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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The practice of “income averaging” to calculate debts in the robodebt scheme was completely flawed. This is what I confirmed in my new report conducted for the robodebt royal commission published last Friday, the final day ... <a title="Why robodebt’s use of ‘income averaging’ lacked basic common sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/why-robodebts-use-of-income-averaging-lacked-basic-common-sense-201296/" aria-label="Read more about Why robodebt’s use of ‘income averaging’ lacked basic common sense">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Encel, Sessional Academic and UNESCO Consultant, Deakin University The Australian Football League’s 2023 season is kicking off with changes afoot. Three rule changes, in fact, which may either please or infuriate commentators and fans. One change will prevent players awarded a free kick or mark from ... <a title="Why do sports keep changing their rules? We count 4 main reasons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/why-do-sports-keep-changing-their-rules-we-count-4-main-reasons-201861/" aria-label="Read more about Why do sports keep changing their rules? We count 4 main reasons">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics I teach a first year course at Victoria University of Wellington about government and the political process in New Zealand. In “Introduction to Government and Law”, students learn there are rules preventing senior public servants from getting involved ... <a title="Bruce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/bruce-edwards-political-roundup-stuart-nashs-resignation-shows-our-leaders-need-a-lesson-in-civics/" aria-label="Read more about Bruce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Stuart Nash’s resignation shows our leaders need a lesson in civics">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carl Walsh, PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology Kimberlite volcanic rock with mantle crystals (green olivine and purple and orange garnet) and fragments of country rock (light grey). Author provided New research is shedding light on the tumultuous processes that give rise to diamonds, by homing in ... <a title="We used to think diamonds were everywhere. New research suggests they’ve always been rare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/we-used-to-think-diamonds-were-everywhere-new-research-suggests-theyve-always-been-rare-201784/" aria-label="Read more about We used to think diamonds were everywhere. New research suggests they’ve always been rare">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen K. Mather, Adjunct associate lecturer, Flinders University A fossil extinct eagle has been found that was twice the size of the wedge-tailed eagle (Aquila audax), Australia’s largest living bird of prey. Michael Lee, Author provided The year is 1959. Speleologists descend a 17-metre shaft to explore ... <a title="Australia’s extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/australias-extinct-giant-eagle-was-big-enough-to-snatch-koalas-from-trees-200341/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s extinct giant eagle was big enough to snatch koalas from trees">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Housing intensification in Hamilton. PCE, CC BY-SA Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future. So the release today of a new report from the Parliamentary Commissioner for the ... <a title="We’re building harder, hotter cities: it’s vital we protect and grow urban green spaces – new report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/were-building-harder-hotter-cities-its-vital-we-protect-and-grow-urban-green-spaces-new-report-201753/" aria-label="Read more about We’re building harder, hotter cities: it’s vital we protect and grow urban green spaces – new report">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Linsky, Researcher, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Queensland A group of tagged minke whales forage off the coast of the West Antarctic Peninsula. Duke Marine Robotics and Remote Sensing. Taken under NMFS permit #23095. Meagre giants hide in the ice-covered bays and ... <a title="Minimum viable whale: Antarctic minke whales may be as small as a krill-eating filter feeder can get in our modern oceans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/minimum-viable-whale-antarctic-minke-whales-may-be-as-small-as-a-krill-eating-filter-feeder-can-get-in-our-modern-oceans-201772/" aria-label="Read more about Minimum viable whale: Antarctic minke whales may be as small as a krill-eating filter feeder can get in our modern oceans">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Whatever the result of the New South Wales election on March 25, rising housing stress is a problem the new state government will have to confront. Soaring rents and an ... <a title="The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/the-housing-and-homelessness-crisis-in-nsw-explained-in-9-charts-200523/" aria-label="Read more about The housing and homelessness crisis in NSW explained in 9 charts">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Kennedy, Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Sydney A group of three mustatil and later Bronze Age funerary pendants on a rocky outcrop, southeast of AlUla County. AAKSA / The Royal Commission for AlUla, Author provided Over the past five years, archaeologists have identified more than 1,600 ... <a title="Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/enigmatic-ruins-across-arabia-hosted-ancient-ritual-sacrifices-201574/" aria-label="Read more about Enigmatic ruins across Arabia hosted ancient ritual sacrifices">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney Leka Sergeeva/Shutterstock Dog ownership is a lot of furry companionship, tail wags and chasing balls, and ample unconditional love. However, some dog owners are also managing canine pals struggling with mental illness. A newly published study in PLOS ONE has ... <a title="Anxious dogs have different brains to normal dogs, brain scan study reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/anxious-dogs-have-different-brains-to-normal-dogs-brain-scan-study-reveals-201775/" aria-label="Read more about Anxious dogs have different brains to normal dogs, brain scan study reveals">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland and Senior Lecturer, RMIT University Unsplash, CC BY “Going together” sounds like a romantic term from yesteryear. Today’s young people have a newer label: the “talking stage”. It happens between being introduced to someone and officially dating, and ... <a title="Stuck in a ‘talking stage’ or ‘situationship’? How young people can get more out of modern love" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/stuck-in-a-talking-stage-or-situationship-how-young-people-can-get-more-out-of-modern-love-200914/" aria-label="Read more about Stuck in a ‘talking stage’ or ‘situationship’? How young people can get more out of modern love">Read more</a>
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March 16, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Mann, Professor of Medicine and Director, Healthier Lives–He Oranga Hauora National Science Challenge and Co-Director, Edgar Diabetes and Obesity Research Centre, University of Otago Shutterstock/Lucky Business As we emerge from the COVID pandemic, we’re grateful research evidence was there to guide us. Years of immunology and ... <a title="NZ’s evidence-based response to COVID has saved lives – we could do better when it comes to other major diseases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/16/nzs-evidence-based-response-to-covid-has-saved-lives-we-could-do-better-when-it-comes-to-other-major-diseases-193933/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s evidence-based response to COVID has saved lives – we could do better when it comes to other major diseases">Read more</a>
