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June 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Turnbull, Senior Professor of Communication and Media Studies, University of Wollongong Prime Video You know how it starts: a drone shot across an expanse of grey water under a leaden sky accompanied by eerie music and a sense of foreboding. Clearly someone is going to die, ... <a title="How Deadloch flips the Nordic Noir crime genre on its arse and makes it funny" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/30/how-deadloch-flips-the-nordic-noir-crime-genre-on-its-arse-and-makes-it-funny-208478/" aria-label="Read more about How Deadloch flips the Nordic Noir crime genre on its arse and makes it funny">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If then-Prime Minister Scott Morrison had had his way, Gladys Berejiklian would have run for the Sydney seat of Warringah, held by independent Zali Steggall, at last year’s election. Imagine the situation Opposition leader Peter Dutton would be in now ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: ICAC shows it has the power to break public figures, but doesn’t escape criticism itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/grattan-on-friday-icac-shows-it-has-the-power-to-break-public-figures-but-doesnt-escape-criticism-itself-208756/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: ICAC shows it has the power to break public figures, but doesn’t escape criticism itself">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Peter Boyle in Sydney As Pacific communities protest the Japanese government’s plan to dump more than a million tonnes of radioactive waste water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean, Australian anti-nuclear activists are highlighting the complicity of Australian uranium exporting companies. While the Fukushima Daiichi power station operator, Tokyo Electric Power ... <a title="Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/japans-fukushima-nuclear-waste-plan-stirs-pacific-chernobyl-risk-protests/" aria-label="Read more about Japan’s Fukushima nuclear waste plan stirs ‘Pacific Chernobyl’ risk protests">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist, and Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent A woman who was part of a group kidnapped in Papua New Guinea in February has spoken out after the kidnapping and reported rape of 17 schoolgirls in the same area of Southern Highlands earlier this month. Cathy Alex, the New ... <a title="‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/we-chose-death-over-being-raped-png-kidnap-survivor-speaks-out/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We chose death over being raped’ – PNG kidnap survivor speaks out">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel Strauss, Psychiatrist and Clinical Associate at The Centre of Mental Health, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock Many people in Australia, including psychiatrists, were surprised when earlier this year the medicines regulator down-scheduled MDMA, known colloquially as ecstasy, and psilocybin, from magic mushrooms. This means that under ... <a title="Psychedelic medicine is on its way. But it’s not ‘doing shrooms with your shrink’. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/psychedelic-medicine-is-on-its-way-but-its-not-doing-shrooms-with-your-shrink-heres-what-you-need-to-know-208568/" aria-label="Read more about Psychedelic medicine is on its way. But it’s not ‘doing shrooms with your shrink’. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Graycar, Professor of Public Policy, University of Adelaide When an anti-corruption agency issues a 688-page report with findings a former premier engaged in “serious corrupt conduct” and breached the public’s trust, it puts all public officials on notice. In an extraordinary report released today, the Independent ... <a title="‘Grave misconduct’: Gladys Berejiklian corruption report should put all public officials on notice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/grave-misconduct-gladys-berejiklian-corruption-report-should-put-all-public-officials-on-notice-208668/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Grave misconduct’: Gladys Berejiklian corruption report should put all public officials on notice">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Donne Potter, Professor, Research Centre for Hauora and Health, Massey University Shutterstock A recent survey suggests that 58% of workers in New Zealand are exposed to at least one cancer-causing agent at work. Almost one in three are exposed at a high level, at or above ... <a title="NZ workers have unacceptably high exposures to carcinogens – they need better protection and long-term health monitoring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/nz-workers-have-unacceptably-high-exposures-to-carcinogens-they-need-better-protection-and-long-term-health-monitoring-208573/" aria-label="Read more about NZ workers have unacceptably high exposures to carcinogens – they need better protection and long-term health monitoring">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Heterick, Adjunct Research Associate, School of Molecular and Life Sciences, Curtin University Two of the worst ant pests on the planet are invading Australia. Red imported fire ants have been detected for the first time on the western side of the Great Dividing Range in Toowoomba, ... <a title="Why red fire ants and yellow crazy ants have given themselves a green light to invade Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/why-red-fire-ants-and-yellow-crazy-ants-have-given-themselves-a-green-light-to-invade-australia-208479/" aria-label="Read more about Why red fire ants and yellow crazy ants have given themselves a green light to invade Australia">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Schwartz, Lecturer, The University of Melbourne This week, a new report revealed First Nations people, as well as people of African or Middle Eastern appearance, were disproportionately targeted by police in issuing COVID-19 fines. Despite the Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton acknowledging structural racism when appearing ... <a title="Police shouldn’t be able to investigate themselves. Victoria needs an independent police accountability body" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/police-shouldnt-be-able-to-investigate-themselves-victoria-needs-an-independent-police-accountability-body-207608/" aria-label="Read more about Police shouldn’t be able to investigate themselves. Victoria needs an independent police accountability body">Read more</a>
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June 29, 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. Today’s content FOREIGN AFFAIRS, TRADE Thomas Coughlan (Herald): President Xi meeting shows Chris Hipkins knows where his bread is buttered (paywalled) Herald Editorial: China trade – precious and precarious (paywalled) Richard Harman ... <a title="Newsletter: June 29 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/newsletter-june-29-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: June 29 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Reardon, Postdoctoral researcher in pulsar timing and gravitational waves, Swinburne University of Technology OzGrav / Swinburne / Carl Knox When black holes and other enormously massive, dense objects whirl around one another, they send out ripples in space and time called gravitational waves. These waves are ... <a title="Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/using-a-detector-the-size-of-a-galaxy-astronomers-find-strongest-evidence-yet-for-gravitational-waves-from-supermassive-black-hole-pairs-208484/" aria-label="Read more about Using a detector the size of a galaxy, astronomers find strongest evidence yet for gravitational waves from supermassive black hole pairs">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2023
By Jimmy Ellingham, RNZ News reporter Fifty years ago 242 men left New Zealand on a mission to Moruroa Atoll in French Polynesia. The crew of HMNZS Otago, and later the frigate Canterbury, were sent there to protest against French nuclear testing. Little did they know that the fallout from the mission would continue decades ... <a title="French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades later" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/29/french-nuclear-testing-fallout-in-pacific-still-affecting-nz-men-decades-later/" aria-label="Read more about French nuclear testing fallout in Pacific still affecting NZ men decades later">Read more</a>
