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December 8, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Amnesty International officials at a rally in Auckland today doubled down on their global report this week accusing Israel of genocide and called on Aotearoa New Zealand to take more action over the atrocities in the besieged enclave of Gaza. The global human rights movement’s 296-page fully documented report says Israel has ... <a title="Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at NZ rally" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/08/amnesty-international-doubles-down-on-israeli-gaza-genocide-atrocities-report-at-nz-rally/" aria-label="Read more about Amnesty International doubles down on Israeli Gaza ‘genocide, atrocities’ report at NZ rally">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2024
RNZ Pacific A group of concerned alumni of the University of the South Pacific has called the regional institution’s delay in releasing the outcomes of the 98th USP Council meeting held in Rarotonga late last month “totally unacceptable”. The group released a statement on Thursday, stating that the regional university’s main decision-making body and support ... <a title="Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/07/alumni-group-slams-usps-failure-to-release-council-meeting-outcomes/" aria-label="Read more about Alumni group slams USP’s failure to release council meeting outcomes">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antony Loewenstein The incoming Trump administration will bring a dangerous brew of Christian nationalism and anti-Palestinian racism Things can always get worse. Much worse. The Biden/Harris administration has bank-rolled and funded Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza, the sight of the highest number of child amputees per capita in the world. Israeli soldiers wilfully ... <a title="Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/07/israeli-extremism-has-a-new-best-friend-in-the-white-house/" aria-label="Read more about Israeli extremism has a new best friend in the White House">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Palau’s President Surangel Whipps Jr is inviting US President-elect Donald Trump to “visit the Pacific” to see firsthand the impacts of the climate crisis. Palau is set to host the largest annual Pacific leaders meeting in 2026, and the country’s leader Whipps told RNZ Pacific he would “love” ... <a title="Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis impacts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/palaus-president-invites-trump-to-visit-pacific-to-see-climate-crisis-impacts/" aria-label="Read more about Palau’s president invites Trump to visit Pacific to see climate crisis impacts">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Shutterstock When the police and intelligence agencies of the five nations of the Five Eyes intelligence community come together and release a report, it’s a significant event. The report, released on ... <a title="Rates of youth radicalisation are climbing in Australia and abroad. Here’s what to look out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/rates-of-youth-radicalisation-are-climbing-in-australia-and-abroad-heres-what-to-look-out-for-245459/" aria-label="Read more about Rates of youth radicalisation are climbing in Australia and abroad. Here’s what to look out for">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, Convenor: Indigenous Land & Justice Research Group, UNSW Sydney Australia is on the cusp of a once-in-a-generation transformation, as our energy systems shift to clean, renewable forms of power. First Nations peoples, the original custodians of this land, ... <a title="After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/after-65-000-years-caring-for-this-land-first-nations-peoples-are-now-key-to-australias-clean-energy-revolution-245022/" aria-label="Read more about After 65,000 years caring for this land, First Nations peoples are now key to Australia’s clean energy revolution">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olli Hellmann, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Waikato Getty Images The controversial Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill is being presented by its architect, ACT Party leader David Seymour, primarily as a matter of lawmaking – a clarification through legislation. The bill seeks to ... <a title="Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/land-of-opportunity-or-bicultural-nation-twin-visions-of-national-identity-face-off-over-the-treaty-principles-245033/" aria-label="Read more about Land of opportunity or bicultural nation? Twin visions of national identity face off over the Treaty principles">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney Mart Production/Pexels We’ve all heard someone claim they have a “high pain threshold” as if it’s a mark of strength or resilience. But does science support the idea that some people genuinely feel less pain than others? ... <a title="Some people say they have a high pain threshold. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/some-people-say-they-have-a-high-pain-threshold-heres-why-244633/" aria-label="Read more about Some people say they have a high pain threshold. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Risk & Resilience, UNSW Sydney Ververidis Vasilis/Shutterstock Soccer’s global allure is unmatched, yet its history is shadowed by tragedies. At a recent soccer match in Nzérékoré, Guinea, a controversial refereeing decision led to unrest, resulting in crowd violence that claimed more ... <a title="Why is soccer fandom so linked to violence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/why-is-soccer-fandom-so-linked-to-violence-245143/" aria-label="Read more about Why is soccer fandom so linked to violence?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Lenton, Director CarbonLock, Environment, CSIRO CSIRO, CC BY Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels continue to rise and 2024 is likely to be the world’s hottest year on record. It’s becoming increasingly clear that limiting global warming to 1.5°C will require much more than existing efforts ... <a title="Plans to stabilise Earth’s climate rely on emerging carbon removal technology – we need to get moving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/plans-to-stabilise-earths-climate-rely-on-emerging-carbon-removal-technology-we-need-to-get-moving-237318/" aria-label="Read more about Plans to stabilise Earth’s climate rely on emerging carbon removal technology – we need to get moving">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Keith Rankin Analysis. I recently read the Auckland Library copy of the 1986 book Prophecy and politics: militant evangelists on the road to nuclear war, by Grace Halsell (1923-2000). Before she died, she also published (in 1999) Forcing God’s Hand: Why Millions Pray for a Quick Rapture—and Destruction of Planet Earth. A revised 2003 edition ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Israel, Syria, and the Map of the ‘Millennium’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/keith-rankin-analysis-israel-syria-and-the-map-of-the-millennium/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Israel, Syria, and the Map of the ‘Millennium’">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Gaston, Co-Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The announcement by Science Minister Judith Collins this week that half of New Zealand’s sole fund for fundamental science will now go to research with economic benefits ... <a title="Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/12/06/funding-research-for-economic-return-sounds-good-but-thats-not-how-science-really-works-245269/" aria-label="Read more about Funding research for economic return sounds good – but that’s not how science really works">Read more</a>
