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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist), The Conversation AAP/Joel Carrett At the 2018 Victorian state election, Labor easily won a majority in the lower house of the Victorian parliament, but the upper house result was an anti-democratic shambles, as the Greens won just one of the 40 upper ... <a title="How Victorian Labor’s failure on upper house electoral reform undermines democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/how-victorian-labors-failure-on-upper-house-electoral-reform-undermines-democracy-190136/" aria-label="Read more about How Victorian Labor’s failure on upper house electoral reform undermines democracy">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Qamariya Nasrullah, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary Morphology, Monash University Hossein Anv / Unsplash You only get 52 teeth in your lifetime: 20 baby teeth, followed by 32 adult teeth. It’s not like that for all animals. Some, like rodents, never replace their teeth. Others, like sharks, ... <a title="Why do humans grow two sets of teeth? These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/why-do-humans-grow-two-sets-of-teeth-these-marsupials-are-rewriting-the-story-of-dental-evolution-189796/" aria-label="Read more about Why do humans grow two sets of teeth? These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Shutterstock/The Conversation “One more”. In two words, the great Noongar-Wajuk Australian Rules footballer Lance Franklin indicated he would play on ... <a title="As the 2022 AFLM season comes to a close, the game must ask itself some difficult questions – especially on racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/as-the-2022-aflm-season-comes-to-a-close-the-game-must-ask-itself-some-difficult-questions-especially-on-racism-190847/" aria-label="Read more about As the 2022 AFLM season comes to a close, the game must ask itself some difficult questions – especially on racism">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Brooke Lark/Unsplash, CC BY-SA You may have heard about the longevity diet, and its promise of an extended life span – but what exactly is it and is it any different ... <a title="What’s this ‘longevity’ diet, and will it really make you live longer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/whats-this-longevity-diet-and-will-it-really-make-you-live-longer-189140/" aria-label="Read more about What’s this ‘longevity’ diet, and will it really make you live longer?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University Shutterstock You might feel despondent after reading news reports about countries doubling down on fossil fuels to cope with energy price spikes. Don’t. It’s a blip. While the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a temporary fossil fuel ... <a title="There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/theres-a-huge-surge-in-solar-production-under-way-and-australia-could-show-the-world-how-to-use-it-190241/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University Shutterstock Michael and Karen moved from Melbourne to Castlemaine, about 130km northwest of Victoria’s capital, in mid-2020 – using, like tens of thousands of Australians, the shift to remote work to make a larger lifestyle change. ... <a title="‘We haven’t built it, and they’ve come’: the e-change pressures on Australia’s lifestyle towns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/we-havent-built-it-and-theyve-come-the-e-change-pressures-on-australias-lifestyle-towns-188228/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We haven’t built it, and they’ve come’: the e-change pressures on Australia’s lifestyle towns">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien O’Meara, PhD Candidate, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Channel 5 Peppa Pig’s first same-sex couple, a pair of lesbian polar bears, were recently introduced after a petition to include a same-sex family received nearly 24,000 signatures. Children’s television has often been a place to ... <a title="Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/peppa-pig-has-introduced-a-pair-of-lesbian-polar-bears-but-aussie-kids-tv-has-been-leading-the-way-in-queer-representation-190648/" aria-label="Read more about Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hayley Cullen, Associate lecturer, University of Newcastle In 2000, 18-year-old Baltimore man Adnan Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999. Syed was sentenced to life in prison and served close to 23 years in prison for the crime. That was until this ... <a title="‘Serial’ podcast’s Adnan Syed has murder conviction vacated. How common are wrongful convictions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/serial-podcasts-adnan-syed-has-murder-conviction-vacated-how-common-are-wrongful-convictions-190968/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Serial’ podcast’s Adnan Syed has murder conviction vacated. How common are wrongful convictions?">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Francke, Research Fellow, University of Adelaide Lake Couridjah, Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South Wales Shutterstock Plants capture around half the carbon we emit by burning fossil fuels, making them a crucial part of mitigating climate change. But carbon is often released back into the ... <a title="We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/we-helped-fill-a-major-climate-change-knowledge-gap-thanks-to-130-000-year-old-sediment-in-sydney-lakes-187784/" aria-label="Read more about We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cynthia Sear, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne As we have seen from coverage of “The Queue” – capitalised and thus now, apparently, a proper noun – the English are proud of their queuing prowess. The Queue for the queen lying in state is portrayed as testament ... <a title="‘An obsession with order, hierarchy, and one’s place within it’: what The Queue says about Englishness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/an-obsession-with-order-hierarchy-and-ones-place-within-it-what-the-queue-says-about-englishness-191059/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An obsession with order, hierarchy, and one’s place within it’: what The Queue says about Englishness">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dana Wong, Associate Professor & Clinical Neuropsychologist, La Trobe University Shutterstock Almost 50% of Australians experience mental illness in their lifetime, costing our economy up to A$220 billion annually, according to pre-pandemic figures. The full impact of the pandemic on our nation’s mental health is still emerging, ... <a title="We can’t solve Australia’s mental health emergency if we don’t train enough psychologists. Here are 5 fixes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/we-cant-solve-australias-mental-health-emergency-if-we-dont-train-enough-psychologists-here-are-5-fixes-190135/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t solve Australia’s mental health emergency if we don’t train enough psychologists. Here are 5 fixes">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images With local body elections currently under way, democracy makes its triennial appearance in New Zealand’s towns and cities once again. But elections alone don’t automatically make for democratic governance at street level. And ... <a title="Remote control: why Auckland’s local election is neither local nor democratic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/remote-control-why-aucklands-local-election-is-neither-local-nor-democratic-190837/" aria-label="Read more about Remote control: why Auckland’s local election is neither local nor democratic">Read more</a>
