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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emrah Baki Ulas, Associate Professor of Practice, University of Sydney Hika Rakuyo by Art Space Eternal hovers above the waters of Cockle Bay as part of Vivid Sydney 2024. Destination NSW It’s the year 2008, and some members of the International Association of Lighting Designers are gathered ... <a title="Vivid Sydney’s future seems bright if it can balance spectacle with subtlety – but challenges abound" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/vivid-sydneys-future-seems-bright-if-it-can-balance-spectacle-with-subtlety-but-challenges-abound-226507/" aria-label="Read more about Vivid Sydney’s future seems bright if it can balance spectacle with subtlety – but challenges abound">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Derek Arnold, Professor, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland fizkes/Shutterstock Can you imagine hearing yourself speak? A voice inside your head – perhaps reciting a shopping list or a phone number? What would life be like if you couldn’t? Some people, including me, cannot have imagined ... <a title="The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/the-voice-in-your-head-may-help-you-recall-and-process-words-but-what-if-you-dont-have-one-230973/" aria-label="Read more about The voice in your head may help you recall and process words. But what if you don’t have one?">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Striking the balance between journalists’ private free speech rights and the public duty they owe to impartiality and their employer’s reputation is one of the most complex ethical issues confronting the media today. It ... <a title="The coverage of Laura Tingle’s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she’s not in the wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/the-coverage-of-laura-tingles-comments-on-racism-is-a-textbook-beat-up-but-shes-not-in-the-wrong-231051/" aria-label="Read more about The coverage of Laura Tingle’s comments on racism is a textbook beat-up, but she’s not in the wrong">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
By Pretoria Gordon, RNZ News journalist Jessie Ounei is following in her mum’s footsteps as a Kanak pro-independence activist. Last Wednesday, Ounei organised a rally outside the French Embassy in Wellington to “shed light on what is happening in New Caledonia“. She said there was not enough information, and the information that had been reported ... <a title="‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/i-cant-just-stand-back-kanak-pro-independence-activist-follows-mums-footsteps/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I can’t just stand back’: Kanak pro-independence activist follows mum’s footsteps">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Hirsch, Senior Lecturer in Zoology and Ecology, James Cook University Tim Herbert/Shutterstock Thanks to our large brains, humans and non-human primates are smarter than most mammals. But why do some species develop large brains in the first place? The leading hypothesis for how primates evolved large ... <a title="Why did primates evolve such big brains? First study of its kind says it wasn’t for finding food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/why-did-primates-evolve-such-big-brains-first-study-of-its-kind-says-it-wasnt-for-finding-food-228892/" aria-label="Read more about Why did primates evolve such big brains? First study of its kind says it wasn’t for finding food">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Wesselbaum, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Otago LazingBee/Getty Images On the eve of the first budget from the National-ACT-New Zealand First coalition government, there is ongoing debate over whether borrowing while offering tax cuts could trigger a rise in inflation. Finance minister Nicola Willis ... <a title="NZ Budget 2024: tax cuts and borrowing don’t always fuel inflation – but Nicola Willis has to get the balance right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/nz-budget-2024-tax-cuts-and-borrowing-dont-always-fuel-inflation-but-nicola-willis-has-to-get-the-balance-right-229715/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2024: tax cuts and borrowing don’t always fuel inflation – but Nicola Willis has to get the balance right">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim M Caudwell, Senior Lecturer – Psychology | Chair, Researchers in Behavioural Addictions, Alcohol and Drugs (BAAD), Charles Darwin University Olezzo / Shutterstock For as long as we have used the internet to communicate and connect with each other, it has influenced how we think, feel and ... <a title="Spending too much time on social media and doomscrolling? The problem might be FOMO" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/spending-too-much-time-on-social-media-and-doomscrolling-the-problem-might-be-fomo-230980/" aria-label="Read more about Spending too much time on social media and doomscrolling? The problem might be FOMO">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Baldwin, Senior Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist at the Black Dog Institute , UNSW Sydney Surface/Unsplash In this year’s budget, the federal government announced one of the biggest changes to the mental health system in nearly two decades: a digital early intervention service to relieve Australians’ early ... <a title="Australia is getting a new digital mental health service. Will it help? Here’s what the evidence says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/australia-is-getting-a-new-digital-mental-health-service-will-it-help-heres-what-the-evidence-says-230961/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is getting a new digital mental health service. Will it help? Here’s what the evidence says">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Pettigrew, Program Director of Food Policy, George Institute for Global Health Prostock-studio, Shutterstock Lasagne or risotto? Muesli bar or brownie? What’s better for the planet? How do you know for sure? We’ve crunched the numbers on greenhouse gas emissions so you don’t have to. All you ... <a title="We gave 60,000 food products a ‘planetary health’ star rating – see how your favourites stack up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/we-gave-60-000-food-products-a-planetary-health-star-rating-see-how-your-favourites-stack-up-228363/" aria-label="Read more about We gave 60,000 food products a ‘planetary health’ star rating – see how your favourites stack up">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University When finance minister Nicola Willis stands to deliver her first budget tomorrow, it will be a significant moment for her personally, but also for the coalition government, and her own National Party in particular. The budget is the most consequential ... <a title="NZ Budget 2024: the coalition needs a circuit breaker – the National Party most of all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/29/nz-budget-2024-the-coalition-needs-a-circuit-breaker-the-national-party-most-of-all-230392/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2024: the coalition needs a circuit breaker – the National Party most of all">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Bergman, International Affairs Editor Over the weekend at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, high-profile political journalist Laura Tingle told the audience Australia is a racist country, and always has been. It prompted widespread media coverage and criticism from Coalition politicians and media commentators. But is it true? ... <a title="Is Australia a racist country? We asked 5 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/is-australia-a-racist-country-we-asked-5-experts-231053/" aria-label="Read more about Is Australia a racist country? We asked 5 experts">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Teanau Tuiono There is an important story to be told behind the story Aotearoa New Zealand’s mainstream media has been reporting on in Kanaky New Caledonia. Beyond the efforts to evacuate New Zealanders lies a struggle for indigenous sovereignty and self-determination we here in Aotearoa can relate to. Aotearoa is part of a ... <a title="New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/28/new-zealands-role-in-helping-bring-peace-to-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s role in helping bring peace to Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
