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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Peter Dutton on Friday declared Victorian Liberal senator David Van should leave parliament ASAP. The opposition leader told Sydney radio: “I think it’s in everyone’s best interests that he resign from the parliament and I hope he’s able to do ... <a title="View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal Party to meet about allegations against Senator David Van" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/view-from-the-hill-victorian-liberal-party-to-meet-about-allegations-against-senator-david-van-207931/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal Party to meet about allegations against Senator David Van">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn MacKay, Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Researchers have created synthetic human embryos using stem cells, according to media reports. Remarkably, these embryos have reportedly been created from embryonic stem cells, meaning they do not require sperm and ova. This development, widely described as ... <a title="Scientists have created synthetic human embryos. Now we must consider the ethical and moral quandaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/scientists-have-created-synthetic-human-embryos-now-we-must-consider-the-ethical-and-moral-quandaries-207911/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists have created synthetic human embryos. Now we must consider the ethical and moral quandaries">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The Adelaide Festival Centre is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month. Opened in 1973, the building was completed before the Sydney Opera House, Arts Centre Melbourne and the Queensland ... <a title="Cuts in the state budget, a gallery on hold and millions on sports: the decline of arts support in South Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/cuts-in-the-state-budget-a-gallery-on-hold-and-millions-on-sports-the-decline-of-arts-support-in-south-australia-207612/" aria-label="Read more about Cuts in the state budget, a gallery on hold and millions on sports: the decline of arts support in South Australia">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University Shutterstock Do you sit or stand? That is the question about 7,000 men around the world have been asked about how they pee. We’ll get to their answers soon. But the media interest that followed prompted one ... <a title="Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/does-it-matter-if-you-sit-or-stand-to-pee-and-what-about-peeing-in-the-shower-206869/" aria-label="Read more about Does it matter if you sit or stand to pee? And what about peeing in the shower?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
By Jeffrey Elapa in Port Moresby Former Papua New Guinean prime minister Peter O’Neill says the controversial US-PNG Defence Cooperation Agreement threatens the country’s sovereignty. He said the agreement negotiation was started in 2016 by his government but it was different in content from the one signed with the US. O’Neill said the agreement encroached ... <a title="O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/oneill-says-defence-pact-giving-us-forces-immunity-threatens-png-sovereignty/" aria-label="Read more about O’Neill says defence pact giving US forces ‘immunity’ threatens PNG sovereignty">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For most voters, the cost of living is their major current concern. Rising interest rates and high prices for power, groceries and other necessities are hurting in particular lower and middle income people. Nowhere is this more the case than ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Community Independent Dai Le on what voters are saying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-community-independent-dai-le-on-what-voters-are-saying-207832/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Community Independent Dai Le on what voters are saying">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock A reader of The Conversation recently wrote in to ask: Why does grass grow slower in winter? It is a great question and at first the answer might seem obvious. There ... <a title="Why does grass grow more slowly in winter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/why-does-grass-grow-more-slowly-in-winter-206616/" aria-label="Read more about Why does grass grow more slowly in winter?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Vivienne Bentley, Research Scientist, Responsible Innovation, Data61, CSIRO Google Deepmind/Unsplash, CC BY-SA The launch of ever-capable large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3.5 has sparked much interest over the past six months. However, trust in these models has waned as users have discovered they can make ... <a title="Both humans and AI hallucinate — but not in the same way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/both-humans-and-ai-hallucinate-but-not-in-the-same-way-205754/" aria-label="Read more about Both humans and AI hallucinate — but not in the same way">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist An influenza B outbreak has occurred at shelters housing residents who were hardest hit by Typhoon Mawar. It has been three weeks since typhoon Mawar wreaked havoc on Guam leaving hundreds displaced. Melissa Savares, mayor of Dededo, one of the worst hit areas, said some people were being kept ... <a title="Influenza outbreak after Mawar challenges Guam’s evacuation centres" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/influenza-outbreak-after-mawar-challenges-guams-evacuation-centres/" aria-label="Read more about Influenza outbreak after Mawar challenges Guam’s evacuation centres">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Humphries, Associate professor in ecology, Charles Sturt University In this edited book extract, Paul Humphries describes how a proposal to feed hungry miners on Victoria’s goldfields led to a Murray cod fishery – and the collapse of cod populations, the effects of which are still with us ... <a title="Hungry gold miners created Victoria’s Murray cod fisheries – and we’re still dealing with the consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/hungry-gold-miners-created-victorias-murray-cod-fisheries-and-were-still-dealing-with-the-consequences-206768/" aria-label="Read more about Hungry gold miners created Victoria’s Murray cod fisheries – and we’re still dealing with the consequences">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne James Ross/AAP A Victorian state Resolve poll for The Age, conducted with the federal May and June Resolve polls from a sample of about 1,000, gave Labor ... <a title="Woeful Victorian poll for state Coalition; Victoria and NSW to lose federal seats as WA gains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/woeful-victorian-poll-for-state-coalition-victoria-and-nsw-to-lose-federal-seats-as-wa-gains-207628/" aria-label="Read more about Woeful Victorian poll for state Coalition; Victoria and NSW to lose federal seats as WA gains">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meghan S. Miller, Professor of Geophysics, Australian National University Author provided, CC BY-ND Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest seismic hazard is the ... <a title="Seismology at light speed: how fibre-optic telecommunications cables deliver a close-up view of NZ’s Alpine Fault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/16/seismology-at-light-speed-how-fibre-optic-telecommunications-cables-deliver-a-close-up-view-of-nzs-alpine-fault-206858/" aria-label="Read more about Seismology at light speed: how fibre-optic telecommunications cables deliver a close-up view of NZ’s Alpine Fault">Read more</a>
