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June 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Paech, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle Shutterstock During the early phases of the pandemic, and especially during lockdowns and stay-at-home orders, many people reported disruptions to sleep and their sleeping patterns. As COVID infections have increased, we’re again seeing ... <a title="Has COVID affected your sleep? Here’s how viruses can change our sleeping patterns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/15/has-covid-affected-your-sleep-heres-how-viruses-can-change-our-sleeping-patterns-184323/" aria-label="Read more about Has COVID affected your sleep? Here’s how viruses can change our sleeping patterns">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Pearse, Lecturer, Australian National University Shutterstock Amid soaring energy costs, the new Labor government is working to deliver a A$20 billion pledge to rebuild and modernise Australia’s electricity grid. It will help deliver a plan for 122 gigawatts of new renewable energy in the National Electricity ... <a title="‘We want to be part of that movement’: residents embrace renewable energy but worry how their towns will change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/15/we-want-to-be-part-of-that-movement-residents-embrace-renewable-energy-but-worry-how-their-towns-will-change-184743/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We want to be part of that movement’: residents embrace renewable energy but worry how their towns will change">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Professor of Film, Media, and Popular Culture, Auckland University of Technology Wikimedia Keen observers of popular culture will have become aware of the recent inclusion of Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running Up That Hill into the storyline of the widely-watched Netflix show Stranger Things. As ... <a title="Ethereal, evocative, and inventive: why the music of Kate Bush spans generations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/15/ethereal-evocative-and-inventive-why-the-music-of-kate-bush-spans-generations-184571/" aria-label="Read more about Ethereal, evocative, and inventive: why the music of Kate Bush spans generations">Read more</a>
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June 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Doolan-Noble, Co-Director Centre for Men’s Health and Senior Research Fellow, Rural Health, University of Otago Getty Images Successive New Zealand governments have failed to develop a policy or strategy focused on men’s health, falling behind countries like Mongolia, Australia, Ireland, Iran, Malaysia, South Africa, Brazil and ... <a title="NZ men get sick or injured more and die sooner than women – a targeted health policy is long overdue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/15/nz-men-get-sick-or-injured-more-and-die-sooner-than-women-a-targeted-health-policy-is-long-overdue-184237/" aria-label="Read more about NZ men get sick or injured more and die sooner than women – a targeted health policy is long overdue">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s first round of the French National Assembly election has seen surprise advances of the pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) whose two candidates both made it to next Sunday’s run-off round. Wali Wahetra came second in the constituency made up of the anti-independence stronghold Noumea plus the mainly Kanak ... <a title="Rival New Caledonian sides left in run for French National Assembly seats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/rival-new-caledonian-sides-left-in-run-for-french-national-assembly-seats/" aria-label="Read more about Rival New Caledonian sides left in run for French National Assembly seats">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. This week Michelle and politics editor Amanda Dunn discuss the ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Bowen says “bumpy” time ahead for power supply – but don’t turn the heater off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/word-from-the-hill-bowen-says-bumpy-time-ahead-for-power-supply-but-dont-turn-the-heater-off-185044/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Bowen says “bumpy” time ahead for power supply – but don’t turn the heater off">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Balkin, Lecturer, English and Theatre Studies, The University of Melbourne Rising 2022 Review: Set Piece, by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon, for Rising. Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece explores female intimacy through the relationship between screen and stage, drawing on dinner party conversation, improvisation ... <a title="Comic anticlimax in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/comic-anticlimax-in-nat-randall-and-anna-breckons-set-piece-183624/" aria-label="Read more about Comic anticlimax in Nat Randall and Anna Breckon’s Set Piece">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The really bizarre thing about calls for a UK-style windfall profits tax on gas is that Australia’s already got one. Gas prices have soared to levels never envisioned in the lead-up to 2015, when three ... <a title="Australia already has a UK-style windfall profits tax on gas – but we’ll give away tens of billions of dollars unless we fix it soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/australia-already-has-a-uk-style-windfall-profits-tax-on-gas-but-well-give-away-tens-of-billions-of-dollars-unless-we-fix-it-soon-184938/" aria-label="Read more about Australia already has a UK-style windfall profits tax on gas – but we’ll give away tens of billions of dollars unless we fix it soon">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Oscar Davis, Lecturer in Philosophy and History, Bond University Max Gruber / Better Images of AI , CC BY-SA Google’s LaMDA software (Language Model for Dialogue Applications) is a sophisticated AI chatbot that produces text in response to user input. According to software engineer Blake Lemoine, LaMDA ... <a title="A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/a-google-software-engineer-believes-an-ai-has-become-sentient-if-hes-right-how-would-we-know-185024/" aria-label="Read more about A Google software engineer believes an AI has become sentient. If he’s right, how would we know?">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) AAP/Mick Tsikas The federal election result for the ACT Senate was decided Tuesday. Independent David Pocock defeated the Liberals’ Zed Seselja, with Labor holding the other seat. Pocock is a former rugby player who played for the Australian Wallabies and ACT Brumbies, ... <a title="ACT Senate result: Pocock defeats Liberals in first time Liberals have not won one ACT Senate seat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/act-senate-result-pocock-defeats-liberals-in-first-time-liberals-have-not-won-one-act-senate-seat-184738/" aria-label="Read more about ACT Senate result: Pocock defeats Liberals in first time Liberals have not won one ACT Senate seat">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jerry Vanclay, Professor, Southern Cross University AAP More than three months after the monster floods wrecked much of Lismore, there is still no clarity for the town’s residents and businesses who urgently need to make investment decisions. Should they move to higher ground, make temporary fixes, or ... <a title="It’s time to come clean on Lismore’s future. People and businesses have to relocate away from the floodplains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/its-time-to-come-clean-on-lismores-future-people-and-businesses-have-to-relocate-away-from-the-floodplains-184636/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time to come clean on Lismore’s future. People and businesses have to relocate away from the floodplains">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Brent, Electoral specialist, The University of Melbourne TC Dutton Like former Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Peter Dutton found party stardom in the immigration portfolio. The two men’s contest for the leadership back in 2018 wasn’t the result of any huge demand for change among voters. It ... <a title="It’s been called the worst job in politics. Can Peter Dutton buck the trend?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/14/its-been-called-the-worst-job-in-politics-can-peter-dutton-buck-the-trend-184564/" aria-label="Read more about It’s been called the worst job in politics. Can Peter Dutton buck the trend?">Read more</a>
