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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Imran Ali, Senior Lecturer in Operations and Innovation Management, CQUniversity Australia Jochen Schoenfeld/Shutterstock Oranges – and all the things we can make from them – are big business. But the industry is facing a severe crisis. About 50 million tonnes of oranges are grown each year, ... <a title="What’s the global orange juice supply crisis – and should Australians be worried?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/whats-the-global-orange-juice-supply-crisis-and-should-australians-be-worried-231290/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the global orange juice supply crisis – and should Australians be worried?">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Yule, Professor of Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Catherine Yule, Author provided When I lived in Kalimantan in Indonesia in the 1990s and later in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, I would often wake to toxic, smoke-filled skies. The air would be filled with the distinctive ... <a title="Peat was historically mined overseas because it burns so well. But Australia’s subtropical peat bogs need fire to survive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/peat-was-historically-mined-overseas-because-it-burns-so-well-but-australias-subtropical-peat-bogs-need-fire-to-survive-228200/" aria-label="Read more about Peat was historically mined overseas because it burns so well. But Australia’s subtropical peat bogs need fire to survive">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Currell, Professor of Environmental Engineering, School of Engineering, Griffith University Matthew Currell High-profile legal disputes, such as the current case between coal giant Adani and the Queensland government, show Australia’s approach to managing large mining projects is flawed. Many projects are allowed to go ahead even ... <a title="Australia’s ‘learning by doing’ approach to managing large mines is failing the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/australias-learning-by-doing-approach-to-managing-large-mines-is-failing-the-environment-230857/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘learning by doing’ approach to managing large mines is failing the environment">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugo Olierook, Senior Research Fellow in Geology, Curtin University Ralf Lehmann/Shutterstock We need two ingredients for life to start on a planet: dry land and (fresh) water. Strictly, the water doesn’t have to be fresh, but fresh water can only occur on dry land. Only with those ... <a title="Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/fresh-water-and-key-conditions-for-life-appeared-on-earth-half-a-billion-years-earlier-than-we-thought-228789/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh water and key conditions for life appeared on Earth half a billion years earlier than we thought">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe McInerney, Researcher in Palaeontology, Flinders University The extinct Australian giant flightless bird, _Genyornis newtoni_. Used with permission; all other rights reserved. Jacob C. Blokland, Author provided Until around 45,000 years ago, Australia was home to a giant flightless bird called Genyornis newtoni, which was two metres ... <a title="New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/new-fossils-show-what-australias-giant-prehistoric-thunder-birds-looked-like-and-offer-clues-about-how-they-died-out-221599/" aria-label="Read more about New fossils show what Australia’s giant prehistoric ‘thunder birds’ looked like – and offer clues about how they died out">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Reia, Assistant Professor of Data Science, University of Virginia Police drag away a tent from a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of California, Irvine on May 15, 2024. Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images As a scholar of urban governance and data policy, I ... <a title="Who gets to decide what counts as ‘disorder’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/who-gets-to-decide-what-counts-as-disorder-229783/" aria-label="Read more about Who gets to decide what counts as ‘disorder’?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong On October 17, 1953, constitutional reform granted women the right to vote in Mexico, and two years later, women cast ballots for the first time in a federal election. Now, nearly ... <a title="Mexico has elected its first female president. Claudia Sheinbaum inherits a polarised, violent country looking for hope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/mexico-has-elected-its-first-female-president-claudia-sheinbaum-inherits-a-polarised-violent-country-looking-for-hope-231475/" aria-label="Read more about Mexico has elected its first female president. Claudia Sheinbaum inherits a polarised, violent country looking for hope">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
This King’s Birthday, the New Zealand Order of Merit recognises Professor David Robie’s 50 years of service to Pacific journalism. He says he is astonished and quite delighted, and feels quite humbled by it all. “However, I feel that it’s not just me, I owe an enormous amount to my wife, Del, who is a ... <a title="50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/50-years-of-challenge-and-change-david-robie-reflects-on-a-career-in-pacific-journalism/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years of challenge and change: David Robie reflects on a career in Pacific journalism">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Repeka Nasiko in Suva “Let other people decide your salaries” is the latest message in the Fiji parliamentary pay controversy. This is the call of Fiji’s longtime House of Representatives Secretary Edward Blakelock, who believes that the Special Emoluments Committee must be independent. He said the Emoluments Committee, traditionally comprised independent consultants who were ... <a title="Independent committee needed for Fiji MPs’ salaries, says parliament chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/independent-committee-needed-for-fiji-mps-salaries-says-parliament-chief/" aria-label="Read more about Independent committee needed for Fiji MPs’ salaries, says parliament chief">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney The Fair Work Commission has boosted the wages of workers on awards by 3.75%, just a touch above the official inflation rate of 3.6%. The increase will apply to fortnightly pay ... <a title="Low-paid wages up 3.75%, with more to come for childcare and health professionals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/low-paid-wages-up-3-75-with-more-to-come-for-childcare-and-health-professionals-231473/" aria-label="Read more about Low-paid wages up 3.75%, with more to come for childcare and health professionals">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
By Miriam Zarriga in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea Little Ima met Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape last Friday during the “haus krai” in Mulitaka, Enga, after the landslide disaster more than a week ago. His meeting happened when Marape beckoned him to get water from him. The action of the Prime Minister only ... <a title="Little Ima puts a question to PM Marape for Mulitaka survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/little-ima-puts-a-question-to-pm-marape-for-mulitaka-survivors/" aria-label="Read more about Little Ima puts a question to PM Marape for Mulitaka survivors">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury The Conversation June is set to be a month of holding up the mirror to reality, with our experts recommending three new non-fiction watches. No streaming list is complete without some true crime, so we’ve ... <a title="Carriage romps, good vibrations and a web of lies: what we’re streaming in June" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/03/carriage-romps-good-vibrations-and-a-web-of-lies-what-were-streaming-in-june-230785/" aria-label="Read more about Carriage romps, good vibrations and a web of lies: what we’re streaming in June">Read more</a>
