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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daisy Gibbs, Evaluation Offier, Burnet Institute Drug detection dogs are a street-level policing strategy that has now been used in Australia for more than 25 years. The stated intent of this policy was to target drug supply. However, in 2006, the NSW Ombudsman showed most people detected ... <a title="Drug detection dogs often get it wrong, and it’s a policing practice that needs to stop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/drug-detection-dogs-often-get-it-wrong-and-its-a-policing-practice-that-needs-to-stop-215436/" aria-label="Read more about Drug detection dogs often get it wrong, and it’s a policing practice that needs to stop">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kimberley Crofts, Doctoral Student in Sustainable Transitions, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The announcement by Glencore last week that its Mount Isa copper mines will close in 2025 is significant for the town. The closures affect at least 1,200 jobs in the Queensland outback community ... <a title="All mines close. How can mining towns like Mount Isa best manage the ups and downs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/all-mines-close-how-can-mining-towns-like-mount-isa-best-manage-the-ups-and-downs-216346/" aria-label="Read more about All mines close. How can mining towns like Mount Isa best manage the ups and downs?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kazi Mizanur Rahman, Associate Professor of Healthcare Innovations, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University Shutterstock Australia’s bushfire season is officially under way during an El Niño. And after three wet years, and the plant growth that comes with it, there’s fuel to burn. With the ... <a title="3 ways to prepare for bushfire season if you have asthma or another lung condition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/3-ways-to-prepare-for-bushfire-season-if-you-have-asthma-or-another-lung-condition-214065/" aria-label="Read more about 3 ways to prepare for bushfire season if you have asthma or another lung condition">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Shutterstock If you have hay fever, you’ve probably been sneezing a lot lately. Sneezing is universal but also quite unique to each of us. It is a protective reflex action outside our conscious control, to remove irritants ... <a title="Hello hay fever – why pressing under your nose could stop a sneeze but why you shouldn’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/hello-hay-fever-why-pressing-under-your-nose-could-stop-a-sneeze-but-why-you-shouldnt-215265/" aria-label="Read more about Hello hay fever – why pressing under your nose could stop a sneeze but why you shouldn’t">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keiran Hardy, Senior Lecturer, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University Queensland has now joined several other states in outlawing extremist hate symbols. Far-right and neo-Nazi groups pose a significant ongoing threat to national security, in Australia and globally. It is crucial to counter their hateful ideology, which has ... <a title="Legal in one state, a crime in another: laws banning hate symbols are a mixed bag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/legal-in-one-state-a-crime-in-another-laws-banning-hate-symbols-are-a-mixed-bag-215601/" aria-label="Read more about Legal in one state, a crime in another: laws banning hate symbols are a mixed bag">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Sweetman, Research Fellow, College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University Shutterstock This article is the next in The Conversation’s six-part series on insomnia, which charts the rise of insomnia during industrialisation to sleep apps today. Read other articles in the series here. Do you have ... <a title="How can I get some sleep? Which treatments actually work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/how-can-i-get-some-sleep-which-treatments-actually-work-212964/" aria-label="Read more about How can I get some sleep? Which treatments actually work?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily O’Neill, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition. Many of the big wind and solar farms planned to help Australia achieve net zero emissions by 2050 ... <a title="Beyond Juukan Gorge: how First Nations people are taking charge of clean energy projects on their land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/beyond-juukan-gorge-how-first-nations-people-are-taking-charge-of-clean-energy-projects-on-their-land-213864/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond Juukan Gorge: how First Nations people are taking charge of clean energy projects on their land">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia This review may contain spoilers. One of the socially redeeming features of mass media has always been its communal aspect, the fact people are drawn together into a shared experience based on network programming. Of ... <a title="Monolith considers the cultural and social implications of new technology, without overdoing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/monolith-considers-the-cultural-and-social-implications-of-new-technology-without-overdoing-it-213645/" aria-label="Read more about Monolith considers the cultural and social implications of new technology, without overdoing it">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Sims, Associate Professor in Commericial Law, University of Auckland There was time when the family washing machine would last decades, with each breakdown fixed by the friendly local repairman. But those days are long gone. Today, it is often faster, easier and cheaper to replace household ... <a title="Too many products are easier to throw away than fix – NZ consumers deserve a ‘right to repair’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/26/too-many-products-are-easier-to-throw-away-than-fix-nz-consumers-deserve-a-right-to-repair-216334/" aria-label="Read more about Too many products are easier to throw away than fix – NZ consumers deserve a ‘right to repair’">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Last weekend Australia had a big win when China agreed to review over the next five months its prohibitive tariffs on Australian wine, This weekend Trade Minister Don Farrell hopes to finally land a long-awaited free trade deal with the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Don Farrell’s high noon for European free trade deal, and hopes for lobster exports to China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/25/politics-with-michelle-grattan-don-farrells-high-noon-for-european-free-trade-deal-and-hopes-for-lobster-exports-to-china-216365/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Don Farrell’s high noon for European free trade deal, and hopes for lobster exports to China">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Shutterstock Today’s figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show inflation fell in the September quarter for the third consecutive quarter. But petrol prices kept it uncomfortably high. After reaching a 30-year high ... <a title="Petrol is holding up inflation – the 7 graphs that show what’s happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/25/petrol-is-holding-up-inflation-the-7-graphs-that-show-whats-happening-to-prices-and-what-it-will-mean-for-interest-rates-215888/" aria-label="Read more about Petrol is holding up inflation – the 7 graphs that show what’s happening to prices and what it will mean for interest rates">Read more</a>
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October 25, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Professor Johanna Weaver, Director, ANU Tech Policy Design Centre, Australian National University Shutterstock There are rules in war. International humanitarian law regulates what combatants can and can’t do, with the goal of protecting civilians and limiting suffering. Most of these laws were developed during the 19th and ... <a title="Governments and hackers agree: the laws of war must apply in cyberspace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/25/governments-and-hackers-agree-the-laws-of-war-must-apply-in-cyberspace-216202/" aria-label="Read more about Governments and hackers agree: the laws of war must apply in cyberspace">Read more</a>
