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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University The concerns of various pundits and politicians earlier this year that New Zealand might struggle to attract immigrants turned out to be premature. In fact, the country’s population has been boosted to the extent it ... <a title="Record immigration will put pressure on NZ’s population, infrastructure and productivity – where’s the election debate?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/record-immigration-will-put-pressure-on-nzs-population-infrastructure-and-productivity-wheres-the-election-debate-214952/" aria-label="Read more about Record immigration will put pressure on NZ’s population, infrastructure and productivity – where’s the election debate?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) — but the French delegate did not deliver the message that pro-independence French Polynesian groups wanted to hear. French Polynesia was re-inscribed to the ... <a title="France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/france-ends-10-year-un-empty-chair-decolonisation-snub-over-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney Immigration Minister Andrew Giles today announced significant changes aimed at restoring the integrity of Australia’s refugee protection system. The key focus is on reducing the significant ... <a title="Why the government’s plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/why-the-governments-plan-to-overhaul-the-asylum-system-is-a-smart-use-of-resources-and-might-just-work-215061/" aria-label="Read more about Why the government’s plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Chugh, Associate Professor – Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock In the world of lithium-ion batteries, smartphones take centre stage. Yet they’ve also sparked an ongoing debate: does prolonged (or overnight) charging wreak havoc on your battery? A number of factors determine a phone battery’s ... <a title="Should you charge your phone overnight? Will ‘overcharging’ make it explode? Common battery myths debunked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/should-you-charge-your-phone-overnight-will-overcharging-make-it-explode-common-battery-myths-debunked-214956/" aria-label="Read more about Should you charge your phone overnight? Will ‘overcharging’ make it explode? Common battery myths debunked">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart looks rather noisy, and so it should. Life and death are messy, and subject to random variations. But this chart, for females, and those that follow, are important charts. It’s worth looking through the ‘random noise’. These charts suggest that the cliché ‘we are all living longer’ is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-mortality-increases-in-new-zealand-by-generation-and-sex/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Ann Wheeler, Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide The impact on mental health of weather extremes such as drought is a growing concern due to climate change. Rural communities feel the impact of drought much more than urban residents. Our new research looks at the ... <a title="Suicide rates jumped after extreme drought in the Murray-Darling Basin – we have to do better as climate change intensifies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/suicide-rates-jumped-after-extreme-drought-in-the-murray-darling-basin-we-have-to-do-better-as-climate-change-intensifies-211107/" aria-label="Read more about Suicide rates jumped after extreme drought in the Murray-Darling Basin – we have to do better as climate change intensifies">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Lensen, Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence | Pūkenga Matua, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington As the 2023 election campaign enters its final days, there is an elephant in the room that politicians seem keen to ignore: the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ... <a title="NZ’s political leaders are ignoring the mounting threats from AI – and that’s putting everyone at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/nzs-political-leaders-are-ignoring-the-mounting-threats-from-ai-and-thats-putting-everyone-at-risk-214714/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s political leaders are ignoring the mounting threats from AI – and that’s putting everyone at risk">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Pacific Media Watch Pacific Media Network (PMN) has continued its transition into the “Moanaverse” with a new digital home for its news and media PMN said in a statement it was pleased to reveal its new website that “ensures the future of Pacific storytelling, radio and news media continues to connect with its growing online ... <a title="Pacific Media Network launches new ‘Moanaverse’ digital website" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/pacific-media-network-launches-new-moanaverse-digital-website/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Media Network launches new ‘Moanaverse’ digital website">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
SPECIAL REPORT: By Yamin Kogoya The Indonesian People’s Front for West Papua (FRI-WP) and the Papuan Student Alliance (AMP) have denounced the Rome Agreement of 30 September 1962 as “illegal” during protest speeches marking the 61st anniversary last Saturday. The groups gathered at several places throughout Indonesia to hold peaceful protests and speeches. The protesters ... <a title="West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/west-papuan-indonesian-youth-protest-over-illegal-1962-rome-agreement/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan, Indonesian youth protest over ‘illegal’ 1962 Rome Agreement">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Petraglia, Director, Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Griffith University A general view of Wadi Gharandal riverine wetland, along the Jordan Rift Valley, showing palm trees concentrated at the centre of the wadi near the active spring. Mahmoud Abbas Our species, Homo sapiens, migrated out of Africa ... <a title="New path for early human migrations through a once-lush Arabia contradicts a single ‘out of Africa’ origin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/new-path-for-early-human-migrations-through-a-once-lush-arabia-contradicts-a-single-out-of-africa-origin-214719/" aria-label="Read more about New path for early human migrations through a once-lush Arabia contradicts a single ‘out of Africa’ origin">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Guagnin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology Maria Guagnin, Michael Petraglia, CC BY About 7,000 years ago, a small group of people sat around a fire, next to a small lake in what is now the Nefud Desert of northern Saudi Arabia. We found some ... <a title="Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/stone-age-herders-transported-heavy-rock-tools-to-grind-animal-bones-plants-and-pigment-214838/" aria-label="Read more about Stone Age herders transported heavy rock tools to grind animal bones, plants and pigment">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Axel Bruns, Professor, Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology As campaigning in the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament continues, “no” campaigners have repeatedly argued against what they call “the Voice of division”. The results of our exclusive opinion poll suggest something to the ... <a title="New polling shows ‘no’ voters more likely to see Australia as already divided" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/new-polling-shows-no-voters-more-likely-to-see-australia-as-already-divided-214713/" aria-label="Read more about New polling shows ‘no’ voters more likely to see Australia as already divided">Read more</a>
