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October 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Analytics & Resilience, UNSW Sydney Karolis Kavolelis/Shutterstock Battery electric vehicle sales in Australia have flattened in recent months. The latest data reveal a sharp 27.2% year-on-year decline (overall new vehicle sales were down 9.7%) in September. Tesla Model Y and Model ... <a title="Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/14/electric-car-sales-have-slumped-misinformation-is-one-of-the-reasons-240545/" aria-label="Read more about Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Savage, Associate Professor of Education Policy and the Future of Schooling, The University of Melbourne As Australian students begin the final term of 2024, governments are in the middle of a bitter standoff over public school funding for next year. The federal government has offered states ... <a title="Australia’s school funding system is broken. Here’s how to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/14/australias-school-funding-system-is-broken-heres-how-to-fix-it-240908/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s school funding system is broken. Here’s how to fix it">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Fiveash, ARC DECRA Fellow (Researcher), Western Sydney University Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Listening to music can enhance our lives in all kinds of ways – many of us use it during exercise, to regulate our mood, or in the workplace. But can listening to background music while you work ... <a title="Can listening to music make you more productive at work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/14/can-listening-to-music-make-you-more-productive-at-work-241123/" aria-label="Read more about Can listening to music make you more productive at work?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide IMDB What might be the most seismic moment in American cinema? Film “speaking” for the first time in The Jazz Singer? Dorothy entering the Land of Oz? That menacing shark that in 1975 invented the summer blockbuster? ... <a title="30 years ago, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shook Hollywood and redefined ‘cool’ cinema" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/14/30-years-ago-tarantinos-pulp-fiction-shook-hollywood-and-redefined-cool-cinema-236877/" aria-label="Read more about 30 years ago, Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction shook Hollywood and redefined ‘cool’ cinema">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2024
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper mine on the autonomous island of Bougainville has been held in Papua New Guinea. The lawsuit against Rio Tinto and its subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) is seeking compensation, expected ... <a title="Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/13/rio-tinto-class-action-begins-over-toxic-bougainville-mine-disaster/" aria-label="Read more about Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster">Read more</a>
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October 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Beattie, Lecturer, Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Are you a news avoider? Do you turn off the six o’clock TV news, scroll past headlines, skip radio bulletins – or just ignore news entirely? If you do some or ... <a title="News blues: study reveals why 60% of Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/13/news-blues-study-reveals-why-60-of-kiwis-avoid-the-news-at-least-some-of-the-time-240544/" aria-label="Read more about News blues: study reveals why 60% of Kiwis avoid the news at least some of the time">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
This week marked the grim one-year anniversary of the surprise October 7 Hamas attack on Israel and the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza — a conflict that has taken a devastating toll on journalists and media outlets in Palestine, reports the International Press Institute. In Gaza, Israeli strikes have killed at least 123 ... <a title="One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says IPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/one-year-of-war-in-gaza-protect-journalists-now-says-ipi/" aria-label="Read more about One year of war in Gaza – protect journalists now, says IPI">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
Pacific Media Watch ABC’s The Pacific has gained rare access into West Papua, a region ruled by Indonesia that has been plagued by military violence and political unrest for decades. Now, as well as the long-running struggle for independence, some say the Melanesian region’s pristine environment is under threat by the expansion of logging and ... <a title="West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/west-papua-the-war-on-our-doorstep-under-the-pacific-spotlight/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua – the war on our doorstep under The Pacific spotlight">Read more</a>
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October 12, 2024
By John Minto Published in the Christchurch Star newspaper yesterday — this was the advert rejected last week by Stuff, New Zealand’s major news website, by an editorial management which apparently thinks pro-Israel sympathies are more important than the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanon. Stuff told the Palestinian Solidarity Movement Aotearoa (PSNA) ... <a title="Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/12/published-by-the-star-the-genocide-advert-that-stuff-didnt-want-you-to-see/" aria-label="Read more about Published by the Star – the genocide advert that Stuff didn’t want you to see">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster 0f BenarNews French Polynesia’s president and civil society leaders have called on the United Nations to bring France to the negotiating table and set a timetable for the decolonisation of the Pacific territory. More than a decade after the archipelago was re-listed for decolonisation by the UN General Assembly, France has refused ... <a title="Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/11/bring-france-into-decolonisation-talks-french-polynesian-president-tells-un/" aria-label="Read more about Bring France into decolonisation talks, French Polynesian president tells UN">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa M. Given, Professor of Information Sciences & Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University BAZA Production/Shutterstock In a speech to the New South Wales and South Australian government social media summit today, Federal Minister for Communications Michelle Rowland announced more details of how the federal ... <a title="The government’s social media ban for kids will exempt ‘low-risk’ platforms. What does that mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/11/the-governments-social-media-ban-for-kids-will-exempt-low-risk-platforms-what-does-that-mean-241120/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s social media ban for kids will exempt ‘low-risk’ platforms. What does that mean?">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer King, Senior Clinical Lecturer, University of Sydney Halfpoint/Shutterstock As a urogynaecologist I care exclusively for women with pelvic floor problems. These are the women with leaking bladders and weak supporting tissues allowing the vaginal walls to bulge outside. Pelvic organ prolapse can be distressing or embarrassing ... <a title="What is pelvic organ prolapse and how is it treated?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/10/11/what-is-pelvic-organ-prolapse-and-how-is-it-treated-239199/" aria-label="Read more about What is pelvic organ prolapse and how is it treated?">Read more</a>