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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Buckley, Lecturer in Molecular Ecology and Environmental Management, Edith Cowan University Greta Valley Landcare Group, CC BY The southern pygmy perch hadn’t been seen in Bendigo Creek since the mid-19th-century goldrush, when a booming town sprang up around the central Victorian waterway. This attractive small fish, ... <a title="How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/how-a-long-lost-fish-species-was-brought-back-to-bendigo-225800/" aria-label="Read more about How a long-lost fish species was brought back to Bendigo">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Clement, Lecturer in Visual Art and McGlade Gallery Director, Australian Catholic University Tracey Clement, Impossible Numbers. Tracey Clement I slip the needle through a small loop of black thread, pull it tight and snip. Done. I have just tied off the very last stitch on an ... <a title="15,000 squares, 500 hours, 19 months: how I used embroidery to make sense of Australia’s catastrophic fires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/15-000-squares-500-hours-19-months-how-i-used-embroidery-to-make-sense-of-australias-catastrophic-fires-227907/" aria-label="Read more about 15,000 squares, 500 hours, 19 months: how I used embroidery to make sense of Australia’s catastrophic fires">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Gonzalo Buzonni/Shutterstock From around 1996 to 2010, Australia was gripped by the millennium drought. As water shortages bit hard, most of Australia’s capital cities built large seawater desalination plants – Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth. Remote ... <a title="More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/more-desalination-is-coming-to-australias-driest-states-but-super-salty-outflows-could-trash-ecosystems-and-fisheries-229629/" aria-label="Read more about More desalination is coming to Australia’s driest states – but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Students have been protesting on university campuses across Australia for several weeks now, calling on their institutions to cut ties with weapons manufacturers supplying arms to Israel. Some have noted their intention to stay for months ... <a title="Can university protest camps be removed? What does the law say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/can-university-protest-camps-be-removed-what-does-the-law-say-229806/" aria-label="Read more about Can university protest camps be removed? What does the law say?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hail, Adjunct Associate Professor, Torrens University Australia (ref. https://www.torrens.edu.au ) Wolfilser/Shutterstock This article is part one of The Conversation’s “Business Basics” series where we ask leading experts to discuss key concepts in business, economics and finance. For the most part, economists continue to believe a story ... <a title="Where did money come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/where-did-money-come-from-229481/" aria-label="Read more about Where did money come from?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University & Honorary fellow, Melbourne Law School, Monash University Glenn Carstens-Peters / Unsplash If you search Google Scholar for the phrase “as an AI language model”, you’ll find plenty of AI research literature and also some rather suspicious results. For example, ... <a title="AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/ai-assisted-writing-is-quietly-booming-in-academic-journals-heres-why-thats-ok-229416/" aria-label="Read more about AI-assisted writing is quietly booming in academic journals. Here’s why that’s OK">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin O’Brien, Associate Professor, School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University University campuses around the world have become the site of tiny tent cities in recent weeks, with student activists protesting the ongoing conflict in Gaza. Though the protests on Australian campuses have been largely peaceful, ... <a title="What is it about Gaza? Wars are raging around the world, so why are young people so passionate about this one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/what-is-it-about-gaza-wars-are-raging-around-the-world-so-why-are-young-people-so-passionate-about-this-one-229499/" aria-label="Read more about What is it about Gaza? Wars are raging around the world, so why are young people so passionate about this one?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Associate Professor, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock Australia’s childhood immunisation program gets very good uptake every year – almost 94% of five-year-olds have had all their routine vaccinations. But our influenza vaccine coverage doesn’t get such a good report card. Looking back over ... <a title="Too many Australians aren’t getting a flu vaccine. Why, and what can we do about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/too-many-australians-arent-getting-a-flu-vaccine-why-and-what-can-we-do-about-it-229477/" aria-label="Read more about Too many Australians aren’t getting a flu vaccine. Why, and what can we do about it?">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As it looks to an election next year when holding up Labor’s female vote will be vital, Treasurer Jim Chalmers has declared Tuesday will bring “a budget for mums and middle Australia”. “The primary focus of our economic plan is ... <a title="“A budget for mums and middle Australia’: Jim Chalmers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/13/a-budget-for-mums-and-middle-australia-jim-chalmers-229887/" aria-label="Read more about “A budget for mums and middle Australia’: Jim Chalmers">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor, Indigenous Education & Research Centre, James Cook University Shutterstock This article contains information on deaths in custody and the violence experienced by First Nations people in encounters with the Australian carceral system. It also contains references to and the names of people who ... <a title="Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/indigenous-women-are-most-affected-by-domestic-violence-but-have-struggled-to-be-heard-its-time-we-listened-229720/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous women are most affected by domestic violence but have struggled to be heard. It’s time we listened">Read more</a>
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May 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Tuesday’s budget will respond to the deepening public agitation over Australia’s housing shortages by pouring new money into crisis accommodation for women and children, social housing and infrastructure. A specially-convened national cabinet late Friday ticked off on the package, much ... <a title="Budget to pledge billions more in funds and fresh effort to tackle intractable housing crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/11/budget-to-pledge-billions-more-in-funds-and-fresh-effort-to-tackle-intractable-housing-crisis-229818/" aria-label="Read more about Budget to pledge billions more in funds and fresh effort to tackle intractable housing crisis">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Senior lecturer, international migration and refugee law, University of Technology Sydney The High Court unanimously ruled today that the Australian government can keep asylum seekers in immigration detention indefinitely in cases where they do not “voluntarily” cooperate with their own deportation. This includes, for example, ... <a title="High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/10/high-court-dismisses-key-challenge-to-indefinite-immigration-detention-what-does-it-mean-229628/" aria-label="Read more about High Court dismisses key challenge to indefinite immigration detention. What does it mean?">Read more</a>
