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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Veth, Laureate Professor in Archaeology, The University of Western Australia West coast of Barrow Island, overlooking the submerged northwestern shelf. Kane Ditchfield Barrow Island, located 60 kilometres off the Pilbara in Western Australia, was once a hill overlooking an expansive coast. This was the northwestern shelf ... <a title="We have revealed a unique time capsule of Australia’s first coastal people from 50,000 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/we-have-revealed-a-unique-time-capsule-of-australias-first-coastal-people-from-50-000-years-ago-225792/" aria-label="Read more about We have revealed a unique time capsule of Australia’s first coastal people from 50,000 years ago">Read more</a>
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March 25, 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 A national Newspoll, conducted March 18–22 from a sample of 1,223, gave Labor a 51–49 lead, a one-point gain for the Coalition since the previous Newspoll, four ... <a title="Labor drops to a 51–49 lead in Newspoll; Labor chooses to concede Tasmanian election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/labor-drops-to-a-51-49-lead-in-newspoll-labor-chooses-to-concede-tasmanian-election-226463/" aria-label="Read more about Labor drops to a 51–49 lead in Newspoll; Labor chooses to concede Tasmanian election">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Holbrook, Associate Professor in History, Deakin University Vaping is a pressing public health issue. While adult smoking rates continue to fall, vaping rates are rising. Seven per cent of adults now vape daily, up nearly three-fold since 2019. Most alarmingly, the rate of daily vaping among ... <a title="We’ve taken smoking from ‘normal’ to ‘uncommon’ and we can do the same with vaping – here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/weve-taken-smoking-from-normal-to-uncommon-and-we-can-do-the-same-with-vaping-heres-how-226117/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve taken smoking from ‘normal’ to ‘uncommon’ and we can do the same with vaping – here’s how">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duane Hamacher, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne Total Lunar Eclipse Peter Lieverdink, CC BY It’s eclipse season. The Sun, Earth and Moon are aligned so it’s possible for the Earth and Moon to cast each other into shadow. A faint lunar eclipse will occur on March ... <a title="‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/the-ghost-has-taken-the-spirit-of-the-moon-how-torres-strait-islanders-predict-eclipses-226005/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The ghost has taken the spirit of the Moon’: how Torres Strait Islanders predict eclipses">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Research Theme Fellow in Health and Wellbeing, Western Sydney University Kampus Production/Pexels If you or a loved one have noticed changes in your memory or thinking as you’ve grown older, this could reflect typical changes that occur with ageing. In some cases though, it might ... <a title="We created a VR tool to test brain function. It could one day help diagnose dementia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/we-created-a-vr-tool-to-test-brain-function-it-could-one-day-help-diagnose-dementia-220946/" aria-label="Read more about We created a VR tool to test brain function. It could one day help diagnose dementia">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Associate Professor of Finance, RMIT University Dr. Victor Wong/Shutterstock Corporate Australia loves a big merger. And amid a growing flurry of them across the business scene, a new blockbuster has emerged. All eyes are on two titans of the pharmacy industry – Chemist Warehouse and ... <a title="Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/australias-biggest-chemist-is-merging-with-a-giant-wholesaler-could-we-soon-be-paying-more-226002/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s biggest chemist is merging with a giant wholesaler. Could we soon be paying more?">Read more</a>
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March 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will tell the Fair Work Commission it should ensure the real wages of low paid workers do not go backwards. In its submission to the Annual Wage Review, the government stresses the July 1 tax cut should ... <a title="Albanese government to Fair Work Commission: Don’t let real wages go backwards for the low paid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/25/albanese-government-to-fair-work-commission-dont-let-real-wages-go-backwards-for-the-low-paid-226474/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government to Fair Work Commission: Don’t let real wages go backwards for the low paid">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Olver, Adjunct Professsor, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide Catherine, Princess of Wales, is undergoing treatment for cancer. In a video thanking followers for their messages of support after her major abdominal surgery, the Princess of Wales explained, “tests after ... <a title="Kate Middleton is having ‘preventive chemotherapy’ for cancer. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/kate-middleton-is-having-preventive-chemotherapy-for-cancer-what-does-this-mean-226461/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Middleton is having ‘preventive chemotherapy’ for cancer. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Scholar -In-Residence Asia Society Australia, Deakin University It appears almost certain the brutal assault on a Russian crowd settling down to watch a rock concert in Moscow on Friday night was an Islamist ... <a title="Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/why-would-islamic-state-attack-russia-and-what-does-this-mean-for-the-terrorism-threat-globally-226464/" aria-label="Read more about Why would Islamic State attack Russia and what does this mean for the terrorism threat globally?">Read more</a>
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March 24, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hortle, Research Fellow, Tasmanian Policy Exchange, University of Tasmania The votes have been cast, but the helter skelter race to form the next Tasmanian government is just beginning. While the results aren’t likely to be formalised for a couple of weeks, the island state’s voters haven’t ... <a title="Tasmanians have voted in a hung parliament, but neither major party is backing down from taking the reins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/tasmanians-have-voted-in-a-hung-parliament-but-neither-major-party-is-backing-down-from-taking-the-reins-225776/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmanians have voted in a hung parliament, but neither major party is backing down from taking the reins">Read more</a>
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March 24, 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 Tasmania has five electorates that each return seven members using the proportional Hare-Clark system, for a total of 35 seats. A quota is one-eighth of the vote, ... <a title="Liberals will win most seats in Tasmanian election, but be short of a majority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/24/liberals-will-win-most-seats-in-tasmanian-election-but-be-short-of-a-majority-226398/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals will win most seats in Tasmanian election, but be short of a majority">Read more</a>
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March 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Bell-James, Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland Sundry Photography, Shutterstock Australia has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to halt and reverse biodiversity loss through ambitious law and policy reform. The federal government is currently rewriting our national environmental laws and updating the overarching ... <a title="Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/23/australia-must-lead-the-world-on-nature-restoration-through-ambitious-interpretation-of-international-law-225903/" aria-label="Read more about Australia must lead the world on nature restoration through ambitious interpretation of international law">Read more</a>
