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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mick Tsikas/AAP The Liberal Party’s review of its election rout has highlighted the party’s broad and deep problem with the female vote, but shied away from recommending quotas to elect more women. Like Labor’s recent post-mortem, the Liberal analysis also ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Liberal post-mortem urges party to address flight of female vote – but not by quotas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/grattan-on-friday-liberal-post-mortem-urges-party-to-address-flight-of-female-vote-but-not-by-quotas-197015/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Liberal post-mortem urges party to address flight of female vote – but not by quotas">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Caldicott, Senior lecturer, Australian National University Shutterstock The agent that contaminated baby spinach, prompting the recent national recall, has been revealed. It’s a weed, not deliberate misadventure or a chemical contaminant. The culprit is thornapple, otherwise known as jimsonweed or, to give it its scientific name, ... <a title="The peculiar history of thornapple, the hallucinogenic weed that ended up in supermarket spinach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/the-peculiar-history-of-thornapple-the-hallucinogenic-weed-that-ended-up-in-supermarket-spinach-197014/" aria-label="Read more about The peculiar history of thornapple, the hallucinogenic weed that ended up in supermarket spinach">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristine Macartney, Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney Unsplash/Engin Akyurt Former federal MP Dr Kerryn Phelps has talked this week about the medical problems she and her wife had after their COVID-19 vaccinations around 18 months ago. In her submission to the parliamentary ... <a title="How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/how-common-are-severe-side-effects-from-covid-vaccines-and-how-are-they-detected-196937/" aria-label="Read more about How common are severe side effects from COVID vaccines? And how are they detected?">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Siemens, Co-Director, Professor, Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning, University of South Australia ktsdesign/Shutterstock In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for US$13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. The field they proposed to explore was artificial ... <a title="Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/not-everything-we-call-ai-is-actually-artificial-intelligence-heres-what-you-need-to-know-196732/" aria-label="Read more about Not everything we call AI is actually ‘artificial intelligence’. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Farmer, Senior Lecturer, Criminology, Deakin University American popular culture dominates international markets. Among its most enduringly successful products are police dramas and movies. Many of these feature frequent and overwhelmingly positive depictions of police gun violence – a popular example, and a favourite at this time ... <a title="Police gun violence is glorified on screen. But more armed and aggressive policing doesn’t actually make us safer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/police-gun-violence-is-glorified-on-screen-but-more-armed-and-aggressive-policing-doesnt-actually-make-us-safer-195920/" aria-label="Read more about Police gun violence is glorified on screen. But more armed and aggressive policing doesn’t actually make us safer">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong Progress towards Australia’s new emissions target of a 43% reduction by 2030 (from 2005 levels) has been decidedly mixed. Emissions in the electricity sector have fallen in recent years, but the upward trend in another major sector, transport, is ... <a title="Why electric vehicles won’t be enough to rein in transport emissions any time soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/why-electric-vehicles-wont-be-enough-to-rein-in-transport-emissions-any-time-soon-195722/" aria-label="Read more about Why electric vehicles won’t be enough to rein in transport emissions any time soon">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniela Mueller, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Else Blankenhorn, ALLEGORY WITH IMPERIAL COUPLE, before 1920, oil on canvas, Inv. 4305 © Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg University Hospital In this series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting. I often wonder if this mystical painting depicts a ... <a title="Why I love Else Blankenhorn’s Allegory with Imperial Couple, and the love story it reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/why-i-love-else-blankenhorns-allegory-with-imperial-couple-and-the-love-story-it-reveals-189451/" aria-label="Read more about Why I love Else Blankenhorn’s Allegory with Imperial Couple, and the love story it reveals">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rewi Newnham, Professor in Physical Geography, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/jet 67 When a recent study implicated forest fires set by early Māori in a hemisphere-wide rise in emissions, it ignited controversy. The incriminating evidence comes from Antarctic ice cores containing so-called refracted ... <a title="Research linking soot in Antarctic ice exclusively with early Māori fires was flawed – there were other sources elsewhere" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/research-linking-soot-in-antarctic-ice-exclusively-with-early-maori-fires-was-flawed-there-were-other-sources-elsewhere-194816/" aria-label="Read more about Research linking soot in Antarctic ice exclusively with early Māori fires was flawed – there were other sources elsewhere">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Kilah, Senior Lecturer in Chemistry, University of Tasmania Shutterstock The pavlova is a summer icon; just a few simple ingredients can be transformed into a beautifully flavoured and textured dessert. But despite its simplicity, there’s a surprising amount of chemistry involved in making a pavlova. Knowing ... <a title="How to make the perfect pavlova, according to chemistry experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/how-to-make-the-perfect-pavlova-according-to-chemistry-experts-196485/" aria-label="Read more about How to make the perfect pavlova, according to chemistry experts">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hulya Gilbert, Lecturer in Planning and Human Geography, La Trobe University Shutterstock Ride-share company Uber has just rolled out an option to book vehicles equipped with a children’s car seat across Melbourne. Uber is also considering allowing unaccompanied children to use its service. In Australia, a recent ... <a title="Uber plans a kids service to replace mum and dad’s taxi. What’s wrong with that? Plenty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/uber-plans-a-kids-service-to-replace-mum-and-dads-taxi-whats-wrong-with-that-plenty-196491/" aria-label="Read more about Uber plans a kids service to replace mum and dad’s taxi. What’s wrong with that? Plenty">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johanna Thomas-Maude, PhD Candidate in Development Studies, Massey University GettyImages Immigration New Zealand’s recent announcement that all medical doctors would be included on the straight-to-residence pathway doesn’t quite give the full picture. In fact, “all” only includes those doctors who can have their medical registration approved before ... <a title="NZ’s medical licensing system is still a major hurdle for desperately needed foreign-trained doctors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/nzs-medical-licensing-system-is-still-a-major-hurdle-for-desperately-needed-foreign-trained-doctors-196724/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s medical licensing system is still a major hurdle for desperately needed foreign-trained doctors">Read more</a>
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December 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney Shutterstock A glass or two of champagne with Christmas lunch. A cool crisp beer at the beach. Some cheeky cocktails with friends to see in the New Year. There seem to be so many occasions ... <a title="Drinking alcohol this Christmas and New Year? These medicines really don’t mix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/22/drinking-alcohol-this-christmas-and-new-year-these-medicines-really-dont-mix-196646/" aria-label="Read more about Drinking alcohol this Christmas and New Year? These medicines really don’t mix">Read more</a>
