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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Senior lecturer, international migration and refugee law, University of Technology Sydney The High Court unanimously ruled today that the Australian government can keep asylum seekers in immigration detention indefinitely in cases where they do not “voluntarily” cooperate with their own deportation. This includes, for example, ... <a title="High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/high-court-dismisses-key-challenge-to-indefinite-immigration-detention-what-does-it-mean-229628/" aria-label="Read more about High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Munro, Lecturer, Creative Industries and Digital Media, University of South Australia Twenty-four hours after the release of Macklemore’s pro-Palestine protest song Hind’s Hall on social media on May 7, the video had already notched up over 24 million views. In two minutes and 49 seconds, the ... <a title="A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/a-brief-history-of-found-footage-video-art-and-where-macklemores-hinds-hall-fits-in-229638/" aria-label="Read more about A brief history of found footage video art – and where Macklemore’s Hind’s Hall fits in">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Helal, Assistant Dean (Sustainability), The University of Melbourne Dubai skyline AleksandarPasaric/Pexels Since ancient times, people have built structures that reach for the skies – from the steep spires of medieval towers to the grand domes of ancient cathedrals and mosques. Today the quest is to build ... <a title="Sky-high vanity: constructing the world’s tallest buildings creates high emissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/sky-high-vanity-constructing-the-worlds-tallest-buildings-creates-high-emissions-229183/" aria-label="Read more about Sky-high vanity: constructing the world’s tallest buildings creates high emissions">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Williams, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne Canna Obscura/Shutterstock At the end of this month, a senate inquiry by the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee is due to hand down its report on a bill to legalise cannabis. Legalisation aims to redirect profits away ... <a title="How can we measure the size of Australia’s illegal cannabis market – and the billions in taxes that might flow from legalising it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/how-can-we-measure-the-size-of-australias-illegal-cannabis-market-and-the-billions-in-taxes-that-might-flow-from-legalising-it-229287/" aria-label="Read more about How can we measure the size of Australia’s illegal cannabis market – and the billions in taxes that might flow from legalising it?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edward Musole, PhD Law Student, University of New England Girts Ragelis/Shutterstock Recent trends show Australians are increasingly buying wearables such as smartwatches and fitness trackers. These electronics track our body movements or vital signs to provide data throughout the day, with or without the help of artificial ... <a title="Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/wearable-devices-can-now-harvest-our-brain-data-australia-needs-urgent-privacy-reforms-229006/" aria-label="Read more about Wearable devices can now harvest our brain data. Australia needs urgent privacy reforms">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yousuf Mohammed, Dermatology researcher, The University of Queensland Maridav/Shutterstock You wake up, stagger to the bathroom and gaze into the mirror. No, you’re not imagining it. You’ve developed face wrinkles overnight. They’re sleep wrinkles. Sleep wrinkles are temporary. But as your skin loses its elasticity as you ... <a title="Sleep wrinkles are real. Here’s how they leave their mark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/sleep-wrinkles-are-real-heres-how-they-leave-their-mark-217380/" aria-label="Read more about Sleep wrinkles are real. Here’s how they leave their mark">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
By Kamna Kumar in Suva Pacific Islands Forum Secretary-General Henry Puna stressed the importance of media freedom and its link to the climate and environmental crisis at the 2024 World Press Freedom Day event organised by the University of the South Pacific’s journalism programme. Under the theme “A Planet for the Press: Journalism in the ... <a title="Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/puna-calls-for-pacific-journalistic-vigilance-in-face-of-climate-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Puna calls for Pacific ‘journalistic vigilance’ in face of climate crisis">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago New Zealand governments have been actively exploring the option of joining pillar two of AUKUS for over a year now. But according to foreign minister Winston Peters, the government is “a long way from this point of ... <a title="Confused or playing for time? 3 possible reasons NZ is taking so long to make a call on AUKUS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/confused-or-playing-for-time-3-possible-reasons-nz-is-taking-so-long-to-make-a-call-on-aukus-229712/" aria-label="Read more about Confused or playing for time? 3 possible reasons NZ is taking so long to make a call on AUKUS">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By César Albarrán-Torres, Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology Apple TV+ As one of billions of bilingual individuals in the world, it disappoints me when a film or TV show with characters of a non-English-speaking background is spoken entirely in English. This is ... <a title="No more bad accents, stereotypes or cringe: why the rise of multilingual TV is good news for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/no-more-bad-accents-stereotypes-or-cringe-why-the-rise-of-multilingual-tv-is-good-news-for-everyone-229113/" aria-label="Read more about No more bad accents, stereotypes or cringe: why the rise of multilingual TV is good news for everyone">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Ruppanner, Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock A recent report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows US fertility rates dropped 2% in 2023. With the exception of a ... <a title="Women in rich countries are having fewer kids, or none at all. What’s going on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/women-in-rich-countries-are-having-fewer-kids-or-none-at-all-whats-going-on-229185/" aria-label="Read more about Women in rich countries are having fewer kids, or none at all. What’s going on?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Corderoy, Medical doctor and PhD candidate studying involuntary psychiatric treatment, School of Psychiatry, UNSW Sydney shop_py/Shutterstock Picture two people, both suffering from a serious mental illness requiring hospital admission. One was born in Australia, the other in Asia. Hopefully, both could be treated on a voluntary ... <a title="We looked at over 166,000 psychiatric records. Over half showed people were admitted against their will" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/we-looked-at-over-166-000-psychiatric-records-over-half-showed-people-were-admitted-against-their-will-226820/" aria-label="Read more about We looked at over 166,000 psychiatric records. Over half showed people were admitted against their will">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Treby, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University P.j.Hickox, Shutterstock Peatlands store more carbon per square metre than any other ecosystem on Earth. These waterlogged, mossy bogs beat even dense rainforests for their ability to act as carbon reservoirs. Under the right conditions, peat soils accumulate from carbon-rich, ... <a title="Feral horses in Australia’s high country are damaging peatlands, decreasing carbon stores" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/feral-horses-in-australias-high-country-are-damaging-peatlands-decreasing-carbon-stores-228990/" aria-label="Read more about Feral horses in Australia’s high country are damaging peatlands, decreasing carbon stores">Read more</a>
