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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ariel Liebman, Ariel Liebman Director, Monash Energy Institute and Professor of Sustainable Energy Systems, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University Gareth Fuller/PA via AP The federal government’s plan to extend the gas price cap is not surprising, given fundamental market issues remain. For as long as the ... <a title="Kicking the gas can down the road: why a gas price cap is the worst way to protect energy consumers." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/kicking-the-gas-can-down-the-road-why-a-gas-price-cap-is-the-worst-way-to-protect-energy-consumers-204752/" aria-label="Read more about Kicking the gas can down the road: why a gas price cap is the worst way to protect energy consumers.">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Jane Archer, Senior Lecturer, Communication, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Parents share content of their children for myriad reasons, including to connect with friends and family, and to seek validation or support. However, some parents also do this for commercial gain. They manage their children as social ... <a title="‘Kidfluencer’ culture is harming kids in several ways – and there’s no meaningful regulation of it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/kidfluencer-culture-is-harming-kids-in-several-ways-and-theres-no-meaningful-regulation-of-it-204277/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Kidfluencer’ culture is harming kids in several ways – and there’s no meaningful regulation of it">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Enzo Palombo, Professor of Microbiology, Swinburne University of Technology TY Lim/Shutterstock Most people would expect a freezer can keep perishable food fresh and safe from spoilage for many months. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Have you ever noticed a funky smell in your freezer? Where ... <a title="Here’s why your freezer smells so bad – and what you can do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/heres-why-your-freezer-smells-so-bad-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-203058/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why your freezer smells so bad – and what you can do about it">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Allison, Research Fellow, Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Justice reinvestment emerged in the United States more than 20 years ago as a way to reduce mass incarceration and its vast costs by addressing the social drivers of imprisonment. Through ... <a title="‘Too much money is spent on jails and policing’: what Aboriginal communities told us about funding justice reinvestment to keep people out of prison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/too-much-money-is-spent-on-jails-and-policing-what-aboriginal-communities-told-us-about-funding-justice-reinvestment-to-keep-people-out-of-prison-200531/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Too much money is spent on jails and policing’: what Aboriginal communities told us about funding justice reinvestment to keep people out of prison">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Freeman, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney Shutterstock In a major speech today, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said vaping has become “the number one behavioural issue in high schools”. The government today proposed a suite of reforms aimed at reducing vaping. But ... <a title="Vaping and behaviour in schools: what does the research tell us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/vaping-and-behaviour-in-schools-what-does-the-research-tell-us-204794/" aria-label="Read more about Vaping and behaviour in schools: what does the research tell us?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Manns, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University Yui Mok/AP/AAP If slang is the people’s poetry, then Australia lost a poet last week. Barry Humphries breathed life into Australia’s “slanguage” – but it was often an imagined life. When it comes to their lexicon, Australians take pride ... <a title="From ‘technicolour yawn’ to ‘draining the dragon’: how Barry Humphries breathed new life into Australian slang" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/from-technicolour-yawn-to-draining-the-dragon-how-barry-humphries-breathed-new-life-into-australian-slang-204542/" aria-label="Read more about From ‘technicolour yawn’ to ‘draining the dragon’: how Barry Humphries breathed new life into Australian slang">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Divna Haslam, Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Unsplash/Luke Pennystan, CC BY When people think about child maltreatment, many think of physical or sexual abuse. But a key finding of our Australian Child Maltreatment Study, published last month, is that emotional abuse is widespread and associated ... <a title="Emotional abuse is a pattern of hurtful messages – building parenting skills could help prevent it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/emotional-abuse-is-a-pattern-of-hurtful-messages-building-parenting-skills-could-help-prevent-it-203556/" aria-label="Read more about Emotional abuse is a pattern of hurtful messages – building parenting skills could help prevent it">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images As the recent report of the Independent Police Conduct Authority made clear, the 2022 occupation of parliament grounds was very different from earlier protests in New Zealand. That doesn’t mean something similar can’t happen again. Given ... <a title="Parliament protest report shows NZ police have come a long way since 1981 – but practice and law must still improve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/parliament-protest-report-shows-nz-police-have-come-a-long-way-since-1981-but-practice-and-law-must-still-improve-204674/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament protest report shows NZ police have come a long way since 1981 – but practice and law must still improve">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Maher, Computational Neuroscientist and Biomedical Engineer, University of Sydney Shutterstock The technology to decode our thoughts is drawing ever closer. Neuroscientists at the University of Texas have for the first time decoded data from non-invasive brain scans and used them to reconstruct language and meaning from ... <a title="How close are we to reading minds? A new study decodes language and meaning from brain scans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/how-close-are-we-to-reading-minds-a-new-study-decodes-language-and-meaning-from-brain-scans-204691/" aria-label="Read more about How close are we to reading minds? A new study decodes language and meaning from brain scans">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Lukas Coch/AAP For much of the past two decades, polarisation and hyper-partisanship have weakened Western democracies, most notably in the United States and Britain. Australia has not escaped, although the consequences here have been ... <a title="Journalists reporting on the Voice to Parliament do voters a disservice with ‘he said, she said’ approach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/journalists-reporting-on-the-voice-to-parliament-do-voters-a-disservice-with-he-said-she-said-approach-204361/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists reporting on the Voice to Parliament do voters a disservice with ‘he said, she said’ approach">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Henry Cutler, Professor and Director, Macquarie University Centre for the Health Economy, Macquarie University Shutterstock Australians will soon be able to fill two months’ supply of medicines at their community pharmacy, rather than one, for 325 common medicines. This change is expected to halve the cost of ... <a title="Here’s why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/heres-why-pharmacists-are-angry-at-script-changes-and-why-the-government-is-making-them-anyway-204028/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Thompson, Lecturer in Human Geography, Monash University Shutterstock The wild-caught fish you buy was landed far away from cameras or scrutiny. So how do you know it really is what the label says? How do you know it was caught in a sustainable fishery? Even in ... <a title="Wild-caught seafood is often untraceable – and some industry players don’t want that to change. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/05/02/wild-caught-seafood-is-often-untraceable-and-some-industry-players-dont-want-that-to-change-heres-why-204195/" aria-label="Read more about Wild-caught seafood is often untraceable – and some industry players don’t want that to change. Here’s why">Read more</a>
