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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong “I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6’5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone to turn her sound bite ... <a title="‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/im-looking-for-a-man-in-finance-how-a-sampled-sound-bite-can-turn-a-dance-track-into-an-earworm-230542/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with musicians and their work when they are found to have been abusive has arisen again this week, as distressing video footage of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his then girlfriend Cassandra ... <a title="Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/diddy-is-just-the-latest-in-a-long-line-of-musical-abusers-how-should-fans-respond-230426/" aria-label="Read more about Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Ashe, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of environmental and civil collapse caused by ... <a title="Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/turning-the-outback-into-post-apocalyptic-wasteland-what-mad-max-films-tell-us-about-filming-in-the-australian-desert-229632/" aria-label="Read more about Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Bartley, Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than US$100 million (A$150 million). They ... <a title="We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/we-tracked-secret-russian-missile-launchers-in-ukraine-using-public-satellite-data-230424/" aria-label="Read more about We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna DeMello, Research Fellow, University of Otago Getty Images Despite measures to reduce young people’s access to vapes, many countries are recording rising use by underage adolescents, especially since refillable “pod mods” and disposable devices have become widely available. In New Zealand, the legal age for buying ... <a title="Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to access" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/underage-vaping-is-on-the-rise-heres-how-young-new-zealanders-are-finding-it-so-easy-to-access-230384/" aria-label="Read more about Underage vaping is on the rise: here’s how young New Zealanders are finding it so easy to access">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Newton, Professor of Exercise Medicine, Edith Cowan University PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also reports certain cancers are increasing among ... <a title="Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/exercise-therapy-and-diet-can-all-improve-life-during-cancer-treatment-and-boost-survival-heres-how-226720/" aria-label="Read more about Exercise, therapy and diet can all improve life during cancer treatment and boost survival. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Snow, Research Scientist, CSIRO CSIRO How often do you check your local weather forecast? How about your local climate projections for 2050? For many farmers, the answer to the first question is all the time. But the answer to the second is almost certainly less than ... <a title="We’re helping farmers access future climate projections as easily as checking the weather" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/were-helping-farmers-access-future-climate-projections-as-easily-as-checking-the-weather-227761/" aria-label="Read more about We’re helping farmers access future climate projections as easily as checking the weather">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Turner, System Lead, Sustainable Economies, Climateworks Centre atk work/Shutterstock In the budget last week, the government was keen to talk about its efforts to turn Australia into a renewable superpower under the umbrella of the Future Made in Australia policies. Future Made is a framework that ... <a title="Will government investment make green hydrogen a reality in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/will-government-investment-make-green-hydrogen-a-reality-in-australia-230202/" aria-label="Read more about Will government investment make green hydrogen a reality in Australia?">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Opposition Leader Peter Dutton might have done us a favour. As part of his budget reply speech on Thursday night he promised to stop foreigners buying existing Australian homes. He didn’t only want to stop ... <a title="Peter Dutton makes Labor’s case. Tax breaks for landlords should be restricted to those who build homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/peter-dutton-makes-labors-case-tax-breaks-for-landlords-should-be-restricted-to-those-who-build-homes-230518/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton makes Labor’s case. Tax breaks for landlords should be restricted to those who build homes">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor in Human Rights and International Law, University of Newcastle The request by Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), for arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders is a significant step in the effort to bring justice to the victims ... <a title="‘No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/no-one-can-act-with-impunity-icc-arrest-warrants-in-israel-hamas-war-are-a-major-test-for-international-justice-230522/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No one can act with impunity’: ICC arrest warrants in Israel-Hamas war are a major test for international justice">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Lansbury, Associate Professor in Public Health, The University of Queensland Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Last week’s federal budget committed A$12.5 million over four years to deliver tampons, pads and other period care products to people who menstruate in rural and remote Indigenous communities. The provision of these products will ... <a title="The budget pledged $12.5 million for free menstrual products in Indigenous communities. Here’s why it’s needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/the-budget-pledged-12-5-million-for-free-menstrual-products-in-indigenous-communities-heres-why-its-needed-230118/" aria-label="Read more about The budget pledged $12.5 million for free menstrual products in Indigenous communities. Here’s why it’s needed">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Renwick, Professor of Agricultural Economics, Lincoln University, New Zealand Fonterra caught the business world by surprise last week with plans to sell off its consumer brands and businesses – including supermarket mainstays such as Anchor, Fresh’n Fruity and Mainland. The move has been described as the ... <a title="Farewell Anchor, Fresh’n Fruity and Mainland: what’s behind Fonterra’s decision to sell its consumer brands?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/21/farewell-anchor-freshn-fruity-and-mainland-whats-behind-fonterras-decision-to-sell-its-consumer-brands-230401/" aria-label="Read more about Farewell Anchor, Fresh’n Fruity and Mainland: what’s behind Fonterra’s decision to sell its consumer brands?">Read more</a>
