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April 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Harvey, Associate professor in mathematics, UNSW Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: The long way to multiplication. David Harvey Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient ... <a title="We’ve found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/weve-found-a-quicker-way-to-multiply-really-big-numbers-114923/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve found a quicker way to multiply really big numbers">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne The Coalition government’s use of taxpayer money for political advertising – as much as A$136 million since January, according to Labor figures – is far from an aberration in Australia. It is part of a sordid history in ... <a title="Government advertising may be legal, but it’s corrupting our electoral process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/government-advertising-may-be-legal-but-its-corrupting-our-electoral-process-115061/" aria-label="Read more about Government advertising may be legal, but it’s corrupting our electoral process">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Vertessy, Enterprise Professor, University of Melbourne Over the recent summer, three significant fish death events occurred in the lower Darling River near Menindee, New South Wales. Species involved included Murray Cod, Silver Perch, Golden Perch and Bony Herring, with deaths estimated to be in the range ... <a title="We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here’s why it could happen again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/we-wrote-the-report-for-the-minister-on-fish-deaths-in-the-lower-darling-heres-why-it-could-happen-again-115063/" aria-label="Read more about We wrote the report for the minister on fish deaths in the lower Darling – here’s why it could happen again">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW Regulation of the Australian building industry is broken, according to the Shergold-Weir report to the Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF). […] we have concluded that [the] nature and extent [of problems] are significant and concerning. The problems have led to diminishing ... <a title="Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/housing-with-no-serious-faults-and-buyer-protection-is-that-too-much-to-ask-of-builders-and-regulators-113115/" aria-label="Read more about Housing with no serious faults and buyer protection – is that too much to ask of builders and regulators?">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivia Murphy, Postdoctoral research fellow in English, University of Sydney A documentary from the Smithsonian Institute, examining new DNA and physical anthropology evidence, suggests the famous cavalry officer Casimir Pulaski (1745-1779) might have been a woman, or intersex. Pulaski is a hero of the struggles for Polish ... <a title="Adventurous identities: intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/adventurous-identities-intersex-soldiers-and-cross-dressing-women-at-war-115126/" aria-label="Read more about Adventurous identities: intersex soldiers and cross-dressing women at war">Read more</a>
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April 10, 2019
Educate to Liberate curators Pauline Smith and Ari Edgecombe … a window on the police and immigration crackdown on illegal “overstayers” in the 1970s. Image: Michael Andrew/PMW By Michael Andrew An exhibition about the infamous Dawn Raids” in the 1970s has opened in South Auckland, providing a window into a painful chapter of New Zealand’s ... <a title="Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/10/dawn-raids-pasifika-liberated-to-talk-about-painful-past/" aria-label="Read more about Dawn Raids – Pasifika ‘liberated’ to talk about painful past">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The fallout from the extraordinary revelations about Peter Dutton’s contacts with Chinese Communist Party-aligned billionaire Huang Xiangmo is a potent brew, its ingredients the issue of foreign interference and the legacy of last year’s leadership challenge. A tale full of ... <a title="View from The Hill: Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/view-from-the-hill-dutton-suffers-reflux-after-tasty-chinese-meal-115150/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Dutton suffers reflux after tasty Chinese meal">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s memoir of a “monstrous” mother has won the 2019 Stella Prize. The Erratics tells the story of Vicki’s return home to a prairie house in the sparse wintry landscapes of Alberta, Canada, where she ... <a title="Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/vicki-laveau-harvies-remarkable-uncomfortable-memoir-wins-the-2019-stella-prize-115120/" aria-label="Read more about Vicki Laveau-Harvie’s remarkable, uncomfortable memoir wins the 2019 Stella Prize">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Patrick Taylor, Professor of Environmental Science, Macquarie University Current smelting emissions from the Nyrstar smelter in the South Australian city of Port Pirie continue to pose a clear risk of harm to local children, our research has found. Port Pirie has been a world-leading centre for ... <a title="Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/children-continue-to-be-exposed-to-contaminated-air-in-port-pirie-113484/" aria-label="Read more about Children continue to be exposed to contaminated air in Port Pirie">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute This article is part of a series examining the Coalition government’s record on key issues while in power and what Labor is promising if it wins the 2019 federal election. The Turnbull/Morrison government has a mixed record, at best, on ... <a title="The Coalition’s report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/the-coalitions-report-card-on-health-includes-some-passes-and-quite-a-few-fails-113734/" aria-label="Read more about The Coalition’s report card on health includes some passes and quite a few fails">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Bond-Smith, Research Fellow, Bankwest-Curtin Economics Centre, Curtin University The federal government has just promised to increase spending on public hospitals from A$21.7 billion in 2018 to A$26.2 billion by 2023. Expect more hospital promises in coming weeks. There is a long history of parties at both ... <a title="More hospitals will not cure Australia’s ailing health-care system. There’s a more efficient way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/more-hospitals-will-not-cure-australias-ailing-health-care-system-theres-a-more-efficient-way-111084/" aria-label="Read more about More hospitals will not cure Australia’s ailing health-care system. There’s a more efficient way">Read more</a>
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April 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Laurance, Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University For time immemorial, many wildlife species have survived by undertaking heroic long-distance migrations. But many of these great migrations are collapsing right before our eyes. Perhaps the biggest peril to migrations is so common that we ... <a title="From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/09/from-australia-to-africa-fences-are-stopping-earths-great-animal-migrations-114586/" aria-label="Read more about From Australia to Africa, fences are stopping Earth’s great animal migrations">Read more</a>
