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September 17, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Laurens Ikinia in Jakarta The Land of Papua is widely known as a land full of milk and honey. It is a name widely known in Indonesia that refers to the western half of the island of New Guinea. Its natural wealth and beauty are special treasures entrusted by the Creator to the ... <a title="Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/papuan-aspirations-at-stake-in-divided-melanesian-spearhead-group-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Papuan aspirations at stake in divided Melanesian Spearhead Group politics">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Miller, PhD Candidate, School of Information Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Just four years ago, experts warned te reo Māori was on a “pathway towards extinction” unless resources were put into teaching young Māori. But a new mathematical model combined with recent ... <a title="Saved from extinction? New modelling suggests a hopeful future for te reo Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/saved-from-extinction-new-modelling-suggests-a-hopeful-future-for-te-reo-maori-239084/" aria-label="Read more about Saved from extinction? New modelling suggests a hopeful future for te reo Māori">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Cheong, Senior Lecturer of Information Systems, School of Computing and Information Systems; and (Honorary) Senior Fellow, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Two Pixel/Shutterstock When it comes to our experience of the internet, “the times, they are a-changin’”, as Bob Dylan would say. You can’t ... <a title="The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/the-internet-is-worse-than-it-used-to-be-how-did-we-get-here-and-can-we-go-back-236513/" aria-label="Read more about The internet is worse than it used to be. How did we get here, and can we go back?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zena Assaad, Senior Lecturer, School of Engineering, Australian National University Air Force Tech. Sgt. Teri Eicher Last week, some 2,000 government officials and experts from around the world met for the REAIM (Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain) summit in Seoul, South Korea. This was the ... <a title="Global powers are grappling with ‘responsible’ use of military AI. What would that look like?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/global-powers-are-grappling-with-responsible-use-of-military-ai-what-would-that-look-like-237216/" aria-label="Read more about Global powers are grappling with ‘responsible’ use of military AI. What would that look like?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Professor (Practice), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Monash University Shutterstock Domestic, family and sexual violence is rightly recognised as a national crisis. While the evidence base has built significantly in recent years, one important missing piece of the puzzle is how these forms ... <a title="New data reveals rates of family violence among those who died by suicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/new-data-reveals-rates-of-family-violence-among-those-who-died-by-suicide-239090/" aria-label="Read more about New data reveals rates of family violence among those who died by suicide">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Humphreys, Professor of Social Work, The University of Melbourne panitanphoto/Shutterstock At least three decades of research on the intersection of substance use with domestic and family violence consistently shows the frequency, severity and impact of violence increases in the context of the perpetrator using alcohol and ... <a title="How perpetrators of domestic violence use drugs and alcohol to control their victims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/how-perpetrators-of-domestic-violence-use-drugs-and-alcohol-to-control-their-victims-236865/" aria-label="Read more about How perpetrators of domestic violence use drugs and alcohol to control their victims">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Gorta, PhD Candidate in ecology, UNSW Sydney Skuas chase a gannet to force it to regurgitate its meal Bob Brewer/Unsplash, CC BY-NC-ND It’s not easy finding food at sea. Seabirds often stay aloft, scanning the churning waters for elusive prey. Most seabirds take fish, squid, or ... <a title="‘Pirate birds’ force other seabirds to regurgitate fish meals. Their thieving ways could spread lethal avian flu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/pirate-birds-force-other-seabirds-to-regurgitate-fish-meals-their-thieving-ways-could-spread-lethal-avian-flu-238438/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Pirate birds’ force other seabirds to regurgitate fish meals. Their thieving ways could spread lethal avian flu">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Marty Melville/AFP/Getty Images Aotearoa New Zealand is a land of birds, from the smallest of wrens to the mightiest of moa. The ancestors of some species have been here for tens of millions of years, while others ... <a title="Are kiwi and moa recent immigrants from Australia? Neither fossils nor genetic evidence support the story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/are-kiwi-and-moa-recent-immigrants-from-australia-neither-fossils-nor-genetic-evidence-support-the-story-238577/" aria-label="Read more about Are kiwi and moa recent immigrants from Australia? Neither fossils nor genetic evidence support the story">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Bricolage/Shutterbox For many Australians, the family home is their largest financial asset. With an increasing variety of ways to tap into home equity, the temptation to access this wealth is ever growing. Homeowners increase the ... <a title="Young homeowners are more likely to use their home as an ‘ATM’ than their Boomer parents. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/17/young-homeowners-are-more-likely-to-use-their-home-as-an-atm-than-their-boomer-parents-heres-why-238924/" aria-label="Read more about Young homeowners are more likely to use their home as an ‘ATM’ than their Boomer parents. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jared Mondschein, Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney It has not yet been a week since the debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump – in which the Democrat was widely held to have bested the Republican – and the US presidential election has ... <a title="Another assassination attempt, baseless claims about pets, and Taylor Swift: the US election is wild, but does any of it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/16/another-assassination-attempt-baseless-claims-about-pets-and-taylor-swift-the-us-election-is-wild-but-does-any-of-it-matter-239083/" aria-label="Read more about Another assassination attempt, baseless claims about pets, and Taylor Swift: the US election is wild, but does any of it matter?">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2024
By Scott Waide, RNZ Pacific PNG correspondent, and Lydia Lewis RNZ Pacific journalist Papua New Guinea is today celebrating almost half a century of independence from Australia. The journey has not been easy, and the path since 16 September 1975 has been filled with challenges and triumphs, Prime Minister James Marape said in a statement. ... <a title="Papua New Guinea celebrates 49 years of independence from Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/16/papua-new-guinea-celebrates-49-years-of-independence-from-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea celebrates 49 years of independence from Australia">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohiuddin Ahmed, Senior Lecturer of Computing and Security, Edith Cowan University ParinPix/Shutterstock The federal government is stepping up its fight against scams, which last year cost Australians more than A$2.7 billion. On Friday, the federal treasury released a draft scam prevention framework. The government said the plan ... <a title="Australia’s new scam prevention draft is welcome – but it needs to be broader in scope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/16/australias-new-scam-prevention-draft-is-welcome-but-it-needs-to-be-broader-in-scope-238995/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s new scam prevention draft is welcome – but it needs to be broader in scope">Read more</a>