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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Chand, Lecturer in Illustration and Animation, University of South Australia Maslow Entertainment Director Chantelle Murray’s new family film The Lost Tiger is the first animated feature written and directed by an Indigenous woman. Continuing with a long history of Indigenous storytelling, Murray has embedded the film ... <a title="The Lost Tiger: first animated film by an Indigenous woman explores heritage and identity through a thylacine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-lost-tiger-first-animated-film-by-an-indigenous-woman-explores-heritage-and-identity-through-a-thylacine-251033/" aria-label="Read more about The Lost Tiger: first animated film by an Indigenous woman explores heritage and identity through a thylacine">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Witzenberger, Research Fellow, GenAI Lab, Queensland University of Technology After a year of shoehorning generative AI into its flagship products, Microsoft is trying to recoup the costs by raising prices, putting ads in products, and cancelling data centre leases. Google is making similar moves, adding unavoidable ... <a title="Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/microsoft-cuts-data-centre-plans-and-hikes-prices-in-push-to-make-users-carry-ai-costs-250932/" aria-label="Read more about Microsoft cuts data centre plans and hikes prices in push to make users carry AI costs">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Shutterstock Despite community resistance and legal push-back, the government isn’t slowing down on its plan to roll back speed limit reductions on many roads. In the process, it’s going against expert advice from transport ... <a title="False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/false-economies-the-evidence-shows-higher-speed-limits-dont-make-financial-sense-251138/" aria-label="Read more about False economies: the evidence shows higher speed limits don’t make financial sense">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yetta Gurtner, Adjunct senior lecturer, Centre for Disaster Studies, James Cook University Tropical Cyclone Alfred is predicted to make landfall anywhere between Bundaberg and northern New South Wales this week. The Australian Bureau of Meteorology has warned it may bring severe hazards and “dangerous and life-threatening flash ... <a title="How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/how-to-prepare-for-a-cyclone-according-to-an-expert-251251/" aria-label="Read more about How to prepare for a cyclone, according to an expert">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A poll of 20 marginal seats by Redbridge and Accent Research was conducted for the News Ltd tabloids on February 20–25, from a sample presumably over 1,000. ... <a title="Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/labor-gains-in-redbridge-poll-of-marginal-seats-and-seizes-lead-in-a-morgan-poll-250614/" aria-label="Read more about Labor gains in Redbridge poll of marginal seats and seizes lead in a Morgan poll">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cynthia Mehboob, PhD Scholar in Department of International Relations, Australian National University Gail Johnson/Shutterstock Last month tech giant Meta announced plans to build the world’s longest submarine communication cable. Known as Project Waterworth, the 50,000-kilometre cable would link five continents. Meta says it would improve connectivity and ... <a title="Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/submarine-cables-keep-the-world-connected-they-can-also-help-us-study-climate-change-251046/" aria-label="Read more about Submarine cables keep the world connected. They can also help us study climate change">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacob Broom, Lecturer in Politics and Policy, Murdoch University The Western Australian election is less than a week away, and two themes have dominated: big public spending and culture wars. The main parties are racking up a long and expensive list of policy promises. The ABC’s election ... <a title="The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/the-wa-election-campaign-has-been-about-big-promises-but-culture-wars-are-inescapable-in-contemporary-politics-249691/" aria-label="Read more about The WA election campaign has been about big promises, but culture wars are inescapable in contemporary politics">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Lacy-Nichols, Senior Research Fellow in Commercial Determinants of Health, The University of Melbourne Good quality information about when and how alcohol and gambling industries try to influence government decision making should be easily accessible. But in Australia, it’s not. When we mapped the network of alcohol ... <a title="Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/alcohol-and-gambling-firms-donate-to-political-parties-multiple-times-and-new-rules-wont-stop-them-250374/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol and gambling firms donate to political parties multiple times. And new rules won’t stop them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Dempsey, Associate Professor in Natural Resources Engineering, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/Oksana Bali The government recently announced a framework to regulate carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) by New Zealand companies. Energy and Climate Change Minister Simon Watts outlined new rules that would allow emitters to capture ... <a title="Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/leakage-is-a-risk-with-carbon-storage-projects-nzs-new-framework-must-be-clear-on-how-to-deal-with-this-liability-251006/" aria-label="Read more about Leakage is a risk with carbon storage projects – NZ’s new framework must be clear on how to deal with this liability">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Stephen, Lecturer, School of Nursing, University of Wollongong Neon Wang/Unsplash More than 260,000 students across Australia are going to university for the first time. Some come to university to pursue a passion, others to discover one, and some aren’t quite sure why they’re here. Whatever their ... <a title="What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/what-can-you-do-if-youve-started-uni-and-you-dont-like-it-251052/" aria-label="Read more about What can you do if you’ve started uni and you don’t like it?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney Disney+/Netflix/Stan This month, as the weather stays high and you’re likely to want to stay under the air-conditioning, our experts have a cornucopia of shows and films they’re watching to suit every mood. There is Robert de Niro’s ... <a title="Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/03/belle-gibson-teenage-lives-and-trying-to-find-the-traitors-what-were-streaming-this-march-250759/" aria-label="Read more about Belle Gibson, teenage lives and trying to find the traitors: what we’re streaming this March">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Associate Professor (Adj), Griffith Asia Institute; and Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Has any nation squandered its diplomatic capital, plundered its own political system, attacked its partners and supplicated itself before its far weaker enemies as rapidly and brazenly as Donald ... <a title="In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/02/in-siding-with-russia-over-ukraine-trump-is-not-putting-america-first-he-is-hastening-its-decline-251140/" aria-label="Read more about In siding with Russia over Ukraine, Trump is not putting America first. He is hastening its decline">Read more</a>
