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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Carland, Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) fellow, Monash University It’s well documented that news media influences our behaviour in all manner of ways, from how much meat we buy to our attitudes towards exercise. Journalism does not merely hold a mirror up to reality, as ... <a title="Australian media’s Instagram posts on Gaza war have an anti-Palestine bias. That has real-world consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/australian-medias-instagram-posts-on-gaza-war-have-an-anti-palestine-bias-that-has-real-world-consequences-221609/" aria-label="Read more about Australian media’s Instagram posts on Gaza war have an anti-Palestine bias. That has real-world consequences">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Moon, Professor of History, Auckland University of Technology When it comes to grappling with the Treaty of Waitangi/Te Tiriti o Waitangi, one of the commonest responses is that it’s a matter of interpretation. It seems to be a perfectly fair reaction, except that historical interpretation generally ... <a title="Waitangi Day 2024: 5 myths and misconceptions that confuse the Treaty debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/waitangi-day-2024-5-myths-and-misconceptions-that-confuse-the-treaty-debate-221973/" aria-label="Read more about Waitangi Day 2024: 5 myths and misconceptions that confuse the Treaty debate">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erick Lundgren, Adjunct Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology Large introduced herbivores such as feral horses and camels are often seen as “invasive” species which damage native plants. My colleagues and I published new research in Science testing this assumption and found it isn’t true. Instead, both native ... <a title="Horses, camels and deer get a bad rap for razing plants – but our new research shows they’re no worse than native animals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/horses-camels-and-deer-get-a-bad-rap-for-razing-plants-but-our-new-research-shows-theyre-no-worse-than-native-animals-221873/" aria-label="Read more about Horses, camels and deer get a bad rap for razing plants – but our new research shows they’re no worse than native animals">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Ann Wheeler, Professor in Water Economics, University of Adelaide maxim ibragimov, Shutterstock Management consulting revenue in Australia has grown from less than A$33 billion in 2010 to more than $47 billion in 2023. The increasing use of consultants, as well as the PwC scandal, highlights serious ... <a title="Consulting firms provided low-quality research on crucial water policies. It shows we have a deeper problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/consulting-firms-provided-low-quality-research-on-crucial-water-policies-it-shows-we-have-a-deeper-problem-219596/" aria-label="Read more about Consulting firms provided low-quality research on crucial water policies. It shows we have a deeper problem">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Van Dyke, Principal Research Fellow and Associate Director, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Gaelle Marcel/ Unsplash, CC BY As children return to classrooms for 2024, school communities will be confronting bullying in person and via technology. In-person bullying and cyberbullying affect significant numbers of children and young ... <a title="5 questions your child’s school should be able to answer about bullying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/5-questions-your-childs-school-should-be-able-to-answer-about-bullying-222255/" aria-label="Read more about 5 questions your child’s school should be able to answer about bullying">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Rutherford, Adjunct Associate Professor, Cinema Studies, Western Sydney University Binge/ABC/Paramount+/The Conversation As the new year gets going and we’re all looking towards evenings on the couch again to unwind after work or school, there is again a glut of shows to choose from. This month, our ... <a title="Black comedy, political drama and a documentary about a cult: what we’re streaming this February" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/black-comedy-political-drama-and-a-documentary-about-a-cult-what-were-streaming-this-february-222146/" aria-label="Read more about Black comedy, political drama and a documentary about a cult: what we’re streaming this February">Read more</a>
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February 2, 2024
By Iliesa Tora, RNZ Pacific A Nuku’alofa business has started to sell “sparkling kava” on tap for those interested in tasting the traditional brew. Tricia Emberson and her family owned Pacific Brewing Tonga business launched the initiative at their Reload Bar in Nuku’alofa last week. The project has been a two-year ongoing project that is ... <a title="‘Sparkling’ kava on tap: Tongan entrepreneur adds twist to tradition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/02/sparkling-kava-on-tap-tongan-entrepreneur-adds-twist-to-tradition/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sparkling’ kava on tap: Tongan entrepreneur adds twist to tradition">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese might not be Labor’s strongest policy innovator but as a tactician, he’s as shrewd as they come. Hence his small target strategy in 2022, a contrast with Bill Shorten’s policy overreach in 2019. Ahead of the Dunkley byelection, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese’s Stage 3 rework invites a wider tax debate the government doesn’t want to have" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/grattan-on-friday-albaneses-stage-3-rework-invites-a-wider-tax-debate-the-government-doesnt-want-to-have-222493/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese’s Stage 3 rework invites a wider tax debate the government doesn’t want to have">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens party Mehreen Faruqi says the survival of millions of people in Gaza depends on the “live-saving” humanitarian aid provided by UNRWA, and it is “totally irresponsible” to cut funds to the UN agency. “Western countries, like Australia, who have suspended this aid [to UNRWA] ... <a title="Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts ‘irresponsible’, says Senator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/canberra-ignores-public-over-gaza-war-unrwa-fund-cuts-irresponsible-says-senator/" aria-label="Read more about Canberra ‘ignores public’ over Gaza war – UNRWA fund cuts ‘irresponsible’, says Senator">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the government’s changes to the stage 3 tax cuts to favour lower and middle income earners, and a looming by-election in the Victorian seat of Dunkley, eyes are now on the opposition for its response to Labor’s new package. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Angus Taylor on tax and the economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/politics-with-michelle-grattan-angus-taylor-on-tax-and-the-economy-222506/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Angus Taylor on tax and the economy">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Macfarlane, Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University Atthapon Raksthaput/Shutterstock An article published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted from person to ... <a title="Alzheimer’s may have once spread from person to person, but the risk of that happening today is incredibly low" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/alzheimers-may-have-once-spread-from-person-to-person-but-the-risk-of-that-happening-today-is-incredibly-low-222374/" aria-label="Read more about Alzheimer’s may have once spread from person to person, but the risk of that happening today is incredibly low">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Collectiveness at it most potent has been called asabiyya by macrohistorian and cliodynamicist Peter Turchin. At its least potent, collectiveness is a recipe for social division, top-heaviness, escalating inequality, and societal breakdown. The present ‘debates’ in Aotearoa New Zealand – ostensibly about Te Tiriti, the Treaty of Waitangi – represent a ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Collective versus Individual: Māori versus ‘Maoris’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/01/keith-rankin-analysis-collective-versus-individual-maori-versus-maoris/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Collective versus Individual: Māori versus ‘Maoris’">Read more</a>
