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November 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Senior Fellow, School of Culture and Communication. Editor in chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne In 1974, when a local Sydney newspaper wrote on the success of two local artists, they were introduced using their husband’s names. Ruth Faerber, ... <a title="Australian printmaker Ruth Faerber has died aged 102. She never stopped making art" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/30/australian-printmaker-ruth-faerber-has-died-aged-102-she-never-stopped-making-art-230119/" aria-label="Read more about Australian printmaker Ruth Faerber has died aged 102. She never stopped making art">Read more</a>
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November 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chaojiao Sun, Research Group Leader, physical oceanographer, CSIRO marcobrivio.gallery/Shutterstock For coral reefs, climate change is an existential threat. Australia’s Great Barrier Reef has endured seven mass bleaching events over the past 25 years. Five have occurred in the past eight years. But amid the story of decline, ... <a title="Cool water from the deep could protect pockets of the Great Barrier Reef into the 2080s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/30/cool-water-from-the-deep-could-protect-pockets-of-the-great-barrier-reef-into-the-2080s-217911/" aria-label="Read more about Cool water from the deep could protect pockets of the Great Barrier Reef into the 2080s">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Greste, Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University Earlier this year, the Independent National Security Legislation Monitor (INSLM), Jake Blight, compared the sheer volume of Australia’s secrecy laws to works of literature. “You’d be looking at about 3,000-plus pages. That’s about the same as the complete ... <a title="The government agrees Australia’s secrecy laws need to change. Now comes the hard part – taking action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/the-government-agrees-australias-secrecy-laws-need-to-change-now-comes-the-hard-part-taking-action-244823/" aria-label="Read more about The government agrees Australia’s secrecy laws need to change. Now comes the hard part – taking action">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Eugene Hyland/ACMI The Future & Other Fictions, ACMI’s flagship summer exhibition, explores where storytelling imagines and rethinks the future. It is an original show co-curated by ACMI’s Amanda Haskard (Gunai/Kurnai) and Chelsey O’Brien, in collaboration ... <a title="At ACMI’s The Future & Other Fictions, artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/at-acmis-the-future-and-other-fictions-artists-challenge-us-to-imagine-a-more-optimistic-world-243911/" aria-label="Read more about At ACMI’s The Future & Other Fictions, artists challenge us to imagine a more optimistic world">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Moro, Associate Professor of Science & Medicine, Bond University Kampus Productions/Pexels As the weather warms up, offices are cranking up the air conditioning. But with such varying temperature preferences, where should you set the thermostat? It may be an impossible task to find an optimal temperature ... <a title="You’re hot? I’m cold! Why our office temperature preferences can be vastly different to our colleagues’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/youre-hot-im-cold-why-our-office-temperature-preferences-can-be-vastly-different-to-our-colleagues-244184/" aria-label="Read more about You’re hot? I’m cold! Why our office temperature preferences can be vastly different to our colleagues’">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Girardi, Lecturer in Speech Pathology and Researcher at the Centre for Health Research, University of Southern Queensland riekephotos/Shutterstock Children, especially toddlers and preschoolers, have an uncanny ability to surprise adults. And one of the more alarming discoveries parents can make is their child has stuck a ... <a title="3 reasons why kids stick Lego up their nose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/3-reasons-why-kids-stick-lego-up-their-nose-244729/" aria-label="Read more about 3 reasons why kids stick Lego up their nose">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago Getty Images The rising threat of epidemics and pandemics adds urgency for the government to act on the recommendations of the long-awaited inquiry into New Zealand’s COVID response. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 report found New ... <a title="The COVID inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/the-covid-inquiry-report-is-an-excellent-guide-to-preparing-for-the-next-pandemic-health-cuts-put-that-at-risk-244820/" aria-label="Read more about The COVID inquiry report is an excellent guide to preparing for the next pandemic – health cuts put that at risk">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The just-ended COP-29 in Baku, and the election of Donald Trump, have put the global response to climate change in the spotlight. Meanwhile back home, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen this week reported Australia is on track to meet its ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean says ‘put more solar panels on commercial rooftops’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/politics-with-michelle-grattan-climate-change-authority-head-matt-kean-says-put-more-solar-panels-on-commercial-rooftops-244827/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Climate Change Authority head Matt Kean says ‘put more solar panels on commercial rooftops’">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yucong Wang, Lecturer, University of Newcastle Earlier this month, China declared new “baselines” around Scarborough Reef, a large coral atoll topped by a handful of rocks barely above sea level in the South China Sea. By doing so, China reaffirmed its sovereignty claim over what has become ... <a title="Drawing lines in the South China Sea: what Beijing’s new claims over a disputed coral reef mean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/drawing-lines-in-the-south-china-sea-what-beijings-new-claims-over-a-disputed-coral-reef-mean-244197/" aria-label="Read more about Drawing lines in the South China Sea: what Beijing’s new claims over a disputed coral reef mean">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra On Thursday night, after a whirlwind day in Canberra, the Senate finally passed the federal government’s long-delayed amendments to the Reserve Bank Act. The reforms will create two separate boards for the Reserve ... <a title="The Reserve Bank will now have a separate board just to set interest rates. Here’s why that’s significant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/the-reserve-bank-will-now-have-a-separate-board-just-to-set-interest-rates-heres-why-thats-significant-244833/" aria-label="Read more about The Reserve Bank will now have a separate board just to set interest rates. Here’s why that’s significant">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jasper de Bie, Research Fellow, Coastal and Marine Research Centre, Griffith University A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae). SasinTipchai/Shutterstock This year’s humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) season in Australia has almost come to an end. The beloved mammals are on their way to Antarctica for a summer of feeding. ... <a title="A new model accurately predicts the migration of humpback whales – and may help them survive climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/a-new-model-accurately-predicts-the-migration-of-humpback-whales-and-may-help-them-survive-climate-change-244396/" aria-label="Read more about A new model accurately predicts the migration of humpback whales – and may help them survive climate change">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Salmond, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Māori Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images After the hīkoi, the haka, the flags and the tumult, what next? In the absence of obvious answers, a thoughtful and respectful discussion about te Tiriti o Waitangi/Treaty of Waitangi ... <a title="After the hīkoi, the challenge: the Treaty principles debate and an honest reckoning with history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/11/29/after-the-hikoi-the-challenge-the-treaty-principles-debate-and-an-honest-reckoning-with-history-244806/" aria-label="Read more about After the hīkoi, the challenge: the Treaty principles debate and an honest reckoning with history">Read more</a>
