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December 9, 2018
Sixteen bodies have been retrieved from the killings of workers on a Papuan infrastructure project claimed by pro-independence militants to be Indonesian soldiers. Image: Hark Arena By Ray Jordan in Lampung, Indonesia President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo insists that work on the Trans-Papua road project will continue despite this week’s shooting of construction workers in the ... <a title="Widodo wants security forces to guard all development projects in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/09/widodo-wants-security-forces-to-guard-all-development-projects-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Widodo wants security forces to guard all development projects in Papua">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeleine De Gabriele, Deputy Editor: Energy + Environment Giant eucalypts play an irreplaceable part in many of Australia’s ecosystems. These towering elders develop hollows, which make them nature’s high-rises, housing everything from endangered squirrel-gliders to lace monitors. Over 300 species of vertebrates in Australia depend on hollows ... <a title="Comic explainer: forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/09/comic-explainer-forest-giants-house-thousands-of-animals-so-why-do-we-keep-cutting-them-down-106708/" aria-label="Read more about Comic explainer: forest giants house thousands of animals (so why do we keep cutting them down?)">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2018
By Craig Major of AUT Communications Professor David Robie, Director of the Pacific Media Centre in the School of Communication Studies, has been part of the contingent of more than 100 journalists and media academics reporting on and analysing the historic New Caledonian independence referendum in early November. Only 2 out of the 100 were ... <a title="PMC director reports on historic New Caledonia referendum 30 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/09/pmc-director-reports-on-historic-new-caledonia-referendum-30-years-on/" aria-label="Read more about PMC director reports on historic New Caledonia referendum 30 years on">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University After being caught up in the broader drama of the last day of Parliament for 2018, the Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 passed both houses on Thursday, with the support of the Coalition and ... <a title="The government’s encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/the-governments-encryption-laws-finally-passed-despite-concerns-over-security-108409/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s encryption laws finally passed despite concerns over security">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duncan Blake, PhD candidate, law and military uses of outer space, University of Adelaide Australia is part of the global explosion in space industries – including the design and engineering of satellites smaller than a loaf of bread. But we’re at a point now where we need ... <a title="The problems with small satellites – and what Australia’s Space Agency can do to help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/the-problems-with-small-satellites-and-what-australias-space-agency-can-do-to-help-108156/" aria-label="Read more about The problems with small satellites – and what Australia’s Space Agency can do to help">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Political Roundup: Simon Bridges’ leadership still being undermined by Dr Bryce Edwards This week’s Colmar Brunton poll was one of the most bittersweet polls a political party and its leader have ever received. On the one hand, the party was up to 46 per cent but, on the other, leader Simon Bridges was only on ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Simon Bridges’ leadership still being undermined" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-simon-bridges-leadership-still-being-undermined/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Simon Bridges’ leadership still being undermined">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vicki Flenady, Professor, Mater Research Institute; Director, Centre of Research Excellence in Stillbirth, The University of Queensland Six Australian babies are stillborn each day. This equates to more than 2,000 babies each year. Stillbirth is defined as the death of a baby of at least 20 weeks’ ... <a title="Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/five-ways-to-reduce-the-risk-of-stillbirth-108253/" aria-label="Read more about Five ways to reduce the risk of stillbirth">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia Review: The School There’s something about the Australian context that lends itself to explorations of horror. As I have argued elsewhere, the combination of what historian Geoffrey Blainey famously described as the “tyranny of distance,” the ... <a title="The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/the-best-thing-about-the-new-oz-horror-film-the-school-is-its-poster-108340/" aria-label="Read more about The best thing about the new Oz horror film The School is its poster">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2018 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Workplace bullying Jane Patterson (RNZ): About 30% of DPMC staffers experienced or witnessed bullying The Listener: Maggie Barry and the dangers of crying ‘bully’ Rosemary McLeod ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2018" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-07-2018/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2018">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zahra Zsuzsanna Stardust, PhD Candidate, Arts/Media & Law, UNSW The social networking and microblogging site Tumblr announced on Monday that from December 17 it will no longer host adult content on its platform. The Washington Post reported that the policy “removes one of the last major refuges ... <a title="Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/sexual-subcultures-are-collateral-damage-in-tumblrs-ban-on-adult-content-108169/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual subcultures are collateral damage in Tumblr’s ban on adult content">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Richards, Lecturer Sport Business Management, Western Sydney University For Australians, the accolade “sporting capital of the world” is arguably more prized than “world’s most liveable city”. Australian cities (and the states) have appeared hell-bent on outdoing one another in building bigger and better sporting venues in ... <a title="Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/australians-love-their-sport-but-investing-in-new-venues-is-another-matter-108020/" aria-label="Read more about Australians love their sport, but investing in new venues is another matter">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James H. Liu, Professor of Psychology, Massey University December 7, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation ... <a title="Remembering Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the theatre of war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/07/remembering-pearl-harbor-and-americas-entry-into-the-theatre-of-war-107698/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering Pearl Harbor and America’s entry into the theatre of war">Read more</a>
