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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordan Peter Anthony Pitt, Associate Dean of Indigenous Strategy and Services (Faculty of Science), University of Sydney An enduring challenge facing science around the world is how to best include and engage Indigenous communities. In Australia, for example, 0.5% of Indigenous peoples held a university STEM (science, ... <a title="Science continues to exclude Indigenous communities. Fixing this benefits everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/science-continues-to-exclude-indigenous-communities-fixing-this-benefits-everyone-242701/" aria-label="Read more about Science continues to exclude Indigenous communities. Fixing this benefits everyone">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania Cricket originated in England, but has been spread worldwide by British soldiers and settlers in the past few hundred years. It is now the second most popular sport in the world in terms of number ... <a title="Why is cricket so popular on the Indian sub-continent?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/why-is-cricket-so-popular-on-the-indian-sub-continent-240440/" aria-label="Read more about Why is cricket so popular on the Indian sub-continent?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renee Barnes, Associate professor of Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast Mladen Zivkovic/Shutterstock As America takes stock after Donald Trump’s re-election to the presidency, it’s worth highlighting the AI-generated fake photos, videos and audio shared during the campaign. A slew of fake videos and images shared by ... <a title="Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/disinformation-and-deepfakes-played-a-part-in-the-us-election-australia-should-expect-the-same-243373/" aria-label="Read more about Disinformation and deepfakes played a part in the US election. Australia should expect the same">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kira Morgan Hughes, PhD Candidate in Allergy and Asthma, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University When spring arrives, so do warnings about thunderstorm asthma. But a decade ago, most of us hadn’t heard of it. So where did thunderstorm asthma come from? Is it a ... <a title="Is thunderstorm asthma becoming more common?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/is-thunderstorm-asthma-becoming-more-common-243929/" aria-label="Read more about Is thunderstorm asthma becoming more common?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yassie Samie, Postdoctoral Researcher in Fashion and Textiles, RMIT University anna.spoka/Shutterstock What happens to your clothes after you don’t want them any more? Chances are, you will donate them to op shops run by a charity organisation. There are more and more clothes in circulation, and they ... <a title="Overwhelmed by ever more clothing donations, charities are exporting the problem. Local governments must step up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/overwhelmed-by-ever-more-clothing-donations-charities-are-exporting-the-problem-local-governments-must-step-up-243709/" aria-label="Read more about Overwhelmed by ever more clothing donations, charities are exporting the problem. Local governments must step up">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland IndustryAndTravel/Shutterstock Prime Minister Anthony Albanese didn’t see this coming. At the global COP29 climate talks in Baku, the Australian government was indirectly criticised by two allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, over its refusal to ... <a title="Friendly fire: a nuclear push by allies at COP29 poses a sticky problem for Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/friendly-fire-a-nuclear-push-by-allies-at-cop29-poses-a-sticky-problem-for-albanese-244153/" aria-label="Read more about Friendly fire: a nuclear push by allies at COP29 poses a sticky problem for Albanese">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Hart, Associate Professor, Film Screen & Animation, Queensland University of Technology Julia Firak Stan’s new Christmas film Nugget is Dead is a colourful production that follows the rules of the seasonal genre film to a tee – with an Aussie twist and a dash of queer ... <a title="Nugget Is Dead brings queer love, multiculturalism and Aussie flair to the Christmas movie formula" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/nugget-is-dead-brings-queer-love-multiculturalism-and-aussie-flair-to-the-christmas-movie-formula-243696/" aria-label="Read more about Nugget Is Dead brings queer love, multiculturalism and Aussie flair to the Christmas movie formula">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Biswa Das, Associate Professor of Community and Regional Planning and Extension Economist, Iowa State University Parents and educators rally at Boston City Hall demanding urgent action to improve the city’s public schools. Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Young families with children are a shrinking part ... <a title="Young families are leaving many large US cities − here’s why that matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/young-families-are-leaving-many-large-us-cities-heres-why-that-matters-238538/" aria-label="Read more about Young families are leaving many large US cities − here’s why that matters">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has rewritten the mandate of the Future Fund – the nation’s sovereign wealth fund – to urge it to direct investment into the “national priorities” of housing, the energy transition and infrastructure, where the risk and returns ... <a title="Australia’s $230 billion Future Fund encouraged to invest in housing, energy transition, infrastructure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/21/australias-230-billion-future-fund-encouraged-to-invest-in-housing-energy-transition-infrastructure-244169/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s $230 billion Future Fund encouraged to invest in housing, energy transition, infrastructure">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Musgrave, Senior lecturer in Pharmacology, University of Adelaide cdrin/Shutterstock Two Australian teenagers are severely ill in hospital in Thailand after experiencing suspected methanol poisoning while they were travelling in Laos. The pair are reportedly among several foreign nationals to become ill after unknowingly consuming alcoholic drinks ... <a title="What is methanol? How does it get into drinks and cause harm?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/20/what-is-methanol-how-does-it-get-into-drinks-and-cause-harm-244151/" aria-label="Read more about What is methanol? How does it get into drinks and cause harm?">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government says it will take “big money” out of election campaigns – or, more realistically, curb it – with its legislation imposing donation and spending caps and real-time disclosure. But crossbenchers and other critics are up in arms, about ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Special Minister of State Don Farrell on getting ‘big money’ out of elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/20/politics-with-michelle-grattan-special-minister-of-state-don-farrell-on-getting-big-money-out-of-elections-244167/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Special Minister of State Don Farrell on getting ‘big money’ out of elections">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra sweettoiletpaper/Shutterstock The Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory have won bragging rights for having the fastest growing economies within Australia. Their growth was highlighted in annual data on gross state product, released by ... <a title="The NT and ACT might have small populations but their economies are growing faster than the bigger states" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/20/the-nt-and-act-might-have-small-populations-but-their-economies-are-growing-faster-than-the-bigger-states-243897/" aria-label="Read more about The NT and ACT might have small populations but their economies are growing faster than the bigger states">Read more</a>
