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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University Shutterstock Earlier this month, scientists at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health announced they had successfully grown “humanised” kidneys inside pig embryos. The scientists genetically altered the embryos to remove their ... <a title="Pigs with human brain cells and biological chips: how lab-grown hybrid lifeforms bamboozle scientific ethics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/pigs-with-human-brain-cells-and-biological-chips-how-lab-grown-hybrid-lifeforms-bamboozle-scientific-ethics-213357/" aria-label="Read more about Pigs with human brain cells and biological chips: how lab-grown hybrid lifeforms bamboozle scientific ethics">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Galloway, Associate Professor of Law, Griffith University Shutterstock In the polarised debate about the Voice to Parliament referendum, some proponents of the “no” vote have claimed the creation of the new advisory body would lead to the conversion of private land titles in Australia to native ... <a title="No, the Voice to Parliament would not force people to give up their private land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/no-the-voice-to-parliament-would-not-force-people-to-give-up-their-private-land-212784/" aria-label="Read more about No, the Voice to Parliament would not force people to give up their private land">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The Australian government spends A$6.7 billion a year on private health insurance rebates. These rebates are the government’s contribution towards the costs of individuals’ premiums. But our analysis shows higher rebates for people aged 65 and ... <a title="Who really benefits from private health insurance rebates? Not people who need cover the most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/who-really-benefits-from-private-health-insurance-rebates-not-people-who-need-cover-the-most-212611/" aria-label="Read more about Who really benefits from private health insurance rebates? Not people who need cover the most">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Smith, Senior lecturer, The University of Melbourne Redd F/Unsplash The National School Reform Agreement is made about once every five years in Australia. This is the main way the federal government can steer changes in how Australian schools are run. The current reform agreement ends in ... <a title="70% of Australian students with a disability are excluded at school – the next round of education reforms can fix this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/70-of-australian-students-with-a-disability-are-excluded-at-school-the-next-round-of-education-reforms-can-fix-this-213369/" aria-label="Read more about 70% of Australian students with a disability are excluded at school – the next round of education reforms can fix this">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Buckley, ARC Laureate Fellow, Scientia Professor of Law, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Back in 2017, The Economist published a headline that became a meme. It said data had become the new oil. By that it meant that the world’s biggest and most profitable companies no longer worked ... <a title="Like plumbing did for water, Australia’s ‘consumer data right’ could make your personal data safer and easier to share" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/like-plumbing-did-for-water-australias-consumer-data-right-could-make-your-personal-data-safer-and-easier-to-share-210969/" aria-label="Read more about Like plumbing did for water, Australia’s ‘consumer data right’ could make your personal data safer and easier to share">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
EDITORIAL: By the PNG Post-Courier “Is there a democratic Papua New Guinean nation — or is it merely an arbitrary nation built on a shaky, crumbling foundation of disparate traditional customs and the Melanesian Way? “Has the system of government become a hybrid of concepts that fail to work on any level — a bastardisation ... <a title="PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/png-post-courier-our-democracy-our-melanesian-way/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Post-Courier: Our democracy, our Melanesian way">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government says replacing Australia’s retiring fleet of coal-fired power stations with nuclear energy would cost some $387 billion. The costing, put out by the Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, is a pre-emptive strike against the opposition, which ... <a title="Climate minister Chris Bowen says replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear would cost $387 billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/climate-minister-chris-bowen-says-replacing-coal-fired-power-stations-with-nuclear-would-cost-387-billion-213735/" aria-label="Read more about Climate minister Chris Bowen says replacing coal-fired power stations with nuclear would cost $387 billion">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2023
Asia Pacific Report An Australian human rights advocacy group for West Papuans has condemned the killing of 5 youths found dead in Dekai, capital of Yahukimo Regency, and have challenged Canberra to reconsider government ties with Indonesian security forces. Criticising the latest deaths, Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) spokesperson Joe Collins said: “While West Papuans ... <a title="Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges Canberra" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/18/australian-advocacy-group-condemns-killing-of-5-west-papuans-challenges-canberra/" aria-label="Read more about Australian advocacy group condemns killing of 5 West Papuans – challenges Canberra">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. NZ Politics Daily: 15 September 2023 NATIONAL’S TAX POLICIES 1News: Nicola Willis: I’d quit as finance minister if my tax cut plan fails Craig McCulloch and Russell Palmer (RNZ): Economists’ ... <a title="Newsletter: September 17 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/17/newsletter-september-17-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: September 17 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2023
Though the Oslo Accords and its signatories made many promises to the Palestinians, in reality, it carved Palestine up into bantustans and ghettos with limited self-autonomy for Palestinians on a minuscule portion of their homeland. By Yumna Patel On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) ... <a title="‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/17/it-was-set-up-to-fail-us-palestinians-reflect-on-30-years-of-the-oslo-accords/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It was set up to fail us’ – Palestinians reflect on 30 years of the Oslo Accords">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The Free Papua Organisation (Organisasi Papua Merdeka-OPM) has sent an open letter to the United Nations leadership demanding that “decolonisation” of the former Dutch colony of West New Guinea, the Indonesian-administered region known across the Pacific as West Papua, be initiated under the direction of the UN Trusteeship Council. The letter accuses ... <a title="OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/16/opm-calls-for-decolonisation-of-west-papua-condemns-un-collusion/" aria-label="Read more about OPM calls for decolonisation of West Papua, condemns UN ‘collusion’">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2023
TE WIKI O TE RĒO MĀORI: By Aroha Awarau Last year Joelle Holland invested all of the money she had saved for a home deposit and put it into a baby product business called Hawaiiki Pēpi. The sole focus of Hawaiiki Pēpi is to teach Māori children to be proud of their culture and language. ... <a title="Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/15/baby-product-business-to-teach-maori-children-pride-in-culture/" aria-label="Read more about Baby product business to teach Māori children pride in culture">Read more</a>
