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January 13, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury Late last year, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) initiated a process to eliminate 170 academic jobs to cut costs. The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) found AUT’s approach breached its collective employment agreement with staff and their union and ordered it to withdraw the termination notices. Tertiary education ... <a title="New Zealand doesn’t offer tenure to academics, but the AUT employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/new-zealand-doesnt-offer-tenure-to-academics-but-the-aut-employment-dispute-shows-its-more-than-a-job-perk/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand doesn’t offer tenure to academics, but the AUT employment dispute shows it’s more than a job perk">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rice, Professor of Law; Kim Santow Chair of Law and Social Justice, University of Sydney The Iranian government has attempted to brutally suppress the widespread protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022. Central to Iran’s response have been ... <a title="Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/iran-executions-the-role-of-the-revolutionary-courts-in-breaching-human-rights-197534/" aria-label="Read more about Iran executions: the role of the ‘revolutionary courts’ in breaching human rights">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Sun Cable – considered to be the world’s biggest renewable energy export project – announced this week it had entered voluntary administration following “the absence of alignment” with shareholders. Sun Cable is expected to cost over A$30 billion. ... <a title="The A$30 billion Sun Cable crash is a setback but doesn’t spell the end of Australia’s renewable energy export dreams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/the-a-30-billion-sun-cable-crash-is-a-setback-but-doesnt-spell-the-end-of-australias-renewable-energy-export-dreams-197688/" aria-label="Read more about The A$30 billion Sun Cable crash is a setback but doesn’t spell the end of Australia’s renewable energy export dreams">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicky Morrison, Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Public concerns about high food prices highlight how meeting basic human needs can’t be taken for granted, even in a country like Australia. Food prices are but one part of the ... <a title="Are you living in a food desert? These maps suggest it can make a big difference to your health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/are-you-living-in-a-food-desert-these-maps-suggest-it-can-make-a-big-difference-to-your-health-196477/" aria-label="Read more about Are you living in a food desert? These maps suggest it can make a big difference to your health">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Cronin, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Auckland Sung-Hyun Park/Korea Polar Research Institute The Kingdom of Tonga exploded into global news on January 15 last year with one of the most spectacular and violent volcanic eruptions ever seen. Remarkably, it was caused by a volcano that ... <a title="A year on, we know why the Tongan eruption was so violent. It’s a wake-up call to watch other submarine volcanoes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/a-year-on-we-know-why-the-tongan-eruption-was-so-violent-its-a-wake-up-call-to-watch-other-submarine-volcanoes-175734/" aria-label="Read more about A year on, we know why the Tongan eruption was so violent. It’s a wake-up call to watch other submarine volcanoes">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
RNZ Pacific Indonesian President Joko Widodo has acknowledged “gross human rights violations” in his country’s history and vowed to prevent any repeat. He cited 12 “regrettable” events, including an anti-communist purge at the height of the Cold War. By some estimates, the massacres killed about 500,000 people. President Joko Widodo … “I strongly regret that ... <a title="Jokowi acknowledges gross human rights violations in Indonesia, Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/jokowi-acknowledges-gross-human-rights-violations-in-indonesia-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi acknowledges gross human rights violations in Indonesia, Papua">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Whittaker, Senior Lecturer, University of Adelaide Piotr Musioł/Unsplash The impact of vegan diets on our pets’ health produces heated debate from people on both sides. But until now, we haven’t had a formal assessment of the scientific evidence. In new research published today in Veterinary Sciences ... <a title="Are vegan pet diets as unhealthy as they’re claimed to be? Here’s what the evidence says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/are-vegan-pet-diets-as-unhealthy-as-theyre-claimed-to-be-heres-what-the-evidence-says-197409/" aria-label="Read more about Are vegan pet diets as unhealthy as they’re claimed to be? Here’s what the evidence says">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Felmingham, Chair of Clinical Psychology, The University of Melbourne Photo by Andrew Neel/Pexels, CC BY You might have wondered if the recent death of George Pell, who was jailed in 2019 for child sexual abuse and then later acquitted, would bring a sense of relief or ... <a title="How might the latest George Pell coverage affect child sexual abuse survivors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/how-might-the-latest-george-pell-coverage-affect-child-sexual-abuse-survivors-197683/" aria-label="Read more about How might the latest George Pell coverage affect child sexual abuse survivors?">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University shutterstock Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental change, at best. Activist Greta Thunberg has described them as “blah blah blah” moments – grossly inadequate and too often hijacked by ... <a title="6 reasons 2023 could be a very good year for climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/6-reasons-2023-could-be-a-very-good-year-for-climate-action-197680/" aria-label="Read more about 6 reasons 2023 could be a very good year for climate action">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joey Moloney, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Nearly all economists and most politicians seem to agree stamp duty is a bad tax. But nearly all state and territory governments rely on it to keep the lights on. It’s a bad tax because it taxes homeowners every time ... <a title="Stamp duty isn’t going anywhere until we can agree on the tax to replace it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/stamp-duty-isnt-going-anywhere-until-we-can-agree-on-the-tax-to-replace-it-197398/" aria-label="Read more about Stamp duty isn’t going anywhere until we can agree on the tax to replace it">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi McAlister, Senior Lecturer in Writing, Literature and Culture, Deakin University 10 Play This week marks the beginning of the tenth season of The Bachelor Australia, Australia’s longest running reality romance franchise. Often, anniversaries like this provoke nostalgia, a desire to look back at what’s gone before, ... <a title="From Bachelor to The Bachelors – why Australia’s longest running dating show has updated the old formula" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/from-bachelor-to-the-bachelors-why-australias-longest-running-dating-show-has-updated-the-old-formula-197414/" aria-label="Read more about From Bachelor to The Bachelors – why Australia’s longest running dating show has updated the old formula">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Yamin Kogoya Following months of legal limbo and a health crisis, Papua Governor Lukas Enembe was arrested this week by the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) in a dramatic move condemned by critics as a “kidnapping”. At noon on Tuesday, January 10, Governor Enembe was dining in a local restaurant near the headquarters ... <a title="Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/13/yamin-kogoya-arrest-of-papuan-governor-enembe-condemned-as-illegal-jakarta-kidnap/" aria-label="Read more about Yamin Kogoya: Arrest of Papuan governor Enembe condemned as illegal Jakarta ‘kidnap’">Read more</a>
