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November 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Longden, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Being able to charge your car at home is a big drawcard for many electric vehicle buyers. But it’s rare to find chargers installed at apartment complexes in Australia. Installing chargers in existing apartment blocks ... <a title="Live in an apartment and want to charge an electric car at home? Here are 4 ways to help that happen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/27/live-in-an-apartment-and-want-to-charge-an-electric-car-at-home-here-are-4-ways-to-help-that-happen-244480/" aria-label="Read more about Live in an apartment and want to charge an electric car at home? Here are 4 ways to help that happen">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Elliot Noe, Postdoctoral Fellow in Biodiversity, Lincoln University, New Zealand Phil Walter/Getty Images Globally, about 40% of ice-free land is used for agriculture, managed by farmers and herders. In Aotearoa New Zealand, this share is even higher, with 51% of land used for agriculture and horticulture. ... <a title="Most NZ dairy farmers put profitability first – but some are planting native trees anyway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/27/most-nz-dairy-farmers-put-profitability-first-but-some-are-planting-native-trees-anyway-242189/" aria-label="Read more about Most NZ dairy farmers put profitability first – but some are planting native trees anyway">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Noortje Marres, Professor in Science, Technology and Society, University of Warwick Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock You’d probably notice if the car that cut you off or pulled up beside you at a light didn’t have a driver. In the UK, self-driving cars are still required by law to have a ... <a title="Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/27/five-ways-you-might-already-encounter-ai-in-cities-and-not-realise-it-243290/" aria-label="Read more about Five ways you might already encounter AI in cities (and not realise it)">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia is on track to reach the Albanese government’s 43% emissions reduction target by 2030, according to the most recent analysis by the Climate Change department. The analysis shows Australian emissions are projected to be 42.6% below 2005 levels in ... <a title="Australia on track to meet 2030 43% emission’s reduction target, on latest figures" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/27/australia-on-track-to-meet-2030-43-emissions-reduction-target-on-latest-figures-244642/" aria-label="Read more about Australia on track to meet 2030 43% emission’s reduction target, on latest figures">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Big tech platforms won’t be able to compel people to provide digital ID or government-issued identification documents such as a passport, when verifying age for social media accounts. The government is inserting this prohibition, recommended by a Senate committee, into ... <a title="Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/social-media-companies-wont-be-able-to-compel-people-to-provide-digital-or-government-issued-id-to-verify-age-244649/" aria-label="Read more about Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Having finally stared down Greens resistance in the final sitting week of the year, the Albanese government looks set to tick off the last of its 2022 housing commitments in ... <a title="The Senate has passed the Help to Buy housing scheme. It will help, but not much" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/the-senate-has-passed-the-help-to-buy-housing-scheme-it-will-help-but-not-much-239087/" aria-label="Read more about The Senate has passed the Help to Buy housing scheme. It will help, but not much">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Bamsey, Honorary Professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, Australian National University Many people long involved in global climate negotiations see the annual United Nations COP climate talks as fundamentally flawed. That includes me. On Sunday, the 29th round of talks finished in Baku, Azerbaijan. It ... <a title="After a disappointing COP29, here’s how to design global climate talks that might actually work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/after-a-disappointing-cop29-heres-how-to-design-global-climate-talks-that-might-actually-work-244645/" aria-label="Read more about After a disappointing COP29, here’s how to design global climate talks that might actually work">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Alexander, Adjunct Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, Curtin University Remember back at the turn of the millennium, when sending a small letter only cost 45 cents? If you haven’t used the postal service recently, you might be in for a rude shock. Late last week, ... <a title="Australia Post wants to charge more for stamps next year. Here’s why it has to keep letters alive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/australia-post-wants-to-charge-more-for-stamps-next-year-heres-why-it-has-to-keep-letters-alive-244503/" aria-label="Read more about Australia Post wants to charge more for stamps next year. Here’s why it has to keep letters alive">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Brooks, Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW Sydney Kitreel/Shutterstock What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have applied themselves to questions like this, considering how AI will alter lives – often for better, sometimes for ... <a title="Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/smaller-brains-fewer-friends-an-evolutionary-biologist-asks-how-ai-will-change-humanitys-future-244179/" aria-label="Read more about Smaller brains? Fewer friends? An evolutionary biologist asks how AI will change humanity’s future">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Andrews, Senior Policy Advisor, Australian National University Given the United States is Australia’s most consequential military ally, it is natural to consider what Donald Trump’s return to the White House will mean for the future of Australian defence policy – especially the AUKUS agreement. Judging by ... <a title="Will Donald Trump renegotiate the AUKUS treaty or walk away? That’s the $368 billion question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/will-donald-trump-renegotiate-the-aukus-treaty-or-walk-away-thats-the-368-billion-question-243450/" aria-label="Read more about Will Donald Trump renegotiate the AUKUS treaty or walk away? That’s the $368 billion question">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images The coalition government’s majority will no doubt ensure its proposed solutions to youth offending will pass into law. But evidence and past experience suggest these reforms are unlikely to succeed. The Sentencing (Reform) Amendment Bill will ... <a title="We know enough about brain development to know youth offending reforms probably won’t work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/we-know-enough-about-brain-development-to-know-youth-offending-reforms-probably-wont-work-244289/" aria-label="Read more about We know enough about brain development to know youth offending reforms probably won’t work">Read more</a>
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November 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rakime Elmir, Associate Professor in Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University Ivan Lonan/Shutterstock Babies are born with fine, downy, short, and slightly pigmented body hair called lanugo. The term comes from the Latin word “lana,” meaning wool. In some babies, the hair is barely visible. In others, ... <a title="Why are some babies born so hairy? Lanugo is more common in early babies but is nothing to worry about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/26/why-are-some-babies-born-so-hairy-lanugo-is-more-common-in-early-babies-but-is-nothing-to-worry-about-243472/" aria-label="Read more about Why are some babies born so hairy? Lanugo is more common in early babies but is nothing to worry about">Read more</a>
