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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney Melbourne’s status as the sporting capital of Australia is well-established: the Victorian city hosts annual events such as the Australian Open tennis tournament, the Formula 1 Grand Prix, Melbourne Cup horseracing carnival, Boxing Day cricket Test ... <a title="It’s the most American of sports, so why is the NFL looking to Melbourne for international games?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/its-the-most-american-of-sports-so-why-is-the-nfl-looking-to-melbourne-for-international-games-248870/" aria-label="Read more about It’s the most American of sports, so why is the NFL looking to Melbourne for international games?">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emmeline Norris, PhD Candidate, Conservation Biology, James Cook University Tree kangaroos are easily spotted with thermal drones. Emmeline Norris Bennett’s tree kangaroos, one of Australia’s most mysterious marsupials, have long eluded researchers. Our new study, published in Australian Mammalogy today, has achieved a breakthrough: using thermal drones ... <a title="Rare, almost mythical Australian tree kangaroos can finally be studied, thanks to new tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/rare-almost-mythical-australian-tree-kangaroos-can-finally-be-studied-thanks-to-new-tech-246334/" aria-label="Read more about Rare, almost mythical Australian tree kangaroos can finally be studied, thanks to new tech">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Borell, Kairangahau/Researcher, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Lake Alice Hospital, one of many institutions investigated by the abuse-in-state-care inquiry. Wikimedia Commons, CC BY A new study using a large collection of demographic data has revealed the lasting and damaging consequences for children placed in ... <a title="24 years of life lost: people placed in state care have died earlier, more violent deaths – new study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/24-years-of-life-lost-people-placed-in-state-care-have-died-earlier-more-violent-deaths-new-study-248540/" aria-label="Read more about 24 years of life lost: people placed in state care have died earlier, more violent deaths – new study">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lea Frermann, Senior Lecturer in Natural Language Processing, The University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne TA Design/Shutterstock Until a few weeks ago, few people in the Western world had heard of a small Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company known as DeepSeek. But on January 20, it ... <a title="OpenAI says DeepSeek ‘inappropriately’ copied ChatGPT – but it’s facing copyright claims too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/openai-says-deepseek-inappropriately-copied-chatgpt-but-its-facing-copyright-claims-too-248863/" aria-label="Read more about OpenAI says DeepSeek ‘inappropriately’ copied ChatGPT – but it’s facing copyright claims too">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University Oakland Images/Shutterstock Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has doubled down on his commitment to sack thousands of public servants if he’s elected prime minister. Dutton has again highlighted the “wasteful” 36,000 increase in public service jobs under Labor, ... <a title="Peter Dutton is promising to slash the public service. Voters won’t know how many jobs are lost until after the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/peter-dutton-is-promising-to-slash-the-public-service-voters-wont-know-how-many-jobs-are-lost-until-after-the-election-248897/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton is promising to slash the public service. Voters won’t know how many jobs are lost until after the election">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Brander, Professor, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Rob Brander Do you know what an emergency response beacon or “ERB” is? Do you know what it does? Do you know which beaches have one? If you answered “nope!” ... <a title="Emergency response beacons can cut drownings at the beach – but 72% of people haven’t heard of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/emergency-response-beacons-can-cut-drownings-at-the-beach-but-72-of-people-havent-heard-of-them-248676/" aria-label="Read more about Emergency response beacons can cut drownings at the beach – but 72% of people haven’t heard of them">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liudmila Tarabashkina, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Joanna Dorota/Shutterstock, Zoom Team/Shutterstock, The Conversation The economic cost of food waste in Australia is staggering. It’s estimated $36.6 billion is lost to the economy every year. Much of our fresh produce never even makes it to stores, ... <a title="Climate-affected produce is here to stay. Here’s what it takes for consumers to embrace it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/climate-affected-produce-is-here-to-stay-heres-what-it-takes-for-consumers-to-embrace-it-248776/" aria-label="Read more about Climate-affected produce is here to stay. Here’s what it takes for consumers to embrace it">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabina Andron, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism, The University of Melbourne Thanks Radical Graffiti for informing me where my next job is! This is the message I woke up to on January 26, as one of my research participants saw some anti-colonial graffiti in Melbourne ... <a title="Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/graffiti-removal-isnt-the-enemy-of-art-its-part-of-a-vibrant-dialogue-on-life-in-the-big-city-248668/" aria-label="Read more about Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology AU USAnakul/Shutterstock When we see “tested under laboratory conditions”, we often assume real-world conditions will lead to faster degradation of a product. But experts from Stanford University have found the opposite is true for electric vehicle ... <a title="Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/electric-vehicle-batteries-can-last-almost-40-longer-in-the-real-world-than-in-lab-tests-248557/" aria-label="Read more about Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Barrett, Lecturer in Business, Auckland University of Technology New Zealand’s housing crisis disproportionately affects Māori in rural areas where healthy homes are in short supply and collective land ownership presents a challenge to banks. Governments have been grappling with this issue. The previous Labour-led government committed ... <a title="Māori communities lead innovative ways of financing housing on ancestral lands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/maori-communities-lead-innovative-ways-of-financing-housing-on-ancestral-lands-247179/" aria-label="Read more about Māori communities lead innovative ways of financing housing on ancestral lands">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is banning DeepSeek – the Chinese artificial intelligence model – from all government systems and devices on national security grounds. It says this is in line with the actions of a number of other countries and is ... <a title="Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/albanese-government-bans-deepseek-from-official-devices-on-security-grounds-249022/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlotte Markowitsch, PhD Candidate in Popular Music Studies, RMIT University History has repeated in the rock category at this week’s 67th Grammy Awards. Best rock performance was awarded to the Beatles for their song Now and Then, while the Rolling Stones took home best rock album for ... <a title="Is this 2025, or 1965? Grammy wins for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones keep the rock canon in the past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/is-this-2025-or-1965-grammy-wins-for-the-beatles-and-the-rolling-stones-keep-the-rock-canon-in-the-past-249009/" aria-label="Read more about Is this 2025, or 1965? Grammy wins for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones keep the rock canon in the past">Read more</a>
