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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theo Evans, Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia jgeyser, Shutterstock A new pest attacking Perth’s trees threatens to spread across Australia, damaging crops and native forests as well as our urban forest. To control its spread, the Western Australian government is chopping down hundreds of established ... <a title="Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/australias-shot-hole-borer-beetle-invasion-has-begun-but-we-dont-need-to-chop-down-every-tree-under-attack-222610/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s shot-hole borer beetle invasion has begun, but we don’t need to chop down every tree under attack">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology The government’s move to remove legal aid funding for what are commonly known as cultural reports at sentencing has been wrapped up in rhetoric about restoring “personal responsibility”, reducing “discounts” or “reductions” on sentences, and saving money. This ... <a title="Ending legal aid for cultural reports at sentencing may only make court hearings longer and costlier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/ending-legal-aid-for-cultural-reports-at-sentencing-may-only-make-court-hearings-longer-and-costlier-223627/" aria-label="Read more about Ending legal aid for cultural reports at sentencing may only make court hearings longer and costlier">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brooke Nickel, NHMRC Emerging Leader Research Fellow, University of Sydney Thought Catalog/Unsplash Corporations have used feminist language to promote their products for decades. In the 1980s, companies co-opted messaging about female autonomy to encourage women’s consumption of unhealthy commodities, such as tobacco and alcohol. Today, feminist narratives ... <a title="Feminist narratives are being hijacked to market medical tests not backed by evidence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/feminist-narratives-are-being-hijacked-to-market-medical-tests-not-backed-by-evidence-220282/" aria-label="Read more about Feminist narratives are being hijacked to market medical tests not backed by evidence">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Lee, PhD Candidate, Dermatology Research Centre, The University of Queensland Ground Picture/Shutterstock Reports have recently emerged that solariums, or sunbeds – largely banned in Australia because they increase the risk of skin cancer – are being rebranded as “collarium” sunbeds (“coll” being short for collagen). Commercial ... <a title="What are ‘collarium’ sunbeds? Here’s why you should stay away" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/what-are-collarium-sunbeds-heres-why-you-should-stay-away-223192/" aria-label="Read more about What are ‘collarium’ sunbeds? Here’s why you should stay away">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate – Social Media and Communication, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Taking selfies to document daily life is now a completely normalised activity across all ages and demographics. At the same time, however, selfies are often maligned – particularly in specific contexts ... <a title="Why banning gym selfies could do us all a lot of good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/why-banning-gym-selfies-could-do-us-all-a-lot-of-good-223187/" aria-label="Read more about Why banning gym selfies could do us all a lot of good">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Bargh, Professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Many of the speakers at Kingi Tūheitia’s Hui a Motu in Tūrangawaewae last month talked of their desire for a flourishing Aotearoa. A place where Māori knowledge and leadership is embraced and where the universal benefits ... <a title="Māori political systems are the oldest in Aotearoa – it’s time university politics courses reflected this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/maori-political-systems-are-the-oldest-in-aotearoa-its-time-university-politics-courses-reflected-this-223447/" aria-label="Read more about Māori political systems are the oldest in Aotearoa – it’s time university politics courses reflected this">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anya Phelan, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Griffith University Mykolastock, Shutterstock After the memorable collapse of Australia’s largest soft plastic recycling program REDcycle in late 2022, a new scheme is emerging. It’s remarkably similar, albeit on a much smaller scale. The trial underway in 12 Melbourne ... <a title="Soft plastic recycling is back after the REDcycle collapse – but only in 12 supermarkets. Will it work this time?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/15/soft-plastic-recycling-is-back-after-the-redcycle-collapse-but-only-in-12-supermarkets-will-it-work-this-time-223232/" aria-label="Read more about Soft plastic recycling is back after the REDcycle collapse – but only in 12 supermarkets. Will it work this time?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie P. Smith, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University ABS, CC BY Childcare is probably Australia’s largest industry, most of it unpaid. We know this because of Australian Bureau of Statistics time use surveys. Since 1992 these surveys have recorded what thousands of Australians say they do ... <a title="If the ABS guts Australia’s time use survey, women’s work will count for little" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/14/if-the-abs-guts-australias-time-use-survey-womens-work-will-count-for-little-223453/" aria-label="Read more about If the ABS guts Australia’s time use survey, women’s work will count for little">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2024
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 Tasmanian Liberal Premier Jeremy Rockliff today announced the Tasmanian election would be held on March 23, more than a year early. The election was called early owing ... <a title="Jacqui Lambie Network could win balance of power at Tasmanian election; Labor lead steady in federal polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/14/jacqui-lambie-network-could-win-balance-of-power-at-tasmanian-election-labor-lead-steady-in-federal-polls-223097/" aria-label="Read more about Jacqui Lambie Network could win balance of power at Tasmanian election; Labor lead steady in federal polls">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Eccleston, Professor of Political Science; Director, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania After months of speculation about an early election and a battle to keep minority government alive, Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff – Australia’s last remaining Liberal Premier – has called an election for March 23, ... <a title="Tasmania is going to an early election. Will the country’s last Liberal state be no more?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/14/tasmania-is-going-to-an-early-election-will-the-countrys-last-liberal-state-be-no-more-216533/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmania is going to an early election. Will the country’s last Liberal state be no more?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mitchell Lyons, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Shutterstock The world’s coral reefs are close to 25% larger than we thought. By using satellite images, machine learning and on-ground knowledge from a global network of people living and working on coral reefs, we found an extra ... <a title="The world’s coral reefs are bigger than we thought – but it took satellites, snorkels and machine learning to see them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/14/the-worlds-coral-reefs-are-bigger-than-we-thought-but-it-took-satellites-snorkels-and-machine-learning-to-see-them-223322/" aria-label="Read more about The world’s coral reefs are bigger than we thought – but it took satellites, snorkels and machine learning to see them">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Balanzategui, Senior Lecturer in Media, RMIT University Skinamarink/Shudder © 2022 Director Kyle Edward Ball’s feature film debut, Skinamarink, achieved unexpected commercial success last year after going viral on TikTok. Hailed by some critics as the best horror film of 2023, or even the scariest of all ... <a title="‘Analog uncanny’: how this weird and experimental side of TikTok is forging the future of horror" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/14/analog-uncanny-how-this-weird-and-experimental-side-of-tiktok-is-forging-the-future-of-horror-222882/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Analog uncanny’: how this weird and experimental side of TikTok is forging the future of horror">Read more</a>
