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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Hargreaves, Senior Learning Advisor, University of Southern Queensland State Library of Victoria It was 2009. John Farnham walked on stage at the disaster relief concert for the most devastating bushfires in Australian history. He belted out You’re The Voice to 36,000 people at the Sydney Cricket ... <a title="Church hymns and social beers: how Australia is reviving the magic of singing together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/church-hymns-and-social-beers-how-australia-is-reviving-the-magic-of-singing-together-250254/" aria-label="Read more about Church hymns and social beers: how Australia is reviving the magic of singing together">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Melatos, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney If you are a member of a super fund, some of your long-term savings are probably invested in private markets. Public markets are familiar to most of us – the stock market and government and corporate bond markets. ... <a title="Your super fund is invested in private markets. What are they and why has ASIC raised concerns?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/your-super-fund-is-invested-in-private-markets-what-are-they-and-why-has-asic-raised-concerns-250788/" aria-label="Read more about Your super fund is invested in private markets. What are they and why has ASIC raised concerns?">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Omid Aliasghar, Senior Lecturer, Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau NicoElNino/Shutterstock When it comes to turning research into real-world success, New Zealand has a problem. Despite the country’s NZ$3.7 billion research and development spending in 2023 – a 17% jump from the previous ... <a title="Ignore the ‘ivory tower’ clichés – universities are the innovation partners more Kiwi businesses need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/ignore-the-ivory-tower-cliches-universities-are-the-innovation-partners-more-kiwi-businesses-need-249129/" aria-label="Read more about Ignore the ‘ivory tower’ clichés – universities are the innovation partners more Kiwi businesses need">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jesse Ruse, Clinical Psychologist, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Netflix Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar has renewed interest in Belle Gibson’s infamous wellness scam, reminding us how vulnerable we can be to deception. While Gibson’s scheme eventually collapsed, her story highlights how fraudsters can exploit our psychological and ... <a title="Why do we fall for wellness scams? Our cultural biases and myths are often to blame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/why-do-we-fall-for-wellness-scams-our-cultural-biases-and-myths-are-often-to-blame-250790/" aria-label="Read more about Why do we fall for wellness scams? Our cultural biases and myths are often to blame">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Harkin, Lecturer, Games, School of Design, RMIT University Papergames 24/7 companionship. Spend time with him whenever you want. This is the promise made by Love and Deepspace, a mobile romance game by the Chinese company Papergames. Some think video games are all guns and cars, but ... <a title="Chinese dating simulator Love and Deepspace now has a period tracker – it signals a shift in mobile gaming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/chinese-dating-simulator-love-and-deepspace-now-has-a-period-tracker-it-signals-a-shift-in-mobile-gaming-250497/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese dating simulator Love and Deepspace now has a period tracker – it signals a shift in mobile gaming">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerald Roche, Lecturer in Linguistics, La Trobe University Three days after he was released from prison in December, a Tibetan village leader named Gonpo Namgyal died. As his body was being prepared for traditional Tibetan funeral rites, marks were found indicating he had been brutally tortured in ... <a title="Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/tibet-is-one-of-the-most-linguistically-diverse-places-in-the-world-this-is-in-danger-of-extinction-246316/" aria-label="Read more about Tibet is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world. This is in danger of extinction">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Franks, Professor and Director – Global Centre for Mineral Security, The University of Queensland Thanagornsoisep/Shutterstock Every year, the world consumes around 50 billion tonnes of sand, gravel and crushed stone. The astonishing scale of this demand is hard to comprehend – 12.5 million Olympic sized swimming ... <a title="Nose-to-tail mining: how making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/nose-to-tail-mining-how-making-sand-from-ore-could-solve-a-looming-crisis-250284/" aria-label="Read more about Nose-to-tail mining: how making sand from ore could solve a looming crisis">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgina Dimopoulos, Associate Professor, Law, Southern Cross University Bricolage/AAP When parental separation ends up in the family courts, serious risks such as family violence, child abuse, drug, alcohol or substance misuse, and mental health issues are often involved. But many children feel shut out of family court ... <a title="‘They’re meant to help and did the complete opposite’: many children feel silenced by family courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/theyre-meant-to-help-and-did-the-complete-opposite-many-children-feel-silenced-by-family-courts-250636/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They’re meant to help and did the complete opposite’: many children feel silenced by family courts">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rex Mitchell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Flinders University Hedley Herbert Finlayson, The Red Centre, 1935 When it comes to how hard an animal can bite, size always matters. There may be no truer a case of this than the desert rat-kangaroo (Caloprymnus campestris), known as the ngudlukanta to the ... <a title="Presumed extinct, this desert rat-kangaroo may still be alive in hiding. New analysis reveals its delicate diet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/presumed-extinct-this-desert-rat-kangaroo-may-still-be-alive-in-hiding-new-analysis-reveals-its-delicate-diet-250283/" aria-label="Read more about Presumed extinct, this desert rat-kangaroo may still be alive in hiding. New analysis reveals its delicate diet">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University Petr Jan Juracka / Shutterstock Imagine floating in space, gazing on a frozen white orb. The ball hangs in the void, lonely and gleaming in the light from its star. From pole to equator, the sphere is covered in a ... <a title="Giant glaciers pulverised Earth’s ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/giant-glaciers-pulverised-earths-ancient-rocks-setting-the-stage-for-complex-life-249612/" aria-label="Read more about Giant glaciers pulverised Earth’s ancient rocks, setting the stage for complex life">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Karnon, Professor of Health Economics, Flinders University Nomad_Soul/Shutterstock People with a high body weight living in England can now access subsidised weight-loss drugs to treat their obesity. This includes Wegovy (the weight-loss dose of Ozempic, or semaglutide) and Mounjaro (one of the brand names for tirzepatide). ... <a title="England subsidises drugs like Ozempic for weight loss. Could Australia follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/england-subsidises-drugs-like-ozempic-for-weight-loss-could-australia-follow-245367/" aria-label="Read more about England subsidises drugs like Ozempic for weight loss. Could Australia follow?">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narelle Miragliotta, Associate Professor in Politics, Murdoch University With Western Australia heading to the polls on March 8, the Cook Labor government will likely prove the exception to the rule that incumbency is a liability for contemporary governments. Despite incumbent governments around the world losing office, Labor ... <a title="Labor likely to win WA election, but the campaign is exposing faultlines in the state’s politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/26/labor-likely-to-win-wa-election-but-the-campaign-is-exposing-faultlines-in-the-states-politics-249690/" aria-label="Read more about Labor likely to win WA election, but the campaign is exposing faultlines in the state’s politics">Read more</a>
