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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Senior Research Associate in Media and Communications, University of Sydney It hasn’t been a good week for Coles and Woolworths. On Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the national competition regulator or ACCC) announced it was taking legal action against the big supermarkets over ... <a title="‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/concerning-accc-interim-report-on-supermarket-inquiry-tells-of-supplier-woes-and-oligopolistic-market-239931/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Concerning’: ACCC interim report on supermarket inquiry tells of supplier woes and ‘oligopolistic’ market">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor of Infectious Diseases, Monash University Anna Shvets/Pexels Before the COVID pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) had made a list of priority infectious diseases. These were felt to pose a threat to international public health, but where research was still needed to improve their ... <a title="What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-pathogen-might-spark-the-next-pandemic-how-scientists-are-preparing-for-disease-x-223193/" aria-label="Read more about What pathogen might spark the next pandemic? How scientists are preparing for ‘disease X’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like watching a movie. A story of who was there and what they were doing unfolds in front of ... <a title="Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/reading-desert-sands-indigenous-wildlife-tracking-skills-underpin-vast-monitoring-project-238978/" aria-label="Read more about Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vitomir Kovanovic, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L), Education Futures, University of South Australia Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock It’s almost two years since ChatGPT burst onto the scene in late 2022. Since then, educators worldwide have been grappling with what generative ... <a title="‘We nicknamed it Eddy’: what do schools and teachers think of AI in classrooms?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/we-nicknamed-it-eddy-what-do-schools-and-teachers-think-of-ai-in-classrooms-239396/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We nicknamed it Eddy’: what do schools and teachers think of AI in classrooms?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University IMDB P.J. Hogan’s classic Australian film Muriel’s Wedding is 30 and it plays as well today as it did when it had its world premiere. Muriel might have been “terrible” – but the film was ... <a title="‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/were-all-muriel-why-we-still-love-muriels-wedding-30-years-on-236793/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re all Muriel’: why we still love Muriel’s Wedding, 30 years on">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendon Hyndman, Associate Professor of Health & Physical Education (Adj.), Charles Sturt University The Brisbane Lions are the underdogs for Saturday’s AFL grand final against Sydney. After defeating Geelong in Victoria for the first time in 20 years, they have reached the grand final from fifth on ... <a title="What are the 10 greatest upsets in VFL/AFL grand final history?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/what-are-the-10-greatest-upsets-in-vfl-afl-grand-final-history-238976/" aria-label="Read more about What are the 10 greatest upsets in VFL/AFL grand final history?">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Lawrenson, Professor of Population Health, University of Waikato Surviving lung cancer in Aotearoa New Zealand could depend on whether you can access a GP – raising questions about equity in the country’s health system. Our new research examines the outcomes for patients who are diagnosed with ... <a title="Access to a GP can make all the difference in surviving lung cancer – and that is a problem for Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/27/access-to-a-gp-can-make-all-the-difference-in-surviving-lung-cancer-and-that-is-a-problem-for-maori-239808/" aria-label="Read more about Access to a GP can make all the difference in surviving lung cancer – and that is a problem for Māori">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra FOTOGRIN/Shutterstock Last month, a delegation led by Brendan Crabb, head of the Burnet Institute, a prestigious medical research body, met Anthony Albanese in the prime minister’s parliament house office. Its members, who included Lidia Morawska from Queensland University of Technology, ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/grattan-on-friday-experts-want-albanese-to-lead-on-indoor-air-quality-as-part-of-pandemic-planning-239829/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Experts want Albanese to lead on indoor air quality as part of pandemic planning">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart essentially shows the stresses that New Zealand’s public health system can expect to face. I have analysed the death data by age, covering all deaths from July 1998 to June 2024. For those years (using June years) I have looked at every age of death from 16 to 99 ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Frequencies in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Birth Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-death-frequencies-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-by-birth-year/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Death Frequencies in Aotearoa New Zealand, by Birth Year">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hallam Stevens, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, James Cook University Ryan Carter Images / Shutterstock By now, many of us are probably familiar with artificial intelligence hype. AI will make artists redundant! AI can do lab experiments! AI will end grief! Even by these standards, the latest proclamation ... <a title="In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/in-a-new-manifesto-openais-sam-altman-envisions-an-ai-utopia-and-reveals-glaring-blind-spots-239841/" aria-label="Read more about In a new manifesto, OpenAI’s Sam Altman envisions an AI utopia – and reveals glaring blind spots">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Scott, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics, Monash Business School, Monash University Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock A battle between private hospitals and private health insurers is playing out in public. At its heart is how much health insurers pay hospitals for their services, ... <a title="Are private hospitals really in trouble? And is more public funding the answer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/are-private-hospitals-really-in-trouble-and-is-more-public-funding-the-answer-238891/" aria-label="Read more about Are private hospitals really in trouble? And is more public funding the answer?">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Chugh, Associate Professor – Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock Have you noticed certain words and phrases popping up everywhere lately? Phrases such as “delve into” and “navigate the landscape” seem to feature in everything from social media posts to news articles and academic publications. ... <a title="ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/09/26/chatgpt-is-changing-the-way-we-write-heres-how-and-why-its-a-problem-239601/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT is changing the way we write. Here’s how – and why it’s a problem">Read more</a>
