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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Shutterstock Australia has recovered better than most from the COVID pandemic. As measured by gross domestic product (GDP), the economy is now 7% larger than it was before the pandemic. Over 2022, the ... <a title="Inflation still the ‘defining challenge’ as Australia’s economic activity slows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/inflation-still-the-defining-challenge-as-australias-economic-activity-slows-200631/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation still the ‘defining challenge’ as Australia’s economic activity slows">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tobias Ide, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Murdoch University For many Australians, the impacts of climate change on wellbeing are distressingly clear. Floods have recently caused massive damage in many parts of the country, while the 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires are still seared in our ... <a title="Political instability and damage to infrastructure: how climate change could undermine Australia’s national security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/political-instability-and-damage-to-infrastructure-how-climate-change-could-undermine-australias-national-security-199308/" aria-label="Read more about Political instability and damage to infrastructure: how climate change could undermine Australia’s national security">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nial Wheate, Associate Professor of the Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney Shutterstock Cough medicines containing the active ingredient pholcodine are being withdrawn from sale due to safety concerns highlighted for years both in Australia and internationally. Yesterday, Australia’s medicines regulator announced the immediate registration cancellation and ... <a title="Why cough medicines containing pholcodine can be deadly even if you took them months before surgery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/why-cough-medicines-containing-pholcodine-can-be-deadly-even-if-you-took-them-months-before-surgery-200895/" aria-label="Read more about Why cough medicines containing pholcodine can be deadly even if you took them months before surgery">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clemens Altaner, Associate Professor in Wood Science, University of Canterbury Shutterstock/speedshutter Photography Timber with a green-grey hue – treated with copper chromium arsenic (CCA) – is a common sight in New Zealand. But how many people are aware that it pollutes the environment, is associated with health ... <a title="Despite restrictions elsewhere, NZ still uses a wood preservative linked to arsenic pollution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/despite-restrictions-elsewhere-nz-still-uses-a-wood-preservative-linked-to-arsenic-pollution-199865/" aria-label="Read more about Despite restrictions elsewhere, NZ still uses a wood preservative linked to arsenic pollution">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By AJ Wood, Professor of law, Australian National University Dan Peled/AAP We asked our readers what they would like to know about the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. In the lead-up to the referendum, our expert authors will answer those questions. You can read the other questions and ... <a title="A Voice to Parliament will not give ‘special treatment’ to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-voice-to-parliament-will-not-give-special-treatment-to-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-australians-heres-why-200650/" aria-label="Read more about A Voice to Parliament will not give ‘special treatment’ to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Adjunct Associate Professor, Flinders University James Dorey, Flinders University, Author provided Australian native bees have evolved complex social structures and foraging behaviours that help biologists answer longstanding questions, such as the origins of social behaviour, and the drivers of increased biodiversity. In European honeybees, ... <a title="Move over, honeybees: Aussie native bees steal the show with unique social and foraging behaviours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/move-over-honeybees-aussie-native-bees-steal-the-show-with-unique-social-and-foraging-behaviours-200536/" aria-label="Read more about Move over, honeybees: Aussie native bees steal the show with unique social and foraging behaviours">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John McCarthy, ARC DECRA Fellow, Flinders University A Bryde’s whale. worldclassphoto/Shutterstock In 2011, researchers observed a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales, now called tread-water feeding or trap-feeding. It was thought to be a new technique developed by specific whale communities. Trap-feeding is one of several whale ... <a title="A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-recently-discovered-whale-feeding-strategy-has-turned-up-in-2-000-year-old-texts-about-fearsome-sea-monsters-200724/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘recently discovered’ whale feeding strategy has turned up in 2,000-year-old texts about fearsome sea monsters">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia Grealy, Research Projects Officer, CSIRO Gifford Miller, Author provided Madagascar’s extinct elephant birds – the largest birds ever to have lived – have captured public interest for hundreds of years. Little is known about them due to large gaps in the skeletal fossil record. A new ... <a title="Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/extinct-elephant-birds-were-3-metres-tall-and-weighed-700kg-now-dna-from-fossil-eggshells-reveals-how-they-lived-200628/" aria-label="Read more about Extinct elephant birds were 3 metres tall and weighed 700kg. Now, DNA from fossil eggshells reveals how they lived">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ash Porter, Research officer, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Bird flu has been causing growing concern in recent months, with hundreds of millions of birds dying of the virus since October 2021. This is the largest global outbreak. Last week, an 11-year-old child in ... <a title="When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/when-should-we-worry-about-bird-flu-making-us-sick-when-we-see-human-to-human-transmission-and-theres-no-evidence-of-that-yet-200710/" aria-label="Read more about When should we worry about bird flu making us sick? When we see human-to-human transmission – and there’s no evidence of that yet">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Foley, CEO of Aboriginal Carbon Foundation, Indigenous Knowledge Shutterstock The Albanese government is embarking on a suite of environmental reforms: beefing up Australia’s carbon credit scheme, and establishing a market to fund environmental restoration. These big policy changes may seek to justify colonial practices imposed on ... <a title="‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/a-stench-of-tokenism-how-environmental-reforms-ignore-first-nations-knowledge-198393/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A stench of tokenism’: how environmental reforms ignore First Nations knowledge">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Lehmann, Honorary Lecturer, College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Shutterstock There is a story doing the media rounds that international students – particularly from China – will now “flood” back to Australia. It is claimed this will push up already high rents for ... <a title="‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/are-you-asking-us-to-sleep-under-the-harbour-bridge-3-myths-about-international-students-and-the-housing-crisis-200274/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Are you asking us to sleep under the Harbour Bridge?’: 3 myths about international students and the housing crisis">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney Shutterstock Dixi et salvavi animam meam. This Latin phrase – I have spoken and saved my soul – sits at the end of Karl Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme. Written in 1875, this text imagines a ... <a title="The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/03/01/the-dark-side-of-the-moon-at-50-how-marx-trauma-and-compassion-all-influenced-pink-floyds-masterpiece-198400/" aria-label="Read more about The Dark Side of the Moon at 50: how Marx, trauma and compassion all influenced Pink Floyd’s masterpiece">Read more</a>
