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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keiran Hardy, Senior Lecturer, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University Lukas Coch/AAP At the National Press Club this week, Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neil flagged that Labor would propose changes to Australia’s counter-terrorism laws. She cited an increase in diverse threats beyond religious fundamentalism, a ... <a title="Does Australia need new laws to combat right-wing extremism?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/does-australia-need-new-laws-to-combat-right-wing-extremism-196219/" aria-label="Read more about Does Australia need new laws to combat right-wing extremism?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Thompson, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Broadcasting Minister Willie Jackson’s announcement of planned legislation requiring big online platforms such as Google and Meta/Facebook to “pay a fair price” to New Zealand news media for their content ... <a title="Breaking news: making Google and Facebook pay NZ media for content could deliver less than bargained for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/breaking-news-making-google-and-facebook-pay-nz-media-for-content-could-deliver-less-than-bargained-for-196030/" aria-label="Read more about Breaking news: making Google and Facebook pay NZ media for content could deliver less than bargained for">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock “Kneading” is when cats massage an object with the front paws, which extend and retract, one paw at a time. This massaging action, named for its resemblance to kneading dough, is repeated rhythmically. ... <a title="Why do cats knead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/why-do-cats-knead-192743/" aria-label="Read more about Why do cats knead?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Irene Gallego Romero, Senior Lecturer in Human Genetics, The University of Melbourne Derek R. Audette/Shutterstock An encounter with a mysterious and extinct human relative – the Denisovans – has left a mark on the immune traits of modern Papuans, in particular those living on New Guinea Island. ... <a title="DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/dna-from-elusive-human-relatives-the-denisovans-has-left-a-curious-mark-on-modern-people-in-new-guinea-196113/" aria-label="Read more about DNA from elusive human relatives the Denisovans has left a curious mark on modern people in New Guinea">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Orsola De Marco, Professor of Astrophysics, Macquarie University NASA When the first five images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) were unveiled, one of them stared at me with two eyes. It was an image of the Southern Ring Nebula, NGC3132, and smack in the middle ... <a title="‘Extreme stripping action’ led to the messy birth of the Southern Ring Nebula, Webb image reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/extreme-stripping-action-led-to-the-messy-birth-of-the-southern-ring-nebula-webb-image-reveals-196052/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Extreme stripping action’ led to the messy birth of the Southern Ring Nebula, Webb image reveals">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yen Ying Lim, Associate Professor, Monash University robina weermeijer/unsplash, CC BY-SA We often hear about “dementia breakthroughs” in the news – new genes being discovered, new blood tests being developed, new drugs being tested. However, there remains no effective or accessible cure for dementia. This is of ... <a title="Lots of ‘breakthroughs’, still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/lots-of-breakthroughs-still-no-cure-do-the-new-dementia-drugs-bring-us-any-closer-195095/" aria-label="Read more about Lots of ‘breakthroughs’, still no cure. Do the new dementia drugs bring us any closer?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Picture this. You’re in government for the first time in more than a decade. And within six months, you’re facing a diabolical problem: skyrocketing energy prices. To your constituents, it doesn’t matter that the root cause is a war ... <a title="Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/surging-energy-prices-are-really-going-to-hurt-what-can-the-government-actually-do-196206/" aria-label="Read more about Surging energy prices are really going to hurt. What can the government actually do?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Senior Research Fellow, School of Education, The University of Queensland Nathan Cowley/Pexels Flexi schools cater to young people who have been pushed out of mainstream schools. Some students may have been expelled or struggled to fit in. Some may have been bullied or have learning ... <a title="‘I would like to go to university’: flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/i-would-like-to-go-to-university-flexi-school-students-share-their-goals-in-australia-first-survey-193396/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I would like to go to university’: flexi school students share their goals in Australia-first survey">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia Ranald, Honorary research associate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia is about to play host to negotiators from 14 countries involved in the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) over six days in Brisbane from Saturday. They include the United States, Australia, Brunei, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, ... <a title="What is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, about to be negotiated in Brisbane?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/what-is-the-indo-pacific-economic-framework-about-to-be-negotiated-in-brisbane-196122/" aria-label="Read more about What is the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, about to be negotiated in Brisbane?">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor of Visual Communication in the School of Design, University of Technology Sydney The author and her family with Santa in 1980. Author provided In April 1995, my uncle secured a lucrative job in Saudi Arabia. He and my aunt left their home in ... <a title="Tantrums to tinsel: why I love the curious and festive tradition of the Santa photo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/09/tantrums-to-tinsel-why-i-love-the-curious-and-festive-tradition-of-the-santa-photo-195293/" aria-label="Read more about Tantrums to tinsel: why I love the curious and festive tradition of the Santa photo">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mick Tsikas/AAP Anthony Albanese heads towards Christmas with inflation, interest rates and power prices all high. But, comfortingly for Labor, his own popularity is up there too. The objective circumstances in which the government finds itself sit somewhere between challenging ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Australians are starting to feel the economic pain, but they are not taking it out on Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/grattan-on-friday-australians-are-starting-to-feel-the-economic-pain-but-they-are-not-taking-it-out-on-albanese-196221/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Australians are starting to feel the economic pain, but they are not taking it out on Albanese">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Wintle, Professor in Conservation Science, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The Albanese government has just released its long-awaited response to a scathing independent review of Australia’s environment protection law. The 2020 review ultimately found the laws were flawed, outdated and, ... <a title="Our laws fail nature. The government’s plan to overhaul them looks good, but crucial detail is yet to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/08/our-laws-fail-nature-the-governments-plan-to-overhaul-them-looks-good-but-crucial-detail-is-yet-to-come-196126/" aria-label="Read more about Our laws fail nature. The government’s plan to overhaul them looks good, but crucial detail is yet to come">Read more</a>
