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August 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Crawford, Senior Lecturer, Management, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Belonging is about feeling accepted, included and valued. If students feel like they belong at their university, research shows it plays a crucial role in their overall wellbeing, self-esteem, and motivation to study. As the Universities Accord interim ... <a title="Help to settle in and friendships beyond class: what makes students feel like they belong at uni" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/01/help-to-settle-in-and-friendships-beyond-class-what-makes-students-feel-like-they-belong-at-uni-210632/" aria-label="Read more about Help to settle in and friendships beyond class: what makes students feel like they belong at uni">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonny Cassidy, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University A 6 meter tall Ned Kelly stands on the main street of Glenrowan, Victoria. Shutterstock The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections ... <a title="Ned Kelly’s descendants claim cultural heritage rights over the site of his last stand. The Supreme Court disagrees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/01/ned-kellys-descendants-claim-cultural-heritage-rights-over-the-site-of-his-last-stand-the-supreme-court-disagrees-210645/" aria-label="Read more about Ned Kelly’s descendants claim cultural heritage rights over the site of his last stand. The Supreme Court disagrees">Read more</a>
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August 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Lauren Dickason is being tried at the Christchurch High Court. Getty Images Lawyers are fussy about language because it is their job to argue about its implications. The current trial of Lauren Dickason is a case in point, ... <a title="What does ‘infanticide’ mean in NZ law? And what must the jury decide in Lauren Dickason’s trial?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/01/what-does-infanticide-mean-in-nz-law-and-what-must-the-jury-decide-in-lauren-dickasons-trial-210630/" aria-label="Read more about What does ‘infanticide’ mean in NZ law? And what must the jury decide in Lauren Dickason’s trial?">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has accused the Robodebt royal commission of making wrong, unsubstantiated and absurd findings against him, in a detailed statement to parliament. The former prime minister, who was excoriated by the commission, was unrepentant, giving no ground on any ... <a title="Morrison labels Robodebt findings against him unsubstantiated and absurd and accuses government ‘lynching’ campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/morrison-labels-robodebt-findings-against-him-unsubstantiated-and-absurd-and-accuses-government-lynching-campaign-210722/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison labels Robodebt findings against him unsubstantiated and absurd and accuses government ‘lynching’ campaign">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahboobeh Shahbazi, Senior Research Fellow, Materials Science, Queensland University of Technology Hyun-Tak Kim Last week, a group of South Korean physicists made a startling claim. In two papers uploaded to the arXiv preprint server, they say they have created a material that “opens a new era for ... <a title="Viral room-temperature superconductor claims spark excitement – and skepticism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/viral-room-temperature-superconductor-claims-spark-excitement-and-skepticism-210700/" aria-label="Read more about Viral room-temperature superconductor claims spark excitement – and skepticism">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tatiana Bur, Lecturer in Classics, Australian National University Disney/ Wikipedia At the heart of the newest film in the Indiana Jones series lies “an ancient hunk of gears”. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is based around the Antikythera Mechanism: an actual ancient Greek object that ... <a title="What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera Mechanism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/what-indiana-jones-and-the-dial-of-destiny-gets-right-and-very-wrong-about-the-historical-antikythera-mechanism-209968/" aria-label="Read more about What Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny gets right (and very wrong) about the historical Antikythera Mechanism">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Mares, Adjunct senior research fellow at Monash University’s School of Media Film and Journalism, Monash University “Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary”. This was the view of an expert panel, commissioned by ... <a title="Parents may wait up to 40 years to join family in Australia. Is a visa lottery the answer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/parents-may-wait-up-to-40-years-to-join-family-in-australia-is-a-visa-lottery-the-answer-210631/" aria-label="Read more about Parents may wait up to 40 years to join family in Australia. Is a visa lottery the answer?">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niki Teunissen, Postdoctoral researcher, Wageningen University Niki Teunissen/AWC, Author provided Wildfire threatens the survival of endangered purple-crowned fairy-wrens living along the rivers and creeks of northern Australia, our new research has found. For almost two decades, we studied the fairy-wrens at a wildlife sanctuary in the far ... <a title="Fire in northern Australia’s tropical savanna is a threat to endangered fairy-wrens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/fire-in-northern-australias-tropical-savanna-is-a-threat-to-endangered-fairy-wrens-210066/" aria-label="Read more about Fire in northern Australia’s tropical savanna is a threat to endangered fairy-wrens">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Koplin, Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology, The University of Queensland Shutterstock Parents, carers and childcare settings are much more aware of food allergies than they once were. Precautions are taken and emergency plans can be developed for each child at risk of a reaction. But ... <a title="What is food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome or FPIES? And are more babies getting it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/what-is-food-protein-induced-enterocolitis-syndrome-or-fpies-and-are-more-babies-getting-it-209521/" aria-label="Read more about What is food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome or FPIES? And are more babies getting it?">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Cobham, Professor of Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland Cottonbro Studio/Pexels Going to school can be challenging for children and young people at times. Most young people will have patches during their school career where it feels hard. That’s normal. Getting through those hard times can ... <a title="How do you know when it’s time to seriously think about changing your child’s school?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/how-do-you-know-when-its-time-to-seriously-think-about-changing-your-childs-school-210480/" aria-label="Read more about How do you know when it’s time to seriously think about changing your child’s school?">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paola A. Magni, Senior Lecturer in Forensic Science, Murdoch University Photo by Stevie Ziogos, Author provided Until the late 19th century, the success of criminal investigations largely hung on witness reports and (often extorted) confessions. A lack of scientific tools meant investigators needed advanced deductive reasoning abilities ... <a title="Secrets wrapped in fabric: how our study of 100 decomposing piglet bodies will help solve criminal cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/secrets-wrapped-in-fabric-how-our-study-of-100-decomposing-piglet-bodies-will-help-solve-criminal-cases-207418/" aria-label="Read more about Secrets wrapped in fabric: how our study of 100 decomposing piglet bodies will help solve criminal cases">Read more</a>
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July 31, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sussex, Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Vladimir Putin’s own version of history casts himself as modern Russia’s bulwark and champion. According to this narrative, Putin has sturdily held back waves of foreign and domestic adversaries, and simultaneously restored Russia to greatness. Although ... <a title="More corrupt, fractured and ostracised: how Vladimir Putin has changed Russia in over two decades on top" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/07/31/more-corrupt-fractured-and-ostracised-how-vladimir-putin-has-changed-russia-in-over-two-decades-on-top-206086/" aria-label="Read more about More corrupt, fractured and ostracised: how Vladimir Putin has changed Russia in over two decades on top">Read more</a>
