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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide The Divine Sarah Bernhardt. Memento This year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival showcases a diverse selection of films from blockbusters and biopics to comedies and gripping thrillers for Australian audiences. I’ve written before about how this annual ... <a title="Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/nerve-wracking-twists-remarkable-stardom-and-jet-black-comedy-the-5-best-films-of-the-2025-french-film-festival-250153/" aria-label="Read more about Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Fuller, Clinical Trials Director, Department of Endocrinology, RPA Hospital, University of Sydney Maria Symchych/Shutterstock If you’ve ever picked up your child from childcare and wondered if they’re living a double life, you’re not alone. Parents often receive rave reports from educators about kids’ adventurous eating habits, ... <a title="Why does my kid eat so well at childcare but not at home?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/why-does-my-kid-eat-so-well-at-childcare-but-not-at-home-247447/" aria-label="Read more about Why does my kid eat so well at childcare but not at home?">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Climstein, Associate Professor, Faculty of Health, Southern Cross University Cottonbro Studio/Pexels You’ve got a new brown spot on your face, but is it a freckle or a sunspot? Or perhaps you’ve found a spot on your back that looks like a mole but is flatter than ... <a title="What’s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/whats-the-difference-between-freckles-sunspots-and-moles-250768/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between freckles, sunspots and moles?">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Brodribb, Professor of Plant Physiology, University of Tasmania Stomata – the breathing ‘mouths’ of leaves – under the microscope. Barbol / Shutterstock Plant behaviour may seem rather boring compared with the frenetic excesses of animals. Yet the lives of our vegetable friends, who tirelessly feed the entire ... <a title="Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/plants-breathe-with-millions-of-tiny-mouths-we-used-lasers-to-understand-how-this-skill-evolved-249362/" aria-label="Read more about Plants breathe with millions of tiny mouths. We used lasers to understand how this skill evolved">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucy Montgomery, Dean of Research, Humanities, Curtin University Mykhailo Kopyt/Shutterstock In December 2024, the editorial board of the Journal of Human Evolution resigned en masse following disagreements with the journal’s publisher, Elsevier. The board’s grievances included claims of inadequate copyediting, misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), and the ... <a title="Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/academic-publishing-is-a-multibillion-dollar-industry-its-not-always-good-for-science-250056/" aria-label="Read more about Academic publishing is a multibillion-dollar industry. It’s not always good for science">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Whiting, Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in Music Industries and Cultural Economy, RMIT University iam_os/Unsplash The Australian Music Venue Foundation launched this month to advocate for and potentially administer an arena ticket levy to support grassroots live music venues. Funds would be raised through a small levy, ... <a title="Will $1 on your ticket help save Australian live music? A UK model is much more ambitious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/will-1-on-your-ticket-help-save-australian-live-music-a-uk-model-is-much-more-ambitious-252733/" aria-label="Read more about Will $1 on your ticket help save Australian live music? A UK model is much more ambitious">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Nickson, Associate Professor, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne; Adjunct Associate Professor, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney Pablo Heimplatz/Unsplash Australia’s BreastScreen program offers women regular mammograms (breast X-rays) based on their age. And this screening for breast cancer saves ... <a title="Breast cancer screening is ripe for change. We need to assess a woman’s risk – not just her age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/breast-cancer-screening-is-ripe-for-change-we-need-to-assess-a-womans-risk-not-just-her-age-252182/" aria-label="Read more about Breast cancer screening is ripe for change. We need to assess a woman’s risk – not just her age">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Valerie A. Cooper, Lecturer in Media and Communication, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images Of all the contradictions and ironies of Donald Trump’s second presidency so far, perhaps the most surprising has been his shutting down the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) ... <a title="Trump silences the Voice of America: end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/25/trump-silences-the-voice-of-america-end-of-a-propaganda-machine-or-void-for-china-and-russia-to-fill-252901/" aria-label="Read more about Trump silences the Voice of America: end of a propaganda machine or void for China and Russia to fill?">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Professor of Social Impact, University of Technology Sydney Queensland and the federal government have reached an agreement on school funding. This means all Australian states and territories are now signed up to new arrangements, which officially began at the start of 2025. The agreement follows ... <a title="4 key changes you may have missed in the new school funding agreement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/4-key-changes-you-may-have-missed-in-the-new-school-funding-agreement-252291/" aria-label="Read more about 4 key changes you may have missed in the new school funding agreement">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Cooper-Douglas, Deputy Politics + Society Editor The federal budget will be handed down by Treasurer Jim Chalmers at 7:30PM AEDT on Tuesday March 25. While the official budget papers are under lock and key until then, the government has been making spending announcements for weeks. Here’s ... <a title="Federal budget 2025: here’s what we know so far" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/federal-budget-2025-heres-what-we-know-so-far-252925/" aria-label="Read more about Federal budget 2025: here’s what we know so far">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Richards, Senior Research Fellow in Marine Biology, Curtin University Ningaloo Reef from the air. Violeta Brosig/Shutterstock This summer, an intense marine heatwave struck off northwestern Australia, driving sea surface temperatures up to 4°C above the summer average. The large mass of warm water has slowly moved ... <a title="Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/synchronised-bleaching-ningaloo-and-the-great-barrier-reef-are-bleaching-in-unison-for-the-first-time-252906/" aria-label="Read more about Synchronised bleaching: Ningaloo and the Great Barrier Reef are bleaching in unison for the first time">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2025
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shauna Murray, Professor; Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney Anthony Rowland Confronting images of dead seadragons, fish and octopuses washed up on South Australian beaches – and disturbing reports of “more than 100” surfers and beachgoers suffering flu-like symptoms after swimming or merely breathing in sea ... <a title="Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/03/24/mystery-solved-our-tests-reveal-the-tiny-algae-killing-fish-and-harming-surfers-on-sa-beaches-252810/" aria-label="Read more about Mystery solved: our tests reveal the tiny algae killing fish and harming surfers on SA beaches">Read more</a>
