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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Sumruay Rattanataipob/Shutterstock Species lists are one of the unseen pillars of science and society. Lists of species underpin our understanding of the natural world, threatened species management, quarantine, disease control and much else besides. The people ... <a title="We need a single list of all life on Earth – and most taxonomists now agree on how to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/we-need-a-single-list-of-all-life-on-earth-and-most-taxonomists-now-agree-on-how-to-start-216006/" aria-label="Read more about We need a single list of all life on Earth – and most taxonomists now agree on how to start">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harry Hobbs, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney Judges have described it as “gibberish”, “obvious nonsense”, “largely incoherent, if not incomprehensible” and “gobbledygook”. It involves grand claims like “Magna Carta means you do not need to pay your mortgage”, or “the introduction of decimal currency means income ... <a title="Some people think income tax is illegal. It’s pseudolaw, and it’s damaging the legal system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/some-people-think-income-tax-is-illegal-its-pseudolaw-and-its-damaging-the-legal-system-214847/" aria-label="Read more about Some people think income tax is illegal. It’s pseudolaw, and it’s damaging the legal system">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor, Murdoch University Shutterstock Even as Australia braces for a summer of projected extreme heatwaves and bushfires amid the intensifying climate crisis, the fossil gas industry is gearing up for a truly enormous new fracking project in the Northern Territory’s Beetaloo Basin. In February, ... <a title="The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/the-beetaloo-gas-field-is-a-climate-bomb-how-did-csiro-modelling-make-it-look-otherwise-215711/" aria-label="Read more about The Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did CSIRO modelling make it look otherwise?">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Destructive wildfires continue to threaten lives, property and the environment throughout the world. Around 10% of all fires globally occur on agricultural land, causing damage to crops, infrastructure and nearby native vegetation. But what if the properties ... <a title="Fire-smart farming: how the crops we plant could help reduce the risk of wildfires on agricultural landscapes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/fire-smart-farming-how-the-crops-we-plant-could-help-reduce-the-risk-of-wildfires-on-agricultural-landscapes-215703/" aria-label="Read more about Fire-smart farming: how the crops we plant could help reduce the risk of wildfires on agricultural landscapes">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University Karolina Grabowska/Pexels , CC BY-SA Australia’s Year 12 students are in the middle of making important decisions about their futures. For many, this will involve choosing a university course and the subjects within that. But if trends are anything ... <a title="The number of Australian students learning Indonesian keeps dropping. How do we fix this worrying decline?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/the-number-of-australian-students-learning-indonesian-keeps-dropping-how-do-we-fix-this-worrying-decline-216348/" aria-label="Read more about The number of Australian students learning Indonesian keeps dropping. How do we fix this worrying decline?">Read more</a>
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October 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University Childcare in Australia is generally regarded as expensive. And it’s true that prices charged by some centres, particularly long daycare centres, can be pretty steep, climbing to ... <a title="Yes, childcare is costly, but nowhere near as costly as recent reports suggest – here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/31/yes-childcare-is-costly-but-nowhere-near-as-costly-as-recent-reports-suggest-heres-why-215259/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, childcare is costly, but nowhere near as costly as recent reports suggest – here’s why">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janet Davies, Professor and Head, Allergy Research Group, Queensland University of Technology Ruben Fino/Shutterstock Victorians have been warned to prepare for the possibility of thunderstorm asthma again this season. In temperate regions of Australia, thunderstorm asthma occurs when levels of grass pollen in the air are high, ... <a title="We could see thunderstorm asthma in south-eastern Australia this season – here’s how to prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/we-could-see-thunderstorm-asthma-in-south-eastern-australia-this-season-heres-how-to-prepare-215793/" aria-label="Read more about We could see thunderstorm asthma in south-eastern Australia this season – here’s how to prepare">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This is the text of the House of Representatives Speaker’s Lecture, delivered at Parliament House on Monday, October 30 We have a distrustful and disillusioned electorate, a professionalised political system that, however, frequently alienates the sort of people we should ... <a title="View from The Hill: is the political system letting down the Australian public?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/view-from-the-hill-is-the-political-system-letting-down-the-australian-public-215790/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: is the political system letting down the Australian public?">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Enzo Palombo, Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology Elena Eryomenko/Shutterstock A condition dubbed “fried rice syndrome” has caused some panic online in recent days, after the case of a 20-year-old who died in 2008 was resurfaced on TikTok. “Fried rice syndrome” refers to food poisoning from ... <a title="What is ‘fried rice syndrome’? A microbiologist explains this type of food poisoning – and how to avoid it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/what-is-fried-rice-syndrome-a-microbiologist-explains-this-type-of-food-poisoning-and-how-to-avoid-it-216536/" aria-label="Read more about What is ‘fried rice syndrome’? A microbiologist explains this type of food poisoning – and how to avoid it">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Johnson, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Growing Beyond Earth A pink glow is shining on the faces of enthusiastic students as they tend to plants in purpose-built grow boxes for space stations. These students are the first in Australia to experience Growing Beyond Earth – a ... <a title="Australian school students are experimenting with ‘space veggies’ in a NASA initiative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/australian-school-students-are-experimenting-with-space-veggies-in-a-nasa-initiative-205569/" aria-label="Read more about Australian school students are experimenting with ‘space veggies’ in a NASA initiative">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Fraser, Postdoctoral Researcher , The University of Melbourne How do siblings affect the size of baby blue tits? It depends whom you ask. Shutterstock Over the past 20 years or so, there has been growing concern that many results published in scientific journals can’t be reproduced. ... <a title="Two questions, hundreds of scientists, no easy answers: how small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/two-questions-hundreds-of-scientists-no-easy-answers-how-small-differences-in-data-analysis-make-huge-differences-in-results-216177/" aria-label="Read more about Two questions, hundreds of scientists, no easy answers: how small differences in data analysis make huge differences in results">Read more</a>
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October 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Boschen, Research Associate, Casual Academic, PhD Candidate, Flinders University Shutterstock The ABC is reporting how terminally ill patients are being left in limbo as the states and the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) argue over disability supports. The reports share the experiences of Australians with brain ... <a title="Brain tumours can bring long-term disability – but some diagnosed are being refused NDIS support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/30/brain-tumours-can-bring-long-term-disability-but-some-diagnosed-are-being-refused-ndis-support-216534/" aria-label="Read more about Brain tumours can bring long-term disability – but some diagnosed are being refused NDIS support">Read more</a>
