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June 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University There has been much discussion in recent years about satire’s role in the online world – and the risks we face from it being misunderstood. In a recent article, NewsGuard editorial director Eric Effron bemoaned the fact that satire mistaken ... <a title="Satire can spread online as misinformation. Here’s why we still shouldn’t label it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/14/satire-can-spread-online-as-misinformation-heres-why-we-still-shouldnt-label-it-232160/" aria-label="Read more about Satire can spread online as misinformation. Here’s why we still shouldn’t label it">Read more</a>
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June 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Weigand, Professor of Architecture and Interior Design and Interim Dean, College of Creative Arts, Miami University Rooftop construction at a high-rise building undergoing conversion to apartments in Manhattan’s financial district in New York City, April 11, 2023. AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews It took a global pandemic to ... <a title="Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/14/cities-with-empty-commercial-space-and-housing-shortages-are-converting-office-buildings-into-apartments-heres-what-theyre-learning-226459/" aria-label="Read more about Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are converting office buildings into apartments – here’s what they’re learning">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In his assault this week on the Albanese government’s climate policy, Peter Dutton is taking the Liberals right back to Tony Abbott’s days. It’s a bold, risky big-target strategy, characterised by a truck load of negativity, as well as laced ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: the spectre of Abbott looms behind Dutton’s climate strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/grattan-on-friday-the-spectre-of-abbott-looms-behind-duttons-climate-strategy-232380/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: the spectre of Abbott looms behind Dutton’s climate strategy">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In his assault this week on the Albanese government’s climate policy, Peter Dutton is taking the Liberals right back to Tony Abbott’s days. It’s a bold, risky big-target strategy, characterised by a truck load of negativity, as well as laced ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: the spectre of Abbott looms behind Dutton’s energy strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/grattan-on-friday-the-spectre-of-abbott-looms-behind-duttons-energy-strategy-232380/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: the spectre of Abbott looms behind Dutton’s energy strategy">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Udy, Research associate in Climatology, University of Tasmania CherylRamalho/Shutterstock Australia has a long history of bushfires. The 2019-2020 Black Summer was the worst in recorded history. But was that the worst it could get? Our new research has reconstructed the past 2,000 years of southeast Australia’s ... <a title="Of ice and fire: what sea salt in Antarctic snowfall reveals about bushfires worse than the Black Summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/of-ice-and-fire-what-sea-salt-in-antarctic-snowfall-reveals-about-bushfires-worse-than-the-black-summer-230982/" aria-label="Read more about Of ice and fire: what sea salt in Antarctic snowfall reveals about bushfires worse than the Black Summer">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock For some time now – gradually, but nevertheless relentlessly – the Australian labour market has been weakening. Today’s Bureau of Statistics employment report, telling us what happened in the month to May, show that direction is unchanged. ... <a title="Unemployment has dipped, but don’t be fooled – the jobs market is weakening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/unemployment-has-dipped-but-dont-be-fooled-the-jobs-market-is-weakening-231923/" aria-label="Read more about Unemployment has dipped, but don’t be fooled – the jobs market is weakening">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Nina Firsova/Shutterstock We’re hearing a lot about ultra-processed foods and the health effects of eating too many. And we know plant-based foods are popular for health or other reasons. So it’s ... <a title="Are plant-based burgers really bad for your heart? Here’s what’s behind the scary headlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/are-plant-based-burgers-really-bad-for-your-heart-heres-whats-behind-the-scary-headlines-232247/" aria-label="Read more about Are plant-based burgers really bad for your heart? Here’s what’s behind the scary headlines">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Bill Shorten, the minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), is currently in New York at a United Nations conference on the rights of people with disabilities. At the weekend, he’ll fly to Europe to represent Australia at a ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bill Shorten’s around-the-world trip to discuss peace in Ukraine and NDIS reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-bill-shortens-around-the-world-trip-to-discuss-peace-in-ukraine-and-ndis-reform-232381/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Bill Shorten’s around-the-world trip to discuss peace in Ukraine and NDIS reform">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney It was a scandal that rocked the shaky foundations of Australia’s trust in big business early last year. Management consulting giant PwC had worked with the federal government to develop plans to curb corporate tax avoidance. Then ... <a title="A year after the PwC scandal, the furore is gone – as well as any real appetite for structural change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/a-year-after-the-pwc-scandal-the-furore-is-gone-as-well-as-any-real-appetite-for-structural-change-232258/" aria-label="Read more about A year after the PwC scandal, the furore is gone – as well as any real appetite for structural change">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lata Vadlamudi, Prinicipal Research Fellow & Neurology and Mental Health Theme Leader UQCCR, The University of Queensland Bertl123/Shutterstock About 50 million people globally have epilepsy. Half of these are women. Until now, treatments for men and women have been identical. But men and women experience epilepsy differently. ... <a title="Women with epilepsy face a rollercoaster of hormones and seizures. But we’re treating them like men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/women-with-epilepsy-face-a-rollercoaster-of-hormones-and-seizures-but-were-treating-them-like-men-215887/" aria-label="Read more about Women with epilepsy face a rollercoaster of hormones and seizures. But we’re treating them like men">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracy Harkison, Associate Professor, School of Hospitality and Tourism, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images What should visiting Aotearoa New Zealand cost your average tourist? The government has suggested raising the price of admission – otherwise known as the international visitor conservation and tourism levy (IVL) – ... <a title="Welcome to NZ – now pay up: the risks and rewards of raising the foreign tourist tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/welcome-to-nz-now-pay-up-the-risks-and-rewards-of-raising-the-foreign-tourist-tax-232138/" aria-label="Read more about Welcome to NZ – now pay up: the risks and rewards of raising the foreign tourist tax">Read more</a>
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June 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Parisa Ziaesaeidi, Associate Lecturer in Architecture, Western Sydney University A prefabricated housing estate Robert Kneschke/Shutterstock The National Cabinet set an ambitious target of building 1.2 million well-located homes over the next five years to tackle Australia’s housing crisis. The focus of the National Housing Accord is on ... <a title="Prefabs and the ‘missing middle’: how to get Australia back on track to build 1.2 million homes in the next 5 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/13/prefabs-and-the-missing-middle-how-to-get-australia-back-on-track-to-build-1-2-million-homes-in-the-next-5-years-231373/" aria-label="Read more about Prefabs and the ‘missing middle’: how to get Australia back on track to build 1.2 million homes in the next 5 years">Read more</a>
