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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee White, Senior Lecturer and Horizon Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Australia was slow to introduce minimum building standards for energy efficiency. The Nationwide House Energy Rating Scheme (NatHERS) only came into force in 2003. Older homes tend to have very poor ... <a title="How old, inefficient housing and time-of-use electricity rates are leaving some households worse off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/how-old-inefficient-housing-and-time-of-use-electricity-rates-are-leaving-some-households-worse-off-234921/" aria-label="Read more about How old, inefficient housing and time-of-use electricity rates are leaving some households worse off">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Sherwood, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney The past century of human-induced warming has increased rainfall variability over 75% of the Earth’s land area – particularly over Australia, Europe and eastern North America, new research shows. The findings, by Chinese researchers and ... <a title="Landmark new research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/landmark-new-research-shows-how-global-warming-is-messing-with-our-rainfall-233432/" aria-label="Read more about Landmark new research shows how global warming is messing with our rainfall">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Heynen, Program Coordinator, Sustainable Energy, The University of Queensland A temporary stadium in the Champ-de-Mars, Paris Ekaterina Pokrovsky/Shutterstock As Paris prepares to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the sustainability of the event is coming under scrutiny. The organisers have promoted Paris 2024 as the greenest ... <a title="Timber venues, river swimming and re-use: how the Paris Olympics is going green – and what it’s missing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/timber-venues-river-swimming-and-re-use-how-the-paris-olympics-is-going-green-and-what-its-missing-233435/" aria-label="Read more about Timber venues, river swimming and re-use: how the Paris Olympics is going green – and what it’s missing">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Wright, Professor in Marine Geology, University of Canterbury Louise Corcoran/Getty Images The decline in the number of doctoral candidates at New Zealand universities is a worrying sign for the country’s effort to build a knowledge-based economy. Aotearoa New Zealand’s economic trajectory has long been characterised by ... <a title="Declining PhD student numbers are a warning sign for NZ’s future knowledge economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/declining-phd-student-numbers-are-a-warning-sign-for-nzs-future-knowledge-economy-235191/" aria-label="Read more about Declining PhD student numbers are a warning sign for NZ’s future knowledge economy">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laurie Berg, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney defotoberg/Shutterstock Migrant worker exploitation is entrenched in workplaces across Australia. Tragically, a deep fear of immigration consequences means most unlawful employer conduct goes unreported. On Wednesday, however, the government officially launched a two-year pilot of innovative visa reforms that ... <a title="Migrant workers have long been too scared to report employer misconduct. A new visa could change this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/migrant-workers-have-long-been-too-scared-to-report-employer-misconduct-a-new-visa-could-change-this-235415/" aria-label="Read more about Migrant workers have long been too scared to report employer misconduct. A new visa could change this">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vaughan Cruickshank, Senior Lecturer in Health and Physical Education, University of Tasmania Paris is about to host its third summer Olympics. While we don’t yet know what the legacy of this year’s games will be, let’s take the opportunity to reflect on the city’s previous Olympics of ... <a title="The chaotic history of the Olympics in Paris, where one games nearly ended the movement – and the other helped save it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/the-chaotic-history-of-the-olympics-in-paris-where-one-games-nearly-ended-the-movement-and-the-other-helped-save-it-235092/" aria-label="Read more about The chaotic history of the Olympics in Paris, where one games nearly ended the movement – and the other helped save it">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, Deputy Director, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Griffith University In the wake of the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, there were calls from both sides of US politics, as well as internationally, to reduce the brutal, take-no-prisoners language that has become ... <a title="‘Bloodbath’, ‘bullseye’, ‘America’s Hitler’: why has our political rhetoric gotten so violent and incendiary?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/bloodbath-bullseye-americas-hitler-why-has-our-political-rhetoric-gotten-so-violent-and-incendiary-235206/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bloodbath’, ‘bullseye’, ‘America’s Hitler’: why has our political rhetoric gotten so violent and incendiary?">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keith Rathbone, Senior Lecturer, Modern European History and Sports History, Macquarie University Two high-profile assaults on Australians in Paris have raised concerns about security ahead of the Olympic Games. On Saturday evening, a young woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of men. On Monday, two ... <a title="Politics, security and the Seine: where the Paris Olympics’ flashpoints will be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/politics-security-and-the-seine-where-the-paris-olympics-flashpoints-will-be-235200/" aria-label="Read more about Politics, security and the Seine: where the Paris Olympics’ flashpoints will be">Read more</a>
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July 26, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist A former Papua New Guinea army leader, Major-General Jerry Singirok, is furious after being arrested and charged under the Capital Markets Act. He was a trustee of Melanesian Trustee Services Ltd, part of a superannuation agency with 20,000 unit holders, but its trustee licence was revoked last year. ... <a title="Retired PNG military chief furious over ‘witchhunt’ charge for Capital Markets Act breach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/26/retired-png-military-chief-furious-over-witchhunt-charge-for-capital-markets-act-breach/" aria-label="Read more about Retired PNG military chief furious over ‘witchhunt’ charge for Capital Markets Act breach">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne In the past week, Earth’s record for the hottest day was broken twice. Sunday July 21 was declared Earth’s hottest day since records began, when average surface temperature reached 17.09°C. On Monday the record fell again, ... <a title="Monday was the warmest day recorded on Earth. But how do scientists actually measure that?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/25/monday-was-the-warmest-day-recorded-on-earth-but-how-do-scientists-actually-measure-that-235423/" aria-label="Read more about Monday was the warmest day recorded on Earth. But how do scientists actually measure that?">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Louise Hunter, Associate Professor, Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock New South Wales has just announced a curriculum “shake-up” for primary schools to start in 2027. As well as new content about the human body, consent and screen time, there will be a ... <a title="Is there a ‘right way’ to teach? Recent debates suggest yes, but students and schools are much more complex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/25/is-there-a-right-way-to-teach-recent-debates-suggest-yes-but-students-and-schools-are-much-more-complex-235421/" aria-label="Read more about Is there a ‘right way’ to teach? Recent debates suggest yes, but students and schools are much more complex">Read more</a>
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July 25, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. An important (and widely commented on) book published last year is End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration, by Perer Turchin. Before reading this book I read his 2007 book War and Peace and War (see my 30 Jan 2024 article Asabiyya), Ages of Discord (2016, an application ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Peter Turchin’s “End Times”; Some Comments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/25/keith-rankin-essay-peter-turchins-end-times-some-comments/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Peter Turchin’s “End Times”; Some Comments">Read more</a>
