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September 14, 2023
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 The New Zealand general election to be held in one month, on October 14, will be the country’s tenth under the mixed member proportional system (MMP). Voters ... <a title="NZ election 2023: with a month to go, polls point to a right-wing coalition government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/nz-election-2023-with-a-month-to-go-polls-point-to-a-right-wing-coalition-government-213353/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2023: with a month to go, polls point to a right-wing coalition government">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
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 With exactly one month until New Zealand’s general election, all major polls are now showing a clear rightward trend since June. With some recent polls showing New ... <a title="NZ election 2023: combined poll trends now show a clear rightward shift since June" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/nz-election-2023-combined-poll-trends-now-show-a-clear-rightward-shift-since-june-213536/" aria-label="Read more about NZ election 2023: combined poll trends now show a clear rightward shift since June">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Whittaker, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is undertaken by one or more academics not involved with the study, and reviewed by another, to make ... <a title="Is it really safe to feed your cat a vegan diet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/is-it-really-safe-to-feed-your-cat-a-vegan-diet-213356/" aria-label="Read more about Is it really safe to feed your cat a vegan diet?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Halliday, Lecturer in Advertising and Brand Creativity, Auckland University of Technology At the launch of the Auckland Climate Festival last month, Green Party Auckland Central MP Chlöe Swarbrick spoke about how building a community is the best way to avoid being overwhelmed by the scale of ... <a title="The NZ ad industry wants to clean up its climate act – but will agencies drop their fossil fuel clients?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/the-nz-ad-industry-wants-to-clean-up-its-climate-act-but-will-agencies-drop-their-fossil-fuel-clients-213236/" aria-label="Read more about The NZ ad industry wants to clean up its climate act – but will agencies drop their fossil fuel clients?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Overs, Research Assistant, Swinburne University of Technology Shutterstock We all know that feeling when nature calls – but what’s far less understood is the psychology behind it. Why, for example, do we get the urge to pee just before getting into the shower, or when we’re ... <a title="Does running water really trigger the urge to pee? Experts explain the brain-bladder connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/does-running-water-really-trigger-the-urge-to-pee-experts-explain-the-brain-bladder-connection-210808/" aria-label="Read more about Does running water really trigger the urge to pee? Experts explain the brain-bladder connection">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney In the upcoming Voice referendum, all Australian voters must decide whether to approve the proposed law to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through the mechanism of a Voice to Parliament and the executive government of the Commonwealth. ... <a title="Explainer: what is executive government and what does it have to do with the Voice to Parliament?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/explainer-what-is-executive-government-and-what-does-it-have-to-do-with-the-voice-to-parliament-212785/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is executive government and what does it have to do with the Voice to Parliament?">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth McCausland, Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety recognised the aged care system has failed to provide culturally safe care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as they age. It recommended major reforms, including active partnership with Aboriginal and ... <a title="The aged care system has failed Aboriginal people. Here’s what Elders say needs to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/the-aged-care-system-has-failed-aboriginal-people-heres-what-elders-say-needs-to-change-209031/" aria-label="Read more about The aged care system has failed Aboriginal people. Here’s what Elders say needs to change">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martino Malerba, ARC DECRA Fellow, Deakin University Shutterstock Frogs are in trouble. While many of the world’s animal species are now at risk from habitat loss, climate change and other human pressures, frogs are particularly at risk. That’s because they rely on fresh water – and rivers, ... <a title="Our unsung farm dams provide vital habitat to threatened species of frogs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/our-unsung-farm-dams-provide-vital-habitat-to-threatened-species-of-frogs-213072/" aria-label="Read more about Our unsung farm dams provide vital habitat to threatened species of frogs">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland This year’s string of record-breaking disasters – from deadly wildfires and catastrophic floods to record-high ocean temperatures and record-low sea ice in Antarctica – seems like an acceleration of human-induced climate change. And it is. But not ... <a title="How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/how-rising-water-vapour-in-the-atmosphere-is-amplifying-warming-and-making-extreme-weather-worse-213347/" aria-label="Read more about How rising water vapour in the atmosphere is amplifying warming and making extreme weather worse">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Kooyman, Learning Adviser, Australian National University © Disney In an essay on Kenneth Branagh, screenwriter Scott Frank recalls meeting the future star and director of his screenplay Dead Again (1991) and wondering “why the guy would want to direct a loopy, film noir thriller like mine?” ... <a title="A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/14/a-haunting-in-venice-is-kenneth-branaghs-20th-film-what-do-we-make-of-his-prodigious-output-209790/" aria-label="Read more about A Haunting in Venice is Kenneth Branagh’s 20th film – what do we make of his prodigious output?">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edward Doddridge, Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania For most of us, Antarctic sea ice is an abstraction – something far away we may have seen on a documentary. But the radiant white sheets of ice floating on the seas around the snowy continent are ... <a title="Devastatingly low Antarctic sea ice may be the ‘new abnormal’, study warns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/13/devastatingly-low-antarctic-sea-ice-may-be-the-new-abnormal-study-warns-212376/" aria-label="Read more about Devastatingly low Antarctic sea ice may be the ‘new abnormal’, study warns">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Integrity20.org Anthony Albanese has now confirmed he’ll be heading to China before the end of the year. He is the first Australian prime minister to visit since 2016, and it is the culmination of an improvement in China-Australia relations since ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia expert Richard McGregor on Anthony Albanese’s coming visit to China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/09/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-asia-expert-richard-mcgregor-on-anthony-albaneses-coming-visit-to-china-213471/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Asia expert Richard McGregor on Anthony Albanese’s coming visit to China">Read more</a>
