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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Flanagan, Senior Lecturer, University of Canterbury If you’ve ever watched a natural history programme on TV, you’ve probably seen animals performing a wide variety of behaviours to get the attention of the opposite sex. BBC Earth even released an interview with David Attenborough about some of ... <a title="Male pregnancy and weird courtship wiggles: how NZ’s wide-bodied pipefish confounds expectations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/male-pregnancy-and-weird-courtship-wiggles-how-nzs-wide-bodied-pipefish-confounds-expectations-216618/" aria-label="Read more about Male pregnancy and weird courtship wiggles: how NZ’s wide-bodied pipefish confounds expectations">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Johnson, Research fellow, University of Tasmania In recent times, we’ve seen plenty of big news stories emerge from senate inquiries and estimates hearings. Senate inquries have examined hot-button issues as diverse as disruption in school classrooms, the November 8 Optus service outage, and questionable tax minimisation ... <a title="Senate estimates and inquiries: what are they, what’s the difference, and why do we have them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/senate-estimates-and-inquiries-what-are-they-whats-the-difference-and-why-do-we-have-them-219204/" aria-label="Read more about Senate estimates and inquiries: what are they, what’s the difference, and why do we have them?">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romane H Cristescu, Researcher in Koala, Detection Dogs, Conservation Genetics and Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC Detection Dogs for Conservation Dogs have been working with people for centuries. Think hunting dogs, herding dogs, police dogs or search and rescue dogs. But have you heard of ... <a title="Dogs are incredible – if unlikely – allies in conservation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/dogs-are-incredible-if-unlikely-allies-in-conservation-204813/" aria-label="Read more about Dogs are incredible – if unlikely – allies in conservation">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey Bloomfield, Senior Lecturer in Education, CQUniversity Australia Richard Stachman/Unsplash, CC BY These long summer holidays may seem like an extra blessing to families who are dealing with a child who does not like school or who refuses to go. But even as January stretches out in ... <a title="Worried about school refusal? How to use the holidays to help your child" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/worried-about-school-refusal-how-to-use-the-holidays-to-help-your-child-219487/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about school refusal? How to use the holidays to help your child">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dylan Sullivan, Adjunct Fellow and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University Shutterstock It has become an article of faith among many economists that China’s pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a sustained reduction in poverty. This narrative relies on ... <a title="China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/chinas-capitalist-reforms-are-said-to-have-moved-800-million-out-of-extreme-poverty-new-data-suggests-the-opposite-216621/" aria-label="Read more about China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Pacific Media Watch Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, has been killed along with another journalist in an Israeli air strike west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, the news channel reports. The 27-year-old photojournalist was killed when a missile directly hit the vehicle he was travelling in ... <a title="Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/al-jazeera-gaza-bureau-chiefs-son-one-of-two-palestinian-journalists-killed/" aria-label="Read more about Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief’s son one of two Palestinian journalists killed">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The 19th century German war strategist and field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously coined the aphorism “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy”. His observation might well be applied to the tragedy ... <a title="After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/07/after-3-months-of-devastation-in-the-israel-hamas-war-is-anyone-winning-220644/" aria-label="Read more about After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Headline: South America’s Strategic Paradox. – 36th Parallel Assessments Summary Conventional wisdom believes that increased prosperity brings with it increased security. As individual, group and national material fortunes rise, domestic crime decreases and tensions ease between States. Yet, in South America improved macroeconomic indicators derived from increased trade within and from without the region have ... <a title="South America’s Strategic Paradox." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/south-americas-strategic-paradox/" aria-label="Read more about South America’s Strategic Paradox.">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jayne Persian, Associate Professor in History, University of Southern Queensland In the Canadian parliament earlier this year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war. It turned out Hunka had fought against ... <a title="Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/australia-is-still-reckoning-with-a-shameful-legacy-the-resettlement-of-suspected-war-criminals-after-wwii-217378/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Stephens, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University Dean Drobot/Shutterstock Your bags are packed. You’ve sorted entertainment and snacks for your passengers and have squeezed all your holiday luggage in the car. You’re now ready to head off for your road trip – ... <a title="Going on a road trip this summer? 4 reasons why you might end up speeding, according to psychology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/going-on-a-road-trip-this-summer-4-reasons-why-you-might-end-up-speeding-according-to-psychology-216352/" aria-label="Read more about Going on a road trip this summer? 4 reasons why you might end up speeding, according to psychology">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mitchell Harley, Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney CoastSnap When you arrive at your favourite beach these summer holidays, you may notice something different about the coast. With the triple-dip La Niña now making way for El Niño, our beaches have been through a rollercoaster ride. Some beaches ... <a title="Become a beach scientist this summer and help monitor changing coastlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/become-a-beach-scientist-this-summer-and-help-monitor-changing-coastlines-214307/" aria-label="Read more about Become a beach scientist this summer and help monitor changing coastlines">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Program Director – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Many people believe teaching is an easy job involving short days and long holidays. Anyone working in the profession, however, will tell you this is not the truth. They will ... <a title="What do teachers do in the school holidays? They work, plan, and rest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/what-do-teachers-do-in-the-school-holidays-they-work-plan-and-rest-217799/" aria-label="Read more about What do teachers do in the school holidays? They work, plan, and rest">Read more</a>
