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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leanne Wiseman, Professor of Law, Griffith University, Griffith University Shutterstock When you buy a product, you expect to be able to repair it. The problem is, many modern products are designed so that you can’t fix them. Vital parts are inaccessible. Or you have to go through ... <a title="If you buy it, why can’t you fix it? Here’s why we still don’t have the ‘right to repair’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/if-you-buy-it-why-cant-you-fix-it-heres-why-we-still-dont-have-the-right-to-repair-203236/" aria-label="Read more about If you buy it, why can’t you fix it? Here’s why we still don’t have the ‘right to repair’">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth McCausland, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney You might have heard the phrase “social determinants of health”. It’s the idea that social factors – such as poverty, access to education, where you live and whether you face discrimination – have a huge influence on your health and life ... <a title="The social determinants of justice: 8 factors that increase your risk of imprisonment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/the-social-determinants-of-justice-8-factors-that-increase-your-risk-of-imprisonment-203661/" aria-label="Read more about The social determinants of justice: 8 factors that increase your risk of imprisonment">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland Getty Images This week marks the beginning of Jacinda Ardern’s life outside parliament, since she officially ceased to be an electorate MP at midnight last Saturday. Her legacy as prime minister will be discussed and disputed, but ... <a title="The ‘otherness’ of Jacinda Ardern – by doing politics differently she changed the game and saved her party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/the-otherness-of-jacinda-ardern-by-doing-politics-differently-she-changed-the-game-and-saved-her-party-203326/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘otherness’ of Jacinda Ardern – by doing politics differently she changed the game and saved her party">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yolanda Lee Waters, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, The University of Queensland Ocean Image Bank / Naja Bertolt Jensen, CC BY-NC Climate change, pollution and overfishing are just a few problems that need addressing to maintain a healthy blue planet. Everyone must get involved – but it’s ... <a title="Plastic action or distraction? As climate change bears down, calls to reduce plastic pollution are not wasted" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/plastic-action-or-distraction-as-climate-change-bears-down-calls-to-reduce-plastic-pollution-are-not-wasted-202780/" aria-label="Read more about Plastic action or distraction? As climate change bears down, calls to reduce plastic pollution are not wasted">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gery Karantzas, Professor in Social Psychology / Relationship Science, Deakin University In the phenomenally successful TV show Succession, wealthy media magnate Logan Roy (played by Brian Cox) is frequently cruel to his adult children. He insults them, pits them against each other and can be cold or ... <a title="Why do people crave the approval of an abusive or narcissistic parent? And what can they do about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/why-do-people-crave-the-approval-of-an-abusive-or-narcissistic-parent-and-what-can-they-do-about-it-203664/" aria-label="Read more about Why do people crave the approval of an abusive or narcissistic parent? And what can they do about it?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Robotham, Research Associate Professor & UWA Research Fellow, The University of Western Australia Antikythera mechanism in National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Viacheslav Lopatin/Shutterstock The coastal town of Exmouth in Western Australia is due to experience one of the most spectacular astronomical phenomena on April 20 2023 ... <a title="Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/humans-have-been-predicting-eclipses-for-thousands-of-years-but-its-harder-than-you-might-think-202034/" aria-label="Read more about Humans have been predicting eclipses for thousands of years, but it’s harder than you might think">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Young, Professor of Political Science, The University of Melbourne South Sea Islander women, Cairns, circa 1895 National Museum of Australia In a splash of articles published over the past two weeks, the British Guardian has acknowledged and apologised for its historical links with slavery. The Scott ... <a title="Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/unpapering-the-cracks-sugar-slavery-and-the-sydney-morning-herald-202828/" aria-label="Read more about Unpapering the cracks: sugar, slavery and the Sydney Morning Herald">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Pate, Senior Lecturer in Physiotherapy, University of Technology Sydney Pexels, CC BY For every feeling we experience, there is a lot of complex biology going on underneath our skin. Pain involves our whole body. When faced with possible threats, the feeling of pain develops in a ... <a title="Turning down the volume of pain – how to retrain your brain when you get sensitised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/turning-down-the-volume-of-pain-how-to-retrain-your-brain-when-you-get-sensitised-202850/" aria-label="Read more about Turning down the volume of pain – how to retrain your brain when you get sensitised">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan N Williams, Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, UNSW Sydney Joseph Lycett, Aborigines using fire to hunt kangaroo (c.1817) National Library of Australia Indigenous Australians have conducted cultural burning for at least ten millenia and the practice helped reduce bushfire risk ... <a title="A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/a-dive-into-the-deep-past-reveals-indigenous-burning-helped-suppress-bushfires-10-000-years-ago-203754/" aria-label="Read more about A dive into the deep past reveals Indigenous burning helped suppress bushfires 10,000 years ago">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Tai, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels This article is part of our series on big ideas for the Universities Accord. The federal government is calling ideas to “reshape and reimagine higher education, and set it up for the next decade and beyond”. A review ... <a title="We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/17/we-need-to-change-the-way-universities-assess-students-starting-with-these-3-things-203048/" aria-label="Read more about We need to change the way universities assess students, starting with these 3 things">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Mortlock, Adjunct Fellow, UNSW Sydney An anemometer. Wattanasit Chunopas/Shutterstock Tropical cyclone Ilsa has been downgraded to a category-three cyclone as it moves southeast through Western Australia. The storm first made landfall as a category-five cyclone, passing near Port Hedland around midnight. Ilsa smashed into the largely ... <a title="Cyclone Ilsa just broke an Australian wind speed record. An expert explains why the science behind this is so complex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/cyclone-ilsa-just-broke-an-australian-wind-speed-record-an-expert-explains-why-the-science-behind-this-is-so-complex-203835/" aria-label="Read more about Cyclone Ilsa just broke an Australian wind speed record. An expert explains why the science behind this is so complex">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Holland, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s hope for a bipartisan approach on the Voice to parliament referendum has crumbled. Late last year, the National party declared it would oppose the proposed model, while the Liberal party did the same earlier this month. Nationals ... <a title="Dutton’s ‘no’ vote reflects 40 years of Coalition partisanship on the Voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/04/14/duttons-no-vote-reflects-40-years-of-coalition-partisanship-on-the-voice-203660/" aria-label="Read more about Dutton’s ‘no’ vote reflects 40 years of Coalition partisanship on the Voice">Read more</a>
