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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia ymgerman/Shutterstock Planning a flight to an AFL final is like trying to decide when and how to hop on an amusement park ride that hasn’t stopped. You don’t know where you need to be until the very last minute, and ... <a title="Flying to a footy final? Watch your wallet. Here’s why airfares soar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/flying-to-a-footy-final-watch-your-wallet-heres-why-airfares-soar-239104/" aria-label="Read more about Flying to a footy final? Watch your wallet. Here’s why airfares soar">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John McAloon, Senior Lecturer, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney Court McAllister/STUDIOCANAL When young Annie Shearer (Lilly LaTorre) meets a stray dog named Runt (Squid) the two become inseparable. They live in the dry Western Australian town of Upson Downs where rain hasn’t fallen in ... <a title="Runt is a gentle, beautifully shot, and warmly humorous small town Australian story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/runt-is-a-gentle-beautifully-shot-and-warmly-humorous-small-town-australian-story-239182/" aria-label="Read more about Runt is a gentle, beautifully shot, and warmly humorous small town Australian story">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Rynne, Associate Professor, Sports Coaching; Affiliate, UQ Poche Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland In the world of elite sport, where everything is planned down to the last minute detail, surprisingly few are prepared to acknowledge the inherent role of luck in the outcomes ... <a title="The harder I work, the luckier I get? What coaches, athletes and fans need to understand about luck in sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/the-harder-i-work-the-luckier-i-get-what-coaches-athletes-and-fans-need-to-understand-about-luck-in-sport-238310/" aria-label="Read more about The harder I work, the luckier I get? What coaches, athletes and fans need to understand about luck in sport">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University The federal government has just introduced a new bill that seeks to combat disinformation and misinformation on the internet. This is a laudable measure in the context of a rise of dangerous misinformation being peddled by conspiracy theorists ... <a title="The government is looking to combat disinformation – but what about truth in political advertising?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/the-government-is-looking-to-combat-disinformation-but-what-about-truth-in-political-advertising-239094/" aria-label="Read more about The government is looking to combat disinformation – but what about truth in political advertising?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve D’Alessandro, Professor of Marketing, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Kenny Eliason/Unsplash It is difficult to spend any time on the internet these days without being inundated with advertisements. In Australia alone this year, online advertising has increased 9.3% and is now worth more ... <a title="Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/why-is-the-internet-overflowing-with-rubbish-ads-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-237980/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the internet overflowing with rubbish ads – and what can we do about it?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
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 The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of national polls, Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by ... <a title="Harris gains in post-debate US national polls, but will her gains be sustained?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/harris-gains-in-post-debate-us-national-polls-but-will-her-gains-be-sustained-239059/" aria-label="Read more about Harris gains in post-debate US national polls, but will her gains be sustained?">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University Imagine growing up beside the eastern Mediterranean Sea 14,000 years ago. You’re an accomplished sailor of the small watercraft ... <a title="Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/small-populations-of-stone-age-people-drove-dwarf-hippos-and-elephants-to-extinction-on-cyprus-238999/" aria-label="Read more about Small populations of Stone Age people drove dwarf hippos and elephants to extinction on Cyprus">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images As the government’s plan to increase speed limits begins to roll out, a group of local and international road safety and health experts has warned the move will lead to more death ... <a title="Faster is not always better: why the case for higher speed limits is fatally flawed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/faster-is-not-always-better-why-the-case-for-higher-speed-limits-is-fatally-flawed-239181/" aria-label="Read more about Faster is not always better: why the case for higher speed limits is fatally flawed">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carol Ronken, Industry Fellow in the Centre of Justice, Queensland University of Technology fizkes/Shutterstock Warning: This article discusses details of child sexual abuse On one hand I would struggle to know that my abuse material was out there being circulated to even the well meaning authorities. But ... <a title="‘Held at ransom’: victim-survivors open up about the use of child sex abuse material to fight crime" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/held-at-ransom-victim-survivors-open-up-about-the-use-of-child-sex-abuse-material-to-fight-crime-237659/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Held at ransom’: victim-survivors open up about the use of child sex abuse material to fight crime">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Partington, Research Fellow (Health Economics), Flinders University Jsme MILA/Pexels Australia is facing a surge in hospital presentations in older adults. Between 2015–16 and 2019–20, hospitalisations among people aged 75–84 increased by an average of 3% annually, the largest rise of any age group. This growing demand ... <a title="Could geriatric hospitals reduce pressure on the health system? Maybe – but improving aged care is paramount" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/could-geriatric-hospitals-reduce-pressure-on-the-health-system-maybe-but-improving-aged-care-is-paramount-238226/" aria-label="Read more about Could geriatric hospitals reduce pressure on the health system? Maybe – but improving aged care is paramount">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Fahey, Adjunct Fellow in molecular ecology, Macquarie University Matt Sheumack/Shutterstock For millennia, Indigenous knowledge holders have passed down lore to the next generation. Much lore describes the relationships between people and Country, including custodial responsibilities to care for other species as kin. Each species carries a ... <a title="Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/walking-the-trees-we-traced-how-first-nations-groups-moved-bunya-pine-and-black-bean-trees-229914/" aria-label="Read more about Walking the trees: we traced how First Nations groups moved bunya pine and black bean trees">Read more</a>
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September 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Humphrys, Lecturer and Head of Discipline, Social and Political Sciences & Climate, Society and Environment Research Centre (C-SERC), University of Technology Sydney Recent weeks have seen mobilisations of construction workers protesting the imposition of an administrator on their union by the government. Protesters were decked out ... <a title="The deep political power of fluro: how hi-vis became a symbol of working class masculinity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/18/the-deep-political-power-of-fluro-how-hi-vis-became-a-symbol-of-working-class-masculinity-238584/" aria-label="Read more about The deep political power of fluro: how hi-vis became a symbol of working class masculinity">Read more</a>
