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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of Auckland Getty Images Ten years to the day after the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment factory in Bangladesh, a disaster that killed more than 1,100 workers and injured another 2,500, the global addiction to cheap clothing remains strong. ... <a title="A decade after the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster, New Zealanders still rely on fast fashion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/a-decade-after-the-rana-plaza-garment-factory-disaster-new-zealanders-still-rely-on-fast-fashion-204192/" aria-label="Read more about A decade after the Rana Plaza garment factory disaster, New Zealanders still rely on fast fashion">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Mick Tsikas/AAP A federal Newspoll, conducted April 19-22 from a sample of 1,514, gave Labor a 56-44 lead, a one-point gain for Labor since the previous Newspoll, ... <a title="Labor gains in Newspoll but Voice support slumps in other polls; NSW final results and Queensland polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/labor-gains-in-newspoll-but-voice-support-slumps-in-other-polls-nsw-final-results-and-queensland-polls-204107/" aria-label="Read more about Labor gains in Newspoll but Voice support slumps in other polls; NSW final results and Queensland polls">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, Senior Lecturer in History, Deakin University The recent media rounds of the new chair of the Australian War Memorial Council, Kim Beazley, appear to presage a major shift in the institution’s attitude to the frontier wars. Beazley explained it is “enormously important” that the current ... <a title="The Australian War Memorial must deal properly with the frontier wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/the-australian-war-memorial-must-deal-properly-with-the-frontier-wars-203851/" aria-label="Read more about The Australian War Memorial must deal properly with the frontier wars">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock If you have respiratory symptoms as we head towards winter and flu season, could it be COVID or the flu? Or something else entirely? Now, we have a range of home tests that ... <a title="Flu or COVID? You can now test for both at home with a single swab. Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/flu-or-covid-you-can-now-test-for-both-at-home-with-a-single-swab-heres-what-you-need-to-know-204119/" aria-label="Read more about Flu or COVID? You can now test for both at home with a single swab. Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Smithers, Lecturer, Charles Sturt University ThisIsEngineering/Pexels This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling for ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education, and set it up for the next decade and beyond”. A review team ... <a title="Australian unis could not function without casual staff: it is time to treat them as ‘real’ employees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/australian-unis-could-not-function-without-casual-staff-it-is-time-to-treat-them-as-real-employees-203053/" aria-label="Read more about Australian unis could not function without casual staff: it is time to treat them as ‘real’ employees">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwyn McClelland, Senior Lecturer, Japanese Studies, University of New England IMDB Makoto Shinkai has found a winning formula with the release of his newest anime Suzume, already the fourth-highest-grossing anime film of all time. Shinkai released his debut animated feature film, The Place Promised in our Early ... <a title="Suzume builds on a long line of Japanese art exploring the impacts of trauma on the individual and the collective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/suzume-builds-on-a-long-line-of-japanese-art-exploring-the-impacts-of-trauma-on-the-individual-and-the-collective-203920/" aria-label="Read more about Suzume builds on a long line of Japanese art exploring the impacts of trauma on the individual and the collective">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Sims, Emeritus Professor, Energy and Climate Mitigation, Massey University Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Emissions from human activities are substantially increasing the atmospheric concentrations of the greenhouse gases CO₂, methane, CFCs and nitrous oxide. These increases will enhance the greenhouse effect, resulting on average in an additional warming ... <a title="The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have gone unheeded for too long – should it change the way it reports on climate change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/24/the-ipccs-calls-for-emissions-cuts-have-gone-unheeded-for-too-long-should-it-change-the-way-it-reports-on-climate-change-202837/" aria-label="Read more about The IPCC’s calls for emissions cuts have gone unheeded for too long – should it change the way it reports on climate change?">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Pender, Kidman Chair in Australian Studies and Director, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, University of Adelaide Barry Humphries began his career as a Dadaist. His street performances around Melbourne in the early 1950s foreshadowed performance art in Australia. He was the most daring student prankster ... <a title="Remembering Barry Humphries, the man who enriched the culture, reimagined the one man show and upended the cultural cringe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/23/remembering-barry-humphries-the-man-who-enriched-the-culture-reimagined-the-one-man-show-and-upended-the-cultural-cringe-188719/" aria-label="Read more about Remembering Barry Humphries, the man who enriched the culture, reimagined the one man show and upended the cultural cringe">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alon Loeffler, PhD researcher, University of Sydney Shutterstock Over the past year or so, generative AI models such as ChatGPT and DALL-E have made it possible to produce vast quantities of apparently human-like, high-quality creative content from a simple series of prompts. Though highly capable – far ... <a title="Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/22/networks-of-silver-nanowires-seem-to-learn-and-remember-much-like-our-brains-204115/" aria-label="Read more about Networks of silver nanowires seem to learn and remember, much like our brains">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Newell, Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Director of the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk and Response, UNSW Sydney Julentto Photography/Unsplash A quick search on the internet for “climate change images” readily yields the familiar photograph of a lone polar bear on a shrinking block of ice. ... <a title="Most people already think climate change is ‘here and now’, despite what we’ve been told" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/22/most-people-already-think-climate-change-is-here-and-now-despite-what-weve-been-told-203425/" aria-label="Read more about Most people already think climate change is ‘here and now’, despite what we’ve been told">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harry Hobbs, Associate professor, University of Technology Sydney The federal government today released the long-awaited legal advice on the Voice to parliament from Australia’s solicitor-general, Stephen Donaghue. In it, Donaghue states that the proposed model for the Voice “will not fetter or impede the exercise of existing ... <a title="Solicitor-general confirms Voice model is legally sound, will not ‘fetter or impede’ parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/solicitor-general-confirms-voice-model-is-legally-sound-will-not-fetter-or-impede-parliament-204266/" aria-label="Read more about Solicitor-general confirms Voice model is legally sound, will not ‘fetter or impede’ parliament">Read more</a>
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April 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology Facebook The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s latest Targeting Scams report indicates Australians reported more than A$3 billion lost to fraud in 2022. This is about a $1 ... <a title="Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/21/australians-lost-more-than-3bn-to-scammers-in-2022-here-are-5-emerging-scams-to-look-out-for-204018/" aria-label="Read more about Australians lost more than $3bn to scammers in 2022. Here are 5 emerging scams to look out for">Read more</a>
