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August 19, 2022
By Arieta Vakasukawaqa in Suva It was the friendliness of Fijians that led educator Hiroshi Taniguchi to give up his Japanese citizenship and make Fiji his home. The 50-year-old is a National Federation Party (NFP) provisional candidate for the 2022 general election. He moved to Fiji in 2004 and then established the Freebird Institute in ... <a title="Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/elections-hopeful-taniguchi-gave-up-citizenship-to-become-fijian/" aria-label="Read more about Elections hopeful Taniguchi gave up citizenship to become Fijian">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
RNZ Pacific The office of the Tahitian president says it wants to honour the memory of Bruno Barrillot who was the head of French Polynesia’s organisation looking at the aftermath of France’s nuclear weapons tests. The office says it wants to mark the sixth anniversary of Barrillot’s return from France to French Polynesia. He died ... <a title="Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/tahitis-nuclear-compo-advocate-to-be-honoured-in-french-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about Tahiti’s nuclear compo advocate to be honoured in French Polynesia">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig White, Professor and Head, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Nam Anh / Unsplash If you think about “unravelling the mysteries of the universe”, you probably think of physics: astronomers peering through telescopes at distant galaxies, or experimenters smashing particles to smithereens at the Large Hadron ... <a title="Why are bigger animals more energy-efficient? A new answer to a centuries-old biological puzzle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/why-are-bigger-animals-more-energy-efficient-a-new-answer-to-a-centuries-old-biological-puzzle-188724/" aria-label="Read more about Why are bigger animals more energy-efficient? A new answer to a centuries-old biological puzzle">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne AP Will climate action undermine Australia’s democracy? This question might not be as outlandish as it seems. A recent investigation details a campaign by the car industry to have its (low) voluntary standards on fuel efficiency legislated ... <a title="How to deal with fossil fuel lobbying and its growing influence in Australian politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/how-to-deal-with-fossil-fuel-lobbying-and-its-growing-influence-in-australian-politics-188515/" aria-label="Read more about How to deal with fossil fuel lobbying and its growing influence in Australian politics">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Shutterstock/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Crisis is a word often used in politics and the media – the COVID crisis, the housing crisis, the cost of ... <a title="Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of policy failure. We need policy by Indigenous people, for the people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/colonial-ideas-have-kept-nz-and-australia-in-a-rut-of-policy-failure-we-need-policy-by-indigenous-people-for-the-people-188583/" aria-label="Read more about Colonial ideas have kept NZ and Australia in a rut of policy failure. We need policy by Indigenous people, for the people">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Buzwell, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Swinburne University of Technology Kulli Kittus/Unsplash When a comic about “mental load” went viral in 2017, it sparked conversations about the invisible workload women carry. Even when women are in paid employment, they remember their mother-in-law’s birthday, know what’s in the ... <a title="Don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/dont-blame-women-for-low-libido-sexual-sparks-fly-when-partners-do-their-share-of-chores-including-calling-the-plumber-185401/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mel Taylor, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Hearts sank along the Australian east coast this week when the Bureau of Meteorology announced a third consecutive La Niña was likely this year. La Niña weather events typically deliver above-average rainfall in spring and summer. But the last two La ... <a title="No, not again! A third straight La Niña is likely – here’s how you and your family can prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/no-not-again-a-third-straight-la-nina-is-likely-heres-how-you-and-your-family-can-prepare-188970/" aria-label="Read more about No, not again! A third straight La Niña is likely – here’s how you and your family can prepare">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Blunden, Associate Professor and Head of Paediatric Sleep Research, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock Clueless actor Alicia Silverstone recently told a podcast she co-sleeps with her 11-year-old son, explaining she is “just following nature”. “Bear and I still sleep together,” she told The Ellen Fisher Podcast last month. ... <a title="Is there such a thing as ‘too old’ to co-sleep with your child? The research might surprise you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/is-there-such-a-thing-as-too-old-to-co-sleep-with-your-child-the-research-might-surprise-you-188145/" aria-label="Read more about Is there such a thing as ‘too old’ to co-sleep with your child? The research might surprise you">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Wade, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University Shutterstock BeReal hit the social networking scene in late 2019 but didn’t take off until downloads started skyrocketing in 2022. So, what is BeReal all about, and is it here to stay? BeReal is based in France and was ... <a title="Social network BeReal shares unfiltered and unedited moments from our lives – will it last?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/social-network-bereal-shares-unfiltered-and-unedited-moments-from-our-lives-will-it-last-188643/" aria-label="Read more about Social network BeReal shares unfiltered and unedited moments from our lives – will it last?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s not breaking news that Scott Morrison has trouble with women. His “woman problem” was one factor in his election defeat. But really, his treatment this week of Karen Andrews, his former home affairs minister, was particularly gratuitous. By Tuesday ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: The Scott Morrison horror show has a way to run yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/grattan-on-friday-the-scott-morrison-horror-show-has-a-way-to-run-yet-188985/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: The Scott Morrison horror show has a way to run yet">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific journalist The president of Vanuatu has dissolved the country’s Parliament just over halfway through the current four-year-term. President Nikenike Vurobaravu signed the instrument for the dissolution of Parliament this afternoon on the eve of a proposed motion of no confidence in Prime Minister Bob Loughman that was to have been ... <a title="Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/vanuatu-president-dissolves-parliament-respect-it-plea-by-loughman/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu president dissolves parliament – ‘respect it’ plea by Loughman">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2022
By Philip Cass of Kaniva News in Auckland Tonga has not done enough to combat people trafficking and will remain on an American watch list, according to the US State Department’s annual report. Since convicting its first trafficker in April 2011, the government has not prosecuted or convicted any traffickers, the State Department said. The ... <a title="Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/18/tonga-stays-on-us-watch-list-for-not-doing-enough-on-people-trafficking/" aria-label="Read more about Tonga stays on US watch list for not doing enough on people trafficking">Read more</a>
