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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal opposition has torpedoed Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ attempt to get a bipartisan deal to install a specialist monetary policy board in the Reserve Bank, claiming the reform would enable the treasurer to “stack” the new board. Chalmers said shadow ... <a title="Coalition torpedoes bipartisan deal on Reserve Bank monetary policy board" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/coalition-torpedoes-bipartisan-deal-on-reserve-bank-monetary-policy-board-238685/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition torpedoes bipartisan deal on Reserve Bank monetary policy board">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University LBeddoe/Shutterstock The federal government has committed to a national plan to ban children from social media. Details are still scarce. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has acknowledged that “no government is going to be able to protect ... <a title="Social media is like sex – young people need education, not unrealistic bans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/social-media-is-like-sex-young-people-need-education-not-unrealistic-bans-238680/" aria-label="Read more about Social media is like sex – young people need education, not unrealistic bans">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Faith Gordon, Associate Professor in Law, Australian National University Shutterstock The vast expanse of internet connectivity, online media, social media platforms, gaming platforms, and new forms and uses of artificial intelligence (AI) have opened enormous opportunities for commerce and communication. The sheer convenience and ubiquity of online ... <a title="Kids are digital natives. They have ideas to help protect children from being harmed online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/kids-are-digital-natives-they-have-ideas-to-help-protect-children-from-being-harmed-online-237869/" aria-label="Read more about Kids are digital natives. They have ideas to help protect children from being harmed online">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Professor in History, University of Wollongong Stan At 16, Kathryn Joy applied for a passport. To do this, they had to obtain their mother’s death certificate. After growing up in a house in which their father had killed their mother – an act he ... <a title="The documentary Killjoy captures the personal and the political of family violence and gender activism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/the-documentary-killjoy-captures-the-personal-and-the-political-of-family-violence-and-gender-activism-238546/" aria-label="Read more about The documentary Killjoy captures the personal and the political of family violence and gender activism">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Golding, Associate Professor, Swinburne University of Technology It is difficult to imagine a world of pop culture villains without Darth Vader. The masked and cloaked figure now casts perhaps the longest shadow of any film character on popular culture. When Vader first appeared on screen in ... <a title="James Earl Jones has died – but as the voice of Darth Vader, he will live forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/james-earl-jones-has-died-but-as-the-voice-of-darth-vader-he-will-live-forever-238678/" aria-label="Read more about James Earl Jones has died – but as the voice of Darth Vader, he will live forever">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Bushell, Clinical Associate Professor in Pharmacy, University of Canberra Ron Lach/Pexels Have you ever been instructed to take your medicine with food and wondered why? Perhaps you’ve wondered if you really need to? There are varied reasons, and sometimes complex science and chemistry, behind why you ... <a title="Why do I need to take some medicines with food?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/why-do-i-need-to-take-some-medicines-with-food-235782/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I need to take some medicines with food?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Crawley, Teaching Fellow, School of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International Relations, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Many more New Zealanders now choose to get around by bike than a few years ago. A Ministry of Transport survey reports 36% of ... <a title="Are New Zealanders ‘sick and tired’ of spending on cycleways? Not according to this survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/are-new-zealanders-sick-and-tired-of-spending-on-cycleways-not-according-to-this-survey-238322/" aria-label="Read more about Are New Zealanders ‘sick and tired’ of spending on cycleways? Not according to this survey">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Kilah, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Tasmania Nenov Brothers Images/Shutterstock It’s dinner time. You’ve worked hard to prepare a nutritious and tasty meal. But after taking your first bite you feel something is missing. Perhaps you should have added more salt? Pepper? Or maybe even ... <a title="What’s the difference between MSG and table salt? A chemist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/whats-the-difference-between-msg-and-table-salt-a-chemist-explains-237668/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between MSG and table salt? A chemist explains">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Lennon, Conjoint Lecturer, UNSW Sydney Fotokostic/Shutterstock CTE: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy. It is the now popularised term that makes athletes, parents, sports administrators and insurers’ knuckles white with anxiety as sports codes struggle to come to grips with the risks and impacts of concussion. In 2005, Bennet ... <a title="New research suggests concussion risks can be outweighed by the benefits of playing sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/new-research-suggests-concussion-risks-can-be-outweighed-by-the-benefits-of-playing-sport-238418/" aria-label="Read more about New research suggests concussion risks can be outweighed by the benefits of playing sport">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlyn Forster, Associate Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Boris Smokrovic / Unsplash If you’ve spent much time outdoors along the east coast of Australia in the past week, particularly near waterways, you’ve probably seen something quite interesting emerging: dragonflies, whether in ones ... <a title="Where did all these dragonflies come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/where-did-all-these-dragonflies-come-from-238087/" aria-label="Read more about Where did all these dragonflies come from?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damian Lettoof, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO Chris Jolly For people in southeast Australia, springtime means soaking up the sun and getting our vitamin D levels back to baseline. But we’re not the only ones likely to be basking. Snakes are getting out and about, ... <a title="Warm winters are waking snakes early. Here’s what that means for them and us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/warm-winters-are-waking-snakes-early-heres-what-that-means-for-them-and-us-237556/" aria-label="Read more about Warm winters are waking snakes early. Here’s what that means for them and us">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Professor (Communication), Deakin University Shutterstock This is the second piece in a series on the Future of Australian media. You can read the first piece in the series here. Australians who are unaware of stories about social disorder and crime gripping Alice Springs must surely ... <a title="Local papers are central to our democracy. We must do more to bring them out of crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/10/local-papers-are-central-to-our-democracy-we-must-do-more-to-bring-them-out-of-crisis-237987/" aria-label="Read more about Local papers are central to our democracy. We must do more to bring them out of crisis">Read more</a>
