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April 24, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 24 2019 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Tax Chris Trotter (Interest): Jacinda Ardern and Grant Robertson won’t be losing much sleep over their left-wing critics’ anger over the CGT decision ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 24 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-24-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 24 2019">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra We’re only days into the federal election campaign and already the first instances of “fake news” have surfaced online. Over the weekend, Labor demanded that Facebook remove posts it says are “fake news” ... <a title="‘Fake news’ is already spreading online in the election campaign – it’s up to Australians to stop it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/fake-news-is-already-spreading-online-in-the-election-campaign-its-up-to-australians-to-stop-it-115455/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fake news’ is already spreading online in the election campaign – it’s up to Australians to stop it">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra We’re only days into the federal election campaign and already the first instances of “fake news” have surfaced online. Over the weekend, Labor demanded that Facebook remove posts it says are “fake news” ... <a title="‘Fake news’ is already spreading online in the election campaign. What can we do to stop it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/fake-news-is-already-spreading-online-in-the-election-campaign-what-can-we-do-to-stop-it-115455/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Fake news’ is already spreading online in the election campaign. What can we do to stop it?">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By M. Leigh Ackland, Professor in Molecular Biosciences, Deakin University We humans have a habit of avoiding our waste. We find organic waste particularly unpleasant. We bag it and dispose of it as soon as possible. Even the most environmentally conscious person would rather not handle something like ... <a title="Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/ditch-plastic-dog-poo-bags-go-compostable-112605/" aria-label="Read more about Ditch plastic dog poo bags, go compostable">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Radio Morobe … “The Morobe provincial government has neglected its upgrading and funding in the last 10 years or more”. Image: Post-Courier COMMENTARY: By Sylvester Gawi in Lae I grew up in the 1990s listening to NBC Radio – Radio Kundu – which was informative and always reaching out to the mass population of Papua ... <a title="Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/sylvester-gawi-deplorable-neglect-of-pngs-voice-of-the-nation/" aria-label="Read more about Sylvester Gawi: Deplorable neglect of PNG’s ‘voice of the nation’">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Papua New Guinean media … RSF says journalists faced intimidation, direct threats, censorship, prosecution and bribery attempts. Image: EMTV News By RNZ Pacific Democracies across Asia and the Pacific are struggling to resist disinformation and protect press freedoms, according to a new report. Reporters Without Borders released its 2019 index last Thursday showing an increase ... <a title="Asian and Pacific nations struggling over media self-censorship, says RSF" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/asian-and-pacific-nations-struggling-over-media-self-censorship-says-rsf/" aria-label="Read more about Asian and Pacific nations struggling over media self-censorship, says RSF">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Mangan, Professor and Director of the Australian Institute For Business and Economics, The University of Queensland Suddenly, death duties are part of the election campaign. Not that Labor (or the Coalition) is proposing them, but photoshopped fake tweets from Labor figures saying they will introduce them ... <a title="House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/house-prices-and-demographics-make-death-duties-an-idea-whose-time-has-come-114175/" aria-label="Read more about House prices and demographics make death duties an idea whose time has come">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew A. Cole, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, University of Tasmania The ominous warning – “winter is coming”, popularised by fantasy series Game of Thrones – applies equally well to Pluto. The dwarf planet’s tenuous atmosphere appears to be on the verge of a stunning collapse due to ... <a title="Why Pluto is losing its atmosphere: winter is coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/why-pluto-is-losing-its-atmosphere-winter-is-coming-115567/" aria-label="Read more about Why Pluto is losing its atmosphere: winter is coming">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra We’re only days into the federal election campaign and already the first instances of “fake news” have surfaced online. Over the weekend, Labor demanded that Facebook remove posts it says are “fake news” ... <a title="The government and tech companies can’t prevent ‘fake news’ during the election – only the public can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/the-government-and-tech-companies-cant-prevent-fake-news-during-the-election-only-the-public-can-115455/" aria-label="Read more about The government and tech companies can’t prevent ‘fake news’ during the election – only the public can">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Liang-Dar Hwang, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Queensland You might love sugary doughnuts, but your friends find them too sweet and only take small nibbles. That’s partly because your genes influence how you perceive sweetness and how much sugary food and drink you consume. Now our ... <a title="Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/sickly-sweet-or-just-right-how-genes-control-your-taste-for-sugar-113455/" aria-label="Read more about Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Waghorne, Academic Historian, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne The first world war was significant to the formation of Australian national identity and defining national characteristics, such as making do and mateship. This is well acknowledged. But it was also a technical war, which ... <a title="A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/a-whole-new-world-how-wwi-brought-new-skills-and-professions-back-to-australia-115375/" aria-label="Read more about A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Whitehead, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Move aside electric cars, another disruption set to occur in the next decade is being ignored in current Australian transport infrastructure debates: electric aviation. Electric aircraft technology is rapidly developing locally and overseas, with the aim of potentially reducing ... <a title="Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/get-set-for-take-off-in-electric-aircraft-the-next-transport-disruption-114178/" aria-label="Read more about Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption">Read more</a>
