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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ciara Smart, PhD candidate in Irish-Australian Colonial History, University of Tasmania A drawn scene depicts the attempted assassination of Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, in 1868. Trove It’s official: the royals are returning down under. King Charles and Queen Camilla are scheduled to visit Australia and Samoa ... <a title="Royal visits to Australia can be disaster magnets. In the first one, the prince barely made it out alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/royal-visits-to-australia-can-be-disaster-magnets-in-the-first-one-the-prince-barely-made-it-out-alive-233103/" aria-label="Read more about Royal visits to Australia can be disaster magnets. In the first one, the prince barely made it out alive">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Speck, Emerita Professor, Art History and Curatorship, University of Adelaide Installation view: Brent Harris: Surrender & Catch, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. Photo: Saul Steed Brent Harris’ retrospective exhibition Surrender and Catch traces his art over four decades. It is a visual and linguistic treat. ... <a title="AIDS, trauma – and joy: how artist Brent Harris captures the intensity of emotion beneath humour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/aids-trauma-and-joy-how-artist-brent-harris-captures-the-intensity-of-emotion-beneath-humour-232828/" aria-label="Read more about AIDS, trauma – and joy: how artist Brent Harris captures the intensity of emotion beneath humour">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
By Matthew Vari in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea will face a grim reality of a ban on its shipping of oil and hydrocarbons in international waters if it continues to ignore the implementation of a domestic waste oil policy that is 28 years overdue. The Conservation and Environment Protection Authority’s Director for Renewable Brendan ... <a title="PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste oil problem not sorted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/png-oil-and-lng-shipments-face-foreign-waters-ban-if-waste-oil-problem-not-sorted/" aria-label="Read more about PNG oil and LNG shipments face foreign waters ban if waste oil problem not sorted">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted July 10–13 from a sample of 1,603, had Labor and the Coalition tied at 50–50 by 2022 election preference ... <a title="Labor and Albanese’s slide continues in Resolve poll, as major parties tied" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/labor-and-albaneses-slide-continues-in-resolve-poll-as-major-parties-tied-233638/" aria-label="Read more about Labor and Albanese’s slide continues in Resolve poll, as major parties tied">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato Getty Images Think of the Olympic Games and for many of us it conjures images of the traditional marquee events: track and field, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics. But the games are changing – and the Paris ... <a title="Breakdancing, DJs and Tahitian surf: Paris 2024 is going for gold in Olympic innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/breakdancing-djs-and-tahitian-surf-paris-2024-is-going-for-gold-in-olympic-innovation-233200/" aria-label="Read more about Breakdancing, DJs and Tahitian surf: Paris 2024 is going for gold in Olympic innovation">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute anon_tae/Shutterstock Too many older Australians are missing out on recommended vaccinations for COVID, flu, shingles and pneumococcal that can protect them from serious illness, hospitalisation and even death. A new Grattan Institute report shows vaccination rates vary ... <a title="Are you up to date with your COVID, flu and other shots? It might depend on who your GP is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/are-you-up-to-date-with-your-covid-flu-and-other-shots-it-might-depend-on-who-your-gp-is-234175/" aria-label="Read more about Are you up to date with your COVID, flu and other shots? It might depend on who your GP is">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arman Pili, Research affiliate, Monash University Shutterstock Australia is renowned for its native flora and fauna, but did you know the continent is also home to about 3,000 “alien” species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes? Alien species are those brought by humans to areas they do ... <a title="‘Alien invasion’: researchers identify which exotic animals may soon hitchhike into Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/alien-invasion-researchers-identify-which-exotic-animals-may-soon-hitchhike-into-australia-232317/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Alien invasion’: researchers identify which exotic animals may soon hitchhike into Australia">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renee Desmarchelier, Associate Professor (Critical Pedagogies), University of Southern Queensland It is increasingly common for Australian children to live in a different house from one of their parents. About 28% of children under 14 have separated parents. While most children are born into a two-parent family, the ... <a title="‘The teacher returned the call to my ex’: how separated parents struggle to get information from their child’s school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/the-teacher-returned-the-call-to-my-ex-how-separated-parents-struggle-to-get-information-from-their-childs-school-234366/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The teacher returned the call to my ex’: how separated parents struggle to get information from their child’s school">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francisco Jose Testa, Lecturer in Earth Sciences (Mineralogy, Petrology & Geochemistry), University of Tasmania Photomicrograph of a chondrite meteorite. Francisco Testa/From the author’s personal collection Apart from the Sun, its planets and their moons, our Solar System has vast amounts of space rocks – fragments left over ... <a title="Not just space rocks: 6 things we’ve learned about Earth from meteorites and comets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/16/not-just-space-rocks-6-things-weve-learned-about-earth-from-meteorites-and-comets-229288/" aria-label="Read more about Not just space rocks: 6 things we’ve learned about Earth from meteorites and comets">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
RNZ Pacific Australia has announced more than A$68 million over the next five years to strengthen and expand Australian broadcasting and media sector engagement across the Indo-Pacific. As part of the Indo-Pacific broadcasting strategy, the ABC will receive just over $40m to increase its content for and about the Pacific, expand Radio Australia’s FM transmission ... <a title="Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/australian-strategy-plans-75m-boost-for-indo-pacific-media-development/" aria-label="Read more about Australian strategy plans $75m boost for Indo-Pacific media development">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Delegates at a Pacific media conference in Fiji two weeks ago heard harrowing stories of female reporters facing threats of violence and harassment. This raised the question: is enough being done to protect female reporters in the Pacific region? In 2022, the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement, in partnership with the University of the South Pacific ... <a title="‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/culture-plays-a-big-part-female-journalists-in-pacific-face-harassment-and-worse/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Culture plays a big part’: Female journalists in Pacific face harassment and worse">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University The Nine newspapers and 60 Minutes exposé of alleged links between criminal elements and the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU) demands a strong response by the Victorian, NSW and federal Labor governments. The revelations raise, yet ... <a title="All eyes on Labor as alleged corruption envelops CFMEU. Here are the government’s options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/15/all-eyes-on-labor-as-alleged-corruption-envelops-cfmeu-here-are-the-governments-options-234666/" aria-label="Read more about All eyes on Labor as alleged corruption envelops CFMEU. Here are the government’s options">Read more</a>
