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November 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ragan Petrie, Professor, Texas A&M University; Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Dave Hunt/AAP Since 2008, Australia has spent more than A$11 billion dollars over ten years to expand government-funded preschool (or kinder in Victoria) for four-year-olds to better prepare children for school. But as our new ... <a title="New study finds Australia’s preschool expansion ‘has not better prepared’ kids for school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/16/new-study-finds-australias-preschool-expansion-has-not-better-prepared-kids-for-school-194048/" aria-label="Read more about New study finds Australia’s preschool expansion ‘has not better prepared’ kids for school">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Jean Baker, Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Monash University Universal Pictures There is no spoiler alert in the Hollywood adaptation of the award-winning book She Said. We know the story and the perpetrator, which is unusual. 80% of sexual violence cases go unreported. Perpetrators are rarely charged ... <a title="She Said is a formidable retelling of the journalism which sparked #MeToo – but also shows us how far we have to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/16/she-said-is-a-formidable-retelling-of-the-journalism-which-sparked-metoo-but-also-shows-us-how-far-we-have-to-go-194045/" aria-label="Read more about She Said is a formidable retelling of the journalism which sparked #MeToo – but also shows us how far we have to go">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Wheeler, Associate Professor of Paediatric Endocrinology, University of Otago Abby Lee Harder with her daughter Presley, showing the blood-glucose sensor that helps manage her diabetes. Diabetes NZ This year marks a century since an extraordinary medical breakthrough – the use of insulin to treat diabetes mellitus. ... <a title="100 years after insulin was first used, why isn’t NZ funding the latest life-changing diabetes technology?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/16/100-years-after-insulin-was-first-used-why-isnt-nz-funding-the-latest-life-changing-diabetes-technology-194246/" aria-label="Read more about 100 years after insulin was first used, why isn’t NZ funding the latest life-changing diabetes technology?">Read more</a>
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November 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Laurenceson, Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (ACRI), University of Technology Sydney There were smiles all round as the Australian and Chinese leaders met formally for the first time in more than six years. The meeting was brief, just 32 minutes, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ... <a title="Albanese-Xi meeting won’t resolve Australia’s grievances overnight. But it is a real step forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/16/albanese-xi-meeting-wont-resolve-australias-grievances-overnight-but-it-is-a-real-step-forward-194511/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese-Xi meeting won’t resolve Australia’s grievances overnight. But it is a real step forward">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Shaw, Honorary Senior Fellow in Urban Geography and Planning, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Last month Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers unveiled the National Housing Accord, intended to build a million new homes in Australia. Part of the plan is to encourage superannuation funds to invest in ... <a title="Super funds should use their substantial holdings for public good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/super-funds-should-use-their-substantial-holdings-for-public-good-194443/" aria-label="Read more about Super funds should use their substantial holdings for public good">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Selinske, Postdoctoral research associate conservation science, RMIT University Shutterstock Today is the Day of Eight Billion, according to the United Nations. That’s an incredible number of humans, considering our population was around 2.5 billion in 1950. Watching our numbers tick over milestones can provoke anxiety. Do ... <a title="You are now one of 8 billion humans alive today. Let’s talk overpopulation – and why low income countries aren’t the issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/you-are-now-one-of-8-billion-humans-alive-today-lets-talk-overpopulation-and-why-low-income-countries-arent-the-issue-190907/" aria-label="Read more about You are now one of 8 billion humans alive today. Let’s talk overpopulation – and why low income countries aren’t the issue">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney “What is a grok?” asked a shareholder at AGL’s 2022 annual general meeting at the Melbourne Recital Centre on November 15, as those assembled struggled with the reality being forced on Australia’s biggest carbon emitter by Australia’s third-richest person. ... <a title="Cannon-Brookes shakes up AGL: what now for Australia’s biggest carbon emitter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/cannon-brookes-shakes-up-agl-what-now-for-australias-biggest-carbon-emitter-194625/" aria-label="Read more about Cannon-Brookes shakes up AGL: what now for Australia’s biggest carbon emitter">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare M. Cooper, Design Lecturer, University of Sydney After more than 250 days of assaults from Russian forces, Ukrainian resistance is taking more surprising forms. In an attempt to reconnect to their pre-invasion cutting-edge techno scene a group of young activists have been organising “repair raves” to ... <a title="Raves, repairs, and renewal: how young Ukrainians are bringing joy to the rebuilding effort" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/raves-repairs-and-renewal-how-young-ukrainians-are-bringing-joy-to-the-rebuilding-effort-193842/" aria-label="Read more about Raves, repairs, and renewal: how young Ukrainians are bringing joy to the rebuilding effort">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he’ll have a system in place to deal with rising energy prices by Christmas. He can’t yet tell us what it will be, because that will depend on the outcome ... <a title="To start cutting gas and electricity prices, here’s what the government looks likely to deliver by Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/to-start-cutting-gas-and-electricity-prices-heres-what-the-government-looks-likely-to-deliver-by-christmas-194522/" aria-label="Read more about To start cutting gas and electricity prices, here’s what the government looks likely to deliver by Christmas">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Owen Peter Missen, Research Assistant in Geochemistry, Monash University Tellurium pieces Jan Askeit / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA New technologies often mean elements start moving through the environment in new ways. Take lead plumbing: it helped provide access to fresh water for the masses, but left a toxic ... <a title="How metal-munching microbes help the rare, toxic element tellurium circulate in the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/how-metal-munching-microbes-help-the-rare-toxic-element-tellurium-circulate-in-the-environment-194518/" aria-label="Read more about How metal-munching microbes help the rare, toxic element tellurium circulate in the environment">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aprajita Sarcar, Laureate Postdoctoral Fellow, UNSW Sydney India will surpass China as the country with the world’s largest population in 2023, according to the United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 report. The UN also projects the global population has reached eight billion as of Tuesday. As early ... <a title="Calls for a ‘one-child policy’ in India are misguided at best, and dangerous at worst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/calls-for-a-one-child-policy-in-india-are-misguided-at-best-and-dangerous-at-worst-193854/" aria-label="Read more about Calls for a ‘one-child policy’ in India are misguided at best, and dangerous at worst">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Colin D. Butler, Honorary Professor, Australian National University The United Nations Environment Programme recently published a scientific review that looks at environmental threats and risks in light of the COVID pandemic. It analyses links between human infectious diseases and nature and what we know about how diseases ... <a title="‘Gain of function’ research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be more strictly regulated – or banned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/15/gain-of-function-research-can-create-experimental-viruses-in-light-of-covid-it-should-be-more-strictly-regulated-or-banned-193306/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Gain of function’ research can create experimental viruses. In light of COVID, it should be more strictly regulated – or banned">Read more</a>
