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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Shutterstock Electricity prices in the short-term (“spot”) wholesale markets in Australia are surging again. As I first drafted this, at 11.30pm on Tuesday, while electricity demands were not high, the prices quoted for each five-minute interval in Queensland, ... <a title="Electricity prices are spiking, ten times as much as normal. Here are some educated guesses as to why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/electricity-prices-are-spiking-ten-times-as-much-as-normal-here-are-some-educated-guesses-as-to-why-182849/" aria-label="Read more about Electricity prices are spiking, ten times as much as normal. Here are some educated guesses as to why">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Yellishetty, Associate Professor, Resources Engineering, Monash University Shutterstock As the transition to clean energy accelerates, we will need huge quantities of critical minerals – the minerals needed to electrify transport, build batteries, manufacture solar panels, wind turbines, consumer electronics and defence technologies. That’s where Australia can ... <a title="Australia has rich deposits of critical minerals for green technology. But we are not making the most of them … yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/australia-has-rich-deposits-of-critical-minerals-for-green-technology-but-we-are-not-making-the-most-of-them-yet-182331/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has rich deposits of critical minerals for green technology. But we are not making the most of them … yet">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Petra Edwards, PhD researcher, University of Adelaide Justin Veenema/Unsplash With dog attacks in the news over recent weeks, some parents may be wondering about how to keep interactions between kids and dogs safe – and how to keep everyone happy. A review of hospitalisations due to dog ... <a title="To pat or not to pat? How to keep interactions between kids and dogs safe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/to-pat-or-not-to-pat-how-to-keep-interactions-between-kids-and-dogs-safe-182419/" aria-label="Read more about To pat or not to pat? How to keep interactions between kids and dogs safe">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dougal Sutherland, Clinical Psychologist, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images After more than two years of disruptions, lockdowns and uncertainty, employers are facing a new reckoning in 2022: getting staff back into the office. Dubbed by some the “great hybrid return to work”, ... <a title="The age of hybrid working is here – how can businesses find the right mix between office and home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/the-age-of-hybrid-working-is-here-how-can-businesses-find-the-right-mix-between-office-and-home-182595/" aria-label="Read more about The age of hybrid working is here – how can businesses find the right mix between office and home?">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greta Nabbs-Keller, Senior Research Affiliate UQ Centre for Policy Futures, The University of Queensland This is part of a foreign policy election series looking at how Australia’s relations with the world have changed since the Morrison government came into power in 2019. You can read the other ... <a title="How well has the Morrison government handled relations with Southeast Asia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/how-well-has-the-morrison-government-handled-relations-with-southeast-asia-181958/" aria-label="Read more about How well has the Morrison government handled relations with Southeast Asia?">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gery Karantzas, Associate professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University Shutterstock The “36 questions of love” have taken the dating world by storm. First published in 1997 as part of scientific research into relationships, the 36 questions of love gained global popularity through Mandy Len ... <a title="Do those viral ’36 questions’ actually lead to finding love?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/do-those-viral-36-questions-actually-lead-to-finding-love-176984/" aria-label="Read more about Do those viral ’36 questions’ actually lead to finding love?">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup is entirely subscriber-funded. The ethos behind this public service is to help foster a robust and informed public debate, with a great diversity of perspectives. If you appreciate what we are doing in providing non-partisan analysis and information about politics, economy, and society, please consider helping us keep ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Massive Wage Subsidy and Covid spending is under scrutinised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-massive-wage-subsidy-and-covid-spending-is-under-scrutinised/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Massive Wage Subsidy and Covid spending is under scrutinised">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Shine, President, Australian Academy of Science; Laboratory Head, Garvan Institute The longer you live through a crisis, the less likely you are to fully appreciate that you’re in one. This is especially true if there is more than one crisis, and they overlap. In Australia, we’ve ... <a title="Australia’s future depends on science. Here’s what our next government needs to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/australias-future-depends-on-science-heres-what-our-next-government-needs-to-do-about-it-182756/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s future depends on science. Here’s what our next government needs to do about it">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Rolfe, Honorary lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney The 2022 election campaign seems longer than Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. And there is still ten days to go. But that does not mean the whole thing is without lighter moments. Humour is an important and inescapable ... <a title="Election humour 2022: can the major parties win votes with a funny marmot or a joke about Star Wars?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/election-humour-2022-can-the-major-parties-win-votes-with-a-funny-marmot-or-a-joke-about-star-wars-182292/" aria-label="Read more about Election humour 2022: can the major parties win votes with a funny marmot or a joke about Star Wars?">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Murray Goot, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University With voting already underway, and the sausage sizzle less than two weeks away, there are three things worth knowing if you are trying to work out which side is most likely to win: the likely result ... <a title="Over the last 30 years, a fifth of polls have called the wrong winner. Here are 3 things poll-watchers need to understand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/over-the-last-30-years-a-fifth-of-polls-have-called-the-wrong-winner-here-are-3-things-poll-watchers-need-to-understand-182594/" aria-label="Read more about Over the last 30 years, a fifth of polls have called the wrong winner. Here are 3 things poll-watchers need to understand">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anam Bilgrami, Research Fellow, Macquarie University Shutterstock Most new Australian mothers receive government paid parental leave to support health, encourage workforce participation and balance work and family life equally with their partners. Despite this, Australia still has one of the least generous parental leave schemes in the ... <a title="Planning kids? You should know the major parties’ parental leave policies before you vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/planning-kids-you-should-know-the-major-parties-parental-leave-policies-before-you-vote-181785/" aria-label="Read more about Planning kids? You should know the major parties’ parental leave policies before you vote">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Whitehead, E-Mobility Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Getty Images Australia has no clear strategy to decarbonise transport. That’s a problem, because without a plan, our take-up of clean technologies like electric cars, trucks and buses is slow. It’s stopping us from meeting our climate commitments. ... <a title="Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/11/australia-could-rapidly-shift-to-clean-transport-if-we-had-a-strategy-so-we-put-this-plan-together-182598/" aria-label="Read more about Australia could rapidly shift to clean transport – if we had a strategy. So we put this plan together">Read more</a>
