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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Munro, Lecturer, University of South Australia Topbunk Review: Invisibility, MOD museum, Adelaide Disinformation, algorithms, big data, care work, climate change, cultural knowledge: they can all be invisible. In her New York Times bestseller, Weapons of Math Destruction (2016), subtitled “how big data increases inequality and threatens ... <a title="A new exhibition explores invisible data, from facial algorithms to satellite tracking as a return to Country" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/a-new-exhibition-explores-invisible-data-from-facial-algorithms-to-satellite-tracking-as-a-return-to-country-176567/" aria-label="Read more about A new exhibition explores invisible data, from facial algorithms to satellite tracking as a return to Country">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Maritz, Professor of Entrepreneurship, La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University GettyImages Research has found Indigenous start-up businesses could improve the welfare and well-being of First Nations individuals and communities. This has the potential to reduce many economic and social setbacks experienced by Indigenous people. Australia ... <a title="Indigenous entrepreneurship may well be the driver of social innovation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/indigenous-entrepreneurship-may-well-be-the-driver-of-social-innovation-176671/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous entrepreneurship may well be the driver of social innovation">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Coghlan, Senior Lecturer in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne Wild horses roaming the Snowy Mountains have long been the subject of fierce debate. Some say they’re feral pests destroying Kosciuszko National Park’s fragile ... <a title="Introduced species are animals too: why the debate over compassionate conservation is worth having" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/introduced-species-are-animals-too-why-the-debate-over-compassionate-conservation-is-worth-having-163987/" aria-label="Read more about Introduced species are animals too: why the debate over compassionate conservation is worth having">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Cowling, Associate Professor – Information & Communication Technology (ICT), CQUniversity Australia ABC Last week, the ABC announced it will begin to track the viewing habits of all users of its iview streaming platform from March 15. This will be done by making users create an account ... <a title="Mandatory logins for ABC iview could open an intimate window onto your life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/mandatory-logins-for-abc-iview-could-open-an-intimate-window-onto-your-life-177540/" aria-label="Read more about Mandatory logins for ABC iview could open an intimate window onto your life">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexey D Muraviev, Associate Professor of National Security and Strategic Studies, Curtin University Alexei Druzhinin/AP The Beijing Winter Olympics will be remembered not just for China’s efforts to impress the world amid criticisms of its human rights record. The games were also held against the backdrop of ... <a title="Why Vladimir Putin is so confident in his Ukraine strategy – he has a trump card in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/why-vladimir-putin-is-so-confident-in-his-ukraine-strategy-he-has-a-trump-card-in-china-177534/" aria-label="Read more about Why Vladimir Putin is so confident in his Ukraine strategy – he has a trump card in China">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosemary Kennedy, Adjunct Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock The stark difference between an aged care “home” and a real home has been laid bare by the COVID pandemic. Residential aged care buildings are often institutionally designed, even if they have the ... <a title="How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/how-good-design-can-make-aged-care-facilities-feel-more-like-home-176465/" aria-label="Read more about How good design can make aged care facilities feel more like home">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Porock, Professor of Nursing, Director of Centre for Research in Aged Care, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Bill? Why isn’t he home from work? I have to go and look for him. He’s never late – something’s happened. My chest is getting tight and tears start on ... <a title="Today’s aged care falls well short of how we’d like to be treated – but there is another way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/todays-aged-care-falls-well-short-of-how-wed-like-to-be-treated-but-there-is-another-way-177067/" aria-label="Read more about Today’s aged care falls well short of how we’d like to be treated – but there is another way">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Potvin, Senior Lecturer in Animal Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock When we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study, we didn’t expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds. Our goal was to learn ... <a title="Altruism in birds? Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/altruism-in-birds-magpies-have-outwitted-scientists-by-helping-each-other-remove-tracking-devices-175246/" aria-label="Read more about Altruism in birds? Magpies have outwitted scientists by helping each other remove tracking devices">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Grant-Smith, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Multi-level marketing (MLM) is a business model that relies on direct selling and consultants recruiting friends and relatives to also become consultants, salespeople or distributors. MLM salespeople sell products – such as beauty products, kitchenwares, essential oils or ... <a title="Thinking of joining a multi-level marketing scheme or MLM as your side hustle? Read this first" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/thinking-of-joining-a-multi-level-marketing-scheme-or-mlm-as-your-side-hustle-read-this-first-175052/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking of joining a multi-level marketing scheme or MLM as your side hustle? Read this first">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clifford Lewis, Senior lecturer, Charles Sturt University Dan Himbrechts/ AAP In 1985, calls for the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade to be cancelled in response to concerns about HIV/AIDS were successfully countered by the organisers. The parade is now recognised as an important way of ... <a title="Homage, pilgrimage and protest: why Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade should go back to the streets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/homage-pilgrimage-and-protest-why-sydneys-mardi-gras-parade-should-go-back-to-the-streets-171820/" aria-label="Read more about Homage, pilgrimage and protest: why Sydney’s Mardi Gras parade should go back to the streets">Read more</a>
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February 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison on Tuesday will announce $804.4 million over a decade to strengthen Australia’s strategic and scientific capabilities in the Antarctic. The funding, including for drones, helicopters and vehicles, will enable Australia’s to penetrate inland areas of its claimed territory ... <a title="Scott Morrison commits $804 million over a decade for the Antarctic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/22/scott-morrison-commits-804-million-over-a-decade-for-the-antarctic-177548/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison commits $804 million over a decade for the Antarctic">Read more</a>
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February 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University shutterstock Two events in the past week mark a watershed for Australia’s electricity industry. The first, on Thursday, was Origin Energy’s surprise announcement that it intends to close the mammoth Eraring power station in the NSW Hunter region ... <a title="The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/21/the-battle-for-agl-heralds-a-new-dawn-for-australian-electricity-177530/" aria-label="Read more about The battle for AGL heralds a new dawn for Australian electricity">Read more</a>
