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November 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasia Powell, Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University As of November 17, 49 women have been killed in Australia this year as a result of violence; 28 were allegedly killed at the hands of a male intimate or ex-intimate partner. That’s according to the activist project ... <a title="49 women have been killed in Australia so far in 2023 as a result of violence. Are we actually making any progress?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/20/49-women-have-been-killed-in-australia-so-far-in-2023-as-a-result-of-violence-are-we-actually-making-any-progress-217552/" aria-label="Read more about 49 women have been killed in Australia so far in 2023 as a result of violence. Are we actually making any progress?">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Louise Berry, Honorary Professor, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Macquarie University Climate change will affect every aspect of our health and wellbeing. But its potential harms go beyond the body’s ability to handle extreme heat, important as this is. Extreme weather events, such as ... <a title="5 reasons why climate change may see more of us turn to alcohol and other drugs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/20/5-reasons-why-climate-change-may-see-more-of-us-turn-to-alcohol-and-other-drugs-217894/" aria-label="Read more about 5 reasons why climate change may see more of us turn to alcohol and other drugs">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathy Mills, Professor of Literacies and Digital Cultures, Australian Catholic University Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels, CC BY-SA It is almost a year since ChatGPT burst onto the scene, fuelling great excitement as well as concern about what it might mean for education. The changes keep coming. Earlier in the ... <a title="AI is now accessible to everyone: 3 things parents should teach their kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/20/ai-is-now-accessible-to-everyone-3-things-parents-should-teach-their-kids-217797/" aria-label="Read more about AI is now accessible to everyone: 3 things parents should teach their kids">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Balanzategui, Senior Lecturer in Media, RMIT University Screenshot of Salad Fingers and the corpse Kenneth in Episode 7, Shore Leave. The words “Salad Fingers” may not mean anything to some readers, but for others they will trigger nostalgia, some very discomforting memories – or perhaps a ... <a title="Salad Fingers wasn’t just strange, it was art. Here’s how it’s still influencing the ‘weird part of YouTube’ 2 decades on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/20/salad-fingers-wasnt-just-strange-it-was-art-heres-how-its-still-influencing-the-weird-part-of-youtube-2-decades-on-216911/" aria-label="Read more about Salad Fingers wasn’t just strange, it was art. Here’s how it’s still influencing the ‘weird part of YouTube’ 2 decades on">Read more</a>
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November 19, 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 There have been three federal polls since my October 13 article on the federal Resolve poll that still had Labor far ahead. These polls show a tie ... <a title="Federal Labor barely ahead in latest polls; Victorian Labor takes a hit but holds Mulgrave at byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/19/federal-labor-barely-ahead-in-latest-polls-victorian-labor-takes-a-hit-but-holds-mulgrave-at-byelection-217667/" aria-label="Read more about Federal Labor barely ahead in latest polls; Victorian Labor takes a hit but holds Mulgrave at byelection">Read more</a>
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November 18, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jürgen Knauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Olga Danylenko/Shutterstock The world’s vegetation has a remarkable ability to absorb carbon dioxide (CO₂) from the air and store it as biomass. In doing so, plants slow down climate change since the CO₂ they ... <a title="Plants are likely to absorb more CO₂ in a changing climate than we thought – here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/18/plants-are-likely-to-absorb-more-co-in-a-changing-climate-than-we-thought-heres-why-217786/" aria-label="Read more about Plants are likely to absorb more CO₂ in a changing climate than we thought – here’s why">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University Keith Bernstein/Netflix The opening scene of season six of The Crown sees a man walking his dog under the light of the Eiffel Tower. It’s 1997 and a Mercedes car speeds past and ends in a horrendous crash in ... <a title="The Crown season six: an overly detailed, unimaginative soap opera – I needed a martini to get through it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/the-crown-season-six-an-overly-detailed-unimaginative-soap-opera-i-needed-a-martini-to-get-through-it-218029/" aria-label="Read more about The Crown season six: an overly detailed, unimaginative soap opera – I needed a martini to get through it">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Matt Byrne/STCSA Anna Goldsworthy’s hilarious and beautifully honest book Welcome To Your New Life celebrates the joy and roller-coaster ride of first-time parenting. Now a new play adapted for the stage by Goldsworthy, Welcome To Your ... <a title="Play School meets Ikea: new Australian play Welcome to Your New Life hilariously captures new motherhood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/play-school-meets-ikea-new-australian-play-welcome-to-your-new-life-hilariously-captures-new-motherhood-217561/" aria-label="Read more about Play School meets Ikea: new Australian play Welcome to Your New Life hilariously captures new motherhood">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Travis N. Ridout, Professor of Government and Public Policy, Washington State University A key reason Barack Obama won the 2012 US presidential election was his campaign’s use of “big data” to target specific voters. His team created multiple versions of ads aimed at niche audiences, taking care ... <a title="Big data play a huge role in US presidential elections. Do they have the same impact here?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/big-data-play-a-huge-role-in-us-presidential-elections-do-they-have-the-same-impact-here-217672/" aria-label="Read more about Big data play a huge role in US presidential elections. Do they have the same impact here?">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Kalms, Director, XYX Lab, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Monash University Shutterstock Women consistently raise concerns about their safety when moving through their cities and communities. Only on Women often experience harassment in the street, which can lead them to avoid areas ... <a title="Urban planning has long ignored women’s experiences. Here are 5 ways we can make our cities safer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/urban-planning-has-long-ignored-womens-experiences-here-are-5-ways-we-can-make-our-cities-safer-216531/" aria-label="Read more about Urban planning has long ignored women’s experiences. Here are 5 ways we can make our cities safer">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English, University of Sydney Brett Boardman/Belvoir Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov’s cult novel The Master and Margarita has inspired many artists. Mick Jagger drew on the novel when penning the lyrics for Sympathy for the Devil. Salman Rushdie did something similar when ... <a title="Belvoir’s The Master and Margarita: astonishingly ambitious, physically demanding and a resounding success" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/belvoirs-the-master-and-margarita-astonishingly-ambitious-physically-demanding-and-a-resounding-success-217366/" aria-label="Read more about Belvoir’s The Master and Margarita: astonishingly ambitious, physically demanding and a resounding success">Read more</a>
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November 17, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Power, Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow at the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University In recent years, we’ve seen a burgeoning social movement for the acceptance of asexuality. We’ve also seen more asexual characters popping up in shows such as ... <a title="What does it mean to be asexual?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/17/what-does-it-mean-to-be-asexual-216748/" aria-label="Read more about What does it mean to be asexual?">Read more</a>
