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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Bayne, Professor of Philosophy, Monash University cdd20 / Unsplash “Theories are like toothbrushes,” it’s sometimes said. “Everybody has their own and nobody wants to use anybody else’s.” It’s a joke, but when it comes to the study of consciousness – the question of how we have ... <a title="How does consciousness work? Duelling scientists tested two big theories but found no winner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/how-does-consciousness-work-duelling-scientists-tested-two-big-theories-but-found-no-winner-255610/" aria-label="Read more about How does consciousness work? Duelling scientists tested two big theories but found no winner">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Biddle, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Minority governments have been part of Australia’s political history since Federation. In the country’s early decades, Prime Ministers Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Chris Watson, George Reid and Andrew Fisher ... <a title="Australians are warming to minority governments – but they still prefer majority rule" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/australians-are-warming-to-minority-governments-but-they-still-prefer-majority-rule-255416/" aria-label="Read more about Australians are warming to minority governments – but they still prefer majority rule">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Shortis, Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University Donald Trump is everywhere, inescapable. His return to power in the United States was always going to have some impact on the Australian federal election. The question was how disruptive he would be. ... <a title="Donald Trump has cast a long shadow over the Australian election. Will it prove decisive?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/donald-trump-has-cast-a-long-shadow-over-the-australian-election-will-it-prove-decisive-255422/" aria-label="Read more about Donald Trump has cast a long shadow over the Australian election. Will it prove decisive?">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Isaacs, Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Waikato Laurence Dutton/Getty Images Seeing is no longer believing in the age of images and videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI), and this is having an impact on elections in New Zealand and elsewhere. Ahead of the 2025 local body elections, ... <a title="Playing politics with AI: why NZ needs rules on the use of ‘fake’ images in election campaigns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/playing-politics-with-ai-why-nz-needs-rules-on-the-use-of-fake-images-in-election-campaigns-255415/" aria-label="Read more about Playing politics with AI: why NZ needs rules on the use of ‘fake’ images in election campaigns">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hassan Vally, Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University Surface/Unsplash When it comes to our health, we’re constantly being warned about being taken in by misinformation. Yet for most of us what we believe ultimately comes down to who we trust, including which “experts” we trust. The problem is ... <a title="When it comes to health information, who should you trust? 4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/when-it-comes-to-health-information-who-should-you-trust-4-ways-to-spot-a-dodgy-expert-253437/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to health information, who should you trust? 4 ways to spot a dodgy ‘expert’">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amal Elawady, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Florida International University A downburst blasts Bangkok, Thailand, in 2017. Natapat Ariyamongkol/iStock/Getty Images Plus From a distance, a downburst can look like a torrent of heavy rain. But at ground level, its behavior can be far more destructive. ... <a title="What is a downburst? These winds can be as destructive as tornadoes − we recreate them to test building designs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/01/what-is-a-downburst-these-winds-can-be-as-destructive-as-tornadoes-we-recreate-them-to-test-building-designs-254931/" aria-label="Read more about What is a downburst? These winds can be as destructive as tornadoes − we recreate them to test building designs">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It used to be de rigueur for the prime minister and opposition leader to turn up to the National Press Club in the final week of the election campaign. But now Liberal leaders are not so keen. Scott Morrison gave ... <a title="Election Diary: post-election rate cut and phone call from Trump in the pipeline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/election-diary-post-election-rate-cut-and-phone-call-from-trump-in-the-pipeline-255615/" aria-label="Read more about Election Diary: post-election rate cut and phone call from Trump in the pipeline">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ang Li, ARC DECRA and Senior Research Fellow, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Healthy Housing, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Across Australia, communities are grappling with climate disasters that are striking more frequently and with greater intensity. Bushfires, floods and ... <a title="People’s mental health goes downhill after repeated climate disasters – it’s an issue of social equity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/peoples-mental-health-goes-downhill-after-repeated-climate-disasters-its-an-issue-of-social-equity-254475/" aria-label="Read more about People’s mental health goes downhill after repeated climate disasters – it’s an issue of social equity">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Cornell, Research Fellow, Flinders University shutterstock beeboys/Shutterstock It would be impossible at this stage in the election campaign to be unaware that housing is a critical, potentially vote-changing, issue. But the suite of policies being proposed by the major parties largely focus on young, first home ... <a title="Older Australians are also hurting from the housing crisis. Where are the election policies to help them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/older-australians-are-also-hurting-from-the-housing-crisis-where-are-the-election-policies-to-help-them-255391/" aria-label="Read more about Older Australians are also hurting from the housing crisis. Where are the election policies to help them?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Daria Nipot/Shutterstock Australia’s headline inflation rate held steady at a four-year low of 2.4% in the March quarter, according to official data, adding to the case for a cut in interest rates at ... <a title="Inflation is easing, boosting the case for another interest rate cut in May" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/inflation-is-easing-boosting-the-case-for-another-interest-rate-cut-in-may-255116/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is easing, boosting the case for another interest rate cut in May">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Micah Boerma, Researcher, School of Psychology and Wellbeing, University of Southern Queensland Nitinai Thabthong/Shutterstock One of the highlights of the school year is an overnight excursion or school camp. These can happen as early as Year 3. While many students are very excited about the chance to ... <a title="Is your child anxious about going on school camp? Here are 4 ways to prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/is-your-child-anxious-about-going-on-school-camp-here-are-4-ways-to-prepare-252290/" aria-label="Read more about Is your child anxious about going on school camp? Here are 4 ways to prepare">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University SvetlanaVV/Shutterstock Something tells me US president Donald Trump would love to be a Roman emperor. The mythology of unrestrained power with sycophants doing his bidding would be seductive. But in fact, Roman emperors were heavily constrained by institutions, ... <a title="Which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/04/30/which-roman-emperor-was-most-like-donald-trump-254573/" aria-label="Read more about Which Roman emperor was most like Donald Trump?">Read more</a>
