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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corneel Vandelanotte, Professorial Research Fellow: Physical Activity and Health, CQUniversity Australia MalikNalik/Shutterstock It’s that time of year when many people are getting started on their resolutions for the year ahead. Doing more physical activity is a popular and worthwhile goal. If you’re hoping to be more active ... <a title="Thinking of using an activity tracker to achieve your exercise goals? Here’s where it can help – and where it probably won’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/thinking-of-using-an-activity-tracker-to-achieve-your-exercise-goals-heres-where-it-can-help-and-where-it-probably-wont-219235/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of using an activity tracker to achieve your exercise goals? Here’s where it can help – and where it probably won’t">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lynette Washington, Research Fellow, UniSA Business, University of South Australia Shutterstock A significant proportion of Australian workers – about one-fifth – would be prepared to sacrifice between 16% and 33% of their salaries for the right to work from home, which works out at A$12,000 to $24,000 ... <a title="What’s it worth to work from home? For some, it’s as much as one-third of their wage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/whats-it-worth-to-work-from-home-for-some-its-as-much-as-one-third-of-their-wage-217554/" aria-label="Read more about What’s it worth to work from home? For some, it’s as much as one-third of their wage">Read more</a>
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January 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saskia Roberts, PhD Candidate, School of History, Australian National University Searchlight Pictures This piece contains spoilers for Poor Things. Poor Things can be described in one word: polarising. Yorgos Lanthimos’ film follows Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a scientist’s experiment created from a woman’s body and a child’s ... <a title="The shame and pleasure of masturbation: Poor Things gets girls’ early sexual feelings right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/16/the-shame-and-pleasure-of-masturbation-poor-things-gets-girls-early-sexual-feelings-right-220662/" aria-label="Read more about The shame and pleasure of masturbation: Poor Things gets girls’ early sexual feelings right">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) – based in The Hague, in The Netherlands – is being asked by South Africa if the 100-day (so far) slaughter by the Government of Israel in Gaza constitutes a ‘genocide’. Thus ‘genocide’ is presented as a binary concept, in a context where there is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/keith-rankin-analysis-genocide-as-a-concept-binary-or-analogue/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Genocide as a Concept: Binary or Analogue?">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Kerkhove, Associate Professor (Adjunct), School of Education., University of Southern Queensland Last year, chair of the Australian War Memorial Kim Beazley called for First Nations “guerilla campaigns” of the Frontier Wars to be included in the Australian War Memorial. His bid was criticised by the RSL ... <a title="Why First Nations ‘ununiformed warriors’ qualify for the Australian War Memorial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/why-first-nations-ununiformed-warriors-qualify-for-the-australian-war-memorial-219109/" aria-label="Read more about Why First Nations ‘ununiformed warriors’ qualify for the Australian War Memorial">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Bell, Adjunct professor, Monash University The Voice referendum was a disappointing result for many, but there is hope that much of its vision could be achieved via a different path. The Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs has presented a report to ... <a title="Following the Voice failure, Indigenous politicians are calling for the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be implemented. What is it and what would it mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/following-the-voice-failure-indigenous-politicians-are-calling-for-the-uns-declaration-on-the-rights-of-indigenous-peoples-to-be-implemented-what-is-it-and-what-would-it-mean-219695/" aria-label="Read more about Following the Voice failure, Indigenous politicians are calling for the UN’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to be implemented. What is it and what would it mean?">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A national Freshwater poll for The Sunday Telegraph had a 50–50 tie between Labor and the Coalition, unchanged from a Freshwater poll for The Financial Review in ... <a title="Freshwater national poll holds steady at a 50–50 tie between Labor and the Coalition as Trump set for big win in Iowa caucus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/freshwater-national-poll-holds-steady-at-a-50-50-tie-between-labor-and-the-coalition-as-trump-set-for-big-win-in-iowa-caucus-220286/" aria-label="Read more about Freshwater national poll holds steady at a 50–50 tie between Labor and the Coalition as Trump set for big win in Iowa caucus">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock If you’ve watched cat videos on social media lately, you may have encountered the idea a cat’s coat colour tells us something about their personality. Orange cats are supposedly “dumb”, always falling off ... <a title="TikTok says orange cats are ‘dumb’, and tortoiseshell cats have ‘an attitude’. But how true is that?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/tiktok-says-orange-cats-are-dumb-and-tortoiseshell-cats-have-an-attitude-but-how-true-is-that-218033/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok says orange cats are ‘dumb’, and tortoiseshell cats have ‘an attitude’. But how true is that?">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Gathering for their annual World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland this week, the world’s business and political elite will be digesting some unpleasant reading courtesy of the aid agency Oxfam International. Oxfam’s annual report on global ... <a title="As the billionaires gather at Davos, it’s worth examining what’s become of their dreams" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/as-the-billionaires-gather-at-davos-its-worth-examining-whats-become-of-their-dreams-220876/" aria-label="Read more about As the billionaires gather at Davos, it’s worth examining what’s become of their dreams">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
By Gorethy Kenneth and Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby Rogue police officers have been alleged to be part of last Wednesday’s uprising of opportunists leading to looting and ransacking of more than 20 shops and loss of businesses in the capital of Port Moresby. Prime Minister James Marape said last week’s “Black Wednesday” unrest had ... <a title="Marape accuses ‘rogue police’ of being part of Port Moresby’s riots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/marape-accuses-rogue-police-of-being-part-of-port-moresbys-riots/" aria-label="Read more about Marape accuses ‘rogue police’ of being part of Port Moresby’s riots">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French Pacific desk correspondent One of the key players in the restoration of peace in New Caledonia in the 1980s, Louis Le Pensec, died last week aged 87. Le Pensec is regarded as one of the main actors in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Matignon-Oudinot Accords ... <a title="Tributes flow over death of French ‘peacemaker’ minister in New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/tributes-flow-over-death-of-french-peacemaker-minister-in-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Tributes flow over death of French ‘peacemaker’ minister in New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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January 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Scarlett Howard If you’ve ever been tricked by a visual illusion, you know the feeling of disconnect between what your eyes perceive and what is actually there. Visual illusions occur due to errors in our perception, causing us ... <a title="Do they see what we see? Bees and wasps join humans in being tricked by illusions of quantity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/15/do-they-see-what-we-see-bees-and-wasps-join-humans-in-being-tricked-by-illusions-of-quantity-219577/" aria-label="Read more about Do they see what we see? Bees and wasps join humans in being tricked by illusions of quantity">Read more</a>
