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April 4, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Two weeks ago Prime Minister Chris Hipkins was pooh-poohing questions about the need for reform lobbying rules, claiming lobbyists have the same access to MPs as any other member of the public. But yesterday he announced a crackdown on lobbyists, claiming he wanted to end the special access lobbyists have ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Victory for transparency in lobbying reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-victory-for-transparency-in-lobbying-reforms/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Victory for transparency in lobbying reforms">Read more</a>
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April 4, 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 LOBBYING, OIA, STUART NASH Thomas Coughlan (Herald): Lobbying reforms substance or just ‘something’? (paywalled) RNZ: Government’s proposed crackdown on lobbyists dismissed as too tentative Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Hipkins takes on the ... <a title="Newsletter: April 4 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/newsletter-april-4-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: April 4 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Conrad Jackson, Postdoctoral fellow, Kellogg School of Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Religion is a human universal. For thousands of years, humans have held religious beliefs and participated in religious rituals. Throughout history, every human society has featured some kind of supernatural or ... <a title="Supernatural beliefs have featured in every society throughout history. New research helps explain why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/supernatural-beliefs-have-featured-in-every-society-throughout-history-new-research-helps-explain-why-203041/" aria-label="Read more about Supernatural beliefs have featured in every society throughout history. New research helps explain why">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Recent revelations about the close partnership between the Kremlin and NTC Vulkan, a Russian cybersecurity consultancy with links to the military, provide some rare insights into how the Putin regime weaponises cyberspace. More than 5,000 documents ... <a title="Russia’s shadow war: Vulkan files leak show how Putin’s regime weaponises cyberspace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/russias-shadow-war-vulkan-files-leak-show-how-putins-regime-weaponises-cyberspace-203146/" aria-label="Read more about Russia’s shadow war: Vulkan files leak show how Putin’s regime weaponises cyberspace">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim McCreanor, Professor Race Relations, Health and Wellbeing, Massey University Getty Images The marketing of legal but harmful products – like alcohol and tobacco – has always targeted our emotional desires. But it has now moved to digital and social media, and this creates a heightened threat ... <a title="How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/how-digital-marketing-of-legal-but-harmful-products-escalates-health-threats-to-the-most-vulnerable-201164/" aria-label="Read more about How digital marketing of legal but harmful products escalates health threats to the most vulnerable">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cristyn Davies, Research Fellow in Child and Adolescent Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock In her address to the National Press Club of Australia today, actress, writer and advocate Georgie Stone OAM is sharing her experience as a young trans person growing up ... <a title="Family support protects trans young people – but their families need support too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/family-support-protects-trans-young-people-but-their-families-need-support-too-202743/" aria-label="Read more about Family support protects trans young people – but their families need support too">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tessa Leach, Senior Analyst at Climateworks, Monash University Shutterstock Making steel was responsible for about 7% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. That’s because steelmakers in countries like China, Japan and South Korea have long relied on fossil fuels like coal to make steel in blast ... <a title="Australia’s main iron ore exports may not work with green steelmaking. Here’s what we must do to prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/australias-main-iron-ore-exports-may-not-work-with-green-steelmaking-heres-what-we-must-do-to-prepare-201469/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s main iron ore exports may not work with green steelmaking. Here’s what we must do to prepare">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The United Nations has just backed a landmark resolution on climate justice. Last week, the UN General Assembly supported a Pacific-led resolution asking the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to provide an advisory opinion on a ... <a title="The UN is asking the International Court of Justice for its opinion on states’ climate obligations. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/the-un-is-asking-the-international-court-of-justice-for-its-opinion-on-states-climate-obligations-what-does-this-mean-202943/" aria-label="Read more about The UN is asking the International Court of Justice for its opinion on states’ climate obligations. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Hendriks, Research Fellow and Lecturer, Curtin University Shutterstock Decades of research have shown when relationships and sexuality education is delivered well, it can improve the sexual, social, and emotional health of young people. It can also lead to improved academic outcomes. But research also shows schools ... <a title="Australian parents want schools to teach more sex education topics and teach them from an earlier age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/australian-parents-want-schools-to-teach-more-sex-education-topics-and-teach-them-from-an-earlier-age-202441/" aria-label="Read more about Australian parents want schools to teach more sex education topics and teach them from an earlier age">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia Ranald, Honorary research associate, University of Sydney Australian business figure Clive Palmer is suing the Australian government for almost A$300 billion in an international tribunal, having lost a case against the Western Australian government he took all the way to the High Court. The High Court ... <a title="How Clive Palmer is suing Australia for $300 billion with the help of an obscure legal clause (and Christian Porter)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/how-clive-palmer-is-suing-australia-for-300-billion-with-the-help-of-an-obscure-legal-clause-and-christian-porter-203111/" aria-label="Read more about How Clive Palmer is suing Australia for $300 billion with the help of an obscure legal clause (and Christian Porter)">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius von Guttner Sporzynski, Historian, Australian Catholic University Deportation of students, painting by Jacek Malczewski, 1884. Wikimedia Commons On March 17, the International Criminal Court cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children as a war crime for which President Vladimir Putin is being held responsible. By some reports, ... <a title="International Criminal Court has cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia’s long history of weaponising deportation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/international-criminal-court-has-cited-russias-deportation-of-ukrainian-children-a-war-crime-on-russias-long-history-of-weaponising-deportation-203040/" aria-label="Read more about International Criminal Court has cited Russia’s deportation of Ukrainian children a war crime: on Russia’s long history of weaponising deportation">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Walsh, Ethnoecologist, The University of Western Australia Drone photograph of ‘fairy circles’ in spinifex on Nyiyaparli people’s country, east Pilbara, Western Australia. Photo by Dave Wells, Author provided What are “fairy circles”? They are polka dots of bare earth, regularly scattered across arid grasslands. Scientists first ... <a title="First Peoples’ knowledge of ‘mysterious fairy circles’ in Australian deserts has upended a long-standing science debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/04/first-peoples-knowledge-of-mysterious-fairy-circles-in-australian-deserts-has-upended-a-long-standing-science-debate-202956/" aria-label="Read more about First Peoples’ knowledge of ‘mysterious fairy circles’ in Australian deserts has upended a long-standing science debate">Read more</a>
