24, 2023
INTERACTIVE WEBCAST: Join the LIVE recording of Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning’s podcast A View from Afar at midday Thursday (New Zealand time) and Wednesday 8pm (US EDT). In this the second episode of A View from Afar podcast for 2023, political scientist Dr Paul Buchanan and Selwyn Manning will analyse the question: How ... <a title="LIVE PODCAST@Midday Thurs: How Stable is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Hold on Power?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/live-podcastmidday-thurs-how-stable-is-russian-president-vladimir-putins-hold-on-power/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE PODCAST@Midday Thurs: How Stable is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Hold on Power?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University The Andrews government’s ninth budget is its toughest. The bill from Victoria’s COVID experience, as well as the state government’s ambitious infrastructure spending, has finally come due. The pandemic has added more than $30 billion to the state’s total net ... <a title="Victoria bites $117 billion bullet, begins the long march of land tax reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/victoria-bites-117-billion-bullet-begins-the-long-march-of-land-tax-reform-206066/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria bites $117 billion bullet, begins the long march of land tax reform">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Dale, Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland Australian entertainer and artist Rolf Harris has died at the age of 93. After a prominent career as an artist, particularly in the UK, in 2014 Harris was convicted of 12 counts of indecent assault. ... <a title="Even after his death, Rolf Harris’ artwork will stand as reminders of his criminal acts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/even-after-his-death-rolf-harris-artwork-will-stand-as-reminders-of-his-criminal-acts-206282/" aria-label="Read more about Even after his death, Rolf Harris’ artwork will stand as reminders of his criminal acts">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Ryan, Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University Shutterstock The use of a Taser to subdue a 95-year-old dementia patient at an aged care home in Cooma, New South Wales, last week is yet another sickening example of what can go wrong when police rely too heavily on ... <a title="Why doesn’t Australia have greater transparency around Taser use by police?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/why-doesnt-australia-have-greater-transparency-around-taser-use-by-police-206085/" aria-label="Read more about Why doesn’t Australia have greater transparency around Taser use by police?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University A new pact between Australia and the United States highlights the pivotal role our nation’s mineral wealth will play in the clean energy transition. But it also underscores the massive effort now required from Australia. Prime Minister Anthony ... <a title="Cooperation with the US could drive Australia’s clean energy shift – but we must act fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/cooperation-with-the-us-could-drive-australias-clean-energy-shift-but-we-must-act-fast-206199/" aria-label="Read more about Cooperation with the US could drive Australia’s clean energy shift – but we must act fast">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Professor of Cyber Security Practice, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Meta, Facebook’s parent company, has just been hit with an eye-watering €1.2 billion fine (about A$1.9 billion) for breaches of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Unfortunately for Meta and its shareholders, earlier penalties ... <a title="Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/meta-just-copped-a-a-1-9bn-fine-for-keeping-eu-data-in-the-us-but-why-should-users-care-where-data-are-stored-206186/" aria-label="Read more about Meta just copped a A$1.9bn fine for keeping EU data in the US. But why should users care where data are stored?">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Tobler, Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University Shutterstock Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human scattering across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 years ago. In new research published ... <a title="Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/ancient-humans-may-have-paused-in-arabia-for-30-000-years-on-their-way-out-of-africa-206200/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient humans may have paused in Arabia for 30,000 years on their way out of Africa">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Patterson, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Shutterstock Hallucinations are often depicted in the movies as terrifying experiences. Think Jake Gyllenhaal seeing a monstrous rabbit in Donnie Darko, Leonardo DiCaprio experiencing the torture of Shutter Island, Natalie Portman in Black Swan, or Joaquin Phoenix ... <a title="Hallucinations in the movies tend to be about chaos, violence and mental distress. But they can be positive too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/hallucinations-in-the-movies-tend-to-be-about-chaos-violence-and-mental-distress-but-they-can-be-positive-too-204547/" aria-label="Read more about Hallucinations in the movies tend to be about chaos, violence and mental distress. But they can be positive too">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Théotime Colin, Author provided Varroa mites – notorious honey bee parasites – have recently reached Australian shores, detected at the Port of Newcastle in New South Wales last year. If they establish here, there would be significant implications ... <a title="Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/australia-is-in-a-unique-position-to-eliminate-the-bee-killing-varroa-mite-heres-what-happens-if-we-dont-205926/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is in a unique position to eliminate the bee-killing Varroa mite. Here’s what happens if we don’t">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Prendergast, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Canterbury Getty Images It isn’t often people get a free ride, but last week’s budget offered just that: free public transport fares for children aged five to 12 and permanent half-price fares for people under 25. The free ... <a title="Free public transport is a great start – but young people won’t give NZ governments a free ride on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/free-public-transport-is-a-great-start-but-young-people-wont-give-nz-governments-a-free-ride-on-climate-change-205989/" aria-label="Read more about Free public transport is a great start – but young people won’t give NZ governments a free ride on climate change">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Today’s content ELECTION, PARLIAMENT Andrea Vance (Stuff): National using AI for attack ads: The AI political campaign has arrived Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National uses realistic-looking AI-generated health workers, scared woman ... <a title="Newsletter: May 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/newsletter-may-24-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: May 24 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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May 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Finn Cameron Gillies Parker, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Shutterstock For as long as humans have grown our own food, we have battled pest animals that destroy crops and take food for themselves. The traditional approach has been to try to kill the pests, typically with poisons. ... <a title="How to fool a mouse: ‘chemical camouflage’ can hide crops and cut losses by over 60%" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/24/how-to-fool-a-mouse-chemical-camouflage-can-hide-crops-and-cut-losses-by-over-60-202042/" aria-label="Read more about How to fool a mouse: ‘chemical camouflage’ can hide crops and cut losses by over 60%">Read more</a>
