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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Johnson, Research fellow, University of Tasmania In recent times, we’ve seen plenty of big news stories emerge from senate inquiries and estimates hearings. Senate inquries have examined hot-button issues as diverse as disruption in school classrooms, the November 8 Optus service outage, and questionable tax minimisation ... <a title="Senate estimates and inquiries: what are they, what’s the difference, and why do we have them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/senate-estimates-and-inquiries-what-are-they-whats-the-difference-and-why-do-we-have-them-219204/" aria-label="Read more about Senate estimates and inquiries: what are they, what’s the difference, and why do we have them?">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romane H Cristescu, Researcher in Koala, Detection Dogs, Conservation Genetics and Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC Detection Dogs for Conservation Dogs have been working with people for centuries. Think hunting dogs, herding dogs, police dogs or search and rescue dogs. But have you heard of ... <a title="Dogs are incredible – if unlikely – allies in conservation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/dogs-are-incredible-if-unlikely-allies-in-conservation-204813/" aria-label="Read more about Dogs are incredible – if unlikely – allies in conservation">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Corey Bloomfield, Senior Lecturer in Education, CQUniversity Australia Richard Stachman/Unsplash, CC BY These long summer holidays may seem like an extra blessing to families who are dealing with a child who does not like school or who refuses to go. But even as January stretches out in ... <a title="Worried about school refusal? How to use the holidays to help your child" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/worried-about-school-refusal-how-to-use-the-holidays-to-help-your-child-219487/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about school refusal? How to use the holidays to help your child">Read more</a>
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January 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dylan Sullivan, Adjunct Fellow and PhD candidate in the Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University Shutterstock It has become an article of faith among many economists that China’s pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a sustained reduction in poverty. This narrative relies on ... <a title="China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/08/chinas-capitalist-reforms-are-said-to-have-moved-800-million-out-of-extreme-poverty-new-data-suggests-the-opposite-216621/" aria-label="Read more about China’s capitalist reforms are said to have moved 800 million out of extreme poverty – new data suggests the opposite">Read more</a>
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January 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The 19th century German war strategist and field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously coined the aphorism “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy”. His observation might well be applied to the tragedy ... <a title="After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/07/after-3-months-of-devastation-in-the-israel-hamas-war-is-anyone-winning-220644/" aria-label="Read more about After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone ‘winning’?">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jayne Persian, Associate Professor in History, University of Southern Queensland In the Canadian parliament earlier this year, an outcry erupted after 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian Yaroslav Hunka was presented to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a hero of the second world war. It turned out Hunka had fought against ... <a title="Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/australia-is-still-reckoning-with-a-shameful-legacy-the-resettlement-of-suspected-war-criminals-after-wwii-217378/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is still reckoning with a shameful legacy: the resettlement of suspected war criminals after WWII">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Stephens, Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Accident Research Centre, Monash University Dean Drobot/Shutterstock Your bags are packed. You’ve sorted entertainment and snacks for your passengers and have squeezed all your holiday luggage in the car. You’re now ready to head off for your road trip – ... <a title="Going on a road trip this summer? 4 reasons why you might end up speeding, according to psychology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/going-on-a-road-trip-this-summer-4-reasons-why-you-might-end-up-speeding-according-to-psychology-216352/" aria-label="Read more about Going on a road trip this summer? 4 reasons why you might end up speeding, according to psychology">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mitchell Harley, Scientia Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney CoastSnap When you arrive at your favourite beach these summer holidays, you may notice something different about the coast. With the triple-dip La Niña now making way for El Niño, our beaches have been through a rollercoaster ride. Some beaches ... <a title="Become a beach scientist this summer and help monitor changing coastlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/become-a-beach-scientist-this-summer-and-help-monitor-changing-coastlines-214307/" aria-label="Read more about Become a beach scientist this summer and help monitor changing coastlines">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Program Director – Health and Physical Education, Maths/Science, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Many people believe teaching is an easy job involving short days and long holidays. Anyone working in the profession, however, will tell you this is not the truth. They will ... <a title="What do teachers do in the school holidays? They work, plan, and rest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/what-do-teachers-do-in-the-school-holidays-they-work-plan-and-rest-217799/" aria-label="Read more about What do teachers do in the school holidays? They work, plan, and rest">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Hill, Adjunct Lecturer, Centre for Business Analytics, Melbourne Business School Shutterstock It’s no accident we are seeing record profits from some of our biggest consumer-facing companies, among them Qantas andthe big four banks. They are among the firms – alongside our grocery duopoly – investing the ... <a title="Until now, sellers have used AI to get the best deal for themselves – those tables are about to turn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/until-now-sellers-have-used-ai-to-get-the-best-deal-for-themselves-those-tables-are-about-to-turn-216620/" aria-label="Read more about Until now, sellers have used AI to get the best deal for themselves – those tables are about to turn">Read more</a>
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January 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Speed, Senior Lecturer in media and screen studies, Federation University Australia After an exhausting day, housework is often the last thing I feel like doing. But I sometimes relax by playing video games where you tidy and arrange household items in living rooms, kitchens and bathrooms. ... <a title="Vacuuming, moving house, unpacking are boring in real life – so why is doing them in a video game so fun?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/05/vacuuming-moving-house-unpacking-are-boring-in-real-life-so-why-is-doing-them-in-a-video-game-so-fun-214853/" aria-label="Read more about Vacuuming, moving house, unpacking are boring in real life – so why is doing them in a video game so fun?">Read more</a>
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January 4, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Randolph Grace, Professor of Psychology, University of Canterbury Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess. In February, ChatGPT set the record as the ... <a title="AI is our ‘Promethean fire’: using it wisely means knowing its true nature – and our own minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/04/ai-is-our-promethean-fire-using-it-wisely-means-knowing-its-true-nature-and-our-own-minds-219320/" aria-label="Read more about AI is our ‘Promethean fire’: using it wisely means knowing its true nature – and our own minds">Read more</a>
