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November 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eduardo de la Fuente, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Justice and Society, UniSA, University of South Australia Shutterstock The idea behind “quiet hour” shopping is to set aside a time each week for a retail experience that minimises noise and other sources of sensory overload. It is aimed at ... <a title="‘A kind of meditative peace’: quiet hour shopping makes us wonder why our cities have to be so noisy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/11/a-kind-of-meditative-peace-quiet-hour-shopping-makes-us-wonder-why-our-cities-have-to-be-so-noisy-193461/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A kind of meditative peace’: quiet hour shopping makes us wonder why our cities have to be so noisy">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cher McGillivray, Assistant Professor, Bond University Republic Records/AP Taylor Swift’s latest album Midnights launched with the single Anti-Hero. Anti-heroes in fiction are dark, complex characters who may question their moral compass but are ultimately trying to be led by their good intentions. Perhaps most humans feel like ... <a title="‘I’m the problem, it’s me’: Why do musicians revisit their pain and doubt in their art?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/11/im-the-problem-its-me-why-do-musicians-revisit-their-pain-and-doubt-in-their-art-193528/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m the problem, it’s me’: Why do musicians revisit their pain and doubt in their art?">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Reith would have appreciated the irony. In the week that the former industrial relations minister died, federal politics was yet again consumed with a highly charged debate over workplace changes. Industrial relations is one of the perennial fault lines ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Government throws everything at securing workplace reforms before Christmas but Pocock keeps it guessing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/grattan-on-friday-government-throws-everything-at-securing-workplace-reforms-before-christmas-but-pocock-keeps-it-guessing-194348/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Government throws everything at securing workplace reforms before Christmas but Pocock keeps it guessing">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Sydney “I want to take accountability for these decisions and for how we got here,” tech billionaire Mark Zuckerberg told the 11,000 staff he sacked this week. But does he really? The retrenchment of about 13% of the workforce at ... <a title="Mark Zuckerberg can sack 11,000 workers but shareholders can’t dump him: it’s called ‘management entrenchment’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/mark-zuckerberg-can-sack-11-000-workers-but-shareholders-cant-dump-him-its-called-management-entrenchment-194333/" aria-label="Read more about Mark Zuckerberg can sack 11,000 workers but shareholders can’t dump him: it’s called ‘management entrenchment’">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Message, Professor of Public Humanities, Australian National University Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at the National Gallery of Australia are just the latest artistic target of climate protesters, who have been throwing soup, mashed potatoes and cake at art worth millions of dollars. The actions have ... <a title="Soup on Van Gogh and graffiti on Warhol: climate activists follow the long history of museums as a site of protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/soup-on-van-gogh-and-graffiti-on-warhol-climate-activists-follow-the-long-history-of-museums-as-a-site-of-protest-193009/" aria-label="Read more about Soup on Van Gogh and graffiti on Warhol: climate activists follow the long history of museums as a site of protest">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Life, as the saying goes, is coming at Vladimir Putin fast. Having gleefully announced the annexation of four regions of Ukraine barely more than a month ago – even as his army retreated within them – ... <a title="Why Putin’s retreat from Kherson could be his most humiliating defeat yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/why-putins-retreat-from-kherson-could-be-his-most-humiliating-defeat-yet-194254/" aria-label="Read more about Why Putin’s retreat from Kherson could be his most humiliating defeat yet">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Andrews, Senior Policy Advisor, Australian National University This week, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence Richard Marles announced he had directed the Department of Defence to investigate reports “that ex-Australian Defence Force personnel may have been approached to provide military related training to China”. This ... <a title="Australia is investigating whether ex-defence personnel provided military training to China. Would it matter if they did?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/australia-is-investigating-whether-ex-defence-personnel-provided-military-training-to-china-would-it-matter-if-they-did-194252/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is investigating whether ex-defence personnel provided military training to China. Would it matter if they did?">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey Foster, Associate Professor in Cyber Security Studies, Macquarie University On October 13 one of Australia’s largest medical insurers, Medibank, announced it had suffered a cyberattack – one which has resulted in the breached personal details of 9.7 million customers in Australia. We now know the hackers, ... <a title="Medibank hackers are now releasing stolen data on the dark web. If you’re affected, here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/medibank-hackers-are-now-releasing-stolen-data-on-the-dark-web-if-youre-affected-heres-what-you-need-to-know-194340/" aria-label="Read more about Medibank hackers are now releasing stolen data on the dark web. If you’re affected, here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Fitts, ARC DECRA Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Shutterstock First Nations people, please be advised that the following article mentions family violence and assault. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women are 69 times more likely than non-First Nations women to go to ... <a title="First Nations women are 69 times more likely to have a head injury after being assaulted. We show how hard it is to get help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/first-nations-women-are-69-times-more-likely-to-have-a-head-injury-after-being-assaulted-we-show-how-hard-it-is-to-get-help-194249/" aria-label="Read more about First Nations women are 69 times more likely to have a head injury after being assaulted. We show how hard it is to get help">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne The costs of climate-related disasters are growing and the poorest countries are bearing the brunt of impacts, from the unprecedented floods in Pakistan to the expanding famine in Somalia. Natural disasters in 2022 alone cost the global ... <a title="It’s the big issue of COP27 climate summit: poor nations face a $1 trillion ‘loss and damage’ bill, but rich nations won’t pay up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/its-the-big-issue-of-cop27-climate-summit-poor-nations-face-a-1trillion-loss-and-damage-bill-but-rich-nations-wont-pay-up-194043/" aria-label="Read more about It’s the big issue of COP27 climate summit: poor nations face a $1 trillion ‘loss and damage’ bill, but rich nations won’t pay up">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Over many years, Australia has barely increased the efficiency of its energy use. Energy consumption per dollar of GDP decreased by an average of only 1% per year from 2002-03 to 2018-19. ... <a title="Australia’s record on energy efficiency has been woeful for decades, but that could be about to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/australias-record-on-energy-efficiency-has-been-woeful-for-decades-but-that-could-be-about-to-change-193706/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s record on energy efficiency has been woeful for decades, but that could be about to change">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Young, Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Clinton Crumpler/Flickr, CC BY-SA Reports of far-right extremists trying to recruit young people through video games have raised concerns for parents, guardians and youth alike. In October, a statement from Australian Federal Police said officers had ... <a title="Extremists use video games to recruit vulnerable youth. Here’s what parents and gamers need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/10/extremists-use-video-games-to-recruit-vulnerable-youth-heres-what-parents-and-gamers-need-to-know-193110/" aria-label="Read more about Extremists use video games to recruit vulnerable youth. Here’s what parents and gamers need to know">Read more</a>
