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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duane Hamacher, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne Total Lunar Eclipse Peter Lieverdink, CC BY It’s eclipse season. The Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so it’s possible for the Earth and Moon to cast each other into shadow. A faint lunar eclipse will occur on March ... <a title="‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/the-ghost-has-taken-the-spirit-of-the-moon-how-torres-strait-islanders-predict-eclipses-226005/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Research Theme Fellow in Health and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University Kampus Production/Pexels If you or a loved one have noticed changes in your memory or thinking as you’ve grown older, this could reflect typical changes that occur with ageing. In some cases though, it might ... <a title="We created a VR tool to test brain function. It could one day help diagnose dementia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/we-created-a-vr-tool-to-test-brain-function-it-could-one-day-help-diagnose-dementia-220946/" aria-label="Read more about We created a VR tool to test brain function. It could one day help diagnose dementia">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Associate Professor of Finance, RMIT University Dr. Victor Wong/Shutterstock Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry of them across the business scene, a new blockbuster has emerged. All eyes are on two titans of the pharmacy industry – Chemist Warehouse and ... <a title="Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/australias-biggest-chemist-is-merging-with-a-giant-wholesaler-could-we-soon-be-paying-more-226002/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Time is running out for media people and academics wanting to tell their innovative story or present research at the 2024 Pacific International Media Conference in July. Organisers say the deadline is fast approaching for registration in less than two weeks. Many major key challenges and core problems facing Pacific media are ... <a title="Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for Pacific media conference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/time-to-get-in-quick-for-the-fast-looming-deadline-for-pacific-media-conference/" aria-label="Read more about Time to get in quick for the fast looming deadline for Pacific media conference">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will tell the Fair Work Commission it should ensure the real wages of low paid workers do not go backwards. In its submission to the Annual Wage Review, the government stresses the July 1 tax cut should ... <a title="Albanese government to Fair Work Commission: Don’t let real wages go backwards for the low paid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/albanese-government-to-fair-work-commission-dont-let-real-wages-go-backwards-for-the-low-paid-226474/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government to Fair Work Commission: Don’t let real wages go backwards for the low paid">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Ronny Kareni Recent videos depicting the barbaric torture of an indigenous Papuan man by Indonesian soldiers have opened the wounds of West Papua’s suffering, laying bare the horrifying reality faced by its people. We must confront this grim truth — what we witness is not an isolated incident but a glaring demonstation of ... <a title="West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed urgently" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/west-papuan-wounds-of-suffering-diplomatic-pressure-on-indonesia-needed-urgently/" aria-label="Read more about West Papuan wounds of suffering – diplomatic pressure on Indonesia needed urgently">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A leader of one of New Zealand’s main Palestine solidarity groups today called on the government to expel the Israeli ambassador and call for an immediate ceasefire in the genocidal war on Gaza. “We know what the crimes are — occupation. Land theft. Ethnic cleansing. Apartheid. Genocide. All crimes against humanity,” Palestine ... <a title="NZ protesters call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over Gaza atrocities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/nz-protesters-call-for-expulsion-of-israeli-ambassador-over-gaza-atrocities/" aria-label="Read more about NZ protesters call for expulsion of Israeli ambassador over Gaza atrocities">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Papua New Guinea and Bougainville appear no closer to the tabling in the National Parliament of the referendum on independence. The non-binding referendum, conducted in 2019, as required by the Bougainville Peace Agreement of 2001, resulted in 97.8 percent of voters supporting independence for a region torn apart ... <a title="Bougainville threat to bypass PNG Parliament in independence standoff" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/bougainville-threat-to-bypass-png-parliament-in-independence-standoff/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville threat to bypass PNG Parliament in independence standoff">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Olver, Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide Catherine, Princess of Wales, is undergoing treatment for cancer. In a video thanking followers for their messages of support after her major abdominal surgery, the Princess of Wales explained, “tests after ... <a title="Kate Middleton is having ‘preventive chemotherapy’ for cancer. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/kate-middleton-is-having-preventive-chemotherapy-for-cancer-what-does-this-mean-226461/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Middleton is having ‘preventive chemotherapy’ for cancer. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Scholar -In-Residence Asia Society Australia, Deakin University It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist ... <a title="Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/why-would-islamic-state-attack-russia-and-what-does-this-mean-for-the-terrorism-threat-globally-226464/" aria-label="Read more about Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hortle, Research Fellow, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania The votes have been cast, but the helter skelter race to form the next Tasmanian government is just beginning. While the results aren’t likely to be formalised for a couple of weeks, the island state’s voters haven’t ... <a title="Tasmanians have voted in a hung parliament, but neither major party is backing down from taking the reins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/tasmanians-have-voted-in-a-hung-parliament-but-neither-major-party-is-backing-down-from-taking-the-reins-225776/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmanians have voted in a hung parliament, but neither major party is backing down from taking the reins">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Tasmania has five electorates that each return seven members using the proportional Hare-Clark system, for a total of 35 seats. A quota is one-eighth of the vote, ... <a title="Liberals will win most seats in Tasmanian election, but be short of a majority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/liberals-will-win-most-seats-in-tasmanian-election-but-be-short-of-a-majority-226398/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals will win most seats in Tasmanian election, but be short of a majority">Read more</a>
