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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Fish, Associate Professor, School of Arts and Media, UNSW Sydney Australia’s plentiful solar and wind resources and proximity to Asia means it can become a renewable energy superpower. But as the renewable energy rollout continues, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people must benefit. Renewables projects can ... <a title="First Nations people must be at the forefront of Australia’s renewable energy revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/first-nations-people-must-be-at-the-forefront-of-australias-renewable-energy-revolution-222616/" aria-label="Read more about First Nations people must be at the forefront of Australia’s renewable energy revolution">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zid Niel Mancenido, Lecturer, Harvard University Managing 20-30 adults in one room is a challenge for even the best managers. Swap the adults for children and you have what classroom teachers do every day. Student behaviour and engagement in class are some of the biggest problems worrying ... <a title="A new Senate report sounds alarm bells on student behaviour. Here are 4 things to help teachers in the classroom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/a-new-senate-report-sounds-alarm-bells-on-student-behaviour-here-are-4-things-to-help-teachers-in-the-classroom-222874/" aria-label="Read more about A new Senate report sounds alarm bells on student behaviour. Here are 4 things to help teachers in the classroom">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally White, Research fellow, Australian National University In the 2019 general election, Indonesians voted more women into the national parliament than ever before. After the first election of the post-authoritarian period in 1999, women’s representation was a paltry 8.8%, so the rise to 20.9% in 2019 seemed ... <a title="Even with a 30% quota in place, Indonesian women face an uphill battle running for office" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/even-with-a-30-quota-in-place-indonesian-women-face-an-uphill-battle-running-for-office-222387/" aria-label="Read more about Even with a 30% quota in place, Indonesian women face an uphill battle running for office">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Stewart, Professor of Public Policy, UNSW Sydney Marina Poushkina/Shutterstock There is a growing consensus that environmental problems, particularly the effects of climate change, pose a grave challenge to humanity. Pollution, habitat destruction, intractable waste issues and, for many, deteriorating quality of life should be added to ... <a title="Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/population-cant-be-ignored-it-has-to-be-part-of-the-policy-solution-to-our-worlds-problems-219812/" aria-label="Read more about Population can’t be ignored. It has to be part of the policy solution to our world’s problems">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris F. Wright, Associate Professor of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney Me-and-Idea/Shutterstock Australian workers are set to have the right to disconnect from their workplaces once they clock off for the day. This will “empower workers to ignore work calls and emails after hours [from ... <a title="Smartphones mean we’re always available to our bosses. ‘Right to disconnect’ laws are a necessary fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/smartphones-mean-were-always-available-to-our-bosses-right-to-disconnect-laws-are-a-necessary-fix-222738/" aria-label="Read more about Smartphones mean we’re always available to our bosses. ‘Right to disconnect’ laws are a necessary fix">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Gunn, Lecturer, Monash University Dave Head/Shutterstock The bush is full up – no room for more renewables, according to Nationals leader David Littleproud. Instead, renewables should be restricted to large solar arrays on commercial buildings in the cities. The country-focused minor party presumably hopes to capitalise on ... <a title="The Nationals want renewables to stay in the cities – but the clean energy grid doesn’t work like that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/the-nationals-want-renewables-to-stay-in-the-cities-but-the-clean-energy-grid-doesnt-work-like-that-205490/" aria-label="Read more about The Nationals want renewables to stay in the cities – but the clean energy grid doesn’t work like that">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Wholesale power prices are falling steeply in Australia, following two years of surging prices after the Ukraine war triggered an energy crisis. New data shows annualised spot prices for power in Australia’s main grid fell by about 50% in ... <a title="Wholesale power prices are falling fast – but consumers will have to wait for relief. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/wholesale-power-prices-are-falling-fast-but-consumers-will-have-to-wait-for-relief-heres-why-222495/" aria-label="Read more about Wholesale power prices are falling fast – but consumers will have to wait for relief. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Hoggard, DECRA Research Fellow, Australian National University US Department of Energy via Wikimedia Since the first detonation of an atomic bomb in 1945, more than 2,000 nuclear weapons tests have been conducted by eight countries: the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, China, ... <a title="Underground nuclear tests are hard to detect. A new method can spot them 99% of the time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/underground-nuclear-tests-are-hard-to-detect-a-new-method-can-spot-them-99-of-the-time-222500/" aria-label="Read more about Underground nuclear tests are hard to detect. A new method can spot them 99% of the time">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rieneke Weij, Postdoctoral researcher in Geochemistry/Palaeoclimatology, University of Cape Town During ice ages, dry, frozen terrain extended over much of northern Europe, Asia and North America. Many plants and animals retreated from these desolate, harsh landscapes and sought refuge in pockets of more hospitable territory. But what ... <a title="Ice ages were not as dry as we thought, according to surprising new Australian cave study" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/ice-ages-were-not-as-dry-as-we-thought-according-to-surprising-new-australian-cave-study-222184/" aria-label="Read more about Ice ages were not as dry as we thought, according to surprising new Australian cave study">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University Shutterstock Victorian MP Georgie Purcell recently spoke out against a digitally edited image in the news media that had altered her body and partially removed some of her clothing. Whether or not the editing was assisted by artificial ... <a title="Whether of politicians, pop stars or teenage girls, sexualised deepfakes are on the rise. They hold a mirror to our sexist world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/whether-of-politicians-pop-stars-or-teenage-girls-sexualised-deepfakes-are-on-the-rise-they-hold-a-mirror-to-our-sexist-world-222491/" aria-label="Read more about Whether of politicians, pop stars or teenage girls, sexualised deepfakes are on the rise. They hold a mirror to our sexist world">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treena Clark, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Indigenous Research Fellow, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology Sydney Treena Clark A few years back, I started collecting vintage Australian tourist scarves that portray First Nations people as primitive caricatures and noble savages. Now, I own more than ten ... <a title="How First Nations artists are reclaiming colonial objects and celebrating culture through garments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/08/how-first-nations-artists-are-reclaiming-colonial-objects-and-celebrating-culture-through-garments-221495/" aria-label="Read more about How First Nations artists are reclaiming colonial objects and celebrating culture through garments">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raquel Peel, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland and Senior Lecturer, RMIT University Matt Bennett/Unsplash Research out today from Finland suggests women may find it harder to adjust to later-life divorce and break-ups than men. The study used population data from 229,000 Finns aged 50 to ... <a title="Women take more antidepressants after divorce than men but that doesn’t mean they’re more depressed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/02/07/women-take-more-antidepressants-after-divorce-than-men-but-that-doesnt-mean-theyre-more-depressed-222878/" aria-label="Read more about Women take more antidepressants after divorce than men but that doesn’t mean they’re more depressed">Read more</a>
