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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paula Gerber, Professor of Human Rights Law, Monash University Australia is the only Western democracy that does not have a national Human Rights Act, but this may be about to change. After an inquiry lasting more than a year, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights has ... <a title="An inquiry has recommended Australia legislate a Human Rights Act. Here’s why we need one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/an-inquiry-has-recommended-australia-legislate-a-human-rights-act-heres-why-we-need-one-229387/" aria-label="Read more about An inquiry has recommended Australia legislate a Human Rights Act. Here’s why we need one">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meru Sheel, Associate Professor and Epidemiologist, Infectious Diseases, Immunisation and Emergencies Group, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney It’s a week since Papua New Guinea (PNG) experienced a massive landslide in the Enga province, in the country’s highlands. More than 7,800 people have been affected ... <a title="From injuries to infectious diseases, what are the health risks in the aftermath of PNG’s landslide?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/from-injuries-to-infectious-diseases-what-are-the-health-risks-in-the-aftermath-of-pngs-landslide-231163/" aria-label="Read more about From injuries to infectious diseases, what are the health risks in the aftermath of PNG’s landslide?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
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 The electoral commission today released draft boundaries from a federal redistribution of Victoria and Western Australia. In WA, the new seat of Bullwinkel was created, while in ... <a title="Labor slightly helped by Victorian and WA draft federal redistributions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/labor-slightly-helped-by-victorian-and-wa-draft-federal-redistributions-230937/" aria-label="Read more about Labor slightly helped by Victorian and WA draft federal redistributions">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Oscar, Senior Lecturer, Visual Communication, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Over the past few days, one image has been shared at least 45 million times on Instagram. It shows an aerial landscape with hundreds of thousands of tents, pitched in rows, on red earth. ... <a title="All Eyes on Rafah: sharing images of war comes with a moral responsibility. What can we make of this AI-generated anomaly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/all-eyes-on-rafah-sharing-images-of-war-comes-with-a-moral-responsibility-what-can-we-make-of-this-ai-generated-anomaly-231271/" aria-label="Read more about All Eyes on Rafah: sharing images of war comes with a moral responsibility. What can we make of this AI-generated anomaly?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney The axing of the Melbourne Rebels from the Super Rugby competition, though not unexpected, is another blow to rugby union in Australia. The Rebels were axed because they were in serious debt to the tune of ... <a title="Rugby union cops another body blow as the Melbourne Rebels are axed. How can the sport bounce back?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/rugby-union-cops-another-body-blow-as-the-melbourne-rebels-are-axed-how-can-the-sport-bounce-back-230959/" aria-label="Read more about Rugby union cops another body blow as the Melbourne Rebels are axed. How can the sport bounce back?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Richardson, Professor, Australian National University Paul Teysen/Unsplash For the best part of two centuries, the principle of “comparative advantage” has been a foundation stone of economists’ understanding of international trade, both of why it occurs in the first place and how it can be mutually beneficial ... <a title="Business basics: what is comparative advantage?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/business-basics-what-is-comparative-advantage-230869/" aria-label="Read more about Business basics: what is comparative advantage?">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne Archibald Prize 2024 finalist, Shaun Gladwell ‘A spangled symbolist portrait of Julian Assange floating in reflection’, oil and aluminium flakes on ... <a title="Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/archibald-prize-2024-this-years-finalists-range-from-downright-fun-to-politically-ferocious-228492/" aria-label="Read more about Archibald Prize 2024: this year’s finalists range from downright fun to politically ferocious">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Florence Monique Boulard, Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Education, James Cook University In recent weeks, New Caledonia has been wracked by the worst unrest on the island in 40 years, making headlines around the world. Hundreds of Australians were trapped in the French territory, unable to return ... <a title="New Caledonians are looking to Australia as a safe haven. But for most, migration remains out of reach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/new-caledonians-are-looking-to-australia-as-a-safe-haven-but-for-most-migration-remains-out-of-reach-230669/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonians are looking to Australia as a safe haven. But for most, migration remains out of reach">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Langmore, Professor, Australian National University A superb fairy wren foster parent about to feed a Horsfield’s bronze cuckoo chick. Mark Lethlean How do new species arise? And why are there so many of them? One possible reason is the arms race between animals such as predators ... <a title="What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/whats-that-in-my-nest-how-the-evolutionary-arms-race-between-cuckoos-and-hosts-creates-new-species-230986/" aria-label="Read more about What’s that in my nest? How the evolutionary arms race between cuckoos and hosts creates new species">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Koplin, Group Leader, Childhood Allergy & Epidemiology, The University of Queensland Miljan Zivkovic/Shutterstock Australia has often been called the “allergy capital of the world”. An estimated one in ten Australian children develop a food allergy in their first 12 months of life. Research has previously suggested ... <a title="We’re the ‘allergy capital of the world’. But we don’t know why food allergies are so common in Australian children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/were-the-allergy-capital-of-the-world-but-we-dont-know-why-food-allergies-are-so-common-in-australian-children-228786/" aria-label="Read more about We’re the ‘allergy capital of the world’. But we don’t know why food allergies are so common in Australian children">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mahima Kalla, Digital Health Transformation Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Renowned scientist and conservationist Jane Goodall is touring Australia and New Zealand this week and next. The 90-year-old “woman who redefined man” is best known for her discovery of tool-making in chimpanzees, our closest living relatives. ... <a title="Jane Goodall inspires generations of conservationists – we need her education program in schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/jane-goodall-inspires-generations-of-conservationists-we-need-her-education-program-in-schools-228365/" aria-label="Read more about Jane Goodall inspires generations of conservationists – we need her education program in schools">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Gurrieri, Associate Professor in Marketing, RMIT University Mattel released a new range of Barbie dolls this week honouring nine trailblazing women in sport. The recognised athletes include Matildas soccer star Mary Fowler, tennis champion Venus Williams and seven other record-breaking and world champion sports stars from ... <a title="Mattel’s new athlete Barbies might seem like a win for feminists and young girls – but they’re not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/31/mattels-new-athlete-barbies-might-seem-like-a-win-for-feminists-and-young-girls-but-theyre-not-231064/" aria-label="Read more about Mattel’s new athlete Barbies might seem like a win for feminists and young girls – but they’re not">Read more</a>
