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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Richardson, Professor, Australian National University Paul Teysen/Unsplash For the best part of two centuries, the principle of “comparative advantage” has been a foundation stone of economists’ understanding of international trade, both of why it occurs in the first place and how it can be mutually beneficial ... <a title="Business basics: what is comparative advantage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/business-basics-what-is-comparative-advantage-230869/" aria-label="Read more about Business basics: what is comparative advantage?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne Archibald Prize 2024 finalist, Shaun Gladwell ‘A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection’, oil and aluminium flakes on ... <a title="Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/archibald-prize-2024-this-years-finalists-range-from-downright-fun-to-politically-ferocious-228492/" aria-label="Read more about Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Florence Monique Boulard, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Education, James Cook University In recent weeks, New Caledonia has been wracked by the worst unrest on the island in 40 years, making headlines around the world. Hundreds of Australians were trapped in the French territory, unable to return ... <a title="New Caledonians are looking to Australia as a safe haven. But for most, migration remains out of reach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/new-caledonians-are-looking-to-australia-as-a-safe-haven-but-for-most-migration-remains-out-of-reach-230669/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonians are looking to Australia as a safe haven. But for most, migration remains out of reach">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Langmore, Professor, Australian National University A superb fairy wren foster parent about to feed a Horsfield’s bronze cuckoo chick. Mark Lethlean How do new species arise? And why are there so many of them? One possible reason is the arms race between animals such as predators ... <a title="What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/whats-that-in-my-nest-how-the-evolutionary-arms-race-between-cuckoos-and-hosts-creates-new-species-230986/" aria-label="Read more about What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Koplin, Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology, The University of Queensland Miljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock Australia has often been called the “allergy capital of the world”. An estimated one in ten Australian children develop a food allergy in their first 12 months of life. Research has previously suggested ... <a title="We’re the ‘allergy capital of the world’. But we don’t know why food allergies are so common in Australian children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/were-the-allergy-capital-of-the-world-but-we-dont-know-why-food-allergies-are-so-common-in-australian-children-228786/" aria-label="Read more about We’re the ‘allergy capital of the world’. But we don’t know why food allergies are so common in Australian children">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahima Kalla, Digital Health Transformation Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall is touring Australia and New Zealand this week and next. The 90-year-old “woman who redefined man” is best known for her discovery of tool-making in chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. ... <a title="Jane Goodall inspires generations of conservationists – we need her education program in schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/jane-goodall-inspires-generations-of-conservationists-we-need-her-education-program-in-schools-228365/" aria-label="Read more about Jane Goodall inspires generations of conservationists – we need her education program in schools">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Gurrieri, Associate Professor in Marketing, RMIT University Mattel released a new range of Barbie dolls this week honouring nine trailblazing women in sport. The recognised athletes include Matildas soccer star Mary Fowler, tennis champion Venus Williams and seven other record-breaking and world champion sports stars from ... <a title="Mattel’s new athlete Barbies might seem like a win for feminists and young girls – but they’re not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/mattels-new-athlete-barbies-might-seem-like-a-win-for-feminists-and-young-girls-but-theyre-not-231064/" aria-label="Read more about Mattel’s new athlete Barbies might seem like a win for feminists and young girls – but they’re not">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and his “shadow”, Michaelia Cash, are both volatile characters. When they met this week to discuss the government’s draft religious discrimination bill, an incendiary issue in the best of circumstances, sparks flew. After a few minutes, Cash ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Government’s pursuit of a hate speech law could take it down another cul-de-sac" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/grattan-on-friday-governments-pursuit-of-a-hate-speech-law-could-take-it-down-another-cul-de-sac-231275/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Government’s pursuit of a hate speech law could take it down another cul-de-sac">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Austin, Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne Bron Batten, Scott Price and Sarah Mainwaring perform on stage in Multiple Bad Things. Ferne Millen Back to Back Theatre is an internationally lauded ensemble of collaborators based in Geelong. With some members identifying as intellectually disabled and/or ... <a title="Back to Back’s Multiple Bad Things takes a sophisticated look at the moral ambiguities of today’s ‘culture wars’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/back-to-backs-multiple-bad-things-takes-a-sophisticated-look-at-the-moral-ambiguities-of-todays-culture-wars-227567/" aria-label="Read more about Back to Back’s Multiple Bad Things takes a sophisticated look at the moral ambiguities of today’s ‘culture wars’">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images Craig Elliffe: Small cuts, big consequences Honestly, who would want to be Nicola Willis at this point? The effect of $14.7 billion of tax cuts is going to mean a dramatic rethink ... <a title="NZ Budget 2024: ‘tax relief’ for the ‘squeezed middle’ – but who’s paying? 7 experts follow the money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/nz-budget-2024-tax-relief-for-the-squeezed-middle-but-whos-paying-7-experts-follow-the-money-230102/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2024: ‘tax relief’ for the ‘squeezed middle’ – but who’s paying? 7 experts follow the money">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Taucher, Lecturer in History, Murdoch University The world has reacted with anger this week after an Israeli air strike on a safe zone for displaced civilians in southern Gaza reportedly resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people, including women and children. This latest action ... <a title="As Israel pushes into Rafah, it exposes an uncomfortable truth: no court alone can protect civilians in war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/as-israel-pushes-into-rafah-it-exposes-an-uncomfortable-truth-no-court-alone-can-protect-civilians-in-war-231052/" aria-label="Read more about As Israel pushes into Rafah, it exposes an uncomfortable truth: no court alone can protect civilians in war">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nenad Naumovski, Professor in Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Canberra LuckyStep/Shutterstock Humans have long been searching for a “magic elixir” to make us smarter, and improve our focus and memory. This includes traditional Chinese medicine used thousands of years ago to improve cognitive function. Now ... <a title="What are nootropics and do they really boost your brain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/30/what-are-nootropics-and-do-they-really-boost-your-brain-224628/" aria-label="Read more about What are nootropics and do they really boost your brain?">Read more</a>
