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January 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Trancoso, Adjunct Associate Professor in Climate Change, The University of Queensland Three to five billion people – or up to two-thirds of the world’s population – are set to be affected by projected rainfall changes by the end of the century unless the world rapidly ramps ... <a title="Up to 5 billion people to be hit by rainfall changes this century if CO₂ emissions are not curbed, research shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/up-to-5-billion-people-to-be-hit-by-rainfall-changes-this-century-if-co-emissions-are-not-curbed-research-shows-221004/" aria-label="Read more about Up to 5 billion people to be hit by rainfall changes this century if CO₂ emissions are not curbed, research shows">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ava Kalinauskas, Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Former President Donald Trump’s commanding, and expected, victory in this week’s Iowa caucuses has confirmed his frontrunner status in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. With his closest rivals Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley ... <a title="Why two largely white and tiny states still matter so much to the US presidential election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/why-two-largely-white-and-tiny-states-still-matter-so-much-to-the-us-presidential-election-221306/" aria-label="Read more about Why two largely white and tiny states still matter so much to the US presidential election">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felice Jacka, Alfred Deakin Professor, Deakin University studiostoks/Shutterstock Feeding astronauts on a long mission to Mars goes well beyond ensuring they have enough nutrients and calories to survive their multi-year journey. Providing astronauts with the right diet is also paramount in supporting their mental and cognitive health, ... <a title="Space travel taxes astronauts’ brains. But microbes on the menu could help in unexpected ways" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/space-travel-taxes-astronauts-brains-but-microbes-on-the-menu-could-help-in-unexpected-ways-216355/" aria-label="Read more about Space travel taxes astronauts’ brains. But microbes on the menu could help in unexpected ways">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Clifton, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Health Sciences and the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney Dave Chappelle’s latest Netflix special, The Dreamer, opens with a story about meeting Jim Carrey, who, at the time, was method acting and portraying comedian Andy ... <a title="Dave Chappelle has built a reputation for ‘punching down’ on trans people – and now he’s targeting disabled people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/dave-chappelle-has-built-a-reputation-for-punching-down-on-trans-people-and-now-hes-targeting-disabled-people-220774/" aria-label="Read more about Dave Chappelle has built a reputation for ‘punching down’ on trans people – and now he’s targeting disabled people">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Colin Bednall, Associate Professor in Management, Swinburne University of Technology Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock With the new year underway employers are beginning to resume normal business activities and restart their hiring process. Similarly, many school and university graduates are beginning their job search after a well-earned break. While ... <a title="6 questions you should be ready to answer to smash that job interview" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/6-questions-you-should-be-ready-to-answer-to-smash-that-job-interview-220848/" aria-label="Read more about 6 questions you should be ready to answer to smash that job interview">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier Last year, the Papua New Guinea government moved in a subtle way into the Fourth Estate. It tried to — and is still trying to — find a way to curtail and restrict your access to mainstream and social media by trying to gag media organisations. Obviously, this was an ... <a title="Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/post-courier-draconian-and-dangerous-move/" aria-label="Read more about Post-Courier: Draconian and dangerous move">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Communications Minister Timothy Masiu has announced stringent measures to control social media in the country for the next 10 days of the State of Emergency. The government’s threat drew a sharp rebuke from former prime minister Peter O’Neill who called the move a “sinister fear campaign against the people” and ... <a title="Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/17/masiu-vows-10-day-shutdown-of-pngs-social-media-after-capital-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Masiu vows 10-day shutdown of PNG’s social media after capital riots">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
RNZ News Former Green Party MP Golriz Ghahraman — a leading voice in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Parliament for human rights, an independent foreign policy, and justice for Occupied Palestine — was subject to “pretty much continuous” death threats and threats of violence, says party co-leader James Shaw. She has resigned as a Green Party MP ... <a title="Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/former-green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-faced-continuous-death-threats/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman faced ‘continuous death threats’">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
A security studies professor says China has been applying pressure to countries to switch diplomatic ties over from Taiwan, but Beijing says its “ready to work” with the Pacific island nation “to open new chapters” in the relations between the two countries. The Nauru government said that “in the best interests” of the country and ... <a title="China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says scholar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/china-has-whittled-down-key-taiwan-support-with-nauru-move-says-scholar/" aria-label="Read more about China has ‘whittled down’ key Taiwan support with Nauru move, says scholar">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Of course, on the day of the first nominating contest for the 2024 US presidential election, there was a storm. In Iowa over the weekend, blizzards described as “life-threatening” by the National Weather ... <a title="Donald Trump’s stroll to victory in Iowa was a foregone conclusion. This doesn’t make it any less shocking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/donald-trumps-stroll-to-victory-in-iowa-was-a-foregone-conclusion-this-doesnt-make-it-any-less-shocking-221207/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump’s stroll to victory in Iowa was a foregone conclusion. This doesn’t make it any less shocking">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Of course, on the day of the first nominating contest for the 2024 US presidential election, there was a storm. In Iowa over the weekend, blizzards described as “life-threatening” by the National Weather ... <a title="Donald Trump’s stroll to victory in Iowa was a foregone conclusion. This doesn’t make it less shocking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/donald-trumps-stroll-to-victory-in-iowa-was-a-foregone-conclusion-this-doesnt-make-it-less-shocking-221207/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump’s stroll to victory in Iowa was a foregone conclusion. This doesn’t make it less shocking">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgie Russell, Senior Lecturer, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University Foxys Forest Manufacture/Shutterstock In January, many people are setting new year’s resolutions around healthy eating. Achieving these is often challenging – it can be difficult to change our eating habits. But healthy diets can ... <a title="Our ‘food environments’ affect what we eat. Here’s how you can change yours to support healthier eating" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/our-food-environments-affect-what-we-eat-heres-how-you-can-change-yours-to-support-healthier-eating-220770/" aria-label="Read more about Our ‘food environments’ affect what we eat. Here’s how you can change yours to support healthier eating">Read more</a>
