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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer, Public Sector Management, School of Business, UNSW Sydney Martin Tobias Aakesson/Shutterstock Our government has great aspirations. It has committed to end extinctions and expand our protected areas to cover 30% of every Australian ecosystem by 2030. This is part of its Nature ... <a title="Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/threatened-species-have-declined-2-a-year-since-2000-nature-positive-far-from-it-230116/" aria-label="Read more about Threatened species have declined 2% a year since 2000. Nature positive? Far from it.">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, Industry Professor and Chief Economist, University of Technology Sydney This year the National Rugby League (NRL) opened its season in Las Vegas. It was an audacious move by the league’s ambitious head honcho Peter V’Landys to showcase the game in the United States – and ... <a title="Rugby league in Perth and Papua New Guinea? Here’s what could be next for the NRL" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/rugby-league-in-perth-and-papua-new-guinea-heres-what-could-be-next-for-the-nrl-229999/" aria-label="Read more about Rugby league in Perth and Papua New Guinea? Here’s what could be next for the NRL">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Strong, Associate Professor, Music Industry, RMIT University Leading music organisations have praised the federal budget for its investment in the live music sector. The budget includes A$8.6 million for a program called Revive Live: to provide essential support to live music venues and festivals showcasing Australian ... <a title="The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/the-budget-has-earmarked-8-6-million-for-live-music-is-it-enough-to-save-the-flailing-industry-230114/" aria-label="Read more about The budget has earmarked $8.6 million for live music. Is it enough to save the flailing industry?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow, The University of Queensland The 2024 federal budget contains A$110 million for Indigenous education. This includes funding for various different organisations to represent and help Indigenous people as well as scholarships in a bid to close the gap between Indigenous ... <a title="There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/theres-110-million-for-indigenous-education-in-the-budget-but-wheres-the-evidence-it-will-work-230103/" aria-label="Read more about There’s $110 million for Indigenous education in the budget. But where’s the evidence it will work?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Air New Zealand has confirmed Nouméa’s Tontouta International airport in New Caledonia is closed until Tuesday. The airline earlier told RNZ it would update customers as soon as it could. Earlier today, Foreign Affairs Minister Winston Peters told RNZ Morning Report government officials had been working on an “hourly basis” to see what could be ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/new-caledonias-noumea-airport-closed-until-tuesday-says-air-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Nouméa airport closed until Tuesday, says Air New Zealand">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Linley, PhD Candidate in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Grant Linley Australia’s unprecedented Black Summer bushfires in 2019–20 created ideal conditions for misinformation to spread, from the insidious to the absurd. It was within this context that a bizarre story went viral on social media. This was ... <a title="Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/cameras-reveal-wombat-burrows-can-be-safe-havens-after-fire-and-waterholes-after-rain-226396/" aria-label="Read more about Cameras reveal wombat burrows can be safe havens after fire and waterholes after rain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcel Scharth, Lecturer in Business Analytics, University of Sydney OpenAI executive Mira Murati launching GPT-4o. OpenAI Earlier this week OpenAI launched GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”), a new version of the artificial intelligence (AI) system powering the popular ChatGPT chatbot. GPT-4o is promoted as a step towards more ... <a title="ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/chatgpt-is-now-better-than-ever-at-faking-human-emotion-and-behaviour-230254/" aria-label="Read more about ChatGPT is now better than ever at faking human emotion and behaviour">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasure McGuire, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and as Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland Speedkingz/Shutterstock Menopause is a natural biological process that marks the end of a woman’s reproductive years, typically between 45 ... <a title="Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/menopause-can-bring-increased-cholesterol-levels-and-other-heart-risks-heres-why-and-what-to-do-about-it-228010/" aria-label="Read more about Menopause can bring increased cholesterol levels and other heart risks. Here’s why and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University For decades, Australia has exported uranium – but not used it, other than in the Lucas Heights research reactor. But change is coming. We now face a rapidly deepening commitment to the nuclear industry, through nuclear submarines ... <a title="Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/nuclear-subs-are-coming-to-australia-now-the-coalition-wants-reactors-too-were-not-ready-for-it-230117/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear subs are coming to Australia. Now the Coalition wants reactors, too. We’re not ready for it">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam D Hines, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology Sergey Mironov/Shutterstock Over 350 million surgeries are performed globally each year. For most of us, it’s likely at some point in our lives we’ll have to undergo a procedure that needs general anaesthesia. Even though it is one ... <a title="After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/after-180-years-new-clues-are-revealing-just-how-general-anaesthesia-works-in-the-brain-229713/" aria-label="Read more about After 180 years, new clues are revealing just how general anaesthesia works in the brain">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Graffam, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University Gianna Rizzo/Malthouse Music pumps; lights pulsate; two sweaty bodies sway together, touching, breathing in each other’s scent. A male body framed by downlight restlessly shifts between stances and gestures. He undresses. The intensity of music, movement and light builds ... <a title="Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/homo-pentecostus-on-queer-intimacies-religion-ancestry-and-the-human-need-for-connection-228014/" aria-label="Read more about Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra van der Laan, Professor of Accounting, University of Sydney Mtaya/Shutterstock At some point, you or someone else will need to make a decision about your “send-off”. Most Australians die in an institution, such as a hospital or aged care facility. This situation often puts pressure on ... <a title="Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/17/want-to-be-buried-on-your-own-land-at-sea-or-in-a-forest-a-guide-to-unconventional-send-offs-227457/" aria-label="Read more about Want to be buried on your own land, at sea or in a forest? A guide to unconventional send-offs">Read more</a>
