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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arjuna Dibley, Head of Sustainable Finance Hub, The University of Melbourne Few of us pay much attention to our superannuation. Under the Superannuation Guarantee, employers pay at least 11% of salaries into their employees’ super funds without workers having to do anything. These accumulating automatic payments have ... <a title="How Australia’s huge superannuation funds can do much more to fight climate change, with a little help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/how-australias-huge-superannuation-funds-can-do-much-more-to-fight-climate-change-with-a-little-help-221018/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s huge superannuation funds can do much more to fight climate change, with a little help">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
By Ronald Toito’ona and Charley Piringi in Honiara China’s interference and moves to control the media in the Solomon Islands have been exposed in leaked emails In-depth Solomons has obtained. On Monday last week [15 January 2024], Huangbi Lin, a diplomat working at the Chinese Embassy in Honiara, called the owner of Island Sun newspaper, ... <a title="‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan, reveals In-depth Solomons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/dear-media-friends-china-interferes-in-honiara-media-over-taiwan-reveals-in-depth-solomons/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Dear media friends’ – China interferes in Honiara media over Taiwan, reveals In-depth Solomons">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts, Monash University, Monash University Shutterstock What happens when a person is experiencing long COVID and intimate partner violence at the same time? There has been no attention paid to this question anywhere in the world since the onset ... <a title="How both health and safety are compromised for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/how-both-health-and-safety-are-compromised-for-people-living-with-long-covid-and-intimate-partner-violence-221413/" aria-label="Read more about How both health and safety are compromised for people living with long COVID and intimate partner violence">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato When the previous government released the first ever national security strategy last year, it forecast stormy geopolitical weather ahead. In the brief few months since then, the sky has darkened further still. Beyond a slight rapprochement between China and ... <a title="From the Middle East to the South China Sea: NZ’s new government inherits a defence dilemma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/from-the-middle-east-to-the-south-china-sea-nzs-new-government-inherits-a-defence-dilemma-221585/" aria-label="Read more about From the Middle East to the South China Sea: NZ’s new government inherits a defence dilemma">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University metamorworks/Shutterstock How menopause affects women’s working lives has been shrouded by stigma for decades. But this is starting to change. Australian journalist Imogen Crump’s recent on-air hot flush and her remark “I don’t think hormones respect national ... <a title="Symptoms of menopause can make it harder to work. Here’s what employers should be doing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/symptoms-of-menopause-can-make-it-harder-to-work-heres-what-employers-should-be-doing-219314/" aria-label="Read more about Symptoms of menopause can make it harder to work. Here’s what employers should be doing">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University In 2024, global climate trends are cause for both deep alarm and cautious optimism. Last year was the hottest on record by a huge margin and this year will likely be hotter still. The annual global average temperature ... <a title="‘It’s not game over – it’s game on’: why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/its-not-game-over-its-game-on-why-2024-is-an-inflection-point-for-the-climate-crisis-221497/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It’s not game over – it’s game on’: why 2024 is an inflection point for the climate crisis">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Malan, Research associate, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Over this wet summer, Melburnians and Sydneysiders have had to think twice about cooling off at their local beach. Heavy rainfall has swollen rivers and pumped pollutants, nutrients and murky fresh water far out to sea. ... <a title="When floodwater reaches the sea, it can leave a 50 metre thick layer of brown water – and cause real problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/when-floodwater-reaches-the-sea-it-can-leave-a-50-metre-thick-layer-of-brown-water-and-cause-real-problems-213548/" aria-label="Read more about When floodwater reaches the sea, it can leave a 50 metre thick layer of brown water – and cause real problems">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Dix, Research Fellow in Nutrition & Dietetics, The University of Queensland Katerina Holmes/Pexles , CC BY Heading back to school is a time of great anticipation for many families, but it is not without challenges. One of the big challenges is preparing healthy, easy, affordable and ... <a title="Good lunchboxes are based on 4 things: here’s how parents can prepare healthy food and keep costs down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/good-lunchboxes-are-based-on-4-things-heres-how-parents-can-prepare-healthy-food-and-keep-costs-down-219119/" aria-label="Read more about Good lunchboxes are based on 4 things: here’s how parents can prepare healthy food and keep costs down">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martijn Boersma, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia Hafiz Johari/Shutterstock Last week, a 47-year-old Queensland man was charged with 46 offences, including torturing and enslaving deckhands on his fishing boats. The accused allegedly intimidated and attacked his employees, and withheld food and water. He will appear ... <a title="More forced marriages and worker exploitation – why Australia needs an anti-slavery commissioner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/more-forced-marriages-and-worker-exploitation-why-australia-needs-an-anti-slavery-commissioner-221318/" aria-label="Read more about More forced marriages and worker exploitation – why Australia needs an anti-slavery commissioner">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Stokes, Senior Lecturer in Digital and Information Literacy (Education Futures), University of South Australia The opening shot of the new Mean Girls provides a literal reframing of the 2004 cult classic. Recording vertical video through a phone, Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey) introduce the ... <a title="‘That filter you use looks just like me’: what the new Mean Girls film gets right about social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/that-filter-you-use-looks-just-like-me-what-the-new-mean-girls-film-gets-right-about-social-media-221206/" aria-label="Read more about ‘That filter you use looks just like me’: what the new Mean Girls film gets right about social media">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
By Giff Johnson, editor of the Marshall Islands Journal and RNZ Pacific correspondent Powerful waves, driven by offshore storm surges, hit an important United States military installation in the Marshall Islands on Saturday night, causing damage and resulting in the evacuation of all “non-mission personnel” from the island. Flooding caused by the waves also hit ... <a title="Freak waves cause damage at US army base at Roi-Namur, shut airports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/freak-waves-cause-damage-at-us-army-base-at-roi-namur-shut-airports/" aria-label="Read more about Freak waves cause damage at US army base at Roi-Namur, shut airports">Read more</a>
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January 23, 2024
By David Robie, editor of Asia Pacific Report A Palestinian advocate has appealed to the New Zealand government to call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to back the South African genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ). “A sovereign state like New Zealand that has historically stood for what ... <a title="Back SA over genocide case, ‘don’t yield to pressure’, Hania tells NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/23/back-sa-over-genocide-case-dont-yield-to-pressure-hania-tells-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Back SA over genocide case, ‘don’t yield to pressure’, Hania tells NZ">Read more</a>
