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September 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Misha Ketchell, Editor, The Conversation Today we removed an article titled “Should we ditch big exam halls? Our research shows how high ceilings are associated with a lower score”, because the original research has been found to contain errors and has been retracted by the academic journal ... <a title="Retraction: why we removed an article about a link between exam results and ceiling height" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/29/retraction-why-we-removed-an-article-about-a-link-between-exam-results-and-ceiling-height-239930/" aria-label="Read more about Retraction: why we removed an article about a link between exam results and ceiling height">Read more</a>
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September 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed a major victory following the assassination of longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, saying it would change “the balance of power in the region for years to come”. ... <a title="Benjamin Netanyahu is triumphant after Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. But will it change anything?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/29/benjamin-netanyahu-is-triumphant-after-hassan-nasrallahs-assassination-but-will-it-change-anything-240090/" aria-label="Read more about Benjamin Netanyahu is triumphant after Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. But will it change anything?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Is the government seriously interested in changing arrangements on negative gearing? After days of questions to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers, who would know? They’ve engaged in obfuscation at every turn. Today, Chalmers was asked, at a ... <a title="View from the Hill: Albanese and Chalmers play cat-and-mouse on negative gearing with the public – and possibly with each other" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/view-from-the-hill-albanese-and-chalmers-play-cat-and-mouse-on-negative-gearing-with-the-public-and-possibly-with-each-other-240020/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: Albanese and Chalmers play cat-and-mouse on negative gearing with the public – and possibly with each other">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Maslow, Associate professor, University of Tokyo In a vote to replace Fumio Kishia as head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), party members have elected Shigeru Ishiba as their new leader. Given the LDP’s majority in parliament, the party leader will become prime minister by ... <a title="Shigeru Ishiba will be Japan’s next prime minister. What should we expect?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/shigeru-ishiba-will-be-japans-next-prime-minister-what-should-we-expect-239314/" aria-label="Read more about Shigeru Ishiba will be Japan’s next prime minister. What should we expect?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Pryke, Honorary Research Associate, University of Sydney Daniel Boud/Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Opera, Carriageworks Gilgamesh, a new opera from Opera Australia, Sydney Chamber Orchestra and Carriageworks, gives a visceral retelling of a story from a forgotten age, exploring ideas of love, tyranny and what it means ... <a title="New Australian opera Gilgamesh captures the power of one of the world’s most ancient masterpieces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/new-australian-opera-gilgamesh-captures-the-power-of-one-of-the-worlds-most-ancient-masterpieces-237765/" aria-label="Read more about New Australian opera Gilgamesh captures the power of one of the world’s most ancient masterpieces">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mandy Freund, Lecturer, Climate Science Geography, The University of Melbourne Meteorologists are again predicting a possible La Niña this summer, which means Australia may face wetter and cooler conditions than normal. It would be the fourth La Niña in Australia in five years, and highlights the need ... <a title="Australia may be facing another La Niña summer. We’ve found a way to predict them earlier, to help us prepare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/australia-may-be-facing-another-la-nina-summer-weve-found-a-way-to-predict-them-earlier-to-help-us-prepare-239826/" aria-label="Read more about Australia may be facing another La Niña summer. We’ve found a way to predict them earlier, to help us prepare">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Beirman, Adjunct Fellow Management & Tourism, University of Technology Sydney Australia has a long history of domestic airlines collapsing, often affecting thousands of travellers, yet the industry provides little or no recompense. Even the federal government’s recently released aviation discussion paper recognised the need for change ... <a title="Australia’s air and tourism industries need government-backed insolvency insurance. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/australias-air-and-tourism-industries-need-government-backed-insolvency-insurance-heres-why-239060/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s air and tourism industries need government-backed insolvency insurance. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Madman Entertainment In The Substance, the career of former actor Elisabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is diminished to daytime aerobics instructor on a television network. On her 50th birthday, she is made redundant by a ... <a title="There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/there-is-no-future-for-ageing-women-how-the-substance-uses-body-horror-in-a-feminist-critique-239729/" aria-label="Read more about There is no future for ageing women: how The Substance uses body-horror in a feminist critique">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Meade, Senior Research Fellow in Economics and Social Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University In New Zealand, capital gains tax debates spring up like zombies. Each time they get killed off, back to ... <a title="What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-jack-and-jill-can-teach-us-about-the-un-fairness-of-capital-gains-taxes-240002/" aria-label="Read more about What ‘Jack and Jill’ can teach us about the (un)fairness of capital gains taxes">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney It hasn’t been a good week for Coles and Woolworths. On Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the national competition regulator or ACCC) announced it was taking legal action against the big supermarkets over ... <a title="‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/concerning-accc-interim-report-on-supermarket-inquiry-tells-of-supplier-woes-and-oligopolistic-market-239931/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University Anna Shvets/Pexels Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was still needed to improve their ... <a title="What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-pathogen-might-spark-the-next-pandemic-how-scientists-are-preparing-for-disease-x-223193/" aria-label="Read more about What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were doing unfolds in front of ... <a title="Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/reading-desert-sands-indigenous-wildlife-tracking-skills-underpin-vast-monitoring-project-238978/" aria-label="Read more about Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project">Read more</a>
