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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katya Numbers, Postdoctoral Research Fellow & Lecturer, Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing, UNSW Sydney Miljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock Dementia is a growing health problem, affecting more than 55 million people around the world. In Australia, an estimated 433,300 people are living with dementia. This figure is projected to rise ... <a title="More young people are caring for a loved one with dementia. It takes a unique toll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/more-young-people-are-caring-for-a-loved-one-with-dementia-it-takes-a-unique-toll-249361/" aria-label="Read more about More young people are caring for a loved one with dementia. It takes a unique toll">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Whittle, Director, Data61, CSIRO Anton Vierietin/Shutterstock In February this year, Google announced it was launching “a new AI system for scientists”. It said this system was a collaborative tool designed to help scientists “in creating novel hypotheses and research plans”. It’s too early to tell just ... <a title="AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/ai-can-be-a-powerful-tool-for-scientists-but-it-can-also-fuel-research-misconduct-246410/" aria-label="Read more about AI can be a powerful tool for scientists. But it can also fuel research misconduct">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Haswell, Professor of Practice (Environmental Wellbeing), Indigenous Strategy and Services, Honorary Professor (Geosciences) at University of Sydney & Professor of Health, Safety and Environment, Queensland University of Technology, University of Sydney Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has indicated a Coalition government would quickly approve a giant gas ... <a title="Woodside’s bid to expand a huge gas project is testing both Labor and the Coalition’s environmental credentials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/woodsides-bid-to-expand-a-huge-gas-project-is-testing-both-labor-and-the-coalitions-environmental-credentials-247340/" aria-label="Read more about Woodside’s bid to expand a huge gas project is testing both Labor and the Coalition’s environmental credentials">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, The University of Western Australia The Feast of Acheloüs by Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder, ca. 1615 The Metropolitan Museum of Art In the modern world, we know good nutrition is essential for our health. Doctors ... <a title="Figs, meat – and not too much sex. A good diet in ancient times was more than what you ate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/figs-meat-and-not-too-much-sex-a-good-diet-in-ancient-times-was-more-than-what-you-ate-249571/" aria-label="Read more about Figs, meat – and not too much sex. A good diet in ancient times was more than what you ate">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Wikimedia Commons/Antoine Lamielle, CC BY-SA Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals’ population range has been shifting. Once spread across ... <a title="Southern elephant seals are adaptable – but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/southern-elephant-seals-are-adaptable-but-they-struggle-when-faced-with-both-rapid-climate-change-and-human-impacts-251820/" aria-label="Read more about Southern elephant seals are adaptable – but they struggle when faced with both rapid climate change and human impacts">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Lauren Henderson/Shutterstock For the fourth year running, the condition of Australia’s environment has been relatively good overall. Our national environment scorecard released today gives 2024 a mark of 7.7 out ... <a title="Rain gave Australia’s environment a fourth year of reprieve in 2024 – but this masks deepening problems: report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/rain-gave-australias-environment-a-fourth-year-of-reprieve-in-2024-but-this-masks-deepening-problems-report-252183/" aria-label="Read more about Rain gave Australia’s environment a fourth year of reprieve in 2024 – but this masks deepening problems: report">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Camens, Lecturer in Palaeontology, Flinders University Musky rat-kangaroo. Amy Tschirn In the remnant rainforests of coastal far-north Queensland, bushwalkers may be lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a diminutive marsupial that’s the last living representative of its family. The musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus) weighs only ... <a title="We found the only kangaroo that doesn’t hop – and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/we-found-the-only-kangaroo-that-doesnt-hop-and-it-can-teach-us-how-roos-evolved-their-quirky-gait-251373/" aria-label="Read more about We found the only kangaroo that doesn’t hop – and it can teach us how roos evolved their quirky gait">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Black, Visitor, School of History, Australian National University The world had its eyes on Sydney in 2000. A million people lined the harbour to ring in the new millennium (though some said it was actually the final year of the old one) on January 1. US ... <a title="In 2000, Australia was defined by the Olympics, border politics and reconciliation. So what really has changed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/in-2000-australia-was-defined-by-the-olympics-border-politics-and-reconciliation-so-what-really-has-changed-250791/" aria-label="Read more about In 2000, Australia was defined by the Olympics, border politics and reconciliation. So what really has changed?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The most striking feature of the Australian economy in the 21st century has been the exceptionally long period of fairly steady, though not rapid, economic growth. The deep recession of 1989–91, and the painfully slow recovery that ... <a title="The Australian economy has changed dramatically since 2000 – the way we work now is radically different" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/the-australian-economy-has-changed-dramatically-since-2000-the-way-we-work-now-is-radically-different-249942/" aria-label="Read more about The Australian economy has changed dramatically since 2000 – the way we work now is radically different">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Moran, Lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, University of Adelaide German Vizulis/Shutterstock If you peruse the philosophy section of your local bookshop, you’ll probably find a number of books on Stoicism – an ancient philosophy enjoying a renaissance today. But where are ... <a title="Long before debates over ‘wokeness’, Epicurus built a philosophy that welcomed slaves, women and outsiders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/long-before-debates-over-wokeness-epicurus-built-a-philosophy-that-welcomed-slaves-women-and-outsiders-250772/" aria-label="Read more about Long before debates over ‘wokeness’, Epicurus built a philosophy that welcomed slaves, women and outsiders">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will make another pre-election offer in health, promising that if re-elected it will legislate to ensure people pay no more than $25 for a script under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. The measure, to be announced by Prime ... <a title="Labor promises PBS scripts will cost no more than $25, under latest health pitch for election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/20/labor-promises-pbs-scripts-will-cost-no-more-than-25-under-latest-health-pitch-for-election-252510/" aria-label="Read more about Labor promises PBS scripts will cost no more than $25, under latest health pitch for election">Read more</a>
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March 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peden, NHMRC Research Fellow, School of Population Health & co-founder UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, UNSW Sydney Marcos Castillo/ Shutterstock New figures show shocking numbers of Australian kids are not achieving basic swimming skills. Royal Life Saving Australia data estimates 48% of Year 6 students cannot ... <a title="If your tween or teen doesn’t know how to swim, it’s not too late for lessons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/19/if-your-tween-or-teen-doesnt-know-how-to-swim-its-not-too-late-for-lessons-252504/" aria-label="Read more about If your tween or teen doesn’t know how to swim, it’s not too late for lessons">Read more</a>
