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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918. Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership is not. As Australians reflect ... <a title="‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/it-bucked-our-lads-up-wonderfully-the-lightning-quick-battle-that-marked-the-birth-of-the-us-australia-military-alliance-228382/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Magdalena M.E. Bunbury, Postdoctoral Researcher, James Cook University Burial with a horse at the Rákóczifalva site, Hungary (8th century AD). Sándor Hegedűs, Hungarian National Museum, CC BY How do we understand past societies? For centuries, our main sources of information have been pottery sherds, burial sites and ... <a title="Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/ancient-nomads-youve-probably-never-heard-of-disappeared-from-europe-1-000-years-ago-now-dna-analysis-reveals-how-they-lived-228602/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient nomads you’ve probably never heard of disappeared from Europe 1,000 years ago. Now, DNA analysis reveals how they lived">Read more</a>
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April 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathryn Willis, Postdoctoral Researcher, CSIRO Xavier Boulenger/Shutterstock In the two decades to 2019, global plastic production doubled. By 2040, plastic manufacturing and processing could consume as much as 20% of global oil production and use up 15% of the annual carbon emissions budget. Most of the plastic ... <a title="If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/25/if-plastic-manufacturing-goes-up-10-plastic-pollution-goes-up-10-and-were-set-for-a-huge-surge-in-production-227365/" aria-label="Read more about If plastic manufacturing goes up 10%, plastic pollution goes up 10% – and we’re set for a huge surge in production">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong Australian teddy bear bees are cute and fluffy, but get a look at that massive (unbarbed) stinger! James Dorey Photography Most of us have been stung by a bee and we know it’s not much fun. But ... <a title="Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/most-bees-dont-die-after-stinging-and-other-surprising-bee-facts-227162/" aria-label="Read more about Most bees don’t die after stinging – and other surprising bee facts">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Roberts, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong Aussie~mobs/Flickr Victor Farr, a private in the 1st Infantry Battalion, was among the first to land at Anzac Cove just before dawn on April 25 1915. Victor Farr was 20 when he died. © ... <a title="How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/how-anzac-deaths-changed-the-way-we-mourn-to-this-day-226746/" aria-label="Read more about How Anzac deaths changed the way we mourn to this day">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Gregory Moore I had the good fortune to care for the sugar gum at The University of Melbourne’s Burnley Gardens in Victoria where I worked for many decades. It was a fine ... <a title="Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/sugar-gums-have-a-reputation-as-risky-branch-droppers-but-theyre-important-to-bees-parrots-and-possums-227221/" aria-label="Read more about Sugar gums have a reputation as risky branch-droppers but they’re important to bees, parrots and possums">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA Australia’s inflation rate has fallen for the fifth successive quarter, and it’s now less than half of what it was back in late 2022. The annual rate peaked at 7.8% ... <a title="Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/inflation-is-slowly-falling-while-student-debt-is-climbing-6-graphs-that-explain-todays-cpi-228368/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is slowly falling, while student debt is climbing: 6 graphs that explain today’s CPI">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University Just when we think the price of rentals could not get any worse, this week’s Rental Affordability Snapshot by Anglicare has revealed low-income Australians are facing a housing crisis like never before. In fact, if ... <a title="Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/our-housing-system-is-broken-and-the-poorest-australians-are-being-hardest-hit-228511/" aria-label="Read more about Our housing system is broken and the poorest Australians are being hardest hit">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meighen McCrae, Associate Professor of Strategic & Defence Studies, Australian National University American and Australian stretcher bearers working together near the front line during the Battle of Hamel in 1918. Australian War Memorial While the AUKUS alliance is new, the Australian-American partnership is not. As Australians reflect ... <a title="‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick WWI battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/it-bucked-our-lads-up-wonderfully-the-lightning-quick-wwi-battle-that-marked-the-birth-of-the-us-australia-military-alliance-228382/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It bucked our lads up wonderfully’: the lightning-quick WWI battle that marked the birth of the US-Australia military alliance">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey Holmes, Professorial Fellow in Sport, University of Canberra When the news broke last weekend that 23 Chinese swimmers had tested positive to a banned drug in early 2021 and were allowed to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games six months later without sanction, many people – ... <a title="Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of ‘cover-up’ remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/chinese-swimming-scandal-a-strong-defence-by-world-anti-doping-body-but-narrative-of-cover-up-remains-228507/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese swimming scandal: a strong defence by world anti-doping body, but narrative of ‘cover-up’ remains">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cally Jetta, Senior Lecturer and Academic Lead; College for First Nations, University of Southern Queensland Australian War Memorial Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people, as well as sensitive historical information related to Indigenous war service. Since ... <a title="First Nations Anzacs sacrificed life and limb for Country. Why aren’t their stories shown onscreen?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/first-nations-anzacs-sacrificed-life-and-limb-for-country-why-arent-their-stories-shown-onscreen-227230/" aria-label="Read more about First Nations Anzacs sacrificed life and limb for Country. Why aren’t their stories shown onscreen?">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University laurello/Shutterstock Some reports and popular books, such as Bill Gammage’s Biggest Estate on Earth, have argued that extensive areas of Australia’s forests were kept open through frequent burning by First Nations people. Advocates for widespread ... <a title="Our tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived – and we shouldn’t be burning them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/24/our-tall-wet-forests-were-not-open-and-park-like-when-colonists-arrived-and-we-shouldnt-be-burning-them-228601/" aria-label="Read more about Our tall, wet forests were not open and park-like when colonists arrived – and we shouldn’t be burning them">Read more</a>
