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September 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Rickards, Professor, RMIT University “Work” – broadly defined – is what allows society to function. Like other old certainties, it is under threat from climate change. A key reason climate-related stresses and disruptions can have such a big impact is precisely because of their effect on the ... <a title="‘Too hard to get to work’: climate change is making workers’ lives more difficult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/14/too-hard-to-get-to-work-climate-change-is-making-workers-lives-more-difficult-190442/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Too hard to get to work’: climate change is making workers’ lives more difficult">Read more</a>
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September 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carl Mika, Professor of Māori and Indigenous Studies, University of Canterbury Shutterstock In 2017, the Whanganui River was made a person in the eyes of the law. The Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act acknowledged, in its own way, that the human world includes other, ... <a title="Tokenism and te reo Māori: why some things just shouldn’t be translated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/14/tokenism-and-te-reo-maori-why-some-things-just-shouldnt-be-translated-190140/" aria-label="Read more about Tokenism and te reo Māori: why some things just shouldn’t be translated">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock After weeks of anticipation, it’s finally official: the Bureau of Meteorology has declared another La Niña is underway. This means Australia’s east coast will likely endure yet another wet, and relatively cool, spring and summer. ... <a title="La Niña, 3 years in a row: a climate scientist on what flood-weary Australians can expect this summer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/la-nina-3-years-in-a-row-a-climate-scientist-on-what-flood-weary-australians-can-expect-this-summer-190542/" aria-label="Read more about La Niña, 3 years in a row: a climate scientist on what flood-weary Australians can expect this summer">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Sherwin Crasto/AAP As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. In this podcast Michelle and Amanda Dunn, the ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Will Queen Elizabeth’s death affect Australian politics?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/word-from-the-hill-will-queen-elizabeths-death-affect-australian-politics-190558/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Will Queen Elizabeth’s death affect Australian politics?">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock The numbers of climate sceptics are dwindling. But they remain a noisy and at times powerful minority that continues to have political influence. This group is unmoved by the near-universal agreement among scientists on the ... <a title="Inside the mind of a sceptic: the ‘mental gymnastics’ of climate change denial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/inside-the-mind-of-a-sceptic-the-mental-gymnastics-of-climate-change-denial-189645/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the mind of a sceptic: the ‘mental gymnastics’ of climate change denial">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Much has been written about how, with the passing of the Queen, we have lost one of our last continuing links to the second world war. We have, but we have also lost something even ... <a title="The certainty of ever-growing living standards we grew up with under Queen Elizabeth is at an end" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/the-certainty-of-ever-growing-living-standards-we-grew-up-with-under-queen-elizabeth-is-at-an-end-190425/" aria-label="Read more about The certainty of ever-growing living standards we grew up with under Queen Elizabeth is at an end">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Andrews, Professor Indigenous Research & Convenor of Aboriginal Studies, La Trobe University The family of Uncle Jack Charles have given permission for his name and images to be used. Once again, Aboriginal Melbourne is mourning the loss of another iconic member of its community – Uncle ... <a title="‘He was deadly, a deadly man’: remembering the incredible life and work of Uncle Jack Charles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/he-was-deadly-a-deadly-man-remembering-the-incredible-life-and-work-of-uncle-jack-charles-190533/" aria-label="Read more about ‘He was deadly, a deadly man’: remembering the incredible life and work of Uncle Jack Charles">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Siette, Research Fellow, Western Sydney University Photo by cottonbro/Pexels, CC BY What’s the daily routine like for older people in residential aged care facilities? To find out, we spent 312 hours observing 39 residents at six Australian aged care facilities to find out how and where ... <a title="What do aged care residents do all day? We tracked their time use to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/what-do-aged-care-residents-do-all-day-we-tracked-their-time-use-to-find-out-190147/" aria-label="Read more about What do aged care residents do all day? We tracked their time use to find out">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rodolfo Ocampo, PhD student, Human–AI Creative Collaboration, UNSW Sydney ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ Jason Allen / Midjourney An art prize at the Colorado State Fair was awarded last month to a work that – unbeknown to the judges – was generated by an artificial intelligence (AI) system. Social ... <a title="AI art is everywhere right now. Even experts don’t know what it will mean" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/ai-art-is-everywhere-right-now-even-experts-dont-know-what-it-will-mean-189800/" aria-label="Read more about AI art is everywhere right now. Even experts don’t know what it will mean">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University; Adjunct Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC., Georgetown University Andrew Harnik/AP/AAP If you are trying to find traces of the United States’ long and layered ... <a title="US takes a renewed interest in the Pacific – and China’s role in it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/us-takes-a-renewed-interest-in-the-pacific-and-chinas-role-in-it-190053/" aria-label="Read more about US takes a renewed interest in the Pacific – and China’s role in it">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph Cooney, Professor Emeritus in Advanced Materials, University of Auckland European Space Agency, CC BY-ND More than half of the thousands of satellites in orbit are now defunct, and this accumulation of floating space debris has been described as a “fatal problem” for current and future space ... <a title="Harpoons, robots and lasers: how to capture defunct satellites and other space junk and bring it back to Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/harpoons-robots-and-lasers-how-to-capture-defunct-satellites-and-other-space-junk-and-bring-it-back-to-earth-189698/" aria-label="Read more about Harpoons, robots and lasers: how to capture defunct satellites and other space junk and bring it back to Earth">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2022
RNZ Pacific Plans to hold a referendum in Kanaky New Caledonia next year on a new statute for the territory are being deferred. French Junior Overseas Minister Jean-Francois Carenco told the television station Caledonia that there would be no referendum in July. Carenco said a vote would happen once everybody is ready, noting there had ... <a title="France defers referendum on new statute for New Caledonia Kanaky" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/13/france-defers-referendum-on-new-statute-for-new-caledonia-kanaky/" aria-label="Read more about France defers referendum on new statute for New Caledonia Kanaky">Read more</a>
