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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University It may come as a surprise to hear 2023 was Australia’s biggest bushfire season in more than a decade. Fires burned across an area eight times as big as the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires that tore through ... <a title="Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/vastly-bigger-than-the-black-summer-84-million-hectares-of-northern-australia-burned-in-2023-227996/" aria-label="Read more about Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Pepping, Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology, Griffith University Marvin / Shutterstock Are all single people insecure? When we think about people who have been single for a long time, we may assume it’s because single people have insecurities that make it difficult for them to find ... <a title="Would you be happy as a long-term single? The answer may depend on your attachment style" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/would-you-be-happy-as-a-long-term-single-the-answer-may-depend-on-your-attachment-style-227595/" aria-label="Read more about Would you be happy as a long-term single? The answer may depend on your attachment style">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Geary, Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation, The University of Melbourne Trismegist san, Shutterstock Landscapes that have escaped fire for decades or centuries tend to harbour vital structures for wildlife, such as tree hollows and large logs. But these “long unburnt” habitats can be eliminated ... <a title="Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/gone-in-a-puff-of-smoke-52-000-sq-km-of-long-unburnt-australian-habitat-has-vanished-in-40-years-226810/" aria-label="Read more about Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher, Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock/S Curtis Why are we crossing ecological boundaries that affect Earth’s fundamental life-supporting capacity? Is it because we don’t have enough information about how ecosystems respond to change? Or are we unable, even unwilling, to ... <a title="Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/ecosystems-are-deeply-interconnected-environmental-research-policy-and-management-should-be-too-228371/" aria-label="Read more about Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Crocker, PhD Student in Economics, Deakin University Here’s something for the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia to ponder as it meets next month to set interest rates. It has pushed up rates on 13 occasions since it began its attempt to restrain inflation in ... <a title="What if the Reserve Bank itself has been feeding inflation? An economist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/what-if-the-reserve-bank-itself-has-been-feeding-inflation-an-economist-explains-219107/" aria-label="Read more about What if the Reserve Bank itself has been feeding inflation? An economist explains">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Yates, Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has ... <a title="Choice and control: people with disability feel safer when they can select their NDIS providers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/23/choice-and-control-people-with-disability-feel-safer-when-they-can-select-their-ndis-providers-227579/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: people with disability feel safer when they can select their NDIS providers">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior research associate, University of Sydney Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has ordered social media platform “X” (formerly known as Twitter) to remove graphic videos of the stabbing of Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel in Sydney last week from the site. The incident was captured on the church’s ... <a title="Elon Musk is mad he’s been ordered to remove Sydney church stabbing videos from X. He’d be more furious if he saw our other laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/elon-musk-is-mad-hes-been-ordered-to-remove-sydney-church-stabbing-videos-from-x-hed-be-more-furious-if-he-saw-our-other-laws-228380/" aria-label="Read more about Elon Musk is mad he’s been ordered to remove Sydney church stabbing videos from X. He’d be more furious if he saw our other laws">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Sydney John Turnbull, CC BY-NC-ND In past bleaching events on the Great Barrier Reef, the southern region has sometimes been spared worst of the bleaching. Not this time. This year’s intense underwater heat has triggered the most severe heat stress ... <a title="More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/more-than-coral-the-unseen-casualties-of-record-breaking-heat-on-the-great-barrier-reef-227906/" aria-label="Read more about More than coral: the unseen casualties of record-breaking heat on the Great Barrier Reef">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Austin, Lecturer in Theatre, The University of Melbourne Darren Gill/Mackey, Darling & Collaborators The relationship between witchcraft and teenage girls has been the subject of many books, films and television shows. Over time, the traditional image of witch as crone has been replaced and reclaimed by ... <a title="New play The Exact Dimensions of Hell explores the chaos and contradiction of teenage girlhood – and witchcraft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/new-play-the-exact-dimensions-of-hell-explores-the-chaos-and-contradiction-of-teenage-girlhood-and-witchcraft-225164/" aria-label="Read more about New play The Exact Dimensions of Hell explores the chaos and contradiction of teenage girlhood – and witchcraft">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Freeman, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney Andres Siimon/Unsplash There are no silver bullets, magic tricks or secret hacks to solving complex public health problems. Taking on the global tobacco industry and reducing the devastating consequences of smoking has taken decades of incremental ... <a title="The UK plans to phase out smoking. What does this new law mean for tobacco control in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/the-uk-plans-to-phase-out-smoking-what-does-this-new-law-mean-for-tobacco-control-in-australia-228186/" aria-label="Read more about The UK plans to phase out smoking. What does this new law mean for tobacco control in Australia?">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam B. Watts, Research Associate in galaxy evolution, The University of Western Australia ESO/A. Watts et al., CC BY We breathe oxygen and nitrogen gas in our atmosphere every day, but did you know that these gases also float through space, around and between galaxies? Our team ... <a title="We mapped a massive explosion in space, showing how galaxies ‘pollute’ the cosmos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/we-mapped-a-massive-explosion-in-space-showing-how-galaxies-pollute-the-cosmos-228287/" aria-label="Read more about We mapped a massive explosion in space, showing how galaxies ‘pollute’ the cosmos">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Nielsen, Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University Maxime Bhm/Unsplash A new group of drugs called nitazenes has been detected in Australia. They have been sold as heroin as well as other drugs like ketamine. Concerns about the potential harms associated with these ... <a title="Opioids more potent than fentanyl have been detected in Australia. So what are nitazenes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/22/opioids-more-potent-than-fentanyl-have-been-detected-in-australia-so-what-are-nitazenes-226749/" aria-label="Read more about Opioids more potent than fentanyl have been detected in Australia. So what are nitazenes?">Read more</a>
