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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Scott-Stevenson, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Anduril Earlier this month, posters started going up around Sydney advertising an event called “In the Ops Room, with Palmer Luckey”. Rather than an album launch or standup gig, this turned out to be a free talk ... <a title="Virtual reality, autonomous weapons and the future of war: military tech startup Anduril comes to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/virtual-reality-autonomous-weapons-and-the-future-of-war-military-tech-startup-anduril-comes-to-australia-188983/" aria-label="Read more about Virtual reality, autonomous weapons and the future of war: military tech startup Anduril comes to Australia">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lesh, Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University The Walsh Bay Arts Precinct development won the Greenway Award for Heritage. MDRX/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA It was hard to keep up with all the bad news coming out of the recent Australia State of the Environment ... <a title="Frozen in time, we’ve become blind to ways to build sustainability into our urban heritage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/frozen-in-time-weve-become-blind-to-ways-to-build-sustainability-into-our-urban-heritage-187284/" aria-label="Read more about Frozen in time, we’ve become blind to ways to build sustainability into our urban heritage">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Waling, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow in Sex & Sexuality, La Trobe University Netflix How to Build a Sex Room on Netflix follows interior designer Melanie Rose as she uncovers her clients’ sex lives and designs personalised sex rooms based on their desires and needs. The ... <a title="Like Grand Designs but naughty: Netflix’s How To Build A Sex Room brings kink and sex positivity into the mainstream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/like-grand-designs-but-naughty-netflixs-how-to-build-a-sex-room-brings-kink-and-sex-positivity-into-the-mainstream-188578/" aria-label="Read more about Like Grand Designs but naughty: Netflix’s How To Build A Sex Room brings kink and sex positivity into the mainstream">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney Pexels/Cliff Booth, CC BY Around 4.5 million Australians live with disability but less than 13% of them are covered by the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Getting into the scheme is one thing. But many NDIS participants find using ... <a title="‘Use it or lose it’ – getting NDIS funding is only half the battle for participants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/use-it-or-lose-it-getting-ndis-funding-is-only-half-the-battle-for-participants-188530/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Use it or lose it’ – getting NDIS funding is only half the battle for participants">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bernard Walker, Associate Professor in Organisations and Leadership, University of Canterbury GettyImages Last week saw an historic moment as New Zealand’s professional firefighters went on strike, calling for better pay, more staff and increased investment in the fire service. But will industrial action spur the deeper systemic ... <a title="Striking firefighters are calling for systemic change, but are their demands too hot to handle for NZ employment law?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/striking-firefighters-are-calling-for-systemic-change-but-are-their-demands-too-hot-to-handle-for-nz-employment-law-189040/" aria-label="Read more about Striking firefighters are calling for systemic change, but are their demands too hot to handle for NZ employment law?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute Shutterstock Until recently, polio had only been detected in a handful of countries, thanks to global eradication efforts. But this year’s polio alerts in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel are a reminder that as long as poliovirus ... <a title="The latest polio cases have put the world on alert. Here’s what this means for Australia and people travelling overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/the-latest-polio-cases-have-put-the-world-on-alert-heres-what-this-means-for-australia-and-people-travelling-overseas-188989/" aria-label="Read more about The latest polio cases have put the world on alert. Here’s what this means for Australia and people travelling overseas">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Oloruntoba, Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University shutterstock China’s sabre-rattling around Taiwan underlines the need for Australia to be prepared for conflict in the South China Sea. With its growing navy and air force, and the bases it has built throughout the area, China ... <a title="Conflict in the South China Sea threatens 90% of Australia’s fuel imports: study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/conflict-in-the-south-china-sea-threatens-90-of-australias-fuel-imports-study-188148/" aria-label="Read more about Conflict in the South China Sea threatens 90% of Australia’s fuel imports: study">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Troath, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Canterbury Getty Images Australia’s recently announced defence review, intended to be the most thorough in almost four decades, will give us a good idea of how Australia sees its role in an increasingly tense strategic environment. As New Zealand’s only formal ... <a title="Australia’s pursuit of ‘killer robots’ could put the trans-Tasman alliance with New Zealand on shaky ground" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/australias-pursuit-of-killer-robots-could-put-the-trans-tasman-alliance-with-new-zealand-on-shaky-ground-188520/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s pursuit of ‘killer robots’ could put the trans-Tasman alliance with New Zealand on shaky ground">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute The Coalition’s carpark announcements before the 2019 election are among the best-known cases of pork-barrelling Shutterstock From sports rorts to regional slush funds and commuter carparks, it’s been one scandal after another in Australian politics in recent years. But what ... <a title="Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/pork-barrelling-is-unfair-and-wasteful-heres-a-plan-to-end-it-188898/" aria-label="Read more about Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University When floods swept the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales earlier this year, scores of people ignored official advice and rescued neighbours and friends from floodwaters using their boats, kayaks and jet skis, while ... <a title="‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/tinnie-army-leads-to-nsw-flood-inquiry-call-to-train-community-members-as-first-responders-how-will-that-work-188900/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne O’Mara, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University Image by Victoria_Borodinova from Pixabay , CC BY My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow for a Book Week costume for school? Book Week is ... <a title="Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/book-week-its-not-the-costume-that-matters-but-falling-in-love-with-reading-188748/" aria-label="Read more about Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorina L. Barker, Senior Lecturer, University of New England Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Amy Elwood, a Wangkumara/Adnyamathanha Elder and cultural repository of knowledge and grandmother to one of us (Lorina Barker), has inspired an array of ... <a title="An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/an-ode-to-my-grandmother-remaking-the-past-using-oral-histories-theatre-and-music-180575/" aria-label="Read more about An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music">Read more</a>
