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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Bateman, Associate professor, Curtin University Tim Johnson / Unsplash In October, a paper titled “Assembly theory explains and quantifies selection and evolution” appeared in the top science journal Nature. The authors – a team led by Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow and Sara Walker ... <a title="A new theory linking evolution and physics has scientists baffled – but is it solving a problem that doesn’t exist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/a-new-theory-linking-evolution-and-physics-has-scientists-baffled-but-is-it-solving-a-problem-that-doesnt-exist-216639/" aria-label="Read more about A new theory linking evolution and physics has scientists baffled – but is it solving a problem that doesn’t exist?">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish AM, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland During the 2022 federal election campaign, the Morrison government was all too eager to brandish its national security credentials. Its message to voters was that the Asia Pacific was brimming with threats ... <a title="Australia has long viewed the Pacific as a place of threats that must be contained. It’s time for this mindset to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/australia-has-long-viewed-the-pacific-as-a-place-of-threats-that-must-be-contained-its-time-for-this-mindset-to-change-212772/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has long viewed the Pacific as a place of threats that must be contained. It’s time for this mindset to change">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Mannell, Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University Thom Holmes/Unsplash For many of us, group chats are part of the texture of our social lives. These groups, formed on apps like Messenger or Whatsapp, can be as large as a hundred people or as small as ... <a title="Overwhelmed by group chat messages? You’re not alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/overwhelmed-by-group-chat-messages-youre-not-alone-215879/" aria-label="Read more about Overwhelmed by group chat messages? You’re not alone">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Macintosh, Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University James Adams/Unsplash This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition. A time bomb is ticking inside the Albanese government’s climate policy. When it explodes, Australia ... <a title="The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism: how carbon credits could blow up Australia’s main climate policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/the-unsafe-safeguard-mechanism-how-carbon-credits-could-blow-up-australias-main-climate-policy-213874/" aria-label="Read more about The unsafe Safeguard Mechanism: how carbon credits could blow up Australia’s main climate policy">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Shutterstock For almost ten years, debate has raged over the book Dark Emu by Aboriginal historian Bruce Pascoe. In it, Pascoe argues many pre-colonial Aboriginal groups were farmers, pointing to examples ... <a title="Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/farmers-or-foragers-pre-colonial-aboriginal-food-production-was-hardly-that-simple-216988/" aria-label="Read more about Farmers or foragers? Pre-colonial Aboriginal food production was hardly that simple">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Virginia Beal, Senior Marketing Scientist, Ehrenberg-Bass Institute for Marketing Science, University of South Australia Federal and state governments have just launched a A$10 million advertising campaign to “raise the status” of teachers in Australia and encourage people to consider a career in school education. Called “Be That ... <a title="‘Thank you for making me feel smart’: will a new campaign to raise the status of teaching work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/thank-you-for-making-me-feel-smart-will-a-new-campaign-to-raise-the-status-of-teaching-work-217362/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Thank you for making me feel smart’: will a new campaign to raise the status of teaching work?">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Macrossan, Lecturer in Screen Media, University of the Sunshine Coast Gillian Armstrong’s Starstruck (1982) IMDB When you think of great Aussie musicals, some key films from the 1990s and 2000s come to mind: Strictly Ballroom, Muriel’s Wedding, Moulin Rouge!, Bran Nue Dae and The Sapphires. These ... <a title="5 Aussie musicals you might not have heard of – but really should see" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/10/5-aussie-musicals-you-might-not-have-heard-of-but-really-should-see-213646/" aria-label="Read more about 5 Aussie musicals you might not have heard of – but really should see">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s helpful for the Albanese government to have all mainland states in Labor hands – but only up to a point. This week we’ve seen the Queensland government bite back at federal plans to curb the national infrastructure program, while ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: When Labor states don’t dance to the Albanese government’s tune" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/09/grattan-on-friday-when-labor-states-dont-dance-to-the-albanese-governments-tune-217280/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: When Labor states don’t dance to the Albanese government’s tune">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University This week’s Optus outage affected 10 million people and hundreds of businesses. One of the early reasons given for the failure was a fault in the “core network”. The latest statement from the company points to “a ... <a title="Explainer: what is the ‘core network’ that was crucial to the Optus outage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/09/explainer-what-is-the-core-network-that-was-crucial-to-the-optus-outage-217375/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is the ‘core network’ that was crucial to the Optus outage?">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Roberts, Lecturer, School of the Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Asked on Wednesday to explain why Optus broadband and mobile services had been simultaneously knocked out for five hours, its chief executive Kelly Bayer Rosmarino blamed a “technical network fault”, and then added: There is ... <a title="Optus said it didn’t have the ‘soundbite’ to explain the crisis. We should expect better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/09/optus-said-it-didnt-have-the-soundbite-to-explain-the-crisis-we-should-expect-better-217302/" aria-label="Read more about Optus said it didn’t have the ‘soundbite’ to explain the crisis. We should expect better">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kayleen Manwaring, Senior Research Fellow, Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, and Senior Lecturer, School of Private & Commercial Law, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock In the United States, 41 states have filed lawsuits against Meta for allegedly driving social media addiction in its young users (under the ... <a title="41 US states are suing Meta for getting teens hooked on social media. Here’s what to expect next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/09/41-us-states-are-suing-meta-for-getting-teens-hooked-on-social-media-heres-what-to-expect-next-216914/" aria-label="Read more about 41 US states are suing Meta for getting teens hooked on social media. Here’s what to expect next">Read more</a>
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November 9, 2023
Dr Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning analyse how a massive shift in geopolitic demarcations is forming, relatively quickly, into a world of bipolarity where on one side we have a multipolar constellation of states, and on the other the traditional western liberal democracies. The catalyst behind this rapidly forming bipolarity is conflict. And, most recently, it is clear, that the Israel-Hamas war – and the atrocities committed initially by Hamas and more lately by Israel forces – is driving the world toward a transitional moment.
