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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Featherstone, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University Mapping the Digital Gap Co-researcher Guruwuy Ganambarr using her mobile phone to connect to wifi in Gäṉgaṉ homeland, East Arnhem Land, NT. Daniel Featherstone, CC BY-NC-SA There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and ... <a title="‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/digital-inclusion-and-closing-the-gap-how-first-nations-leadership-is-key-to-getting-remote-communities-online-216085/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Not counting periodic cross-border skirmishes, Israel has fought three major wars against Hamas since withdrawing its forces from Gaza in 2005 – in 2008, 2014 and 2021. Each involved limited ground incursions, with Israeli ... <a title="Even if Israel can completely eliminate Hamas, does it have a long-term plan for Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/even-if-israel-can-completely-eliminate-hamas-does-it-have-a-long-term-plan-for-gaza-216161/" aria-label="Read more about Even if Israel can completely eliminate Hamas, does it have a long-term plan for Gaza?">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Tswains, Shutterstock In the 1980s a single humpback whale in the Gulf of Maine developed the “lobtail feeding method”. This unique hunting method of slapping the water’s surface appears to drive fish into dense schools, making it ... <a title="From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/from-meerkat-school-to-whale-tail-slapping-and-oyster-smashing-how-clever-predators-shape-their-world-214213/" aria-label="Read more about From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra National Archives of Australia, CC BY-SA Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives ... <a title="As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/as-treasurer-bill-hayden-set-labor-on-the-path-to-economic-rationalism-216150/" aria-label="Read more about As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carmel Hobbs, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Warning: this article includes graphic descriptions of violence. Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these young people will have escaped family violence and then been ... <a title="Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/kids-escaping-family-violence-can-be-vulnerable-to-intimate-partner-abuse-we-must-break-the-vicious-cycle-212537/" aria-label="Read more about Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Barratt, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Farion_O/Shutterstock Many of the harms people experience from using illegal drugs are a result of unregulated supply. Drugs may be contaminated, or completely substituted with something unexpected. They may ... <a title="Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/novel-drugs-are-leading-to-rising-overdose-deaths-in-victoria-drug-checking-services-could-help-215791/" aria-label="Read more about Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Woessner, Lecturer in Clinical Exercise and Research Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Victoria University Shutterstock Sport is supposed to be a safe place for kids to learn and play. Too often, however, sporting clubs can be places where children are abused psychologically, ... <a title="Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/many-australian-kids-abused-in-sport-wont-ever-speak-up-its-time-we-break-the-silence-215884/" aria-label="Read more about Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zhen Zheng, Associate Professor, STEM | Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University gpointstudio/Shutterstock Around 5-10% of people in Australia experience symptoms for more than three months after a COVID infection, termed long COVID. So far, more than 200 different symptoms have been recorded, ranging from shortness of ... <a title="From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/from-diagnosis-to-services-and-support-how-australias-long-covid-response-is-falling-short-215056/" aria-label="Read more about From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition. In August, Victoria’s Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny made a decision that could set a difficult precedent for Australia’s ... <a title="How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/how-to-beat-rollout-rage-the-environment-versus-climate-battle-dividing-regional-australia-213863/" aria-label="Read more about How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Yellishetty, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University Shutterstock Newly announced closures of Glencore’s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University’s Resources Trinity ... <a title="Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/cleaning-up-australias-80-000-disused-mines-is-a-huge-job-but-the-payoffs-can-outweigh-the-costs-215447/" aria-label="Read more about Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Notley, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University Katerina Holmes/Pexels, CC BY-SA Adults might assume young people are not engaged in current affairs. But our survey reveals most Australian children and teenagers have a significant interest in the news. There has, however, been a drop ... <a title="Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/young-australians-increasingly-get-news-from-social-media-but-many-dont-understand-algorithms-215427/" aria-label="Read more about Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Andrews, Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage. Closing a plant that accounted for ... <a title="Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/heres-what-happens-to-workers-when-coal-fired-power-plants-close-it-isnt-good-215434/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good">Read more</a>
