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March 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle de Souza, Lecturer in Law, University of New England Binge British comedy Romantic Getaway recently dropped on streaming service Binge. The show stars Katherine Ryan and Romesh Ranganathan as Alison and Deacon, a couple desperate for a child. Alison and Deacon have been unable to conceive ... <a title="IVF heist: Romantic Getaway on Binge explores the desperation couples can feel during the costly IVF journey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/ivf-heist-romantic-getaway-on-binge-explores-the-desperation-couples-can-feel-during-the-costly-ivf-journey-201172/" aria-label="Read more about IVF heist: Romantic Getaway on Binge explores the desperation couples can feel during the costly IVF journey">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
A joint force of Indonesian military and police are claiming to have shot dead a member of the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) in Central Papua Province on Wednesday last week. Jubi TV Papua reports the joint force was conducting aerial surveillance after a motorcycle taxi driver had been shot dead by someone who ... <a title="West Papua Liberation Army fighter shot dead, claims Indonesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/west-papua-liberation-army-fighter-shot-dead-claims-indonesia/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua Liberation Army fighter shot dead, claims Indonesia">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
By Kelvin Anthony, RNZ Pacific lead digital and social media journalist The Fiji government is signalling that it will not completely tear down the country’s controversial media law which, according to local newsrooms and journalism commentators, has stunted press freedom and development for more than a decade. Ahead of the 2022 general elections last December, ... <a title="Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/repeal-draconian-mida-act-urge-fiji-media-and-journalism-stakeholders/" aria-label="Read more about Repeal ‘draconian’ MIDA Act, urge Fiji media and journalism stakeholders">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2023
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby The production and trafficking of methamphetamine (meth), cocaine and now heroin is on the rise with Pacific countries now becoming what many are calling the “Pacific drug highway”. And Papua New Guinea has over three years seen a plane crash, a hotel laboratory, a shipment in postal services, arrival ... <a title="PNG a key transit point for ‘Pacific drug highway’ to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/28/png-a-key-transit-point-for-pacific-drug-highway-to-australia/" aria-label="Read more about PNG a key transit point for ‘Pacific drug highway’ to Australia">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Labor and the Greens have reached a compromise on the safeguard mechanism after months of tense negotiations, giving the government the numbers it needs to pass the bill into law. Greens leader Adam Bandt on Monday announced his party ... <a title="Greens will back Labor’s safeguard mechanism without a ban on new coal and gas. That’s a good outcome" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/greens-will-back-labors-safeguard-mechanism-without-a-ban-on-new-coal-and-gas-thats-a-good-outcome-202444/" aria-label="Read more about Greens will back Labor’s safeguard mechanism without a ban on new coal and gas. That’s a good outcome">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Headline: The return to Big Wars. – 36th Parallel Assessments After the Cold War the consensus among Western military strategists was that the era of Big Wars, defined as peer conflict between large states with full spectrum military technologies, was at an end, at least for the foreseeable future. The strategic emphasis shifted to so-called ... <a title="The return to Big Wars." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/the-return-to-big-wars/" aria-label="Read more about The return to Big Wars.">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Getty Images Russia’s invasion of Ukraine appears to be a defining moment in the evolution of the post-Cold War world. In particular, it is highlighting problems that do not respect borders, such as ... <a title="The environmental impact of Russia’s invasion goes beyond Ukraine – how do we deal with ‘problems without passports’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/the-environmental-impact-of-russias-invasion-goes-beyond-ukraine-how-do-we-deal-with-problems-without-passports-202505/" aria-label="Read more about The environmental impact of Russia’s invasion goes beyond Ukraine – how do we deal with ‘problems without passports’?">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Pearson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Monash University The number of women riding bikes has increased dramatically in cities globally, including a 50% rise in London during the COVID lockdown, and near-equal gender participation in Paris after pop-up bike lanes were put in place. In Australia, however, cycling ... <a title="How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/how-to-get-more-women-on-bikes-better-biking-infrastructure-designed-by-women-202147/" aria-label="Read more about How to get more women on bikes? Better biking infrastructure, designed by women">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Freeman, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock On Friday, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) updated its review of proposed reforms to the regulation of nicotine vaping products. It reported the federal government is now “actively considering” the TGA’s advice. The TGA’s advice ... <a title="TGA review strengthens case for much tighter vape restrictions at the border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/tga-review-strengthens-case-for-much-tighter-vape-restrictions-at-the-border-202506/" aria-label="Read more about TGA review strengthens case for much tighter vape restrictions at the border">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam John, Senior Lecturer in Neural Engineering, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Since it was founded in 2016, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface (BCI) company Neuralink has had its moments in biotech news. Whether it was the time Musk promised his “link” would let people communicate telepathically, or ... <a title="We’ve been connecting brains to computers longer than you’d expect. These 3 companies are leading the way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/weve-been-connecting-brains-to-computers-longer-than-youd-expect-these-3-companies-are-leading-the-way-197023/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve been connecting brains to computers longer than you’d expect. These 3 companies are leading the way">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The ‘Young Elderly’ are in essence the post-war baby-boomers. An average young elderly person in these charts was born around 1950 to 1952. The charts look at ‘quarterly excess deaths’, so do not show week-by-week fluctuations in deaths. For example, data for the very end of 2022 covers the whole ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-the-pandemic-young-elderly-deaths-in-europe-usa-and-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Pandemic: Young Elderly Deaths in Europe, USA and New Zealand">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yu Tao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, The University of Western Australia State Library of Western Australia Does the discovery of a Ming Dynasty Buddha sculpture found near Shark Bay in remote Western Australia “rewrite history” and suggest the Chinese first visited Australia 600 years ago? Shark ... <a title="This Buddhist sculpture probably won’t ‘rewrite history’ – Western Australia already has a rich Chinese past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/27/this-buddhist-sculpture-probably-wont-rewrite-history-western-australia-already-has-a-rich-chinese-past-201770/" aria-label="Read more about This Buddhist sculpture probably won’t ‘rewrite history’ – Western Australia already has a rich Chinese past">Read more</a>
