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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel C Rau, Lecturer in Hydrogeology, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle Gabriel C. Rau, CC BY-SA Under your feet lies the world’s biggest reservoir. Groundwater makes up a whopping 97% of all usable freshwater. Where is it? In the voids between grains and ... <a title="Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/groundwater-is-heating-up-threatening-life-below-and-above-the-surface-229177/" aria-label="Read more about Groundwater is heating up, threatening life below and above the surface">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Murray, Bond University Writing of the unique place of sport in Australian society, the celebrated US travel writer Bill Bryson once wrote “truly, never has there been a more sporting nation … it is a wonder in such a vigorous and active society that there is ... <a title="Why ‘Team Australia’ needs a new sports diplomacy game plan as other countries gain an edge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/why-team-australia-needs-a-new-sports-diplomacy-game-plan-as-other-countries-gain-an-edge-231494/" aria-label="Read more about Why ‘Team Australia’ needs a new sports diplomacy game plan as other countries gain an edge">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Haslam, Professor of Psychology, The University of Melbourne Engin Akyurt/Pexels We talk about mental health more than ever, but the language we should use remains a vexed issue. Should we call people who seek help patients, clients or consumers? Should we use “person-first” expressions such as ... <a title="Mental illness, psychiatric disorder or psychological problem. What should we call mental distress?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/mental-illness-psychiatric-disorder-or-psychological-problem-what-should-we-call-mental-distress-226748/" aria-label="Read more about Mental illness, psychiatric disorder or psychological problem. What should we call mental distress?">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Bradley, Professor Emeritus (Psychology), Charles Sturt University Ling Chor/ Unsplash, CC BY When parents are starting their babies in daycare, a common concern is whether it is good for little ones to be away from their primary carers for long periods of time. But as our ... <a title="Worried about sending your baby to daycare? Our research shows they like being in groups" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/worried-about-sending-your-baby-to-daycare-our-research-shows-they-like-being-in-groups-220658/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about sending your baby to daycare? Our research shows they like being in groups">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne Mosaic at the Villa Romana del Casale near Piazza Armerina in Sicily. Wikimedia Commons Many people today worry about how to find time to keep fit and healthy in the midst of their busy lives. Believe it or ... <a title="How can busy people also keep fit and healthy? Here’s what the ancient Greeks and Romans did" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/how-can-busy-people-also-keep-fit-and-healthy-heres-what-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-did-230005/" aria-label="Read more about How can busy people also keep fit and healthy? Here’s what the ancient Greeks and Romans did">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Schomburgk, PhD Researcher in Marketing, University of Adelaide MultifacetedGirl/Shutterstock Cash is in crisis. In Australia, it’s now only used for 16% of in-person transactions, down from about 70% in 2007. The situation is so dire that on Monday, independent federal MP Andrew Gee introduced a private ... <a title="Trying to save money? Our research suggests paying in cash – while you still can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/trying-to-save-money-our-research-suggests-paying-in-cash-while-you-still-can-231499/" aria-label="Read more about Trying to save money? Our research suggests paying in cash – while you still can">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Chay_Tee/Shutterstock What is it with the Coalition and wages? When, in the final days of the 2022 election campaign, the then opposition leader Anthony Albanese backed an increase in award wages to keep pace with ... <a title="Spare us the talk about a wages explosion. There’s nothing wrong with lifting Australia’s lowest wages in line with inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/spare-us-the-talk-about-a-wages-explosion-theres-nothing-wrong-with-lifting-australias-lowest-wages-in-line-with-inflation-231492/" aria-label="Read more about Spare us the talk about a wages explosion. There’s nothing wrong with lifting Australia’s lowest wages in line with inflation">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images When Resources Minister Shane Jones recently unveiled his draft strategy for mineral mining, it was quickly criticised by the Labour opposition as “taking New Zealand backwards”. One environmental group even called it ... <a title="By not mining vital minerals, NZ is ‘offshoring its own environmental footprint’ – is that fair?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/by-not-mining-vital-minerals-nz-is-offshoring-its-own-environmental-footprint-is-that-fair-231166/" aria-label="Read more about By not mining vital minerals, NZ is ‘offshoring its own environmental footprint’ – is that fair?">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Jimmy Naouna in Nouméa The unrest that has gripped Kanaky New Caledonia is the direct result of French President Emmanuel Macron’s partisan and stubborn political manoeuvring to derail the process towards self-determination in my homeland. The deadly riots that erupted two weeks ago in the capital, Nouméa, were sparked by an electoral reform ... <a title="Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working – we need a new way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/05/jimmy-naouna-macrons-handling-of-kanaky-new-caledonia-isnt-working-we-need-a-new-way/" aria-label="Read more about Jimmy Naouna: Macron’s handling of Kanaky New Caledonia isn’t working – we need a new way">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tully Barnett, Associate Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University The cost of living crisis undermines the right to participate in cultural life. Australia’s federal cultural policy, Revive, acknowledges and even celebrates the entitlement of all Australians to have access to culture (a liberty […] enshrined in Article ... <a title="The arts are being sidelined in the cost of living crisis. It’s time we stopped framing them as a luxury" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/the-arts-are-being-sidelined-in-the-cost-of-living-crisis-its-time-we-stopped-framing-them-as-a-luxury-228902/" aria-label="Read more about The arts are being sidelined in the cost of living crisis. It’s time we stopped framing them as a luxury">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Dotted Yeti/Shutterstock Australia appears to be experiencing a re-emergence of the infectious disease mpox, formerly called monkeypox. Some 40 cases have been recorded so far in 2024, already surpassing ... <a title="Mpox is on the rise in Australia. Here’s what to know about the virus – and who should get vaccinated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/mpox-is-on-the-rise-in-australia-heres-what-to-know-about-the-virus-and-who-should-get-vaccinated-231289/" aria-label="Read more about Mpox is on the rise in Australia. Here’s what to know about the virus – and who should get vaccinated">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samara McPhedran, Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University Shutterstock After last week’s tragic double murder suicide in the Perth suburb of Floreat, questions have been raised about why police did not remove the killer’s legally owned firearms. Allegedly, his daughter alerted police multiple times that she and her ... <a title="New laws in WA would take guns away from people accused of domestic violence. Will they protect women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/04/new-laws-in-wa-would-take-guns-away-from-people-accused-of-domestic-violence-will-they-protect-women-231476/" aria-label="Read more about New laws in WA would take guns away from people accused of domestic violence. Will they protect women?">Read more</a>
