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January 29, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Welch, Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, University of Auckland Getty Images We’ve built our cities to be vulnerable to – and exacerbate – major weather events such as the one we saw in Auckland on Friday. While almost no city in the world could fully escape ... <a title="Auckland floods: even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/29/auckland-floods-even-stormwater-reform-wont-be-enough-we-need-a-sponge-city-to-avoid-future-disasters-198736/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland floods: even stormwater reform won’t be enough – we need a ‘sponge city’ to avoid future disasters">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Renwick, Professor, Physical Geography (climate science), Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Victoria Park near the Auckland CBD on January 27. Getty Images The extraordinary flood event Auckland experienced on the night of January 27, the eve of the city’s anniversary weekend, was caused ... <a title="The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/the-auckland-floods-are-a-sign-of-things-to-come-the-city-needs-stormwater-systems-fit-for-climate-change-198723/" aria-label="Read more about The Auckland floods are a sign of things to come – the city needs stormwater systems fit for climate change">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers has laid out an economic blueprint for pursuing “values-based capitalism”, involving public-private co-investment and collaboration and the renovation of key economic institutions and markets. In a 6000-word essay in The Monthly titled “Capitalism after the crises”, Chalmers ... <a title="Jim Chalmers lays out agenda for pursuit of ‘values-based capitalism’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/28/jim-chalmers-lays-out-agenda-for-pursuit-of-values-based-capitalism-198675/" aria-label="Read more about Jim Chalmers lays out agenda for pursuit of ‘values-based capitalism’">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Ward, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Five years ago, bulldozers with chains cleared forests and woodlands almost triple the size of the Australian Capital Territory in a single year. Brazil? Indonesia? No – much closer: Queensland. In 2018-19, truly staggering land clearing, mostly by ... <a title="Why Queensland is still ground zero for Australian deforestation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/why-queensland-is-still-ground-zero-for-australian-deforestation-196644/" aria-label="Read more about Why Queensland is still ground zero for Australian deforestation">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Tingay, John Curtin Distinguished Professor (Radio Astronomy), Curtin University Asteroid 20223 BU’s path in red, with green showing the orbit of geosynchronous satellites. NASA/JPL-Caltech There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means ... <a title="Asteroid 2023 BU just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth. Here’s why that’s exciting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/asteroid-2023-bu-just-passed-a-few-thousand-kilometres-from-earth-heres-why-thats-exciting-198656/" aria-label="Read more about Asteroid 2023 BU just passed a few thousand kilometres from Earth. Here’s why that’s exciting">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Associate Professor, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide schankz/Shutterstock Have you ever worried if the play between your cats was getting too rough? A new study published in Scientific Reports has investigated play and fighting in cats. Their aim was to use ... <a title="Are your cats fighting or playing? Scientists analysed cat videos to figure out the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/are-your-cats-fighting-or-playing-scientists-analysed-cat-videos-to-figure-out-the-difference-198501/" aria-label="Read more about Are your cats fighting or playing? Scientists analysed cat videos to figure out the difference">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rolf Gerritsen, Professorial Research Fellow, Northern Institute, Charles Darwin University The supposed dimensions of the “crisis” in Alice Springs have been exhaustively portrayed in the media, both nationally and in the Northern Territory. The stories abound: shopfront windows repeatedly broken, groups of young children wandering the streets ... <a title="Beneath the Alice Springs ‘crime wave’ are complex issues – and a lot of politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/beneath-the-alice-springs-crime-wave-are-complex-issues-and-a-lot-of-politics-198530/" aria-label="Read more about Beneath the Alice Springs ‘crime wave’ are complex issues – and a lot of politics">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamara Borovica, Research assistant and early career researcher, Critical Mental Health research group, RMIT University Shutterstock If your new year’s resolutions include getting healthier, exercising more and lifting your mood, dance might be for you. By dance, we don’t mean watching other people dance on TikTok, as ... <a title="Let’s dance! How dance classes can lift your mood and help boost your social life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/lets-dance-how-dance-classes-can-lift-your-mood-and-help-boost-your-social-life-197692/" aria-label="Read more about Let’s dance! How dance classes can lift your mood and help boost your social life">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Andrews, Professor and Academic Director (Indigenous Research), La Trobe University Shutterstock Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Many people do not know about the early activism undertaken at Victorian Aboriginal missions and reserves in response ... <a title="The 1881 Maloga petition: a call for self-determination and a key moment on the path to the Voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/the-1881-maloga-petition-a-call-for-self-determination-and-a-key-moment-on-the-path-to-the-voice-197796/" aria-label="Read more about The 1881 Maloga petition: a call for self-determination and a key moment on the path to the Voice">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago A German Leopard 2 heavy battle tank of the type destined for Ukraine. Getty Images The recent decision by Olaf Scholz’s German government to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks – after weeks of clear reluctance to ... <a title="Liberal hawks versus realist doves: who is winning the ideological war over the future of Ukraine?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/liberal-hawks-versus-realist-doves-who-is-winning-the-ideological-war-over-the-future-of-ukraine-198652/" aria-label="Read more about Liberal hawks versus realist doves: who is winning the ideological war over the future of Ukraine?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate Professor, Philosophy of Science, Australian Catholic University Counterfactuals are claims about what would happen, were something to occur in a different way. For instance, we can ask what the world would be like had the internet never been developed. Shutterstock Artificial intelligence is increasingly ... <a title="Philosophers have studied ‘counterfactuals’ for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/philosophers-have-studied-counterfactuals-for-decades-will-they-help-us-unlock-the-mysteries-of-ai-196392/" aria-label="Read more about Philosophers have studied ‘counterfactuals’ for decades. Will they help us unlock the mysteries of AI?">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images With a new prime minister sworn in and a cabinet reshuffle imminent, it’s no exaggeration to say the election year has begun with a bang. Already the punditry and speculation are ramping up, ... <a title="This election year, NZ voters should beware of reading too much into the political polls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/01/27/this-election-year-nz-voters-should-beware-of-reading-too-much-into-the-political-polls-198508/" aria-label="Read more about This election year, NZ voters should beware of reading too much into the political polls">Read more</a>
