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January 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Ridder, Lecturer in Early Childhood Education, Murdoch University Kiefer Photography/Shutterstock You’re doing daycare or school drop-off, you’re already late for work, and your child’s lip starts to quiver. A tremble turns into a wail, a wail into heart-rending cries as they clutch at your leg. Eventually, ... <a title="Dreading the school or daycare drop-off? How to handle it when your child doesn’t want you to go" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/dreading-the-school-or-daycare-drop-off-how-to-handle-it-when-your-child-doesnt-want-you-to-go-244283/" aria-label="Read more about Dreading the school or daycare drop-off? How to handle it when your child doesn’t want you to go">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gamze Koseoglu, Senior Lecturer, The University of Melbourne fizkes/Shutterstock Have you ever kept a brilliant idea to yourself, fearing your boss’s reaction? This hesitation is more common than you might think, especially when working under perfectionist leaders. Some of the most famous business leaders of the past ... <a title="Perfectionist leaders can push their teams to meet high standards – but it can backfire and stifle creativity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/perfectionist-leaders-can-push-their-teams-to-meet-high-standards-but-it-can-backfire-and-stifle-creativity-243043/" aria-label="Read more about Perfectionist leaders can push their teams to meet high standards – but it can backfire and stifle creativity">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerry Brown, Professor of Employment and Industry, School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Photo by Anna Shvets/Pexels If you’re back in the job market, or looking for your first position after graduating, you’ll need to think about how to ace a job interview. Getting shortlisted ... <a title="5 tips to ace a job interview – including how to prepare for the question they’ll definitely ask" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/5-tips-to-ace-a-job-interview-including-how-to-prepare-for-the-question-theyll-definitely-ask-244180/" aria-label="Read more about 5 tips to ace a job interview – including how to prepare for the question they’ll definitely ask">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Korber, Senior Lecturer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The list of organisations abandoning the option of fully remote work for employees has grown recently, with the likes of Amazon, IBM, JPMorgan and Meta leading the charge back to the ... <a title="Why you should treat workplace friendships like your diet – aim for balance and variety" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/why-you-should-treat-workplace-friendships-like-your-diet-aim-for-balance-and-variety-243706/" aria-label="Read more about Why you should treat workplace friendships like your diet – aim for balance and variety">Read more</a>
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January 6, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Maynard, Associate Professor, School of Communication and the Arts, The University of Queensland State Library Victoria Sunglasses, or dark glasses, have always guarded against strong sunlight, but is there more to “shades” than we think? The pupils of our eyes are delicate and react immediately to ... <a title="Sunglasses reflect more than the light: a brief history of shades, from Ancient Rome to Hollywood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/06/sunglasses-reflect-more-than-the-light-a-brief-history-of-shades-from-ancient-rome-to-hollywood-244399/" aria-label="Read more about Sunglasses reflect more than the light: a brief history of shades, from Ancient Rome to Hollywood">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-do-these-sierra-leone-developments-tell-us-about-urban-elites-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elitism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-do-these-sierra-leone-developments-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elitism?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-two-sierra-leone-developments-a-century-apart-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milo Gough, Lecturer in History, University of Manchester An artist’s impression of Idris Elba’s planned eco-city, Sherbro Island City. Greenfield Planners Sdn Bhd / Sherbro Alliance Partners Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following ... <a title="From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/04/from-a-colonial-hill-town-to-idris-elbas-island-masterplan-what-can-two-sierra-leone-developments-a-century-apart-tell-us-about-urban-elitism-233714/" aria-label="Read more about From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan, what can two Sierra Leone developments a century apart tell us about urban elitism?">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ary Hoffmann, Professor, School of BioSciences and Bio21 Institute, The University of Melbourne Drosophila melanogaster. Deep Scope/Shutterstock The common fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), more correctly called the vinegar fly, is a frequent visitor to ripe fruit in households around the world, where it often deposits eggs on ... <a title="‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/one-of-the-most-important-species-for-science-how-the-humble-fruit-fly-transformed-4-fields-of-research-241368/" aria-label="Read more about ‘One of the most important species for science’: how the humble fruit fly transformed 4 fields of research">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Ludewig, Professor and Head of the School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia The Burra Burra Mine, 1847. Samuel Thomas Gill / State Library of NSW About 20 minutes’ drive north of Geraldton, on Australia’s west coast, lies a hill named Mount Sommer. The little ... <a title="Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/genius-or-charlatan-the-strange-tale-of-a-19th-century-polymath-who-left-a-trail-of-controversy-across-colonial-australia-242292/" aria-label="Read more about Genius or charlatan? The strange tale of a 19th-century polymath who left a trail of controversy across colonial Australia">Read more</a>
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January 3, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Konstantine Panegyres, McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, researching Greco-Roman antiquity, The University of Melbourne Imagine a summer holiday at a seaside resort, with days spent sunbathing, reading books, exploring nature and chatting with friends. Sounds like it could be anywhere in Australia or New Zealand in January, doesn’t it? ... <a title="Summer holidays haven’t changed much since ancient Greece and Rome (except maybe the sand wrestling)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/01/03/summer-holidays-havent-changed-much-since-ancient-greece-and-rome-except-maybe-the-sand-wrestling-243367/" aria-label="Read more about Summer holidays haven’t changed much since ancient Greece and Rome (except maybe the sand wrestling)">Read more</a>
