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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alanna Alevropoulos-Borrill, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Shutterstock/best-backgrounds Some researchers have recently proposed the construction of artificial structures – submarine curtains or walls – to stop the warming ocean from getting to the most rapidly melting glaciers in West Antarctica. If ... <a title="Why artificial submarine curtains won’t save West Antarctica’s retreating glaciers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/why-artificial-submarine-curtains-wont-save-west-antarcticas-retreating-glaciers-225998/" aria-label="Read more about Why artificial submarine curtains won’t save West Antarctica’s retreating glaciers">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia’s next governor-general will be businesswoman Samantha Mostyn, succeeding David Hurley on July 1. Announcing Mostyn’s appointment on Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Mostyn was a “modern and optimistic leader for our modern and optimistic nation”. “Her leadership ... <a title="Businesswoman and women’s advocate Samantha Mostyn to be Australia’s next governor-general" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/businesswoman-and-womens-advocate-samantha-mostyn-to-be-australias-next-governor-general-227037/" aria-label="Read more about Businesswoman and women’s advocate Samantha Mostyn to be Australia’s next governor-general">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior research fellow, Curtin University How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the aeons is a hot question for planetary scientists like me. One of the best ways to find out is by looking at rocks from ... <a title="Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/australian-bush-glass-bears-the-fingerprints-of-a-cosmic-collision-with-an-iron-meteorite-226317/" aria-label="Read more about Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Australian Rules Football and illicit drugs have been in the media for all the wrong reasons recently. Last year a Melbourne Demons player, Joel Smith, and two Sydney Swans AFLW players were caught with cocaine. ... <a title="Why cocaine is considered performance-enhancing for athletes, and why it matters when the athlete took it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/why-cocaine-is-considered-performance-enhancing-for-athletes-and-why-it-matters-when-the-athlete-took-it-226503/" aria-label="Read more about Why cocaine is considered performance-enhancing for athletes, and why it matters when the athlete took it">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University anon_tae/Shutterstock Influenza is a common respiratory infection. Although most cases are relatively mild, flu can cause more severe illness in young children and older people. Influenza virtually disappeared from Australia during the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic when ... <a title="There are new flu vaccines on offer for 2024. Should I get one? What do I need to know?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/there-are-new-flu-vaccines-on-offer-for-2024-should-i-get-one-what-do-i-need-to-know-226623/" aria-label="Read more about There are new flu vaccines on offer for 2024. Should I get one? What do I need to know?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Georgina Falster, Postdoctoral Fellow, Australian National University Droughts can have dramatic effects in Australia – decimating agriculture, threatening water resources and devastating the environment. Much of Australia is drought-prone, and the risk is expected to increase as global warming continues. That’s why it’s important for Australia to ... <a title="A 20-year ‘mega-drought’ in Australia? Research suggests it’s happened before – and we should expect it again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/a-20-year-mega-drought-in-australia-research-suggests-its-happened-before-and-we-should-expect-it-again-223356/" aria-label="Read more about A 20-year ‘mega-drought’ in Australia? Research suggests it’s happened before – and we should expect it again">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ha Nguyen, Research Fellow, Victoria University George Pak/Pexels, CC BY University education for international students is touted as one of “Australia’s most successful exports”. International education was worth A$36.4 billion to the Australian economy in 2022–23. Many of Australia’s universities also rely on international student fees to ... <a title="Why do international students choose to study in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/why-do-international-students-choose-to-study-in-australia-226815/" aria-label="Read more about Why do international students choose to study in Australia?">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle Wikimedia/State Library of Queelsand Australia’s coffee culture – a source of great national pride – is usually associated with the wave of Greek and Italian migrants who settled in Melbourne and Sydney following the second world war. ... <a title="Who invented the flat white? Italian sugar farmers from regional Queensland likely played a big role" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/who-invented-the-flat-white-italian-sugar-farmers-from-regional-queensland-likely-played-a-big-role-224747/" aria-label="Read more about Who invented the flat white? Italian sugar farmers from regional Queensland likely played a big role">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition leader Peter Dutton claims Labor’s policy is pushing Australia “over an energy cliff”, with the outlook a decade from now “dire”. In a Wednesday speech released ahead of delivery, Dutton once again talks up his nuclear option ahead of ... <a title="Peter Dutton says Labor is pushing Australia ‘over an energy cliff’ as he talks up nuclear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/peter-dutton-says-labor-is-pushing-australia-over-an-energy-cliff-as-he-talks-up-nuclear-226965/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton says Labor is pushing Australia ‘over an energy cliff’ as he talks up nuclear">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University How much were prices rising in January when Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor said inflation was “rampant”? The prices that give us a good steer on inflation were falling, by 0.4%. That’s the change that month ... <a title="From where we work to what we spend, the ABS knows more about us than ever before: here’s what’s changing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/03/from-where-we-work-to-what-we-spend-the-abs-knows-more-about-us-than-ever-before-heres-whats-changing-226814/" aria-label="Read more about From where we work to what we spend, the ABS knows more about us than ever before: here’s what’s changing">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Pacific Media Watch The New York-based media watchdog Committee to Protect Journalists says the announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his intention to ban Al Jazeera follows a similar pattern of media interference, including the killing of media workers. “We’ve seen this kind of language before from Netanyahu and Israeli officials in which ... <a title="Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/israels-al-jazeera-ban-alarms-media-watchdog-on-free-press-stranglehold/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s Al Jazeera ban ‘alarms’ media watchdog on free press stranglehold">Read more</a>
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April 2, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Indonesia’s military regional command in Papua has denied claims made by a pro-independence West Papuan group that abducted New Zealand pilot Phillip Mehrtens more than a year ago that the army had staged a bombing attack, The Jakarta Post reports. Responding to a claim by the West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB) ... <a title="Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/02/indonesian-military-deny-bombing-papua-district-in-bid-to-free-nz-pilot/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian military deny bombing Papua district in bid to free NZ pilot">Read more</a>
