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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By AJ Wood, Professor of law, Australian National University Dan Peled/AAP We asked our readers what they would like to know about the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In the lead-up to the referendum, our expert authors will answer those questions. You can read the other questions and ... <a title="A Voice to Parliament will not give ‘special treatment’ to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-voice-to-parliament-will-not-give-special-treatment-to-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-australians-heres-why-200650/" aria-label="Read more about A Voice to Parliament will not give ‘special treatment’ to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Adjunct Associate Professor, Flinders University James Dorey, Flinders University, Author provided Australian native bees have evolved complex social structures and foraging behaviours that help biologists answer longstanding questions, such as the origins of social behaviour, and the drivers of increased biodiversity. In European honeybees, ... <a title="Move over, honeybees: Aussie native bees steal the show with unique social and foraging behaviours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/move-over-honeybees-aussie-native-bees-steal-the-show-with-unique-social-and-foraging-behaviours-200536/" aria-label="Read more about Move over, honeybees: Aussie native bees steal the show with unique social and foraging behaviours">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John McCarthy, ARC DECRA Fellow, Flinders University A Bryde’s whale. worldclassphoto/Shutterstock In 2011, researchers observed a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales, now called tread-water feeding or trap-feeding. It was thought to be a new technique developed by specific whale communities. Trap-feeding is one of several whale ... <a title="A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-recently-discovered-whale-feeding-strategy-has-turned-up-in-2-000-year-old-texts-about-fearsome-sea-monsters-200724/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Grealy, Research Projects Officer, CSIRO Gifford Miller, Author provided Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new ... <a title="Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/extinct-elephant-birds-were-3-metres-tall-and-weighed-700kg-now-dna-from-fossil-eggshells-reveals-how-they-lived-200628/" aria-label="Read more about Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ash Porter, Research officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Bird flu has been causing growing concern in recent months, with hundreds of millions of birds dying of the virus since October 2021. This is the largest global outbreak. Last week, an 11-year-old child in ... <a title="When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/when-should-we-worry-about-bird-flu-making-us-sick-when-we-see-human-to-human-transmission-and-theres-no-evidence-of-that-yet-200710/" aria-label="Read more about When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Foley, CEO of Aboriginal Carbon Foundation, Indigenous Knowledge Shutterstock The Albanese government is embarking on a suite of environmental reforms: beefing up Australia’s carbon credit scheme, and establishing a market to fund environmental restoration. These big policy changes may seek to justify colonial practices imposed on ... <a title="‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-stench-of-tokenism-how-environmental-reforms-ignore-first-nations-knowledge-198393/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Lehmann, Honorary Lecturer, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Shutterstock There is a story doing the media rounds that international students – particularly from China – will now “flood” back to Australia. It is claimed this will push up already high rents for ... <a title="‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/are-you-asking-us-to-sleep-under-the-harbour-bridge-3-myths-about-international-students-and-the-housing-crisis-200274/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney Shutterstock Dixi et salvavi animam meam. This Latin phrase – I have spoken and saved my soul – sits at the end of Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme. Written in 1875, this text imagines a ... <a title="The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-at-50-how-marx-trauma-and-compassion-all-influenced-pink-floyds-masterpiece-198400/" aria-label="Read more about The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Adam Bandt aspired to power-sharing with a Labor government. That was never going to happen but, possessing the major slice of the balance of power in the Senate, the Greens have considerable potential muscle – at least in theory. In ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens leader Adam Bandt on trying to force Labor’s hand on reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/28/politics-with-michelle-grattan-greens-leader-adam-bandt-on-trying-to-force-labors-hand-on-reform-200833/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens leader Adam Bandt on trying to force Labor’s hand on reform">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Caldicott, Senior lecturer, Australian National University Lukas Bato/Unsplash Queensland will become the second Australian jurisdiction to offer pill testing. While the timeline is yet to be announced, once up and running, Queenslanders who use illicit drugs can have them checked to see what they actually contain ... <a title="Pill testing is coming to Queensland. Here’s what can we learn from programs overseas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/28/pill-testing-is-coming-to-queensland-heres-what-can-we-learn-from-programs-overseas-200712/" aria-label="Read more about Pill testing is coming to Queensland. Here’s what can we learn from programs overseas">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Davies, Laboratory Head, Doherty Institute, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Group A streptococci, also known as “strep A”, has been on the rise around the world with a new strain reported in the United Kingdom and Europe. This variant has been linked with surges of scarlet ... <a title="Genomics has helped identify a new strep A strain in Australia – and what has made it dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/28/genomics-has-helped-identify-a-new-strep-a-strain-in-australia-and-what-has-made-it-dangerous-200815/" aria-label="Read more about Genomics has helped identify a new strep A strain in Australia – and what has made it dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abraham Gibson, Research Fellow, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University The Bureau of Meteorology released its latest climate driver update on Tuesday, saying the current La Niña has weakened and is “likely near its end”. Most climate models now point to neutral conditions – neither ... <a title="Why El Niño doesn’t mean certain drought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/02/28/why-el-nino-doesnt-mean-certain-drought-197678/" aria-label="Read more about Why El Niño doesn’t mean certain drought">Read more</a>
