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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne The Queensland state election will be held in October. A Resolve poll for The Brisbane Times, conducted over four months from February to May from a sample ... <a title="Labor takes a hit in Resolve polls in Queensland and Victoria" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/labor-takes-a-hit-in-resolve-polls-in-queensland-and-victoria-230415/" aria-label="Read more about Labor takes a hit in Resolve polls in Queensland and Victoria">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Wille, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania. While we remain free from this virus for now, it’s only a matter of time before ... <a title="Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is knocking on Australia’s door" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/chickens-ducks-seals-and-cows-a-dangerous-bird-flu-strain-is-knocking-on-australias-door-230013/" aria-label="Read more about Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is knocking on Australia’s door">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Wille, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne A dangerous strain of avian influenza (bird flu) is now wreaking havoc on every continent except Australia and the rest of Oceania. While we remain free from this virus for now, it’s only a matter of time before ... <a title="Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is everywhere but Australia, for now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/chickens-ducks-seals-and-cows-a-dangerous-bird-flu-strain-is-everywhere-but-australia-for-now-230013/" aria-label="Read more about Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is everywhere but Australia, for now">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. The announcement came out of a ... <a title="Age verification for social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/age-verification-for-social-media-would-impact-all-of-us-we-asked-parents-and-kids-if-they-actually-want-it-230539/" aria-label="Read more about Age verification for social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Humphry, Senior Lecturer in Digital Cultures, University of Sydney Shutterstock This month the Australian government announced a A$6.5 million commitment to trial an age-verification program that will restrict children’s exposure to inappropriate online content, including pornography and potentially social media. The announcement came out of a ... <a title="Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/age-verification-for-porn-and-social-media-would-impact-all-of-us-we-asked-parents-and-kids-if-they-actually-want-it-230539/" aria-label="Read more about Age verification for porn and social media would impact all of us. We asked parents and kids if they actually want it">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney Jevanto Productions/Shutterstock Australians don’t know and can’t control how data brokers are spreading their personal information. This is the core finding of a newly released report from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Consumers wanting ... <a title="Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/worried-your-address-birth-date-or-health-data-is-being-sold-you-should-be-and-the-law-isnt-protecting-you-230540/" aria-label="Read more about Worried your address, birth date or health data is being sold? You should be – and the law isn’t protecting you">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University On Tuesday, Telstra announced it will be cutting up to 2,800 jobs as part of a major restructure. Of these layoffs, 377 will take effect immediately from within the Telstra Enterprise business unit. Most of the remaining ... <a title="Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the business under pressure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/telstra-says-slashing-almost-a-tenth-of-its-workforce-will-help-save-350-million-why-is-the-business-under-pressure-230533/" aria-label="Read more about Telstra says slashing almost a tenth of its workforce will help save $350 million. Why is the business under pressure?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Sherlock, Visiting Fellow, Department of Political and Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Indonesia’s president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, won February’s presidential election in a landslide victory of nearly 59% of the nationwide vote, more than double his nearest challenger. But his ... <a title="He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determine whether Prabowo can govern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/he-won-indonesias-election-in-a-landslide-now-backroom-meetings-and-horse-trading-will-determine-whether-prabowo-can-govern-228405/" aria-label="Read more about He won Indonesia’s election in a landslide. Now, backroom meetings and horse-trading will determine whether Prabowo can govern">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong “I’m looking for a man in finance,” the TikTok user, @girl_on_couch, says blandly, looking around the room and then into the camera. “Trust fund. 6’5. Blue eyes. Finance.” In the caption, she urges someone to turn her sound bite ... <a title="‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/im-looking-for-a-man-in-finance-how-a-sampled-sound-bite-can-turn-a-dance-track-into-an-earworm-230542/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m looking for a man in finance’: how a sampled sound bite can turn a dance track into an earworm">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University The perennial question of what to do with musicians and their work when they are found to have been abusive has arisen again this week, as distressing video footage of rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs assaulting his then girlfriend Cassandra ... <a title="Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/diddy-is-just-the-latest-in-a-long-line-of-musical-abusers-how-should-fans-respond-230426/" aria-label="Read more about Diddy is just the latest in a long line of musical abusers. How should fans respond?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie Ashe, PhD Candidate, School of Media, Film & Journalism, Monash University Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures The Mad Max films are set in an arid, barren, post-apocalyptic world known in the movies as “the wasteland”. This is a world of environmental and civil collapse caused by ... <a title="Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/turning-the-outback-into-post-apocalyptic-wasteland-what-mad-max-films-tell-us-about-filming-in-the-australian-desert-229632/" aria-label="Read more about Turning the outback into post-apocalyptic wasteland: what Mad Max films tell us about filming in the Australian desert">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Bartley, Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University In the occupied far east of Ukraine, Russian forces are aiming waves of missiles against Ukrainian civilian targets. Each of Russia’s state-of-the-art missile launch systems costs more than US$100 million (A$150 million). They ... <a title="We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/22/we-tracked-secret-russian-missile-launchers-in-ukraine-using-public-satellite-data-230424/" aria-label="Read more about We tracked secret Russian missile launchers in Ukraine using public satellite data">Read more</a>
