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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney JC_STOCKER/Shutterstock We’re seeing more big cars on our roads, especially large wagon-style vehicles with a four- or all-wheel drive, known as sport utility vehicles or SUVs. For every passenger car sold in Australia, ... <a title="Big cars might make you feel safer. But here’s how vehicle size impacts others in a crash" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/big-cars-might-make-you-feel-safer-but-heres-how-vehicle-size-impacts-others-in-a-crash-223343/" aria-label="Read more about Big cars might make you feel safer. But here’s how vehicle size impacts others in a crash">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chrissy Severinsen, Associate Professor in Public Health, Massey University Getty Images Health services struggle to provide affordable and nondiscriminatory healthcare to Māori, Pacific, disabled, and rainbow whānau, according to the latest NZ Health Survey. Nearly a quarter of Māori reported unmet primary care needs over the past ... <a title="‘I felt too whakamā to go to the doctor’ – how feelings of shame stop people seeking healthcare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/i-felt-too-whakama-to-go-to-the-doctor-how-feelings-of-shame-stop-people-seeking-healthcare-231683/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I felt too whakamā to go to the doctor’ – how feelings of shame stop people seeking healthcare">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology algre/Shutterstock Just last year, data suggested plug-in hybrid cars were on the way out in Australia. But they’re back. New data shows plug-in hybrids and conventional hybrids combined have overtaken battery electric vehicle sales in the ... <a title="Hybrid cars are having a moment – even though they’re dirtier than we think. What’s behind their popularity?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/hybrid-cars-are-having-a-moment-even-though-theyre-dirtier-than-we-think-whats-behind-their-popularity-231160/" aria-label="Read more about Hybrid cars are having a moment – even though they’re dirtier than we think. What’s behind their popularity?">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laurie Berg, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney zhu difeng/Shutterstock The widespread underpayment of migrant workers in Australia is now well-documented. The vast majority never recover the wages they are owed. In 2009, the federal “small claims” court process was established in the Federal Circuit and Family ... <a title="Recovering lost wages is nearly impossible for Australia’s underpaid migrant workers. Here’s how to fix the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/recovering-lost-wages-is-nearly-impossible-for-australias-underpaid-migrant-workers-heres-how-to-fix-the-problem-232263/" aria-label="Read more about Recovering lost wages is nearly impossible for Australia’s underpaid migrant workers. Here’s how to fix the problem">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn Schofield, Associate Professor and Associate Dean (Environment and Sustainability), The University of Melbourne ESA Communications companies such as Starlink plan to launch tens of thousands of satellites into orbit around Earth over the next decade or so. The growing swarm is already causing problems for astronomers, ... <a title="Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/defunct-satellites-burning-up-in-the-atmosphere-could-damage-the-ozone-layer-heres-how-232592/" aria-label="Read more about Defunct satellites burning up in the atmosphere could damage the ozone layer. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ganna Pogrebna, Executive Director, AI and Cyber Futures Institute, Charles Sturt University Shutterstock In the ever-evolving online gaming landscape, one seemingly simple online game has captivated players. The free-to-play clicker Banana has amassed more than 850,000 concurrent players on the gaming platform Steam. The game involves clicking ... <a title="People are spending hours clicking on a banana to (maybe) make some money. A 300-year-old behavioural economics theory explains why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/people-are-spending-hours-clicking-on-a-banana-to-maybe-make-some-money-a-300-year-old-behavioural-economics-theory-explains-why-232694/" aria-label="Read more about People are spending hours clicking on a banana to (maybe) make some money. A 300-year-old behavioural economics theory explains why">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra New ABC chair Kim Williams has said the public broadcaster should become a reimagined “National Campfire”, fostering a stronger sense of community togetherness and conversation in a world increasingly fragmented by social media. Williams also said the ABC must understand ... <a title="ABC chair Kim Williams calls for public broadcaster to be ‘national campfire’ and to understand its audiences better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/abc-chair-kim-williams-calls-for-public-broadcaster-to-be-national-campfire-and-to-understand-its-audiences-better-232827/" aria-label="Read more about ABC chair Kim Williams calls for public broadcaster to be ‘national campfire’ and to understand its audiences better">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Asia Pacific Report French police and gendarmes force were deployed around the political headquarters of the pro-independence Caledonian Union in Kanaky New Caledonia’s Nouméa suburb of Magenta in a crackdown today. The public prosecutor confirmed that eight protesters had been arrested, including the leader of the CCAT action groups, Christian Téin, as suspects in a ... <a title="French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/french-police-raid-pro-independence-kanak-party-hq-arrest-eight-in-crackdown/" aria-label="Read more about French police raid pro-independence Kanak party HQ, arrest eight in crackdown">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ann Kayis-Kumar, Founding Director of UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic, UNSW Sydney Andreassolbakken/Shutterstock When women seeking financial help from the government-funded UNSW Tax and Business Advisory Clinic are asked whether they have ever been affected by family or domestic violence, most say they have. In the ... <a title="Australia’s tax system is being weaponised against victims of domestic abuse. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/australias-tax-system-is-being-weaponised-against-victims-of-domestic-abuse-heres-how-232609/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s tax system is being weaponised against victims of domestic abuse. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dinesh Kumar, Professor, Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, RMIT University Benjamin Crone/Shutterstock In Australia, stroke is among the leading causes of death and permanent disability. Some 5% of deaths are due to stroke, while strokes cost the Australian health-care system A$6.2 billion annually. Strokes occur when there’s a ... <a title="Our smartphone screening tool could help detect strokes faster – and lead to quicker treatment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/our-smartphone-screening-tool-could-help-detect-strokes-faster-and-lead-to-quicker-treatment-232710/" aria-label="Read more about Our smartphone screening tool could help detect strokes faster – and lead to quicker treatment">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia A still from Megalopolis. IMDB/Megalopolis This year’s Sydney Film Festival’s rich offerings of films more than compensated for the minor technical issues that led to some screenings being interrupted. Out of the 40-odd films I ... <a title="I watched some 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Here are my top five picks – and one hilarious flop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/i-watched-some-40-films-at-this-years-sydney-film-festival-here-are-my-top-five-picks-and-one-hilarious-flop-232706/" aria-label="Read more about I watched some 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Here are my top five picks – and one hilarious flop">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In 1971 on a family holiday, my father drove us to look at a huge concrete slab at Jervis Bay, on the South Coast of New South Wales. Still visible today, it was the foundation for what ... <a title="Peter Dutton has promised to solve our energy problems – but his nuclear policy still leaves Australians in the dark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/peter-dutton-has-promised-to-solve-our-energy-problems-but-his-nuclear-policy-still-leaves-australians-in-the-dark-232816/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton has promised to solve our energy problems – but his nuclear policy still leaves Australians in the dark">Read more</a>
