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July 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shumi Akhtar, Associate Professor, University of Sydney Greg Brave/Shutterstock This article is part of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance. It’s July, which means if they haven’t already, many Australians will be thinking about and ... <a title="How does Australia’s progressive tax system work – and what is ‘bracket creep’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/12/how-does-australias-progressive-tax-system-work-and-what-is-bracket-creep-234152/" aria-label="Read more about How does Australia’s progressive tax system work – and what is ‘bracket creep’?">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Parwinder Kaur, Associate Professor | Director, DNA Zoo Australia, The University of Western Australia Legs of a juvenile female woolly mammoth named Yuka. Love Dalén, Stockholm University, Author provided In a world-first study, we have revealed and analysed remarkably preserved fragments of ancient DNA from the skin ... <a title="World-first study decodes the DNA structure of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth sample" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/12/world-first-study-decodes-the-dna-structure-of-a-52-000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-sample-232387/" aria-label="Read more about World-first study decodes the DNA structure of a 52,000-year-old woolly mammoth sample">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Don Farrell usually finds his way into the news cycle in relation to some or other trade issue. But Farrell, who’s special minister of state as well as trade minister, plans a throw of the dice soon that, if he ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Don Farrell has an electoral reform blueprint, but it could be a rough road to implementation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/grattan-on-friday-don-farrell-has-an-electoral-reform-blueprint-but-it-could-be-a-rough-road-to-implementation-234159/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Don Farrell has an electoral reform blueprint, but it could be a rough road to implementation">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Political donations would need to be disclosed in “real time” during elections under reform legislation that also would restrict spending on individual seat campaigns to an amount that will be less than $1 million per candidate. The package, which Special ... <a title="‘Real time’ donation disclosure and spending limits in Labor electoral reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/real-time-donation-disclosure-and-spending-limits-in-labor-electoral-reforms-234471/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Real time’ donation disclosure and spending limits in Labor electoral reforms">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne In the latest instalment of the Ladies Lounge saga at Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), curator Kirsha Kaechele’s ... <a title="Fake Picassos in a ladies toilet: why the saga at MONA is one of the most effective pieces of performance art I’ve seen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/fake-picassos-in-a-ladies-toilet-why-the-saga-at-mona-is-one-of-the-most-effective-pieces-of-performance-art-ive-seen-234470/" aria-label="Read more about Fake Picassos in a ladies toilet: why the saga at MONA is one of the most effective pieces of performance art I’ve seen">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Reardon, Postdoctoral researcher in pulsar timing and gravitational waves, Swinburne University of Technology Artist’s impression of a white dwarf star orbiting a pulsar and producing a gravitational time delay. Carl Knox / Swinburne / OzGrav Neutron stars are some of the most extreme objects in the ... <a title="What happens when matter is squashed to the brink of collapse? We weighed a neutron star to help NASA find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/what-happens-when-matter-is-squashed-to-the-brink-of-collapse-we-weighed-a-neutron-star-to-help-nasa-find-out-229813/" aria-label="Read more about What happens when matter is squashed to the brink of collapse? We weighed a neutron star to help NASA find out">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Hunter, Senior Lecturer in Art and Performance, Deakin University Rashidi Edward and Johnny Carr star in Macbeth (An Undoing). Jeff Busby What if significant portions of William Shakespeare’s text for Macbeth had been lost, leading to a narrative in which Lady Macbeth charts a different path, ... <a title="Macbeth (An Undoing): a new take that aims to reimagine Lady Macbeth’s path – but ultimately leaves you guessing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/macbeth-an-undoing-a-new-take-that-aims-to-reimagine-lady-macbeths-path-but-ultimately-leaves-you-guessing-233880/" aria-label="Read more about Macbeth (An Undoing): a new take that aims to reimagine Lady Macbeth’s path – but ultimately leaves you guessing">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Letico, Lecturer in Criminology and Senior Policy Officer (Office for the Commissioner for Victims of Crime), Victoria University Yurii_Yarema/Shutterstock The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and heightened awareness in our communities. We know perpetrators have ... <a title="Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence. How perpetrators weaponise disability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/deaf-women-are-twice-as-likely-to-experience-domestic-violence-how-perpetrators-weaponise-disability-233873/" aria-label="Read more about Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence. How perpetrators weaponise disability">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracy Molloy, Senior Lecturer in Sport Governance, Law & Ethics, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images As the All Blacks’ bruising first encounter with England last weekend showed, rugby is not a game for the faint-hearted. The same can apply off the field as well. At the ... <a title="NZ Rugby’s big test: can it select the right boardroom players for the modern game?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/nz-rugbys-big-test-can-it-select-the-right-boardroom-players-for-the-modern-game-232483/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Rugby’s big test: can it select the right boardroom players for the modern game?">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University baranq/Shutterstock What’s the difference? is a new editorial product that explains the similarities and differences between commonly confused health and medical terms, and why they matter. The term “man flu” takes a humorous poke ... <a title="What’s the difference between ‘man flu’ and flu? Hint: men may not be exaggerating" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/whats-the-difference-between-man-flu-and-flu-hint-men-may-not-be-exaggerating-231161/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the difference between ‘man flu’ and flu? Hint: men may not be exaggerating">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Davies, Lecturer in Sustainability and Urban Planning, RMIT University Adam Calaitzis/Shutterstock Have you ever walked or ridden a bike along a street, and thought to yourself, “Gosh, it’s noisy”, or “This feels unpleasant”? Odds are you were on a stroad. Maybe you’ve seen someone on social ... <a title="Not quite a street, not quite a road – why ‘stroads’ are disasters of urban planning, and how to fix them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/not-quite-a-street-not-quite-a-road-why-stroads-are-disasters-of-urban-planning-and-how-to-fix-them-232485/" aria-label="Read more about Not quite a street, not quite a road – why ‘stroads’ are disasters of urban planning, and how to fix them">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wayne Peake, Adjunct research fellow, School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University The Latin motto of the Olympic Games, which Baron Pierre de Coubertin – known as the father of the Olympics – resurrected at Athens in 1896, is “citius, altius, fortius – communiter”. In ... <a title="Anyone for obstacle course swimming? How some of the more unusual Olympic Games sports came to be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/11/anyone-for-obstacle-course-swimming-how-some-of-the-more-unusual-olympic-games-sports-came-to-be-228398/" aria-label="Read more about Anyone for obstacle course swimming? How some of the more unusual Olympic Games sports came to be">Read more</a>
