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January 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute Australia has an acute shortage of housing. Renters across the country face steep rents rises and record-low vacancy rates. At the same time, net overseas migration has surged to a record high of 518,100 in the past financial year ... <a title="Australia is welcoming more migrants but they lack the skills to build more houses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/30/australia-is-welcoming-more-migrants-but-they-lack-the-skills-to-build-more-houses-222126/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is welcoming more migrants but they lack the skills to build more houses">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael James Walsh, Associate Professor in Social Sciences, University of Canberra Shutterstock Music streaming can alter what was once a private activity into something more seemingly public. Around 2016, streaming became the dominant way people engaged with recordings of music. Users engage in a constant process of ... <a title="‘I almost feel like stuck in a rut’: how streaming services changed the way we listen to music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/30/i-almost-feel-like-stuck-in-a-rut-how-streaming-services-changed-the-way-we-listen-to-music-219967/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I almost feel like stuck in a rut’: how streaming services changed the way we listen to music">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Borrett, Science Communications Coordinator, Murdoch University Most things you eat grew in soil or ate plants growing in soil. We don’t think much about it, but soil is essential to life. During the last Ice Age, much of the northern hemisphere was covered in glaciers. As ... <a title="Australia’s soils are notoriously poor. Here’s how scientists are working to improve them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/australias-soils-are-notoriously-poor-heres-how-scientists-are-working-to-improve-them-216640/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s soils are notoriously poor. Here’s how scientists are working to improve them">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock From pickles and french fries to oranges and ice cream, women and other people who are pregnant report craving a range of foods while they’re expecting. A food craving is a strong urge to ... <a title="Pickle, anyone? 3 possible reasons women get cravings during pregnancy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/pickle-anyone-3-possible-reasons-women-get-cravings-during-pregnancy-221755/" aria-label="Read more about Pickle, anyone? 3 possible reasons women get cravings during pregnancy">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Kirby, Associate Professor in Psychology, The University of Queensland Bignai/Shutterstock A cost-of-living crisis, the ongoing impact of COVID, climate change, and numerous global conflicts and refugee crises. When it feels like so many people are doing it tough, how do we decide where to direct our ... <a title="Who we care about is limited – but our research shows how humans can expand their ‘moral circle’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/who-we-care-about-is-limited-but-our-research-shows-how-humans-can-expand-their-moral-circle-221605/" aria-label="Read more about Who we care about is limited – but our research shows how humans can expand their ‘moral circle’">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University Shutterstock The winners and losers from the Albanese government’s rejig of this year’s Stage 3 tax cuts have already been well documented. From July 1 every taxpayer ... <a title="Stage 3 stacks up: the rejigged tax cuts help fight bracket creep and boost middle and upper-middle households" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/stage-3-stacks-up-the-rejigged-tax-cuts-help-fight-bracket-creep-and-boost-middle-and-upper-middle-households-221851/" aria-label="Read more about Stage 3 stacks up: the rejigged tax cuts help fight bracket creep and boost middle and upper-middle households">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abigail M Smith, Professor of Marine Science, University of Otago The fishers at Separation Point, between Golden Bay and Tasman Bay in New Zealand’s northwest South Island, used to be cautious. Something they called “hard coral” would tear their nets. If you dived down about 30 metres, ... <a title="Sediment runoff from the land is killing NZ’s seas – it’s time to take action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/sediment-runoff-from-the-land-is-killing-nzs-seas-its-time-to-take-action-221966/" aria-label="Read more about Sediment runoff from the land is killing NZ’s seas – it’s time to take action">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former Labor minister Greg Combet is to be the new chair of the Future Fund, replacing Peter Costello. Combet, a member of parliament in 2007-2013, served in the industry and climate change and energy efficiency portfolios and in the Labor ... <a title="Former Labor minister Greg Combet to succeed Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/former-labor-minister-greg-combet-to-succeed-peter-costello-as-chair-of-the-future-fund-222138/" aria-label="Read more about Former Labor minister Greg Combet to succeed Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Shutterstock There’s been much discussion about how artificial intelligence (AI) will affect every part of our society, from school assignments to the music industry. But while policymakers continue to debate how best to regulate AI, there’s ... <a title="Freedom of information laws are key to exposing AI wrongdoing. The current system isn’t up to the task" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/freedom-of-information-laws-are-key-to-exposing-ai-wrongdoing-the-current-system-isnt-up-to-the-task-221404/" aria-label="Read more about Freedom of information laws are key to exposing AI wrongdoing. The current system isn’t up to the task">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sabina Andron, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cities and Urbanism, The University of Melbourne Sabina Andron In the early hours, poster installers head out with buckets of wheat paste and gig advertisements, refreshing the thousands of square metres of street poster sites in Melbourne. Graffiti writers and artists ... <a title="Images shape cities, but who decides which ones survive? It’s a matter of visual justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/images-shape-cities-but-who-decides-which-ones-survive-its-a-matter-of-visual-justice-216003/" aria-label="Read more about Images shape cities, but who decides which ones survive? It’s a matter of visual justice">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Byron Lamont, Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Plant Ecology, Curtin University Sandie Peters/Unsplash Few plants conjure up the Australian bush better than banksias, whose beautiful flowers are irresistible to honeyeater birds, small marsupials and nature lovers. But our research, published in Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution and Systematics, ... <a title="Banksias are iconic Australian plants, but their ancestors actually came from North Africa" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/banksias-are-iconic-australian-plants-but-their-ancestors-actually-came-from-north-africa-221589/" aria-label="Read more about Banksias are iconic Australian plants, but their ancestors actually came from North Africa">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The growing rift between the Biden administration and the Netanyahu government over Israel’s war in Gaza is now in the open, with public disagreement between them on the viability of a two-state solution to ... <a title="Israel-Palestinian conflict: is the two-state solution now dead?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/29/israel-palestinian-conflict-is-the-two-state-solution-now-dead-221967/" aria-label="Read more about Israel-Palestinian conflict: is the two-state solution now dead?">Read more</a>
