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September 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hunter Fujak, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, Deakin University Football’s awards season kicks off this week, with the AFL’s Brownlow Medal awarded on Monday evening and the NRL’s Dally M awarded on October 2. Both medals aim to crown their league’s best regular season player. Historical voting ... <a title="Do footy’s best and fairest awards achieve what they claim?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/23/do-footys-best-and-fairest-awards-achieve-what-they-claim-237978/" aria-label="Read more about Do footy’s best and fairest awards achieve what they claim?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University Prime Minister Christopher Luxon’s recent challenge to local government “to rein in the fantasies and to get back to delivering the basics brilliantly” was unsurprising, given his government’s focus ... <a title="Basic service provider or mini democracy? Why NZ needs to decide what it wants from local government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/23/basic-service-provider-or-mini-democracy-why-nz-needs-to-decide-what-it-wants-from-local-government-238862/" aria-label="Read more about Basic service provider or mini democracy? Why NZ needs to decide what it wants from local government">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute Engin Akyurt/Unsplash When the forerunner of Medicare was established in the 1970s, dental care was left out. Australians are still suffering the consequences half a century later. Patients pay much more of the cost of dental care ... <a title="Why isn’t dental included in Medicare? It’s time to change this – here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/23/why-isnt-dental-included-in-medicare-its-time-to-change-this-heres-how-239086/" aria-label="Read more about Why isn’t dental included in Medicare? It’s time to change this – here’s how">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Case, Lecturer in Musicology, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney Manuel Nägeli/Unsplash, FAL As the largest section of the orchestra, sitting front and centre of the stage performing memorable melodies, it’s easy for violinists to steal the limelight. Ask any violinist why there are so ... <a title="Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/23/why-are-the-violins-the-biggest-section-in-the-orchestra-236596/" aria-label="Read more about Why are the violins the biggest section in the orchestra?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Paltridge, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ecology, The University of Western Australia In arid inland Australia lives one of Australia’s rarest birds: the night parrot. Missing for more than a century, a live population was rediscovered in 2013. But the species remains elusive. Until recently, Australia’s known ... <a title="‘Breakthrough discovery’: Indigenous Rangers in outback WA find up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/23/breakthrough-discovery-indigenous-rangers-in-outback-wa-find-up-to-50-night-parrots-one-of-australias-most-elusive-birds-239449/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Breakthrough discovery’: Indigenous Rangers in outback WA find up to 50 night parrots – one of Australia’s most elusive birds">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Families on bikes at a July Fourth parade in Houston’s Northside neighborhood. Jimmy Castillo, CC BY-ND Gentrification has become a familiar story in cities across the United States. The story line typically goes this ... <a title="Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/21/gentrification-isnt-inevitable-it-can-hinge-on-how-residents-view-their-neighborhood-232565/" aria-label="Read more about Gentrification isn’t inevitable − it can hinge on how residents view their neighborhood">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benny Zuse Rousso, Research Fellow, International Water Centre, Griffith University Pvince73/Shutterstock The Pacific Islands may evoke images of sprawling coastlines and picturesque scenery. But while this part of the world might look like paradise, many local residents are grappling with a serious public health issue. Across Pacific ... <a title="Many people in the Pacific lack access to adequate toilets – and climate change makes things worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/many-people-in-the-pacific-lack-access-to-adequate-toilets-and-climate-change-makes-things-worse-238416/" aria-label="Read more about Many people in the Pacific lack access to adequate toilets – and climate change makes things worse">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wenting He, PhD candidate of International Relations, Australian National University The skyline in Shenzhen, the city that is home to many of China’s largest tech companies. asharkyu/Shutterstock According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China’s richest person, now ... <a title="Is life getting better for China’s tech billionaires?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/is-life-getting-better-for-chinas-tech-billionaires-239382/" aria-label="Read more about Is life getting better for China’s tech billionaires?">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Wilson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney JFontan/Shutterstock With the Paris Olympics and Paralympics wrapped up, and leading Australian sports codes coming to an end of their 2024 seasons, many athletes will be celebrating ... <a title="Are sports stars who are caught using illegal drugs unfairly vilified?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/are-sports-stars-who-are-caught-using-illegal-drugs-unfairly-vilified-238323/" aria-label="Read more about Are sports stars who are caught using illegal drugs unfairly vilified?">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, International Relations, Australian National University Last month, the Taliban passed a new “vice and virtue” law, making it illegal for women to speak in public. Under the law, women can also be punished if they are heard singing or reading aloud from within ... <a title="Afghan women have been robbed of health care, education and now their voices. But they won’t remain silent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/afghan-women-have-been-robbed-of-health-care-education-and-now-their-voices-but-they-wont-remain-silent-238435/" aria-label="Read more about Afghan women have been robbed of health care, education and now their voices. But they won’t remain silent">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Green, Research Fellow, Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University When tickets for Green Day’s 2025 Australian tour went on sale, fans joined a queue – a ritual that has been practised for decades on footpaths, on phones, and now online. But as Green Day ... <a title="What is ‘dynamic pricing’ for concert tickets? It can cost you hundreds of dollars while you queue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/what-is-dynamic-pricing-for-concert-tickets-it-can-cost-you-hundreds-of-dollars-while-you-queue-239320/" aria-label="Read more about What is ‘dynamic pricing’ for concert tickets? It can cost you hundreds of dollars while you queue">Read more</a>
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September 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David T. Hill, Emeritus Professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Indo-Pacific Research Centre, Murdoch University David T. Hill You don’t have to be in India long to appreciate just how dramatic its electric vehicle revolution is. Whether it’s electric two-wheelers or trucks, buses or bicycles, they are hard ... <a title="India is in the midst of an electric vehicle revolution – and Australia should tap in" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/20/india-is-in-the-midst-of-an-electric-vehicle-revolution-and-australia-should-tap-in-234557/" aria-label="Read more about India is in the midst of an electric vehicle revolution – and Australia should tap in">Read more</a>
