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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maree Patsouras, PhD Candidate, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University Syda Productions/Shutterstock Men have historically, and still do, drink more than women. But in recent years there has been an uptick in women’s drinking, particularly among women in their late 30s through to their 60s. ... <a title="Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/mothers-little-helper-interviews-with-australian-women-show-a-complex-relationship-with-alcohol-225285/" aria-label="Read more about Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lamb, Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington NASA, CC BY-SA Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it ... <a title="Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/strange-rock-formations-beneath-the-pacific-ocean-could-change-our-understanding-of-the-early-earth-223718/" aria-label="Read more about Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A $4 billion ten-year agreement between the federal and Northern Territory governments that aims to see up to 270 houses built annually in remote Indigenous communities will be unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday. The federal government is ... <a title="Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/albanese-and-nt-governments-to-spend-4-billion-over-a-decade-to-tackle-indigenous-housing-225466/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A government-instituted taskforce has proposed older Australians should pay more of the cost of their aged care, while steering clear of politically fraught options such as a levy or touching the family home to help finance the sector. Under the ... <a title="Government’s aged care report proposes older Australians pay more but eschews a levy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/governments-aged-care-report-proposes-older-australians-pay-more-but-eschews-a-levy-225462/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s aged care report proposes older Australians pay more but eschews a levy">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Like most biopics, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – which won seven awards, including the big one, Best Picture – seems kind of silly, an exercise in dress up. We watch “serious” actors like Robert Downey Jr. ... <a title="Oppenheimer’s triumph, a stunning First Nations performance, and lots of sparkles: 5 experts on the 2024 Oscars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/oppenheimers-triumph-a-stunning-first-nations-performance-and-lots-of-sparkles-5-experts-on-the-2024-oscars-221493/" aria-label="Read more about Oppenheimer’s triumph, a stunning First Nations performance, and lots of sparkles: 5 experts on the 2024 Oscars">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, and Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Australia, Canada and New Zealand share similar colonial stories. Historically, New Zealand has been the most interested of the three in thinking about how the ... <a title="Taking the Treaty out of child protection law risks making NZ a global outlier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/taking-the-treaty-out-of-child-protection-law-risks-making-nz-a-global-outlier-225443/" aria-label="Read more about Taking the Treaty out of child protection law risks making NZ a global outlier">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christiane Keys-Statham, PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University The 24th edition of the Biennale of Sydney, titled Ten Thousand Suns, is an explosion of joy and creative energy across seven venues, including the sails of the Opera House and White Bay Power Station. ... <a title="Sydney Biennale invites us to celebrate our collective resistance in dark times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/sydney-biennale-invites-us-to-celebrate-our-collective-resistance-in-dark-times-223721/" aria-label="Read more about Sydney Biennale invites us to celebrate our collective resistance in dark times">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirk Dodd, Lecturer in English and Writing, University of Sydney Matu Ngaropo and Ahunim Abebe in Bell Shakespeare s A Midsummer Nights Dream. Photo by Brett Boardman Shakespeare’s delightful A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a perennial favourite – and the production run by the Bell Shakespeare company ... <a title="Bell Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is side-splittingly funny – yet some of the magic is lost" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/bell-shakespeares-a-midsummer-nights-dream-is-side-splittingly-funny-yet-some-of-the-magic-is-lost-223655/" aria-label="Read more about Bell Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is side-splittingly funny – yet some of the magic is lost">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily Moore, PhD Candidate in Classics and Archaeology, The University of Melbourne The State Hermitage Museum The dog days of summer are upon us. Or so the ancient Romans named the dies caniculares that followed the rise of the “dog star” Sirius which the ancients believed to ... <a title="A trip to the coast, a dip in the pool, and a snow-chilled drink: how ancient Romans kept cool in summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/a-trip-to-the-coast-a-dip-in-the-pool-and-a-snow-chilled-drink-how-ancient-romans-kept-cool-in-summer-214461/" aria-label="Read more about A trip to the coast, a dip in the pool, and a snow-chilled drink: how ancient Romans kept cool in summer">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government will abolish almost 500 so-called “nuisance” import tariffs from July 1. Items set to become tariff-free include toothbrushes, hand tools, fridges, dishwashers, clothing, and menstrual and sanitary products. The tariff on such products is 5%. The cost ... <a title="Hundreds of tariffs to go from July 1 in biggest unilateral tariff cut in decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/hundreds-of-tariffs-to-go-from-july-1-in-biggest-unilateral-tariff-cut-in-decades-225444/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of tariffs to go from July 1 in biggest unilateral tariff cut in decades">Read more</a>
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March 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University For the fifth time in just the past eight summers – 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022 and now 2024 – huge swathes of the Great Barrier Reef are experiencing extreme heat stress that has triggered yet another episode of mass coral ... <a title="The Great Barrier Reef’s latest bout of bleaching is the fifth in eight summers – the corals now have almost no reprieve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/09/the-great-barrier-reefs-latest-bout-of-bleaching-is-the-fifth-in-eight-summers-the-corals-now-have-almost-no-reprieve-225348/" aria-label="Read more about The Great Barrier Reef’s latest bout of bleaching is the fifth in eight summers – the corals now have almost no reprieve">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Fitzpatrick, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock They knew we had separated. Why did they let him cancel the policy and refund him the money without giving me a call to let me know the house and contents were no longer insured, ... <a title="Insurance is the latest weapon financial abusers use against their partners. Here’s how we fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/08/insurance-is-the-latest-weapon-financial-abusers-use-against-their-partners-heres-how-we-fix-it-224632/" aria-label="Read more about Insurance is the latest weapon financial abusers use against their partners. Here’s how we fix it">Read more</a>
