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November 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edith Gray, Professor, School of Demography, Australian National University Photo by ADIEL MALKA/Pexels There is a seemingly endless stream of news headlines about plummeting birth rates. Many have alarmist narratives about the perils of “baby busts” and “population decline”. This reflects a deep-seated anxiety about what declining ... <a title="Australia in a baby bust? It’s not that simple – and a panic won’t help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/25/australia-in-a-baby-bust-its-not-that-simple-and-a-panic-wont-help-243590/" aria-label="Read more about Australia in a baby bust? It’s not that simple – and a panic won’t help">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Risk & Resilience, UNSW Sydney M2020/Shutterstock Australia’s construction industry employs more than 1.3 million workers. That’s about 9% of the workforce. But construction sites can be dangerous workplaces. There are also more accidents on a Monday than any other weekday, a ... <a title="Why Monday is the most dangerous day on a building site" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/25/why-monday-is-the-most-dangerous-day-on-a-building-site-243787/" aria-label="Read more about Why Monday is the most dangerous day on a building site">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frigg Janne Daan Speelman, PhD Candidate in behavioural ecology, Macquarie University Coulanges/Shutterstock Like humans, many animals form lasting monogamous relationships. Most birds pair up to produce and raise offspring together over many years. However, as with humans, they also commonly “divorce” – terminating the pair bond well ... <a title="‘Divorce’ in songbirds: extreme weather pushes couples past breaking point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/25/divorce-in-songbirds-extreme-weather-pushes-couples-past-breaking-point-243274/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Divorce’ in songbirds: extreme weather pushes couples past breaking point">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jannik Haas, Senior Lecturer of Sustainable Systems, University of Canterbury Getty Images Hydrogen has been called the “Swiss army knife” of decarbonisation because it can do many things. But not all of them make sense. Today, the world uses about 100 megatonnes of hydrogen per year (MT/y), ... <a title="Green hydrogen could decarbonise entire industries in NZ – but there’s a long way to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/25/green-hydrogen-could-decarbonise-entire-industries-in-nz-but-theres-a-long-way-to-go-240668/" aria-label="Read more about Green hydrogen could decarbonise entire industries in NZ – but there’s a long way to go">Read more</a>
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November 25, 2024
By Kate Green , RNZ News reporter A new carbon credit trading deal reached in the final hours of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, has been criticised as a free pass for countries to slack off on efforts to reduce emissions at home. The deal, sealed at the annual UN climate talks nearly a decade after ... <a title="COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail free card’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/25/cop29-carbon-credit-trading-scheme-criticised-as-get-out-of-jail-free-card/" aria-label="Read more about COP29: Carbon credit trading scheme criticised as ‘get out of jail free card’">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra “Big Tech” is celebrating one victory over the Albanese government, but is set to lose on another front. Ahead of the final parliamentary sitting week for 2024, the government has not just withdrawn its bill aimed at curbing misinformation and ... <a title="View from The Hill: Albanese government crumples on misinformation bill and gambling advertising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/view-from-the-hill-albanese-government-crumples-on-misinformation-bill-and-gambling-advertising-244485/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Albanese government crumples on misinformation bill and gambling advertising">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is still discussing the details for the remaining five of the “Bali nine” to be repatriated to Australia, Special Minister of Sate Don Farrell has said. The planned repatriation follows the representations from Anthony Albanese to new ... <a title="Remaining members of ‘Bali nine’ set for repatriation, with conditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/remaining-members-of-bali-nine-set-for-repatriation-with-conditions-243597/" aria-label="Read more about Remaining members of ‘Bali nine’ set for repatriation, with conditions">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
RNZ News For almost six decades photographer John Miller (Ngāpuhi) has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand. From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam War protest on Auckland’s Albert Street as a high school student in 1967, to Hīkoi mō te Tiriti last week, Miller has focused much of his work on the ... <a title="Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/protest-photographer-john-miller-records-hikoi-mo-te-tiriti-with-his-historic-lens/" aria-label="Read more about Protest photographer John Miller records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens ">Read more</a>
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November 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqueline Peel, Director, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne The petroleum-laden dust has settled on this year’s United Nations climate summit, COP29, held over the past fortnight in Baku, Azerbaijan. Climate scientists, leaders, lobbyists and delegates are heading for home. The meeting achieved incremental progress. Negotiators ... <a title="From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/24/from-a-us-300-billion-climate-finance-deal-to-global-carbon-trading-heres-what-was-and-wasnt-achieved-at-the-cop29-climate-talks-243697/" aria-label="Read more about From a US$300 billion climate finance deal to global carbon trading, here’s what was – and wasn’t – achieved at the COP29 climate talks">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
RNZ Pacific Fiji’s Home Affairs and Immigration Minister Pio Tikoduadua has ordered an inquiry into the “possible unauthorised issuance of passports” by immigration staff and “offered to step aside temporarily from role”. In a statement on Thursday night, Tikoduadua said the passports in question were issued to the children of the South Korean Christian doomsday ... <a title="Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult members" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/fijis-immigration-minister-steps-down-temporarily-over-unauthorised-passports-for-cult-members/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s Immigration Minister steps down temporarily over ‘unauthorised’ passports for cult members">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior lecturer, School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin University JPL-Caltech/NASA Water is ubiquitous on Earth – about 70% of Earth’s surface is covered by the stuff. Water is in the air, on the surface and inside rocks. Geologic evidence suggests water has been ... <a title="A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/a-4-45-billion-year-old-crystal-from-mars-reveals-the-planet-had-water-from-the-beginning-243172/" aria-label="Read more about A 4.45 billion-year-old crystal from Mars reveals the planet had water from the beginning">Read more</a>
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November 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Selma Hedlund, Postdoctoral Associate at Center of Forced Displacement, Boston University History is full of examples of governments using forced segregation against ethnic minorities. From settler colonialists coercing Indigenous peoples into reservations, Nazis forcing Jews into ghettos or the United States segregating Black Americans through redlining and ... <a title="Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/23/denmarks-uprooting-of-settled-residents-from-ghettos-forms-part-of-aggressive-plan-to-assimilate-nonwhite-inhabitants-243424/" aria-label="Read more about Denmark’s uprooting of settled residents from ‘ghettos’ forms part of aggressive plan to assimilate nonwhite inhabitants">Read more</a>
