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December 12, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to demand an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip — but three of the isolated nine countries that voted against are Pacific island states, including Papua New Guinea. The assembly passed a resolution yesterday demanding an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, which ... <a title="UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations vote against" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/un-overwhelmingly-backs-immediate-gaza-ceasefire-but-3-pacific-nations-vote-against/" aria-label="Read more about UN overwhelmingly backs immediate Gaza ceasefire – but 3 Pacific nations vote against">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diana Bossio, Associate Professor of Digital Communication, RMIT University gioele piccinini/Shutterstock The federal government has revealed a new bargaining chip in the gamble to bring big tech back to the table with news publishers. The “news media bargaining incentive” is essentially a new levy issued by the ... <a title="News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/news-bargaining-incentive-the-latest-move-in-the-governments-four-dimensional-chess-battle-with-meta-245838/" aria-label="Read more about News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia It has been a busy year for defamation lawyers. There has been a mixed bag of outcomes, too. The two highest profile cases delivered different results: a win for independent MP Alex Greenwich in ... <a title="Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language – not even politicians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/moira-deemings-defamation-win-shows-nobody-can-play-fast-and-loose-with-language-not-even-politicians-245837/" aria-label="Read more about Moira Deeming’s defamation win shows nobody can play fast and loose with language – not even politicians">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney DANIEL CONSTANTE.Shutterstock Big tech companies would have to either do deals with news organisations to help fund journalism or pay a charge to the Australian government, under a new plan announced by the Albanese government ... <a title="Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/big-tech-firms-like-meta-forced-to-pay-for-news-under-albanese-governments-news-bargaining-incentive-charge-245835/" aria-label="Read more about Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Murray, Associate Professor of Cybersecurity, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne A major outage is affecting users of popular social media and messaging services including Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp around the globe. All these platforms are run by the social media giant ... <a title="A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/a-meta-outage-hit-facebook-instagram-whatsapp-and-more-heres-what-we-know-so-far-245834/" aria-label="Read more about A Meta outage hit Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and more. Here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor Emerita in Constitutional Law, University of Sydney A prospective constitutional challenge to Victorian campaign finance laws may have flow-on consequences for Commonwealth campaign finance reforms, which have currently stalled in the Senate. Four independent candidates, who were defeated at the last Victorian election, have ... <a title="Victorian independents’ potential High Court challenge to political donations laws has merit – and there are federal implications too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/victorian-independents-potential-high-court-challenge-to-political-donations-laws-has-merit-and-there-are-federal-implications-too-245654/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian independents’ potential High Court challenge to political donations laws has merit – and there are federal implications too">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Murray, Bond University It has been a busy time in the Australian government’s sports diplomacy locker room. Recently, Assistant Foreign Minister Tim Watts met with 22 national sporting organisations in Melbourne for the inaugural Sports Diplomacy Consultative Group meeting. And today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, his ... <a title="Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/sports-diplomacy-why-the-australian-government-is-spending-600-million-on-a-new-nrl-team-in-png-245560/" aria-label="Read more about Sports diplomacy: why the Australian government is spending $600 million on a new NRL team in PNG">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne This article is based on a presentation by the author to the Electoral Regulations Forum. At the November 5 US presidential election, Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat ... <a title="Republicans soared in the recent US elections, but Democrats have reasons for optimism for 2026" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/republicans-soared-in-the-recent-us-elections-but-democrats-have-reasons-for-optimism-for-2026-245157/" aria-label="Read more about Republicans soared in the recent US elections, but Democrats have reasons for optimism for 2026">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peta Stapleton, Professor in Psychology, Bond University Thanks to films and cartoons, you probably have a lot of vague ideas about what hypnosis involves. What do you picture? Maybe a fob watch swinging back-and-forth, a therapist saying “you are getting verrrry sleepy”. But clinical hypnotherapy isn’t a ... <a title="Hypnosis won’t put you under a spell. But it can open your mind to change – and help treat pain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/hypnosis-wont-put-you-under-a-spell-but-it-can-open-your-mind-to-change-and-help-treat-pain-243793/" aria-label="Read more about Hypnosis won’t put you under a spell. But it can open your mind to change – and help treat pain">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
By Alifereti Sakiasi in Suva Social cohesion is a national responsibility, and everyone, including the media, should support government’s efforts, according to Dr Shailendra Singh, associate professor in Pacific Journalism at the University of the South Pacific. While the news media are often accused of exacerbating conflict by amplifying ethnic tensions through biased narratives, media ... <a title="How media could help social cohesion and unite people – a Fiji journalism educator’s view" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/how-media-could-help-social-cohesion-and-unite-people-a-fiji-journalism-educators-view/" aria-label="Read more about How media could help social cohesion and unite people – a Fiji journalism educator’s view">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
RNZ Pacific Vanuatu’s special envoy to climate change says their case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is based on the argument that those harming the climate are breaking international law. The case seeks an advisory opinion from the court on the legal responsibilities of countries in relation to climate change, and dozens of ... <a title="Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting nations responsible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/climate-justice-vanuatus-landmark-case-at-icj-seeks-to-hold-polluting-nations-responsible/" aria-label="Read more about Climate justice: Vanuatu’s landmark case at ICJ seeks to hold polluting nations responsible">Read more</a>
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December 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The attack on the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne and another car torching in Sydney have dramatically heightened political tensions over antisemitism. Amid criticism the government has been too slow to act in the past year, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: For Mark Dreyfus, antisemitism is very personal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/12/politics-with-michelle-grattan-for-mark-dreyfus-antisemitism-is-very-personal-245749/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: For Mark Dreyfus, antisemitism is very personal">Read more</a>
