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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic Redfern, Associate Professor, RMIT University Eugene Hyland/ACMI In my office, someone has pinned a cartoon in which two dogs consider an abstract sculpture on a plinth. As he strokes his chin one of them asks, “Yes, but is it food?”. ACMI’s Marshmallow Laser Feast: Works of ... <a title="Marshmallow Laser Feast at ACMI is a sumptuous visual feast – but something is missing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/marshmallow-laser-feast-at-acmi-is-a-sumptuous-visual-feast-but-something-is-missing-215877/" aria-label="Read more about Marshmallow Laser Feast at ACMI is a sumptuous visual feast – but something is missing">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney Prudence Upton/Sydney Theatre Company What is comedy? This is the question I kept coming back to while watching Andrew Upton’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, which opened to warm applause – and a touch of controversy ... <a title="Chekhov called The Seagull ‘a comedy’. The Sydney Theatre Company seems to forget it was a tragedy, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/chekhov-called-the-seagull-a-comedy-the-sydney-theatre-company-seems-to-forget-it-was-a-tragedy-too-215799/" aria-label="Read more about Chekhov called The Seagull ‘a comedy’. The Sydney Theatre Company seems to forget it was a tragedy, too">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Brent, Professor and Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington A new concept – the “grid of grids” – is revolutionising the way we think about energy. In essence, the grid of grids signifies a shift from a single unified ... <a title="Driving a greener future: how your electric car could help power your neighbourhood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/driving-a-greener-future-how-your-electric-car-could-help-power-your-neighbourhood-218345/" aria-label="Read more about Driving a greener future: how your electric car could help power your neighbourhood">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Andrew Hauser, currently executive director for markets at the Bank of England. Australian Treasury In a significant step towards reforming Australia’s Reserve Bank, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has stepped outside the bank and outside of Australia to select Andrew Hauser, a ... <a title="Meet Andrew Hauser, the outsider from the UK who’ll be deputy governor of the RBA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/meet-andrew-hauser-the-outsider-from-the-uk-wholl-be-deputy-governor-of-the-rba-217521/" aria-label="Read more about Meet Andrew Hauser, the outsider from the UK who’ll be deputy governor of the RBA">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, a zealous convert to Donald Trump’s cause, once offered an expansive vision of how Trump should rule in a second term: “fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every ... <a title="Polls say Trump has a strong chance of winning again in 2024. So how might his second term reshape the US government?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/polls-say-trump-has-a-strong-chance-of-winning-again-in-2024-so-how-might-his-second-term-reshape-the-us-government-217664/" aria-label="Read more about Polls say Trump has a strong chance of winning again in 2024. So how might his second term reshape the US government?">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Boivin, Professor, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology It’s frightening to imagine where the world would be right now without mRNA vaccines. The COVID-busting technology revolutionised vaccine development at an internationally critical moment – with massive implications for people’s health, wellbeing and the global economy. Yet imagine ... <a title="How your money is helping subsidise sexism in academia – and what you can do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/how-your-money-is-helping-subsidise-sexism-in-academia-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-218347/" aria-label="Read more about How your money is helping subsidise sexism in academia – and what you can do about it">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Casey Michelle Haining, Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology From today, eligible people in New South Wales can ask for voluntary assisted dying. NSW is the last Australian state to have its voluntary assisted dying laws begin. These laws come into ... <a title="Voluntary assisted dying is now available in all Australian states. How do the NSW laws compare?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/voluntary-assisted-dying-is-now-available-in-all-australian-states-how-do-the-nsw-laws-compare-217261/" aria-label="Read more about Voluntary assisted dying is now available in all Australian states. How do the NSW laws compare?">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Speldewinde, Lecturer, The University of Melbourne Marcus Wallis/Unsplash, CC BY-SA In Australia we have a long history of taking children outdoors to learn about the natural environment. But thanks to computer games, tablets and busy lifestyles, children aren’t getting as much exposure to nature as they ... <a title="What are bush kinders? And what makes a good one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/what-are-bush-kinders-and-what-makes-a-good-one-217919/" aria-label="Read more about What are bush kinders? And what makes a good one?">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
RNZ Pacific University of the South Pacific (USP) staff gathered outside the Japan-Pacific ICT Centre today to protest over better pay and conditions as well as calling for the removal of the regional institution’s vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia. The university’s main decision making body, the USP Council, is meeting at the Laucala campus this week. ... <a title="‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/all-talk-and-no-action-say-usp-protesters-calling-for-fair-pay/" aria-label="Read more about ‘All talk and no action’ say USP protesters calling for fair pay">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
By Craig Ashworth, Local Democracy Reporter South Taranaki’s iwi and council have drawn up a new partnership agreement just as the Aotearoa New Zealand’s new conservative coalition government plans to take an axe to co-governance. He Pou Tikanga Partnership Strategy sets out why and how South Taranaki District Council will increase collaboration with the area’s ... <a title="Iwi and council join forces as new NZ government signals cuts to co-governance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/iwi-and-council-join-forces-as-new-nz-government-signals-cuts-to-co-governance/" aria-label="Read more about Iwi and council join forces as new NZ government signals cuts to co-governance">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
By Monika Singh in Suva Freedom of the press is a cornerstone of any vibrant democracy and society’s collective responsibility to safeguard and protect it, says Papua New Guinea’s Minister for Information and Communication Technology Timothy Masiu. Masiu was chief guest at the 2023 University of the South Pacific Journalism Student Awards function held in ... <a title="PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/pngs-masiu-warns-usp-journalism-students-to-defend-free-press/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Masiu warns USP journalism students to defend free press">Read more</a>
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November 28, 2023
By Felix Chaudhary in Suva University of the South Pacific staff who once stood by vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia are now up in arms about his role in a decision by pro-chancellor Dr Hilda Heine to disallow a staff paper to be placed on the agenda of the 96th USP Council meeting being held today. A ... <a title="USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/28/usp-staff-unhappy-with-vc-but-he-thanks-them-for-engagement/" aria-label="Read more about USP staff unhappy with VC, but he thanks them for ‘engagement’">Read more</a>
