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Month: September 2024

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Australia’s air and tourism industries need government-backed insolvency insurance. Here’s why

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Beirman, Adjunct Fellow Management & Tourism, University of Technology Sydney Australia has a long history of domestic airlines collapsing, often affecting thousands of travellers, yet the industry provides little or no recompense. Even the federal government’s recently released aviation discussion paper recognised the need for change ... <a title="Australia’s air and tourism industries need government-backed insolvency insurance. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/australias-air-and-tourism-industries-need-government-backed-insolvency-insurance-heres-why-239060/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s air and tourism industries need government-backed insolvency insurance. Here’s why">Read more</a>

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There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Madman Entertainment In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a ... <a title="There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/there-is-no-future-for-ageing-women-how-the-substance-uses-body-horror-in-a-feminist-critique-239729/" aria-label="Read more about There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique">Read more</a>

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What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Meade, Senior Research Fellow in Economics and Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University In New Zealand, capital gains tax debates spring up like zombies. Each time they get killed off, back to ... <a title="What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-jack-and-jill-can-teach-us-about-the-un-fairness-of-capital-gains-taxes-240002/" aria-label="Read more about What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes">Read more</a>

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‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney It hasn’t been a good week for Coles and Woolworths. On Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the national competition regulator or ACCC) announced it was taking legal action against the big supermarkets over ... <a title="‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/concerning-accc-interim-report-on-supermarket-inquiry-tells-of-supplier-woes-and-oligopolistic-market-239931/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market">Read more</a>

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What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University Anna Shvets/Pexels Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was still needed to improve their ... <a title="What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-pathogen-might-spark-the-next-pandemic-how-scientists-are-preparing-for-disease-x-223193/" aria-label="Read more about What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’">Read more</a>

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Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were doing unfolds in front of ... <a title="Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/reading-desert-sands-indigenous-wildlife-tracking-skills-underpin-vast-monitoring-project-238978/" aria-label="Read more about Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project">Read more</a>

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‘We nicknamed it Eddy’: what do schools and teachers think of AI in classrooms?

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vitomir Kovanovic, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock It’s almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022. Since then, educators worldwide have been grappling with what generative ... <a title="‘We nicknamed it Eddy’: what do schools and teachers think of AI in classrooms?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/we-nicknamed-it-eddy-what-do-schools-and-teachers-think-of-ai-in-classrooms-239396/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We nicknamed it Eddy’: what do schools and teachers think of AI in classrooms?">Read more</a>

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‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University IMDB P.J. Hogan’s classic Australian film Muriel’s Wedding is 30 and it plays as well today as it did when it had its world premiere. Muriel might have been “terrible” – but the film was ... <a title="‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/were-all-muriel-why-we-still-love-muriels-wedding-30-years-on-236793/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on">Read more</a>

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What are the 10 greatest upsets in VFL/AFL grand final history?

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Health & Physical Education (Adj.), Charles Sturt University The Brisbane Lions are the underdogs for Saturday’s AFL grand final against Sydney. After defeating Geelong in Victoria for the first time in 20 years, they have reached the grand final from fifth on ... <a title="What are the 10 greatest upsets in VFL/AFL grand final history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-are-the-10-greatest-upsets-in-vfl-afl-grand-final-history-238976/" aria-label="Read more about What are the 10 greatest upsets in VFL/AFL grand final history?">Read more</a>

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Access to a GP can make all the difference in surviving lung cancer – and that is a problem for Māori

September 27, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Lawrenson, Professor of Population Health, University of Waikato Surviving lung cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand could depend on whether you can access a GP – raising questions about equity in the country’s health system. Our new research examines the outcomes for patients who are diagnosed with ... <a title="Access to a GP can make all the difference in surviving lung cancer – and that is a problem for Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/access-to-a-gp-can-make-all-the-difference-in-surviving-lung-cancer-and-that-is-a-problem-for-maori-239808/" aria-label="Read more about Access to a GP can make all the difference in surviving lung cancer – and that is a problem for Māori">Read more</a>

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Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning

September 26, 2024

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office. Its members, who included Lidia Morawska from Queensland University of Technology, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/grattan-on-friday-experts-want-albanese-to-lead-on-indoor-air-quality-as-part-of-pandemic-planning-239829/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning">Read more</a>

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Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Frequencies in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Birth Year

September 26, 2024

Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart essentially shows the stresses that New Zealand’s public health system can expect to face. I have analysed the death data by age, covering all deaths from July 1998 to June 2024. For those years (using June years) I have looked at every age of death from 16 to 99 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Frequencies in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Birth Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-death-frequencies-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-by-birth-year/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Frequencies in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Birth Year">Read more</a>