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March 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Research Associate at University of New South Wales, Curtin University Shutterstock Fire management in Australia is approaching crisis point. Seasons such as the Black Summer three years ago showed how our best efforts in fire-fighting and prescribed burning are ... <a title="New research reveals how forests reduce their own bushfire risk, if they’re left alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/new-research-reveals-how-forests-reduce-their-own-bushfire-risk-if-theyre-left-alone-201868/" aria-label="Read more about New research reveals how forests reduce their own bushfire risk, if they’re left alone">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Geary, PhD Student, Deakin University Once abundant, woylies – or brush-tailed bettongs – are now critically endangered. John Gould, CC BY-SA Conserving native wildlife is a challenging task and Australia’s unenviable extinction record shows us we urgently need more sophisticated and effective approaches. Too often we ... <a title="Species don’t live in isolation: what changing threats to 4 marsupials tell us about the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/species-dont-live-in-isolation-what-changing-threats-to-4-marsupials-tell-us-about-the-future-200990/" aria-label="Read more about Species don’t live in isolation: what changing threats to 4 marsupials tell us about the future">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University ThisIsEngineering/Pexels , CC BY-NC Australia continues to grapple with acute skills shortages. Businesses are struggling to find workers with the skills they need. Meanwhile, workers struggle to get jobs because of the mismatch between available training and ... <a title="The National Skills Agreement needs time in the policy spotlight and it must include these 3 things" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/the-national-skills-agreement-needs-time-in-the-policy-spotlight-and-it-must-include-these-3-things-201183/" aria-label="Read more about The National Skills Agreement needs time in the policy spotlight and it must include these 3 things">Read more</a>
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March 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Eames, History PhD candidate, University of Sydney Portrait of De Lacy Evans and his wife (1870) State Library Victoria This article contains references to anti-trans, colonial and institutional violence, and includes information about an Aboriginal person who died in the early 20th century. Anti-transgender hatred is ... <a title="Trans people aren’t new, and neither is their oppression: a history of gender crossing in 19th-century Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/22/trans-people-arent-new-and-neither-is-their-oppression-a-history-of-gender-crossing-in-19th-century-australia-201663/" aria-label="Read more about Trans people aren’t new, and neither is their oppression: a history of gender crossing in 19th-century Australia">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s decision to buy three nuclear-powered submarines and build another eight is so expensive that, for the A$268 billion to $368 billion price tag, we could give a million dollars to every resident of Geelong, ... <a title="How can Australia pay $368 billion for new submarines? Some of the money will be created from thin air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/how-can-australia-pay-368-billion-for-new-submarines-some-of-the-money-will-be-created-from-thin-air-202150/" aria-label="Read more about How can Australia pay $368 billion for new submarines? Some of the money will be created from thin air">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia has 116 new coal, oil and gas projects in the pipeline. If they all proceed as planned, an extra 1.4 billion tonnes of greenhouse gases would be released into the atmosphere annually by 2030. ... <a title="Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/australias-116-new-coal-oil-and-gas-projects-equate-to-215-new-coal-power-stations-202135/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 116 new coal, oil and gas projects equate to 215 new coal power stations">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University A referendum will be held later this year to enshrine a First Nations’ Voice to Parliament into the Australian constitution. The draft question for the ... <a title="What Australia could learn from New Zealand about Indigenous representation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/what-australia-could-learn-from-new-zealand-about-indigenous-representation-201761/" aria-label="Read more about What Australia could learn from New Zealand about Indigenous representation">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Haoyang Zhai, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Alexander Schimmeck/Unsplash Since its inception in 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has officially promoted an atheist and materialist ideology. But belief systems in China are making a comeback – and this comeback is largely happening online. From traditional ... <a title="Taoist rituals via video call and Tarot readings over WeChat: China’s spiritual market is going digital" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/taoist-rituals-via-video-call-and-tarot-readings-over-wechat-chinas-spiritual-market-is-going-digital-199989/" aria-label="Read more about Taoist rituals via video call and Tarot readings over WeChat: China’s spiritual market is going digital">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohiuddin Ahmed, Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Google and Microsoft are on a mission to remove the drudgery from computing, by bringing next-generation AI tools as add-ons to existing services. On March 16, Microsoft announced an AI-powered system called Copilot will soon be ... <a title="Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/google-and-microsoft-are-bringing-ai-to-word-excel-gmail-and-more-it-could-boost-productivity-for-us-and-cybercriminals-202046/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Microsoft are bringing AI to Word, Excel, Gmail and more. It could boost productivity for us – and cybercriminals">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elen Shute, Researcher, Flinders University One bird bucks the stereotype of Australia’s raucous parrots – the mysterious and critically endangered night parrot (Pezoporus occidentalis). Rather than flying around in noisy flocks or eating fruit in trees, the night parrot roosts all day in a clump of sharp ... <a title="Our mysterious night parrot has terrible vision – but we discovered it might be able to hear like an owl" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/our-mysterious-night-parrot-has-terrible-vision-but-we-discovered-it-might-be-able-to-hear-like-an-owl-200058/" aria-label="Read more about Our mysterious night parrot has terrible vision – but we discovered it might be able to hear like an owl">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Gainsbury, Deputy Director, Gambling Treatment and Research Clinic, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, University of Sydney shutterstock The Perottett government’s promise to introduce mandatory “cashless gambling” in New South Wales by 2028 – something for which anti-gambling activists and public-health experts have long lobbied – has ... <a title="No, gamblers don’t ‘need’ cash. Our research isn’t an argument against cashless gaming reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/no-gamblers-dont-need-cash-our-research-isnt-an-argument-against-cashless-gaming-reform-199515/" aria-label="Read more about No, gamblers don’t ‘need’ cash. Our research isn’t an argument against cashless gaming reform">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thara Philip, E-Mobility Doctoral Researcher, The University of Queensland The number of electric vehicles (EVs) in Australia doubled in 2022 and Tesla’s Model 3 emerged as the best-selling mid-size car, the first time an EV has held this title. Despite these headlines, Australia is off to a ... <a title="Australia’s electric vehicle numbers doubled last year. What’s the impact of charging them on a power grid under strain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/21/australias-electric-vehicle-numbers-doubled-last-year-whats-the-impact-of-charging-them-on-a-power-grid-under-strain-201478/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s electric vehicle numbers doubled last year. What’s the impact of charging them on a power grid under strain?">Read more</a>
