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December 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Cleary, Sustainable Economies Lead, Climateworks Centre, Monash University Shutterstock We might look back on 2022 as the year when Australian governments finally started taking climate change as seriously as it needs to be. Our new report shows federal, state and territory governments all substantially improved their ... <a title="In 2022, Australia’s governments finally got moving on climate. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/in-2022-australias-governments-finally-got-moving-on-climate-heres-how-195729/" aria-label="Read more about In 2022, Australia’s governments finally got moving on climate. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Beetson, Executive Director, The Literacy for Life Foundation; Adjunct Professor, University of New England Photo credit: Adam Sharman, Author provided Despite years of discussion and countless reviews, the incarceration rate of First Nations adults continues to increase in Australia. The federal government has said it will ... <a title="‘A life changing experience’: how adult literacy programs can keep First Nations people out of the criminal justice system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/a-life-changing-experience-how-adult-literacy-programs-can-keep-first-nations-people-out-of-the-criminal-justice-system-195715/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A life changing experience’: how adult literacy programs can keep First Nations people out of the criminal justice system">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University NASA December 7 marks the 50-year anniversary of the Blue Marble photograph. The crew of NASA’s Apollo 17 spacecraft – the last manned mission to the Moon – took a photograph of Earth and changed the way we ... <a title="The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/the-first-photograph-of-the-entire-globe-50-years-on-blue-marble-still-inspires-175051/" aria-label="Read more about The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Getty Images When Fijians elect a new parliament on December 14, it’s likely their votes will be counted fairly – yet the country will remain ... <a title="As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/07/as-fiji-prepares-to-vote-democracy-could-already-be-the-loser-195555/" aria-label="Read more about As Fiji prepares to vote, democracy could already be the loser">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock You might not know it from reading Tuesday’s statement announcing Australia’s eighth consecutive increase in interest rates, but our Reserve Bank might finally have done enough. The statement says inflation is still “too high” ... <a title="This latest increase in RBA interest rates might well be the last, for some time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/this-latest-increase-in-rba-interest-rates-might-well-be-the-last-for-some-time-195936/" aria-label="Read more about This latest increase in RBA interest rates might well be the last, for some time">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney Shutterstock We’ve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It’s usually a little pop-up in the corner of a website, offering customer support – often clunky to navigate – and almost always frustratingly non-specific. But imagine ... <a title="The ChatGPT chatbot is blowing people away with its writing skills. An expert explains why it’s so impressive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/the-chatgpt-chatbot-is-blowing-people-away-with-its-writing-skills-an-expert-explains-why-its-so-impressive-195908/" aria-label="Read more about The ChatGPT chatbot is blowing people away with its writing skills. An expert explains why it’s so impressive">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania It’s been some journey for Anwar Ibrahim, the new Malaysian prime minister appointed last month. It took 24 years to go from being the country’s deputy prime minister in 1998 to becoming the prime minister today, at 75 ... <a title="The daunting task facing new Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim: uniting a divided country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/the-daunting-task-facing-new-malaysian-prime-minister-anwar-ibrahim-uniting-a-divided-country-195890/" aria-label="Read more about The daunting task facing new Malaysian prime minister Anwar Ibrahim: uniting a divided country">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martyn Pedler, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock/ Disney In Travis Linnemann’s book The Horror Of Police, he quotes David Grossman, founder of the “bulletproof warrior” seminar series, notorious for teaching police that killing is “just not that big of a deal.” At the end of ... <a title="‘Any means necessary’: the police who adopt the skull symbol of the ultra-violent comic book vigilante the Punisher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/any-means-necessary-the-police-who-adopt-the-skull-symbol-of-the-ultra-violent-comic-book-vigilante-the-punisher-195922/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Any means necessary’: the police who adopt the skull symbol of the ultra-violent comic book vigilante the Punisher">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter J. Dean, Director, Foreign Policy and Defence, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Mick Tsikas/AAP Climate action is firmly on the political agenda in both Australia and the United States, following a recent change in government in both nations. As this year’s Australia-US Ministerial Consultations ... <a title="Australia and the US are firm friends on defence – now let’s turn that into world-beating climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/australia-and-the-us-are-firm-friends-on-defence-now-lets-turn-that-into-world-beating-climate-action-195905/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and the US are firm friends on defence – now let’s turn that into world-beating climate action">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Andrew, Professor of fisheries and international development, University of Wollongong Urchin barrens David Harasti, Author provided While crown-of-thorns starfish on the Great Barrier Reef have long been ecological villains in the popular imagination, sea urchins have mostly crawled under the national radar – until now. Long-spined ... <a title="Sea urchins have invaded Tasmania and Victoria, but we can’t work out what to do with them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/sea-urchins-have-invaded-tasmania-and-victoria-but-we-cant-work-out-what-to-do-with-them-194534/" aria-label="Read more about Sea urchins have invaded Tasmania and Victoria, but we can’t work out what to do with them">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hazel Keedle, Lecturer of Midwifery, Western Sydney University Shutterstock Having a baby can be an empowering experience when women are treated with kindness and respect. However, some women are left feeling traumatised by how they were treated. When women receive disrespectful and abusive care from health providers ... <a title="1 in 10 Australian women report disrespectful or abusive care in childbirth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/1-in-10-australian-women-report-disrespectful-or-abusive-care-in-childbirth-186827/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 10 Australian women report disrespectful or abusive care in childbirth">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Markus Luczak-Roesch, Associate Professor in Information Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images If the debate about Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter tells us anything, it’s that people – including those in governments – don’t understand how the World Wide Web works. We ... <a title="It’s not just Twitter. The whole Internet is broken and we’d better fix it soon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/06/its-not-just-twitter-the-whole-internet-is-broken-and-wed-better-fix-it-soon-195712/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not just Twitter. The whole Internet is broken and we’d better fix it soon">Read more</a>
