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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodi Gardner, Professor, Law School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Wirestock/Getty Images Last week’s headlines warning of electricity shortfalls brought the issue of access to energy into (increasingly chilly) homes around the country. The threat of power cuts due to an unseasonable cold snap and low ... <a title="NZ’s big chill was an early winter warning: power should be subsidised for struggling households" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/nzs-big-chill-was-an-early-winter-warning-power-should-be-subsidised-for-struggling-households-229795/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s big chill was an early winter warning: power should be subsidised for struggling households">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jess Carniel, Associate professor in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland Every year claims to be the most controversial year in the Eurovision Song Contest’s history, but it will take a lot to beat the 68th contest. The 2024 Eurovision contest, which took place in Malmö, Sweden, was ... <a title="Boycotts, protests, harassment: Eurovision’s future is on the line after its most controversial year yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/boycotts-protests-harassment-eurovisions-future-is-on-the-line-after-its-most-controversial-year-yet-229369/" aria-label="Read more about Boycotts, protests, harassment: Eurovision’s future is on the line after its most controversial year yet">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Schmidt, Professor of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney Last week, a huge solar flare sent a wave of energetic particles from the Sun surging out through space. Over the weekend, the wave reached Earth, and people around the world enjoyed the sight of unusually vivid aurora in both ... <a title="What causes the different colours of the aurora? An expert explains the electric rainbow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/what-causes-the-different-colours-of-the-aurora-an-expert-explains-the-electric-rainbow-229899/" aria-label="Read more about What causes the different colours of the aurora? An expert explains the electric rainbow">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Ordway, Associate Professor Sport Management and Sport Integrity Lead, University of Canberra Sport has a role to play in creating a culture of respect, yet women in sport are often seen as “less than” on almost every measure: salaries, sponsorship, broadcasting, leadership, access, media, coaching, officiating, ... <a title="A minute’s silence is fine but when it comes to violence against women, being quiet isn’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/a-minutes-silence-is-fine-but-when-it-comes-to-violence-against-women-being-quiet-isnt-enough-229718/" aria-label="Read more about A minute’s silence is fine but when it comes to violence against women, being quiet isn’t enough">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Buckley, Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University Greta Valley Landcare Group, CC BY The southern pygmy perch hadn’t been seen in Bendigo Creek since the mid-19th-century goldrush, when a booming town sprang up around the central Victorian waterway. This attractive small fish, ... <a title="How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/how-a-long-lost-fish-species-was-brought-back-to-bendigo-225800/" aria-label="Read more about How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A National Union of Workers (NUW) official is hopeful Fiji Water employees who have been on strike for almost a week will return to work shortly. Last Tuesday, a group of workers for Fiji Water went on strike over pay disputes at the multi-million dollar US-owned company’s water bottling ... <a title="Fiji Water workers strike almost a week – but union ‘hopeful’ for deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/fiji-water-workers-strike-almost-a-week-but-union-hopeful-for-deal/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji Water workers strike almost a week – but union ‘hopeful’ for deal">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Clement, Lecturer in Visual Art and McGlade Gallery Director, Australian Catholic University Tracey Clement, Impossible Numbers. Tracey Clement I slip the needle through a small loop of black thread, pull it tight and snip. Done. I have just tied off the very last stitch on an ... <a title="15,000 squares, 500 hours, 19 months: how I used embroidery to make sense of Australia’s catastrophic fires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/15-000-squares-500-hours-19-months-how-i-used-embroidery-to-make-sense-of-australias-catastrophic-fires-227907/" aria-label="Read more about 15,000 squares, 500 hours, 19 months: how I used embroidery to make sense of Australia’s catastrophic fires">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Gonzalo Buzonni/Shutterstock From around 1996 to 2010, Australia was gripped by the millennium drought. As water shortages bit hard, most of Australia’s capital cities built large seawater desalination plants – Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Remote ... <a title="More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/more-desalination-is-coming-to-australias-driest-states-but-super-salty-outflows-could-trash-ecosystems-and-fisheries-229629/" aria-label="Read more about More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Students have been protesting on university campuses across Australia for several weeks now, calling on their institutions to cut ties with weapons manufacturers supplying arms to Israel. Some have noted their intention to stay for months ... <a title="Can university protest camps be removed? What does the law say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/can-university-protest-camps-be-removed-what-does-the-law-say-229806/" aria-label="Read more about Can university protest camps be removed? What does the law say?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hail, Adjunct Associate Professor, Torrens University Australia (ref. https://www.torrens.edu.au ) Wolfilser/Shutterstock This article is part one of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask leading experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance. For the most part, economists continue to believe a story ... <a title="Where did money come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/where-did-money-come-from-229481/" aria-label="Read more about Where did money come from?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash If you search Google Scholar for the phrase “as an AI language model”, you’ll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, ... <a title="AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/ai-assisted-writing-is-quietly-booming-in-academic-journals-heres-why-thats-ok-229416/" aria-label="Read more about AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin O’Brien, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University University campuses around the world have become the site of tiny tent cities in recent weeks, with student activists protesting the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Though the protests on Australian campuses have been largely peaceful, ... <a title="What is it about Gaza? Wars are raging around the world, so why are young people so passionate about this one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/what-is-it-about-gaza-wars-are-raging-around-the-world-so-why-are-young-people-so-passionate-about-this-one-229499/" aria-label="Read more about What is it about Gaza? Wars are raging around the world, so why are young people so passionate about this one?">Read more</a>
