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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna D’Alessandro, Professor & Director, Net Zero Institute, University of Sydney Daniel Sone/National Cancer Institute In the wake of Labor’s resounding victory in Australia’s federal election earlier this month, there has been much talk about flailing productivity in Australia. In fact, last week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese ... <a title="The federal government wants to boost productivity. Science can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/the-federal-government-wants-to-boost-productivity-science-can-help-256567/" aria-label="Read more about The federal government wants to boost productivity. Science can help">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University VixtorPhoto / Shutterstock Did you know goldfish can learn to drive cars? Have you heard bumblebees can learn to pull on a string? Would you believe some primates can perform calculations with Arabic numerals? These tasks seem ... <a title="Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/fish-driving-cars-and-chimps-doing-maths-what-teaching-animals-irrelevant-skills-reveals-about-our-own-minds-253938/" aria-label="Read more about Fish driving cars and chimps doing maths: what teaching animals ‘irrelevant’ skills reveals about our own minds">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Auricht, Visiting Research Fellow in Natural Resources Management, University of Adelaide Yundi Nature Conservancy, CC BY-NC-ND South Australia is famously the driest state on the driest inhabited continent. But even for South Australia, the current drought is extreme. Rainfall has been the lowest on record across ... <a title="Surviving swamps on South Australia’s parched Fleurieu Peninsula are a lifeline to wildlife – and farmers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/surviving-swamps-on-south-australias-parched-fleurieu-peninsula-are-a-lifeline-to-wildlife-and-farmers-256238/" aria-label="Read more about Surviving swamps on South Australia’s parched Fleurieu Peninsula are a lifeline to wildlife – and farmers">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Ho, Associate professor in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney MNStudio/ Shutterstock Every year, thousands of New South Wales students sit a test to determine places for highly sought-after selective high schools. These are academically selective public schools often associated with high Year 12 ... <a title="‘No pain, no gain’: why some primary students are following intense study routines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/no-pain-no-gain-why-some-primary-students-are-following-intense-study-routines-256815/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No pain, no gain’: why some primary students are following intense study routines">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Tenbensel, Professor of Health Policy, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Health Minister Simeon Brown. Hagen Hopkins/Getty Images Minister of Health Simeon Brown claimed earlier this year that health funding in New Zealand has never been higher and that suggestions of underfunding are “fake news”. On ... <a title="NZ Budget 2025: anything less than a 5% increase in health funding amounts to merely standing still" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/nz-budget-2025-anything-less-than-a-5-increase-in-health-funding-amounts-to-merely-standing-still-255593/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2025: anything less than a 5% increase in health funding amounts to merely standing still">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate in Public Health & Community Medicine, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Netflix/Untold: The Liver King A new Netflix documentary about a shirtless supplement salesman who claimed to be “natural” and was exposed as a fraud might seem like a punchline. But Untold: ... <a title="From the Liver King to ultramarathons, fitness influencers are glorifying extreme masculinity where ‘pain is the point’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/20/from-the-liver-king-to-ultramarathons-fitness-influencers-are-glorifying-extreme-masculinity-where-pain-is-the-point-256817/" aria-label="Read more about From the Liver King to ultramarathons, fitness influencers are glorifying extreme masculinity where ‘pain is the point’">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Omid Ghasemi, Research Associate in Behavioural Science at the Institute for Climate Risk & Response, UNSW Sydney I. Noyan Yilmaz, Shutterstock Societies increasingly rely on scientists to guide decisions in times of uncertainty, from pandemic outbreaks to the rise of artificial intelligence. Addressing climate change is no ... <a title="Climate scientists are trusted globally, just not as much as other scientists – here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/climate-scientists-are-trusted-globally-just-not-as-much-as-other-scientists-heres-why-256441/" aria-label="Read more about Climate scientists are trusted globally, just not as much as other scientists – here’s why">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Diepstraten, Senior Research Officer, Blood Cells and Blood Cancer Division, WEHI (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research) Former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones. A statement Biden’s office issued ... <a title="Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/joe-biden-has-advanced-prostate-cancer-with-a-gleason-score-of-9-what-does-this-mean-256998/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden has advanced prostate cancer with a Gleason score of 9. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shannon Bosch, Associate Professor (Law), Edith Cowan University Oscar Jenkins, a 33-year-old former teacher from Melbourne, was one of many foreigners who responded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call in 2022 for volunteers to join Ukraine’s armed forces to help repel Russia’s invasion. In early 2024, Jenkins ... <a title="Russia is labelling Oscar Jenkins a ‘mercenary’, not a prisoner of war. What’s the difference – and why does this matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/russia-is-labelling-oscar-jenkins-a-mercenary-not-a-prisoner-of-war-whats-the-difference-and-why-does-this-matter-256996/" aria-label="Read more about Russia is labelling Oscar Jenkins a ‘mercenary’, not a prisoner of war. What’s the difference – and why does this matter?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute Last week the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a polio outbreak in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The highly infectious virus was found in two healthy, polio-vaccinated children who were screened following detection of the virus during routine wastewater sampling ... <a title="The re-emergence of polio in Papua New Guinea shows global eradication remains elusive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/the-re-emergence-of-polio-in-papua-new-guinea-shows-global-eradication-remains-elusive-256899/" aria-label="Read more about The re-emergence of polio in Papua New Guinea shows global eradication remains elusive">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University As always, Eurovision 2025 was full of glitter, costume reveals, divas, spectacle and, of course, controversy. From ongoing calls to ban Israel from participating, to one song that had to be edited since it was too inappropriate, here’s what ... <a title="Politics, protest and some seriously inappropriate songs: who gets censored at Eurovision, and who doesn’t?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/politics-protest-and-some-seriously-inappropriate-songs-who-gets-censored-at-eurovision-and-who-doesnt-256447/" aria-label="Read more about Politics, protest and some seriously inappropriate songs: who gets censored at Eurovision, and who doesn’t?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madalyn Scerri, Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Hospitality, Torrens University Australia Viacheslav Lopatin/Shutterstock Traveldream.com.au sold discounted holidays – curated hiking tours, boutique cruises and cultural getaways through a slick website and polished social media ads. But news emerged last week that the Melbourne-based travel company has collapsed ... <a title="An online travel company just collapsed. Here’s how to avoid being left stranded by an online deal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/05/19/an-online-travel-company-just-collapsed-heres-how-to-avoid-being-left-stranded-by-an-online-deal-256878/" aria-label="Read more about An online travel company just collapsed. Here’s how to avoid being left stranded by an online deal">Read more</a>
