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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images It’s been seven years since the launch of Replika, an artificially intelligent chatbot designed to be a friend to human users. Despite early warnings about the dangers of ... <a title="AI companions can relieve loneliness – but here are 4 red flags to watch for in your chatbot ‘friend’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/ai-companions-can-relieve-loneliness-but-here-are-4-red-flags-to-watch-for-in-your-chatbot-friend-227338/" aria-label="Read more about AI companions can relieve loneliness – but here are 4 red flags to watch for in your chatbot ‘friend’">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Williams Veazey, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, University of Sydney DavideAngelini/Shutterstock In the 2007 film The Bucket List Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two main characters who respond to their terminal cancer diagnoses by rejecting experimental treatment. Instead, they go on a range of energetic, overseas ... <a title="Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/paris-in-spring-bali-in-winter-how-bucket-lists-help-cancer-patients-handle-life-and-death-225682/" aria-label="Read more about Paris in spring, Bali in winter. How ‘bucket lists’ help cancer patients handle life and death">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Singh, Professor of Agri-Food Biotechnology, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences at the University of Melbourne., The University of Melbourne Tanja Esser/Shutterstock Australia’s vital agriculture sector will be hit hard by steadily rising global temperatures. Our climate is already prone to droughts and floods. Climate ... <a title="Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/heat-is-coming-for-our-crops-we-have-to-make-them-ready-223553/" aria-label="Read more about Heat is coming for our crops. We have to make them ready">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Marley, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition DPVUE .images/Shutterstock Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of gases in Earth’s atmosphere, the weather will become more volatile. Without ... <a title="A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/a-sponge-city-may-be-your-home-in-2050-229565/" aria-label="Read more about A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government is talking up the crucial role of gas as a transition fuel “through to 2050 and beyond”. In a gas strategy to be released on Thursday, the government envisages the fuel’s uses would change over time, as ... <a title="Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/09/gas-is-good-until-2050-and-beyond-under-albanese-gas-strategy-229635/" aria-label="Read more about Gas is good until 2050 and beyond, under Albanese gas strategy">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Next week the government will again next try to get its legislation through to deal with non-citizens who won’t cooperate with efforts to deport them. The bill, which the opposition and crossbench refused to rush through in the last parliamentary ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on prospects for passage of the government’s deportation bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-james-paterson-on-prospects-for-passage-of-the-governments-deportation-bill-229626/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: James Paterson on prospects for passage of the government’s deportation bill">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bree Hurst, Associate Professor, Faculty of Business and Law, QUT, Queensland University of Technology TK Kurikawa/Shutterstock A much-awaited report into Coles and Woolworths has found what many customers have long believed – Australia’s big supermarkets engage in price gouging. What started as a simple Senate inquiry into ... <a title="Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/yes-australias-big-supermarkets-have-been-price-gouging-but-fixing-the-problem-wont-be-easy-229602/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, Australia’s big supermarkets have been price gouging. But fixing the problem won’t be easy">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney The Albanese government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its migration amendment bill. The report, handed down yesterday by a senate committee that reviewed the bill, showed why. ... <a title="The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/the-government-wanted-to-avoid-an-inquiry-into-its-deportation-bill-given-the-findings-its-easy-to-see-why-229384/" aria-label="Read more about The government wanted to avoid an inquiry into its deportation bill. Given the findings, it’s easy to see why">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Lobbying is at the heart of government. Who has access to and influence over key government officials shapes the decisions governments make – and how they make them. The ability to influence government is certainly essential to ... <a title="Senate report on lobbying passes the buck on improving transparency or legislation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/senate-report-on-lobbying-passes-the-buck-on-improving-transparency-or-legislation-229510/" aria-label="Read more about Senate report on lobbying passes the buck on improving transparency or legislation">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Myfany Turpin, Associate Professor, Ethnomusicology, Linguistics and Ethnobiology, University of Sydney The act representing Australia at this year’s Eurovision contest has sadly not qualified for the grand final. Yet for Zaachariaha Fielding and Michael Ross, the duo that makes up Electric Fields, it’s far from a sad ... <a title="Australia’s Eurovision entry this year is the first to sing in First Nations language: meet Electric Fields" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/australias-eurovision-entry-this-year-is-the-first-to-sing-in-first-nations-language-meet-electric-fields-229505/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Eurovision entry this year is the first to sing in First Nations language: meet Electric Fields">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Minglu Chen, Senior Lecturer, Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Robert Way/Shutterstock As the past few years have illustrated so clearly, the Australia-China relationship is complicated. As such, it is crucial for Australians to develop a more nuanced understanding of China as this will help foster ... <a title="How is China being taught at Australian universities? And why does this matter? Here’s what our research found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/how-is-china-being-taught-at-australian-universities-and-why-does-this-matter-heres-what-our-research-found-226807/" aria-label="Read more about How is China being taught at Australian universities? And why does this matter? Here’s what our research found">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mariana Campbell, Research Lecturer, Conservation, Charles Darwin University Marilyn Connell Australian freshwater turtles are facing an alarming trend. Almost half of these species are listed as vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered. The Mary River turtle (Elusor macrurus) is one of Australia’s largest freshwater turtles, weighing up to ... <a title="Saving the Mary River turtle: how the people of Tiaro rallied behind an iconic species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/08/saving-the-mary-river-turtle-how-the-people-of-tiaro-rallied-behind-an-iconic-species-217439/" aria-label="Read more about Saving the Mary River turtle: how the people of Tiaro rallied behind an iconic species">Read more</a>
