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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University The main cost of an electric vehicle (EV) is its battery. The high cost of energy-dense batteries has meant EVs have long been more expensive than their fossil fuel equivalents. But this could change faster than we thought. The world’s ... <a title="A battery price war is kicking off that could soon make electric cars cheaper. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/a-battery-price-war-is-kicking-off-that-could-soon-make-electric-cars-cheaper-heres-how-225165/" aria-label="Read more about A battery price war is kicking off that could soon make electric cars cheaper. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marten Risius, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland Bumble Dee/Shutterstock Australia’s eSafety commissioner has sent legal notices to Google, Meta, Telegram, WhatsApp, Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) asking them to show what they’re doing to protect Australians from online extremism. The six companies ... <a title="Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/terrorist-content-lurks-all-over-the-internet-regulating-only-6-major-platforms-wont-be-nearly-enough-226219/" aria-label="Read more about Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor emerita, University of Sydney The government will be on tenterhooks again next month when the High Court of Australia hears another case that could lead to the release of a further cohort of people currently in immigration detention. Given the ongoing political fallout of ... <a title="The government is fighting a new High Court case on immigration detainees. What’s it about and what’s at stake?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/the-government-is-fighting-a-new-high-court-case-on-immigration-detainees-whats-it-about-and-whats-at-stake-226120/" aria-label="Read more about The government is fighting a new High Court case on immigration detainees. What’s it about and what’s at stake?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Foreign Minister Penny Wong delivered a forthright message to her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, at the Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue in Canberra on Wednesday. “I told the foreign minister Australians were shocked at the sentence imposed on Dr Yang ... <a title="Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declines to front media after talks with Penny Wong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi-declines-to-front-media-after-talks-with-penny-wong-226221/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declines to front media after talks with Penny Wong">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Paul Gregoire in Sydney One year since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to San Diego to unveil the AUKUS deal the news came that the first of three second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines supposed to arrive in 2032 may not happen. Former coalition prime minister Scott Morrison announced AUKUS in September 2021 and Albanese ... <a title="Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/nuclear-submarines-may-never-appear-but-aukus-is-already-in-place/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University On March 21, the federal government will release the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report on ensuring religious schools cannot discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff. But the political debate is already well under way – and has been going ... <a title="Why are religious discrimination laws back in the news? And where did they come from in the first place?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/why-are-religious-discrimination-laws-back-in-the-news-and-where-did-they-come-from-in-the-first-place-226220/" aria-label="Read more about Why are religious discrimination laws back in the news? And where did they come from in the first place?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Recessions in the last Ten Years: New Zealand and Japan Tomorrow we will see the latest Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data for New Zealand. It’s worth looking today, however, at what the situation is before that data release (with its revisions as well as new data). And in context by comparing ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand in Recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/keith-rankin-analysis-new-zealand-in-recession/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – New Zealand in Recession">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney TikTok’s owner is once again navigating troubled waters in the United States, where the US House of Representatives has issued an ultimatum: divest or face shutdown within six months. In Australia, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Senator James ... <a title="If TikTok is banned in the US or Australia, how might the company – or China – respond?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/if-tiktok-is-banned-in-the-us-or-australia-how-might-the-company-or-china-respond-225889/" aria-label="Read more about If TikTok is banned in the US or Australia, how might the company – or China – respond?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma McNicol, Research Fellow at Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University 50 years ago, there wasn’t a single women’s shelter in Australia. Then feminists squatted two terraces in Sydney, opening “Elsie”, Australia’s first domestic and family violence refuge. Commissioned by Elsie co-founder Anne Summers, I’ve recorded oral ... <a title="Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/squatting-kidnapping-and-collaboration-australias-first-womens-shelters-were-acts-of-radical-grassroots-feminism-225895/" aria-label="Read more about Squatting, kidnapping and collaboration: Australia’s first women’s shelters were acts of radical grassroots feminism">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janice Lord, Associate Professor in Botany, University of Otago Chillier mornings and higher heating bills aren’t the only signs of the changing seasons. Common insects, too, are having to adapt. One day we see them in our gardens and parks, the next they appear to have disappeared. ... <a title="NZ’s summer insects are packing up for autumn – here’s how our gardens can help them through the cold months" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/nzs-summer-insects-are-packing-up-for-autumn-heres-how-our-gardens-can-help-them-through-the-cold-months-226206/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s summer insects are packing up for autumn – here’s how our gardens can help them through the cold months">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Associate Professor Visual Communication, University of Technology Sydney Courtesy Warner Bros Science-fiction film as a genre allows us to encounter hypothetical worlds in which to understand our own. These films often present utopian and dystopian worlds, exploring themes of nationalism and heroism. They often include ... <a title="Is Dune an example of a white saviour narrative – or a critique of it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/is-dune-an-example-of-a-white-saviour-narrative-or-a-critique-of-it-225656/" aria-label="Read more about Is Dune an example of a white saviour narrative – or a critique of it?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacinta L. Johnson, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, University of South Australia Shutterstock Urinary tract infections can be a minor medical annoyance or lead to a hospital stay – especially for older people. If you think you might have a urinary tract infection (UTI) you need prompt ... <a title="Now you can get UTI antibiotics from pharmacies without prescription. Here’s what to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/now-you-can-get-uti-antibiotics-from-pharmacies-without-prescription-heres-what-to-know-224962/" aria-label="Read more about Now you can get UTI antibiotics from pharmacies without prescription. Here’s what to know">Read more</a>
