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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tuthill, Astrophysicist, University of Sydney NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JPL / Caltech In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a ... <a title="Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/alien-megastructures-cosmic-thumbprint-whats-behind-a-james-webb-telescope-photo-that-had-even-astronomers-stumped-192249/" aria-label="Read more about Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nasim Salehi, Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Southern Cross University AAP/EPA/Stringer The “Women, Life, Freedom” movement that has taken hold in Iran in recent weeks is not new. Young Iranian women have been involved in small but consistent evolutionary actions during the entire 44 years of the ... <a title="Not ‘powerless victims’: how young Iranian women have long led a quiet revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/not-powerless-victims-how-young-iranian-women-have-long-led-a-quiet-revolution-192188/" aria-label="Read more about Not ‘powerless victims’: how young Iranian women have long led a quiet revolution">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Mannell, Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University Channel Ten This week, Todd Sampson’s documentary Mirror Mirror: Love & Hate screened on Channel Ten. The documentary focuses on harms that occur through social media and online platforms. It raises important points about the need for awareness ... <a title="Todd Sampson’s ‘Mirror Mirror’ raises the alarm on our lives online – but not all its claims are supported by evidence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/todd-sampsons-mirror-mirror-raises-the-alarm-on-our-lives-online-but-not-all-its-claims-are-supported-by-evidence-192395/" aria-label="Read more about Todd Sampson’s ‘Mirror Mirror’ raises the alarm on our lives online – but not all its claims are supported by evidence">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Can NZ First once again fill the vacuum at the centre of politics? They don’t get much media coverage at the moment, but the New Zealand First party could be central to the next year in politics, and determine the shape of the next government. The latest opinion survey ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can NZ First once again fill the vacuum at the centre of politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-can-nz-first-once-again-fill-the-vacuum-at-the-centre-of-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Can NZ First once again fill the vacuum at the centre of politics?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney The northern Murray-Darling Basin produces 93% of Australia’s cotton. Cotton is one of Australia’s biggest agricultural industries – worth about A$2 billion each year – and a steady supply of water is crucial ... <a title="Cotton on: one of Australia’s most lucrative farming industries is in the firing line as climate change worsens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/cotton-on-one-of-australias-most-lucrative-farming-industries-is-in-the-firing-line-as-climate-change-worsens-191864/" aria-label="Read more about Cotton on: one of Australia’s most lucrative farming industries is in the firing line as climate change worsens">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Joy Godden, VIce-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock All around us, climate change is worsening existing disadvantage. In Australia, we need only look to low-income households hit harder by rising energy and fuel prices, and flood responses in northern ... <a title="Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/climate-change-hits-some-of-us-much-harder-than-others-but-affected-groups-are-fighting-back-176805/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew M. Baker, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology Life on Earth is undergoing a period of mass extinction – the sixth in history, and the first caused by humans. As species disappear at an alarming rate, we have learned that we ... <a title="Australia has hundreds of mammal species. We want to find them all – before they’re gone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/australia-has-hundreds-of-mammal-species-we-want-to-find-them-all-before-theyre-gone-185495/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has hundreds of mammal species. We want to find them all – before they’re gone">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for ... <a title="The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/the-market-has-failed-to-give-australians-affordable-housing-so-dont-expect-it-to-solve-the-crisis-192177/" aria-label="Read more about The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karin Hammarberg, Senior Research Fellow, Global and Women’s Health, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University Shutterstock For the first time, IVF clinics in Australia and New Zealand have reported data about the scale and range of male fertility problems in couples who have IVF. ... <a title="Problems conceiving are not just about women. Male infertility is behind 1 in 3 IVF cycles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/problems-conceiving-are-not-just-about-women-male-infertility-is-behind-1-in-3-ivf-cycles-192183/" aria-label="Read more about Problems conceiving are not just about women. Male infertility is behind 1 in 3 IVF cycles">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Jarman, Research Fellow, Deakin University Shutterstock/The Conversation We often hear about the negative impacts of social media on our wellbeing, but we don’t usually think of it the other way round – whereby how we feel may impact how we use social media. In a recent ... <a title="Social media use and poor wellbeing feed into each other in a vicious cycle. Here are 3 ways to avoid getting stuck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/social-media-use-and-poor-wellbeing-feed-into-each-other-in-a-vicious-cycle-here-are-3-ways-to-avoid-getting-stuck-191590/" aria-label="Read more about Social media use and poor wellbeing feed into each other in a vicious cycle. Here are 3 ways to avoid getting stuck">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyllie Cripps, Scientia Associate Professor, School of Law, Society & Criminology, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney GettyImages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people and mentions domestic violence and murder. Public hearings have officially commenced ... <a title="Could the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children prevent future deaths?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/could-the-senate-inquiry-into-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women-and-children-prevent-future-deaths-192020/" aria-label="Read more about Could the Senate inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and children prevent future deaths?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Kavanagh, Professor of Disability and Health, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Unsplash, CC BY Mandatory isolation rules for people with COVID end today. Pandemic leave disaster payments will also cease for all workers except casual workers employed in aged care, ... <a title="Doing away with COVID isolation rules means increased isolation and risks for people with disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/doing-away-with-covid-isolation-rules-means-increased-isolation-and-risks-for-people-with-disability-191943/" aria-label="Read more about Doing away with COVID isolation rules means increased isolation and risks for people with disability">Read more</a>