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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Mortlock, Senior Analyst at Aon Reinsurance Solutions and Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney NOAA / AP On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia was named Cyclone Freddy. It rapidly strengthened and headed west across the Indian Ocean, eventually causing devastation in eastern Africa. ... <a title="Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/cyclone-freddy-was-the-most-energetic-storm-on-record-is-it-a-harbinger-of-things-to-come-201771/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ainsley Hughes, Honorary Associate Lecturer in Geography, University of Newcastle Shutterstock People with disabilities arguably stand to gain the most from good public transport, but are continually excluded by transport systems that still aren’t adapted to their needs as the law requires. One in six people aged ... <a title="How on-demand buses can transform travel and daily life for people with disabilities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/how-on-demand-buses-can-transform-travel-and-daily-life-for-people-with-disabilities-199988/" aria-label="Read more about How on-demand buses can transform travel and daily life for people with disabilities">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen King, Professor, Monash University Shutterstock Australia is a living testament to the benefits of productivity growth. An average worker today puts in 14 fewer hours per week and takes home a real wage six times that of the average worker in 1901 – all because we ... <a title="I helped write the Productivity Commission’s 5-year productivity review: here’s what I think Australia should do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/i-helped-write-the-productivity-commissions-5-year-productivity-review-heres-what-i-think-australia-should-do-201378/" aria-label="Read more about I helped write the Productivity Commission’s 5-year productivity review: here’s what I think Australia should do">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images The extraordinary footage of a Russian jet intercepting a US drone over the Black Sea earlier this week demonstrates just how potentially disastrous such encounters outside actual war zones can be. Released by the Pentagon, the drone’s ... <a title="The Black Sea drone incident highlights the loose rules around avoiding ‘accidental’ war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/the-black-sea-drone-incident-highlights-the-loose-rules-around-avoiding-accidental-war-202030/" aria-label="Read more about The Black Sea drone incident highlights the loose rules around avoiding ‘accidental’ war">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Ritson, Research Strategy Project Officer, The University of Melbourne The central black hole of Messier 87, a massive galaxy in the Virgo cluster. Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration/ESO, CC BY In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration produced the first-ever image of a black hole, stunning ... <a title="A unique collaboration using a virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing in the 21st century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/a-unique-collaboration-using-a-virtual-earth-sized-telescope-shows-how-science-is-changing-in-the-21st-century-201556/" aria-label="Read more about A unique collaboration using a virtual Earth-sized telescope shows how science is changing in the 21st century">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristin Naragon-Gainey, Associate Professor, School of Psychological Science, and Director, Emotional Wellbeing Lab, The University of Western Australia Shutterstuck Financial stress is affecting us in many different ways. Some people are struggling to pay bills, feed the family, or maintain a place to live. Others are meeting ... <a title="How financial stress can affect your mental health and 5 things that can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/how-financial-stress-can-affect-your-mental-health-and-5-things-that-can-help-201557/" aria-label="Read more about How financial stress can affect your mental health and 5 things that can help">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. Items of interest and importance today STUART NASH Felix Desmarais (1News): Nash’s continued tenure far less tenable now Herald: Stuart Nash resigns as Police Minister: Almost faced contempt charge in ... <a title="Newsletter: March 17 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/newsletter-march-17-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: March 17 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Noel Cressie, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Wollongong Friday marked the end of the public hearings for the Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme. They painted a picture of a catastrophic program that was legally and ethically indefensible – an example of how technological overreach, coupled ... <a title="Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/robodebt-not-only-broke-the-laws-of-the-land-it-also-broke-laws-of-mathematics-201299/" aria-label="Read more about Robodebt not only broke the laws of the land – it also broke laws of mathematics">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Max Kaiser, Adjunct lecturer, The University of Melbourne National Library of Australia Readers are advised this piece contains some racist terminology. Today, the Australian public mostly sees a conservative Australian Jewish communal leadership that has, since the 1990s, rarely spoken out on anything unrelated to Israel or ... <a title="For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/for-australian-jews-in-the-1940s-and-1950s-remembering-the-holocaust-meant-fighting-racism-and-colonialism-200344/" aria-label="Read more about For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialism">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Bisley, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University Composite image/AAP International media is flush with reports that Chinese President Xi Jinping may imminently visit Russia and hold a video conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ... <a title="Is China becoming a peacemaker, or is it just as aggressive as before?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/is-china-becoming-a-peacemaker-or-is-it-just-as-aggressive-as-before-201294/" aria-label="Read more about Is China becoming a peacemaker, or is it just as aggressive as before?">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashley M Hopkins, NHMRC Investigator Fellow, leader of the Clinical Cancer Epidemiology Lab, Flinders University Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels You may have heard the buzz about ChatGPT, a type of chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to write essays, turn computer novices into programmers and help people communicate. ChatGPT ... <a title="We asked ChatGPT and Dr Google the same questions about cancer. Here’s what they said" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/we-asked-chatgpt-and-dr-google-the-same-questions-about-cancer-heres-what-they-said-201474/" aria-label="Read more about We asked ChatGPT and Dr Google the same questions about cancer. Here’s what they said">Read more</a>
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March 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nandini Ramesh, Senior Research Scientist, Data61, CSIRO Shutterstock Remember the butterfly effect? It was a popular summary of chaos theory suggesting a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon could cause a tornado in Texas. Right now, a version of this is making it hard for us ... <a title="The flap of a butterfly’s wings: why autumn is not a good time to predict if El Niño is coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/17/the-flap-of-a-butterflys-wings-why-autumn-is-not-a-good-time-to-predict-if-el-nino-is-coming-201940/" aria-label="Read more about The flap of a butterfly’s wings: why autumn is not a good time to predict if El Niño is coming">Read more</a>
