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March 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brittany Finucci, Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Shutterstock/Greg Amptman The deep ocean, beyond 200 metres of depth, is the largest and one of the most complex environments on the planet. It covers 84% of the world’s ocean area and 98% of its volume ... <a title="Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/08/fished-for-their-meat-and-liver-oil-many-remarkable-deep-water-sharks-and-rays-now-face-extinction-224230/" aria-label="Read more about Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Davidson, Postdoctoral research fellow, lecturer, University of Sydney Blazej Lyjak/Shutterstock For decades, psychology departments around the world have studied human behaviour in darkened laboratories that restrict natural movement. Our new study, published today in Nature Communications, challenges the wisdom of this approach. With the help of ... <a title="Our brains take rhythmic snapshots of the world as we walk – and we never knew" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/08/our-brains-take-rhythmic-snapshots-of-the-world-as-we-walk-and-we-never-knew-223009/" aria-label="Read more about Our brains take rhythmic snapshots of the world as we walk – and we never knew">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra If Jim Chalmers were in television, he’d not just be the presenter and key producer of the show but the warm-up act as well. May 14 – budget night – is the treasurer’s big occasion of 2024. He’s already publicly ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares a new ‘growth’ script for his third budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/grattan-on-friday-treasurer-jim-chalmers-prepares-a-new-growth-script-for-his-third-budget-225274/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Treasurer Jim Chalmers prepares a new ‘growth’ script for his third budget">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University As International Women’s Day comes around once more, the latest gender pay gap figures for Australia have made for disappointing reading, including naming those companies where the gap is widest. Looking ... <a title="‘Inequality serves no-one’: Australia finally has a strategy to achieve gender equality – but is it any good?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/inequality-serves-no-one-australia-finally-has-a-strategy-to-achieve-gender-equality-but-is-it-any-good-225081/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Inequality serves no-one’: Australia finally has a strategy to achieve gender equality – but is it any good?">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia Dragana Gordic/Shutterstock This week, Western Australia announced a state government-funded immunisation program against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). It’s the first Australian state or territory to do so. All babies under ... <a title="Babies in WA will soon be immunised against RSV – but not with a vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/babies-in-wa-will-soon-be-immunised-against-rsv-but-not-with-a-vaccine-225091/" aria-label="Read more about Babies in WA will soon be immunised against RSV – but not with a vaccine">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia There are many factors that determine the Oscar winners and nominees each year. Seldom does the actual “best picture” win the award, and often the year’s best films fail to be recognised at all. Perhaps ... <a title="Oppenheimer? Barbie? Past Lives? An expert’s pick for the Oscars 2024 best picture winner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/oppenheimer-barbie-past-lives-an-experts-pick-for-the-oscars-2024-best-picture-winner-225264/" aria-label="Read more about Oppenheimer? Barbie? Past Lives? An expert’s pick for the Oscars 2024 best picture winner">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The announcement last week that Newshub would be shut down was not the “canary in the coalmine” some suggested – it was the explosion. If it is not to be the first ... <a title="First Newshub, now TVNZ: the news funding model is broken – but this would fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/first-newshub-now-tvnz-the-news-funding-model-is-broken-but-this-would-fix-it-224966/" aria-label="Read more about First Newshub, now TVNZ: the news funding model is broken – but this would fix it">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martina Linnenluecke, Professor of Environmental Finance at UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Parilov/Shutterstock This year, large businesses in Australia will likely have to begin reporting their environmental impacts, climate risks and climate opportunities. The final draft of Australia’s new mandatory climate disclosure laws are due ... <a title="Big businesses will this year have to report their environmental impacts – but this alone won’t drive change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/big-businesses-will-this-year-have-to-report-their-environmental-impacts-but-this-alone-wont-drive-change-224743/" aria-label="Read more about Big businesses will this year have to report their environmental impacts – but this alone won’t drive change">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Strating, Director, La Trobe Asia and Professor, La Trobe University, La Trobe University Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong issued a stark warning to Southeast Asian leaders this week: the region could face a “devastating” conflict over the South China Sea unless it strengthens its diplomatic and ... <a title="While the China threat grabs the headlines, these are the maritime issues Southeast Asians want to talk about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/while-the-china-threat-grabs-the-headlines-these-are-the-maritime-issues-southeast-asians-want-to-talk-about-225076/" aria-label="Read more about While the China threat grabs the headlines, these are the maritime issues Southeast Asians want to talk about">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Johnstone, PhD Candidate in Criminal Justice, University of Canterbury ACT’s recently proposed amendment to parole legislation fits with the party’s “restoring law and order and personal responsibility” platform enshrined in last year’s coalition agreement. But the rule changes could cause more harm than good. If passed ... <a title="Changes to NZ’s parole laws to improve rehabilitation could lead to even longer prison times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/changes-to-nzs-parole-laws-to-improve-rehabilitation-could-lead-to-even-longer-prison-times-224846/" aria-label="Read more about Changes to NZ’s parole laws to improve rehabilitation could lead to even longer prison times">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louisa Smith, Senior lecturer, Deakin University Readers are advised this article includes an offensive and outdated disability term in a quote from the film. Poor Things is a spectacular film that has garnered critical praise, scooped up awards and has 11 Oscar nominations. That might be the ... <a title="Oscar contender Poor Things is a film about disability. Why won’t more people say so?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/oscar-contender-poor-things-is-a-film-about-disability-why-wont-more-people-say-so-224150/" aria-label="Read more about Oscar contender Poor Things is a film about disability. Why won’t more people say so?">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Wingrove, PhD Candidate at the Sustainable Buildings Research Centre, University of Wollongong Shutterstock New Australian homes are being designed bigger and so require more energy for heating and cooling, wiping out potential gains in energy efficiency, according to our new research. The increasing energy demand is ... <a title="Australian homes are getting bigger and bigger, and it’s wiping out gains in energy efficiency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/07/australian-homes-are-getting-bigger-and-bigger-and-its-wiping-out-gains-in-energy-efficiency-224741/" aria-label="Read more about Australian homes are getting bigger and bigger, and it’s wiping out gains in energy efficiency">Read more</a>
