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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thami Croeser, Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University PickPik Imagine you’re a fairywren living in a patch of scrub behind a schoolyard in the suburbs. It’s been pretty nice so far, but a recent increase in neighbourhood cats and the council’s insect control tactics mean ... <a title="Stepping stones for wildlife: how linking up isolated habitats can help nature thrive in our cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/stepping-stones-for-wildlife-how-linking-up-isolated-habitats-can-help-nature-thrive-in-our-cities-234923/" aria-label="Read more about Stepping stones for wildlife: how linking up isolated habitats can help nature thrive in our cities">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Turner, System Lead, Sustainable Economies, Climateworks Centre zanaputritidur/Shutterstock Australian mining and energy giant Fortescue announced late on Wednesday that its ambitious green energy goal – to produce 15 million tonnes of renewable hydrogen annually by 2030 – will be placed on hold. As part of a ... <a title="Fortescue has put its ambitious green hydrogen target on hold – but Australia should keep powering ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/fortescue-has-put-its-ambitious-green-hydrogen-target-on-hold-but-australia-should-keep-powering-ahead-235007/" aria-label="Read more about Fortescue has put its ambitious green hydrogen target on hold – but Australia should keep powering ahead">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Umbrella Entertainment In an early scene in Jack Clark and Jim Weir’s Birdeater, we catch a glimpse of a poster of Ted Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright (1971). More than in any other film of the ... <a title="Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/birdeater-starts-like-a-successor-to-wake-in-fright-but-ends-up-like-an-episode-of-home-and-away-233675/" aria-label="Read more about Birdeater starts like a successor to Wake In Fright – but ends up like an episode of Home and Away">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Morgenbesser, Associate professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Griffith University Sportswashing – the act of aligning with an athlete, sports team, or event in order to distract from unethical practices elsewhere – is driven by authoritarian states and is just about everywhere. In ... <a title="Sportswashing is just about everywhere – but it may be backfiring on the countries that do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/sportswashing-is-just-about-everywhere-but-it-may-be-backfiring-on-the-countries-that-do-it-234810/" aria-label="Read more about Sportswashing is just about everywhere – but it may be backfiring on the countries that do it">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Getty Images Reports that Associate Minister of Health David Seymour has told Pharmac, the pharmaceutical purchasing agency, to “stop factoring Te Tiriti o Waitangi into ... <a title="Ethnicity, equality and Pharmac: how the Treaty really guides NZ’s drug-buying policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/ethnicity-equality-and-pharmac-how-the-treaty-really-guides-nzs-drug-buying-policies-235001/" aria-label="Read more about Ethnicity, equality and Pharmac: how the Treaty really guides NZ’s drug-buying policies">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland Breakingpic/Pexels Many people are drinking less sugary soft drink than in the past. This is a great win for public health, given the recognised risks of diets high in sugar-sweetened drinks. But over time, intake ... <a title="Cheeky diet soft drink getting you through the work day? Here’s what that may mean for your health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/cheeky-diet-soft-drink-getting-you-through-the-work-day-heres-what-that-may-mean-for-your-health-233438/" aria-label="Read more about Cheeky diet soft drink getting you through the work day? Here’s what that may mean for your health">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Gale, PhD candidate, Department of Human Nutrition, University of Otago Exercising before bed has long been discouraged as the body doesn’t have time to wind down before the lights go out. But new research has found breaking up a quiet, sedentary evening of watching television with ... <a title="Want to sleep longer? Adding mini-bursts of exercise to your evening routine can help – new study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/want-to-sleep-longer-adding-mini-bursts-of-exercise-to-your-evening-routine-can-help-new-study-234896/" aria-label="Read more about Want to sleep longer? Adding mini-bursts of exercise to your evening routine can help – new study">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Siminski, Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney 4kclips/Shutterstock If you listened to the Productivity Commission, you would think Australia was a pretty equal place in terms of income and wealth, and particularly good in terms of equality of opportunity. Its major investigation released last week, ... <a title="Yes, we are a more equal society than most, but not quite as mobile as the Productivity Commission suggests. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/yes-we-are-a-more-equal-society-than-most-but-not-quite-as-mobile-as-the-productivity-commission-suggests-heres-why-234804/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, we are a more equal society than most, but not quite as mobile as the Productivity Commission suggests. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Charles Ryan, Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Business, Law and Arts, Southern Cross University Shutterstock There’s little else in the food world that brings about as much social turbulence as the durian. This so-called “king of all fruits” is considered a delicacy across its native Southeast ... <a title="Why the stinky durian really is the ‘king of all fruits’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/why-the-stinky-durian-really-is-the-king-of-all-fruits-233872/" aria-label="Read more about Why the stinky durian really is the ‘king of all fruits’">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland Wirestock Creators/Shutterstock The laws designed to protect the environment in New South Wales are completely ineffective, according to the scathing Henry Review in 2023. In response, the state government this week announced a major overhaul of the ... <a title="Strong progress – from a low base: here’s what’s in NSW’s biodiversity reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/strong-progress-from-a-low-base-heres-whats-in-nsws-biodiversity-reforms-234917/" aria-label="Read more about Strong progress – from a low base: here’s what’s in NSW’s biodiversity reforms">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jayanta Sarkar, Associate professor of economics, Queensland University of Technology Akshay Chauhan/ Unsplash, CC BY Next month, we are expecting the results from the annual NAPLAN tests, which students in years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sat earlier this year. Each year, the tests are widely promoted ... <a title="What happens when you pay Year 7 students to do better on NAPLAN? We found out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/19/what-happens-when-you-pay-year-7-students-to-do-better-on-naplan-we-found-out-234281/" aria-label="Read more about What happens when you pay Year 7 students to do better on NAPLAN? We found out">Read more</a>
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July 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former leading Canberra press gallery journalist, Laurie Oakes, now retired, had a cut-through question about the government’s response this week to the CFMEU crisis. “Bill Shorten tough and effective on CFMEU,” Oakes posted on social media after Shorten’s appearance on ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: it’s good to put administrators into the CFMEU – but how do you prevent future crops of bad apples?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/18/grattan-on-friday-its-good-to-put-administrators-into-the-cfmeu-but-how-do-you-prevent-future-crops-of-bad-apples-235010/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: it’s good to put administrators into the CFMEU – but how do you prevent future crops of bad apples?">Read more</a>
