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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Of all the debates unleashed by the Coalition’s nuclear energy announcement this week, energy prices is among the hottest. As Australians struggle with the skyrocketing cost of living, Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan gives little assurance he can bring power ... <a title="Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now or in the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/peter-duttons-nuclear-energy-policy-will-do-nothing-to-ease-australians-hip-pocket-pain-now-or-in-the-future-232915/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now or in the future">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll, Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, University of Canterbury One NZ/YouTube Adoption is often portrayed as a beautiful, loving act. It enables people to become parents to a child who is given a second chance at being part of a loving family. And a birth ... <a title="Does One NZ’s new ad campaign connect? Many adopted people might not think so" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/does-one-nzs-new-ad-campaign-connect-many-adopted-people-might-not-think-so-232972/" aria-label="Read more about Does One NZ’s new ad campaign connect? Many adopted people might not think so">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chin Moi Chow, Associate Professor of Sleep and Wellbeing, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock It’s winter, so many of us will be bringing out, or buying, winter bedding. But how much of a difference does your bedding make to your thermal comfort? Can a particular textile help ... <a title="Why can’t I sleep? It could be your sheets or doona" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/why-cant-i-sleep-it-could-be-your-sheets-or-doona-229604/" aria-label="Read more about Why can’t I sleep? It could be your sheets or doona">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Public submissions have closed on a bill which would offer a pathway to New Zealand citizenship to a group of Samoans born between 1924 and 1949. Public hearings on the Restoring Citizenship Removed By Citizenship Act Bill start on Monday. In 1982, the Privy Council ruled that because those born in Western Samoa were treated ... <a title="NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/nz-samoa-citizenship-bill-committee-receives-24000-plus-public-submissions/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Samoa citizenship bill: Committee receives 24,000 plus public submissions">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Parker, PhD Candidate, Monash University How do you find out the age of a wild animal? For some Australian marsupials, we have discovered you can tell from their teeth. In a new paper published in Archives of Oral Biology, we show that the front teeth of ... <a title="Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/kangaroo-teeth-grow-forever-and-keep-a-record-of-their-owners-age-and-sex-232377/" aria-label="Read more about Kangaroo teeth grow forever – and keep a record of their owner’s age and sex">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Diti bhattacharya, Senior research fellow, Griffith University As preparations for Paris’ Olympic and Paralympic Games gather momentum, South East Queensland is preparing its legacy strategy in anticipation for the 2032 Brisbane games. The Queensland government’s Olympic committee recently published its legacy strategy, Elevate 2042. At the centre ... <a title="Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia – Brisbane’s Olympic planners need to lead the way too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/grassroots-sport-can-help-refugees-find-their-feet-in-australia-brisbanes-olympic-planners-need-to-lead-the-way-too-231273/" aria-label="Read more about Grassroots sport can help refugees find their feet in Australia – Brisbane’s Olympic planners need to lead the way too">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock The Victorian government this week gave the state’s local councils a gargantuan task: solve the housing crisis by accelerating new housing. Each council now has a target for new housing to reach by 2051. By that ... <a title="Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/plucking-numbers-from-the-air-victorias-big-build-for-housing-relies-on-impossible-targets-232712/" aria-label="Read more about Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targets">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Neikirk, Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle A French jury of matrons in 1771. British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA It’s hard to imagine now, but for almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of ... <a title="Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped our legal history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australias-first-civilian-jury-was-entirely-female-heres-how-juries-of-matrons-shaped-our-legal-history-229283/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped our legal history">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after protests and riots erupted in response to the passage of a bill in France’s National Assembly that would have diluted the voting power of the Indigenous Kanak population. Nine people ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-everything-is-negotiable-except-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fernandez, Senior lecturer and researcher in chiropractic, CQUniversity Australia Dmitry Naumov/Shutterstock Chiropractors in Australia will not be able to perform spinal manipulation on children under the age of two once more, following health concerns from doctors and politicians. But what is the spinal treatment at the ... <a title="Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s what the evidence actually says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/chiropractors-have-been-banned-again-from-manipulating-babies-spines-heres-what-the-evidence-actually-says-232721/" aria-label="Read more about Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s what the evidence actually says">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ty Christopher, Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong ShutterDesigner, Shutterstock On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australia’s fourth offshore wind energy zone. It’s the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting a record 14,211 submissions – of ... <a title="Australia needs large-scale energy production – here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australia-needs-large-scale-energy-production-here-are-3-reasons-why-offshore-wind-is-a-good-fit-232899/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs large-scale energy production – here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fit">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Triggs, Visiting research fellow, Australian National University MarekVelechovsky/Shutterstock Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs. This was the staggering finding of research by Dan Andrews, Elyse ... <a title="Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australian-coal-mine-and-power-station-workers-prospects-look-bleak-unless-we-start-offering-more-targeted-support-232908/" aria-label="Read more about Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support">Read more</a>
