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July 24, 2024
RNZ Pacific About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto. This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New Guinea region joining the action since it was filed in May this year. Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama said the lawsuit was disappointing and was pursued by those people acting ... <a title="Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/thousands-of-bougainville-residents-support-lawsuit-against-mining-giant/" aria-label="Read more about Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University The condition of Australia’s environment continues to decline. Many Australians wonder if it’s possible to reverse this depressing trajectory – and our landmark assessment released today shows the answer is yes. Our report, launched today ... <a title="Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/yes-australias-environment-is-on-a-depressing-path-but-7-billion-a-year-would-transform-it-235305/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, Australia’s environment is on a depressing path – but $7 billion a year would transform it">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Lewis, Research Fellow in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), and the Emerging Technologies Lab, Monash University As Israel’s military assault and siege of Gaza continues, Palestinians face increasingly hostile and inhumane conditions. Israel continues to obstruct humanitarian response ... <a title="TikTok users are now using grassroots fundraising to help people in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/tiktok-users-are-now-using-grassroots-fundraising-to-help-people-in-gaza-232979/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok users are now using grassroots fundraising to help people in Gaza">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Davis, General paediatrician and paediatric infectious diseases specialist, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Prostock-studio/Shutterstock What’s the difference? is a new editorial product that explains the similarities and differences between commonly confused health and medical terms, and why they matter. It’s the time of the year for coughs, ... <a title="What’s the difference between ‘strep throat’ and a sore throat? We’re developing a vaccine for one of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/whats-the-difference-between-strep-throat-and-a-sore-throat-were-developing-a-vaccine-for-one-of-them-230292/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between ‘strep throat’ and a sore throat? We’re developing a vaccine for one of them">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Senior Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Hours after United States President Joe Biden announced he was dropping out as the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, British musician Charli XCX endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, tweeting “kamala IS brat.” ... <a title="‘Kamala IS brat’: how the power of pop music has influenced 60 years of US elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/kamala-is-brat-how-the-power-of-pop-music-has-influenced-60-years-of-us-elections-235309/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Kamala IS brat’: how the power of pop music has influenced 60 years of US elections">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bayu Anggorojati, Assistant Professor, Cyber Security, Monash University The internet, a vast and indispensable resource for modern society, has a darker side where malicious activities thrive. From identity theft to sophisticated malware attacks, cyber criminals keep coming up with new scam methods. Widely available generative artificial intelligence ... <a title="FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/fraudgpt-and-other-malicious-ais-are-the-new-frontier-of-online-threats-what-can-we-do-234820/" aria-label="Read more about FraudGPT and other malicious AIs are the new frontier of online threats. What can we do?">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
By Stefan Armbruster, Harlyne Joku and Tria Dianti No progress has been made in sending a UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces despite the appointment of Fiji and Papua New Guinea’s prime ministers to negotiate the visit. Pacific Island leaders have for more than a decade requested the UN’s involvement over reported abuses ... <a title="Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/fiji-png-fail-to-secure-un-human-rights-mission-to-indonesias-papuan-provinces/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji, PNG fail to secure UN human rights mission to Indonesia’s Papuan provinces">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niven Winchester, Professor of Economics, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images The speed, skill and flair on display in rugby sevens makes it an ideal Olympic sport. The Paris games should be no exception, especially given France’s own great rugby tradition. While the conventional 15-a-side game has ... <a title="Who will win Olympic rugby sevens gold? Our algorithm uses 10,000 simulations to rank the teams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/who-will-win-olympic-rugby-sevens-gold-our-algorithm-uses-10-000-simulations-to-rank-the-teams-235095/" aria-label="Read more about Who will win Olympic rugby sevens gold? Our algorithm uses 10,000 simulations to rank the teams">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karley Beckman, Senior Lecturer in Digital Technologies for Learning, University of Wollongong Karolina Kaboompics/ Pexels, CC BY If you search most primary or high school websites, you will likely find a images of happy, smiling children. Students images are also used publicly for school newsletters, social media ... <a title="Is your child’s photo on their school Facebook page? What does this mean for their privacy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/is-your-childs-photo-on-their-school-facebook-page-what-does-this-mean-for-their-privacy-234153/" aria-label="Read more about Is your child’s photo on their school Facebook page? What does this mean for their privacy?">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Clifton, Associate Professor of Practice, School of Health Sciences and the Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney Our bodies are delightfully ridiculous. When God created humanity, they knew our short lives would be full of pain, hardship and horror. So they created our ... <a title="People with disability know bodies can be funny – so it’s OK that you’re laughing at the Paralympics TikTok account" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/people-with-disability-know-bodies-can-be-funny-so-its-ok-that-youre-laughing-at-the-paralympics-tiktok-account-234926/" aria-label="Read more about People with disability know bodies can be funny – so it’s OK that you’re laughing at the Paralympics TikTok account">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne The first recorded victor at the Olympics was Coroebus of Elis. A cook by profession, Coroebus won the event called the “stadion” – a footrace of just under 200 metres, run in a straight line. Coroebus was victorious ... <a title="Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/nude-athletes-and-fights-to-the-death-what-really-happened-at-the-ancient-olympics-234912/" aria-label="Read more about Nude athletes and fights to the death: what really happened at the ancient Olympics">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University Golden Sikorka/Shutterstock Australia’s clean energy transition is already underway, driven by solar, wind, batteries and new transmission lines. But what about nuclear? Opposition leader Peter Dutton last month committed to building nuclear reactors on the site ... <a title="Small modular reactors have promise. But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/24/small-modular-reactors-have-promise-but-we-found-theyre-unlikely-to-help-australia-hit-net-zero-by-2050-235198/" aria-label="Read more about Small modular reactors have promise. But we found they’re unlikely to help Australia hit net zero by 2050">Read more</a>
