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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Taylor, Assistant Professor, Bond University Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures At the crux of the critical response to Luca Guadagnino’s new movie Challengers is one word: “sexy”. The film charts a love triangle between three up-and-coming tennis players: Tashi (Zendaya), and her dual (and duelling) admirers. Art ... <a title="The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it. How did Challengers do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/the-steamiest-movie-of-the-year-has-almost-no-sex-in-it-how-did-challengers-do-it-229003/" aria-label="Read more about The steamiest movie of the year has almost no sex in it. How did Challengers do it?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Stewart, Professor of Public Policy, ADFA Canberra, UNSW Sydney For years, First Nations people have been telling governments they want to be listened to. In particular, they want more ownership of the programs and services that are supposed to help them. The Voice referendum may have ... <a title="The Australian public service is letting Indigenous people down. How do we fix it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/the-australian-public-service-is-letting-indigenous-people-down-how-do-we-fix-it-227662/" aria-label="Read more about The Australian public service is letting Indigenous people down. How do we fix it?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Why do trees have bark? Julien, age 6, Melbourne. This is a great question, Julien. We are so familiar with bark on trees, that most of us just take it for granted. ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do trees have bark?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/curious-kids-why-do-trees-have-bark-229276/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do trees have bark?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Nasser, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is an important ligament in the knee. It runs from the thigh bone (femur) to the shin bone (tibia) and helps stabilise the knee joint. Injuries to the ... <a title="Surgery is the default treatment for ACL injuries in Australia. But it’s not the only way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/surgery-is-the-default-treatment-for-acl-injuries-in-australia-but-its-not-the-only-way-229114/" aria-label="Read more about Surgery is the default treatment for ACL injuries in Australia. But it’s not the only way">Read more</a>
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May 6, 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 I covered the May 2 United Kingdom local government elections for The Poll Bludger. The Blackpool South parliamentary byelection was also held, at which Labour overturned an ... <a title="UK Tories perform badly at local elections; Labor still narrowly ahead in Australian polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/uk-tories-perform-badly-at-local-elections-labor-still-narrowly-ahead-in-australian-polls-228871/" aria-label="Read more about UK Tories perform badly at local elections; Labor still narrowly ahead in Australian polls">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Mclaughlin, Adjunct Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Matthew Mclaughlin It’s National Road Safety Week and it comes on the back of a year in which 1,286 people died on Australian roads. The rising road toll – up 8.2% for the year to March – ... <a title="Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year. Here’s how they did it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/hundreds-of-cities-have-achieved-zero-road-deaths-in-a-year-heres-how-they-did-it-229127/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of cities have achieved zero road deaths in a year. Here’s how they did it">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Professor of Management, University of the Sunshine Coast The federal government has announced a “Commonwealth Prac Payment” to support selected groups of students doing mandatory work placements. Those who are studying to be a teacher, nurse, midwife or social worker will be eligible to receive ... <a title="What does the new Commonwealth Prac Payment mean for students? Will it do enough to end ‘placement poverty’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/what-does-the-new-commonwealth-prac-payment-mean-for-students-will-it-do-enough-to-end-placement-poverty-229280/" aria-label="Read more about What does the new Commonwealth Prac Payment mean for students? Will it do enough to end ‘placement poverty’?">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nuurrianti Jalli, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies College of Arts and Sciences Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication Studies, Northern State University Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Southeast Asian governments not only have to deal with the virus but also with the false information surrounding it. CC BY ... <a title="Three fact-checking challenges in Southeast Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/three-fact-checking-challenges-in-southeast-asia-148738/" aria-label="Read more about Three fact-checking challenges in Southeast Asia">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard B. (Ricky) Rood, Professor Emeritus of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, University of Michigan Pavement can leave floodwater with nowhere to go. Chengyue Lao/Xinhua via Getty Images Scenes from the Houston area looked like the aftermath of a hurricane in early May after a series ... <a title="Houston area’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/houston-areas-flood-problems-offer-lessons-for-cities-trying-to-adapt-to-a-changing-climate-229351/" aria-label="Read more about Houston area’s flood problems offer lessons for cities trying to adapt to a changing climate">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Murakami Wood, Professor of Critical Surveillance and Securities Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa The skyline of Riyadh, the capital and largest city of the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia. (Shutterstock) There is a long history of planned city building by both governments and the private sector from ... <a title="The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning to other would-be utopias" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/the-scaling-back-of-saudi-arabias-proposed-urban-mega-project-sends-a-clear-warning-to-other-would-be-utopias-227852/" aria-label="Read more about The scaling back of Saudi Arabia’s proposed urban mega-project sends a clear warning to other would-be utopias">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Jacobsen, Henry J. Leir Chair in Global Migration, Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University The men’s dormitory at a new center for asylum-seekers in Portland, Maine. Ben McCanna/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images Immigration has become a defining issue in the 2024 elections and ... <a title="Many immigrants to the US are fleeing violence and persecution − here’s how the federal government can help cities absorb them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/many-immigrants-to-the-us-are-fleeing-violence-and-persecution-heres-how-the-federal-government-can-help-cities-absorb-them-220575/" aria-label="Read more about Many immigrants to the US are fleeing violence and persecution − here’s how the federal government can help cities absorb them">Read more</a>
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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luis Gómez Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong Fifty years ago, Australian feminist Anne Summers denounced “the ideology of sexism” governing over so many women’s lives. Unfortunately, sexism is as lethal today as it was then. Thousands have rallied ... <a title="What Australia can learn from Latin America when it comes to tackling violence against women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/what-australia-can-learn-from-latin-america-when-it-comes-to-tackling-violence-against-women-228988/" aria-label="Read more about What Australia can learn from Latin America when it comes to tackling violence against women">Read more</a>
