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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle By John Dickson Batten/Wikimedia The 2022 word of the year from the folks at the Oxford English Dictionary is “goblin mode”. Voted by the public and coming in at 93%, “goblin mode” – a phrase, rather than a word, ... <a title="What is a goblin?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/what-is-a-goblin-196135/" aria-label="Read more about What is a goblin?">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific More than 606,000 Fijians are expected to head to the polls today to elect a new Parliament for a four-year term. This is the country’s third election under the 2013 constitution and since the 2006 military coup. In the race are 343 candidates from nine political parties and two independents vying for a ... <a title="Fijians heading to the polls today for third post-coup election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/fijians-heading-to-the-polls-today-for-third-post-coup-election/" aria-label="Read more about Fijians heading to the polls today for third post-coup election">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific The local administration in the New Caledonian township of Canala stayed shut on Monday to mark the first anniversary of the last referendum on independence from France. A year ago, more than 96 percent voted against full sovereignty but the pro-independence parties had advised their supporters to abstain, which lowered turnout to 43 ... <a title="New Caledonia township Canala marks independence referendum anniversary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/new-caledonia-township-canala-marks-independence-referendum-anniversary/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia township Canala marks independence referendum anniversary">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinean Treasurer Ian Ling-Stuckey has clarified that the miscellaneous item of K2.6 billion in the budget will be spent on settling superannuation payments for government employees, unpaid rental bills and final entitlements to retired public servants, among other expenses. “The budget is broken up into many lines of expenditure,” he said. ... <a title="PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/png-treasurer-explains-k2-6b-miscellaneous-budget-costs/" aria-label="Read more about PNG Treasurer explains K2.6b ‘miscellaneous’ budget costs">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Toby Walsh, Professor of AI at UNSW, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock ChatGPT is the latest and most impressive artificially intelligent chatbot yet. It was released two weeks ago, and in just five days hit a million users. It’s being used so much that its servers ... <a title="Everyone’s having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/everyones-having-a-field-day-with-chatgpt-but-nobody-knows-how-it-actually-works-196378/" aria-label="Read more about Everyone’s having a field day with ChatGPT – but nobody knows how it actually works">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast luemen rutkowski /unsplash, CC BY-SA There’s an annual underground phenomena happening right now around Australia: couples who have decided to separate, but are putting on a happy face to perform their final Christmas as an intact ... <a title="Are you and your partner thinking of separating? Here’s how to protect the kids’ mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/are-you-and-your-partner-thinking-of-separating-heres-how-to-protect-the-kids-mental-health-194912/" aria-label="Read more about Are you and your partner thinking of separating? Here’s how to protect the kids’ mental health">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zsofia Korosy, Postdoctoral Fellow in Law, UNSW Sydney Craig Stennett/Getty Images At the crucial COP15 nature summit in Canada, almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life. Climate change, mining, urban development and more are threatening Earth’s biodiversity to an ... <a title="Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/without-indigenous-leadership-attempts-to-stop-the-tide-of-destruction-against-nature-will-fail-196208/" aria-label="Read more about Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jay Rutovitz, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock To get Australia’s grid 82% powered by renewables by 2030 is a huge increase. At present, the electricity powering eastern and southern states is around 33% renewable. To get there means a lot of ... <a title="To clean up Australia’s power grid, we’re going to need many thousands more skilled workers – and fast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/to-clean-up-australias-power-grid-were-going-to-need-many-thousands-more-skilled-workers-and-fast-195906/" aria-label="Read more about To clean up Australia’s power grid, we’re going to need many thousands more skilled workers – and fast">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Hume, Lecturer In Theatre (Voice), Victorian College of the Arts, The University of Melbourne Have you ever thought about your pronunciation of the word “no”? If you say it out loud now, can you sense the movement of your tongue and lips as you form the ... <a title="Naur, yeah: Australia, you’re performing linguistic magic when you pronounce the two-letter word ‘no’. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/14/naur-yeah-australia-youre-performing-linguistic-magic-when-you-pronounce-the-two-letter-word-no-heres-why-194519/" aria-label="Read more about Naur, yeah: Australia, you’re performing linguistic magic when you pronounce the two-letter word ‘no’. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and politics + society editor Amanda ... <a title="Word from The Hill: 2022 retrospective, and a look at 2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/13/word-from-the-hill-2022-retrospective-and-a-look-at-2023-196493/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: 2022 retrospective, and a look at 2023">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Hine, Lecturer in Criminology, University of the Sunshine Coast Darren England/AAP In an horrific incident on Monday night, two police officers and a member of the public were fatally shot in an ambush attack in Queensland. Another two officers were injured in the attack. Our research ... <a title="Queensland shootings highlight increase in anti-police sentiment around the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/13/queensland-shootings-highlight-increase-in-anti-police-sentiment-around-the-world-196476/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland shootings highlight increase in anti-police sentiment around the world">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University shutterstock The Australian government’s latest COVID management plan, released yesterday, maps how the nation will learn to live with COVID. This means transitioning from the emergency phase of the pandemic response, to responding to it in a similar way to ... <a title="We’re entering a new phase of COVID, where we each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/13/were-entering-a-new-phase-of-covid-where-we-each-have-to-assess-and-mitigate-our-own-risk-but-how-195912/" aria-label="Read more about We’re entering a new phase of COVID, where we each have to assess and mitigate our own risk. But how?">Read more</a>
