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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Brander, Professor, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Rob Brander Do you know what an emergency response beacon or “ERB” is? Do you know what it does? Do you know which beaches have one? If you answered “nope!” ... <a title="Emergency response beacons can cut drownings at the beach – but 72% of people haven’t heard of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/emergency-response-beacons-can-cut-drownings-at-the-beach-but-72-of-people-havent-heard-of-them-248676/" aria-label="Read more about Emergency response beacons can cut drownings at the beach – but 72% of people haven’t heard of them">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liudmila Tarabashkina, Senior Lecturer, The University of Western Australia Joanna Dorota/Shutterstock, Zoom Team/Shutterstock, The Conversation The economic cost of food waste in Australia is staggering. It’s estimated $36.6 billion is lost to the economy every year. Much of our fresh produce never even makes it to stores, ... <a title="Climate-affected produce is here to stay. Here’s what it takes for consumers to embrace it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/climate-affected-produce-is-here-to-stay-heres-what-it-takes-for-consumers-to-embrace-it-248776/" aria-label="Read more about Climate-affected produce is here to stay. Here’s what it takes for consumers to embrace it">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabina Andron, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism, The University of Melbourne Thanks Radical Graffiti for informing me where my next job is! This is the message I woke up to on January 26, as one of my research participants saw some anti-colonial graffiti in Melbourne ... <a title="Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/graffiti-removal-isnt-the-enemy-of-art-its-part-of-a-vibrant-dialogue-on-life-in-the-big-city-248668/" aria-label="Read more about Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hussein Dia, Professor of Future Urban Mobility, Swinburne University of Technology AU USAnakul/Shutterstock When we see “tested under laboratory conditions”, we often assume real-world conditions will lead to faster degradation of a product. But experts from Stanford University have found the opposite is true for electric vehicle ... <a title="Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/electric-vehicle-batteries-can-last-almost-40-longer-in-the-real-world-than-in-lab-tests-248557/" aria-label="Read more about Electric vehicle batteries can last almost 40% longer in the real world than in lab tests">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Barrett, Lecturer in Business, Auckland University of Technology New Zealand’s housing crisis disproportionately affects Māori in rural areas where healthy homes are in short supply and collective land ownership presents a challenge to banks. Governments have been grappling with this issue. The previous Labour-led government committed ... <a title="Māori communities lead innovative ways of financing housing on ancestral lands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/maori-communities-lead-innovative-ways-of-financing-housing-on-ancestral-lands-247179/" aria-label="Read more about Māori communities lead innovative ways of financing housing on ancestral lands">Read more</a>
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February 5, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is banning DeepSeek – the Chinese artificial intelligence model – from all government systems and devices on national security grounds. It says this is in line with the actions of a number of other countries and is ... <a title="Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/05/albanese-government-bans-deepseek-from-official-devices-on-security-grounds-249022/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government bans DeepSeek from official devices on security grounds">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlotte Markowitsch, PhD Candidate in Popular Music Studies, RMIT University History has repeated in the rock category at this week’s 67th Grammy Awards. Best rock performance was awarded to the Beatles for their song Now and Then, while the Rolling Stones took home best rock album for ... <a title="Is this 2025, or 1965? Grammy wins for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones keep the rock canon in the past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/is-this-2025-or-1965-grammy-wins-for-the-beatles-and-the-rolling-stones-keep-the-rock-canon-in-the-past-249009/" aria-label="Read more about Is this 2025, or 1965? Grammy wins for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones keep the rock canon in the past">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Sydney Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock The 1980s are remembered for many things including power suits, the Ford Falcon and the long lunch. The last was thanks to a generous interpretation of tax law as it applied to food and entertainment at “business ... <a title="Coalition’s tax-free lunch plan could cost $250 million or $10 billion – depending on who’s doing the sums" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/coalitions-tax-free-lunch-plan-could-cost-250-million-or-10-billion-depending-on-whos-doing-the-sums-247999/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition’s tax-free lunch plan could cost $250 million or $10 billion – depending on who’s doing the sums">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vivienne Reiner, PhD Candidate, Integrated Sustainability Analysis group, University of Sydney Months out from a federal election, the industry lobby is gearing up in opposition to the Albanese government’s renewable energy targets. In a salvo on Monday, food distributors urged the government to increase fossil fuel production, ... <a title="Yes, energy prices are hurting the food sector. But burning more fossil fuels is not the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/yes-energy-prices-are-hurting-the-food-sector-but-burning-more-fossil-fuels-is-not-the-answer-248996/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, energy prices are hurting the food sector. But burning more fossil fuels is not the answer">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Independent Allegra Spender spearheaded a condemnation of antisemitism by federal parliament – but the debate was mired in partisanship. The opposition tried to prevent the government bringing on the Spender motion in the House of Representatives, because it said it ... <a title="Parliament condemns antisemitism, but can’t avoid the blame game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/parliament-condemns-antisemitism-but-cant-avoid-the-blame-game-249015/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament condemns antisemitism, but can’t avoid the blame game">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate Professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong Elif Bayraktar/Shutterstock Australian radio host Kyle Sandilands announced on air yesterday that he has a brain aneurysm and needs urgent brain surgery. Typically an aneurysm occurs when a part of the wall of an artery (a type ... <a title="Around 3% of us will develop a brain aneurysm in our lives. So what is it and how do you treat it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/around-3-of-us-will-develop-a-brain-aneurysm-in-our-lives-so-what-is-it-and-how-do-you-treat-it-248882/" aria-label="Read more about Around 3% of us will develop a brain aneurysm in our lives. So what is it and how do you treat it?">Read more</a>
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February 4, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henrietta McNeill, Research fellow, Australian National University In his first term, Donald Trump deported far fewer people from the United States than his three predecessors: Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Just weeks into his second term, however, Trump is making the deportation of immigrants ... <a title="As Trump deportations intensify, Pacific Island nations worry they could be overwhelmed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/02/04/as-trump-deportations-intensify-pacific-island-nations-worry-they-could-be-overwhelmed-248900/" aria-label="Read more about As Trump deportations intensify, Pacific Island nations worry they could be overwhelmed">Read more</a>
