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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matilda Brown, PhD, University of Tasmania Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do leaves fall off trees?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/curious-kids-why-do-leaves-fall-off-trees-111914/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do leaves fall off trees?">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyle Springer, Senior Analyst at the Perth USAsia Centre, University of Western Australia Myanmar’s president released more than 6,000 prisoners on Tuesday, including two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists imprisoned for reporting on a military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine state. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe ... <a title="Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/journalist-pardons-are-welcome-but-press-freedom-in-myanmar-will-require-real-reform-116733/" aria-label="Read more about Journalist pardons are welcome, but press freedom in Myanmar will require real reform">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has praised the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from a prison in the Yangon suburb of Insein as a victory for press freedom and investigative reporting in Myanmar and throughout the world. The two reporters had spent a total of 511 days ... <a title="RSF hails freedom for Myanmar journalists as investigative victory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/rsf-hails-freedom-for-myanmar-journalists-as-investigative-victory/" aria-label="Read more about RSF hails freedom for Myanmar journalists as investigative victory">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Koori Mail, after awaiting permission from the Kapeen family, has announced with great sadness the sudden passing of Koori Mail chairperson and Bundjalung elder, Russell Kapeen. “Uncle Russell” passed away on Saturday, May 4, in his home at Coraki, NSW, the Koori Mail statement said. He was 72. The Koori ... <a title="Koori Mail’s ‘Uncle Russell’ was a dedicated Indigenous voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/koori-mails-uncle-russell-was-a-dedicated-indigenous-voice/" aria-label="Read more about Koori Mail’s ‘Uncle Russell’ was a dedicated Indigenous voice">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 09 2019 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Zero Carbon bill, climate change Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Zero Carbon Bill lives or dies on politics Dave Frame (Stuff): Zero Carbon bill is ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 09 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-09-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 09 2019">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dietmar Müller, Professor of Geophysics, University of Sydney Classical plate tectonic theory was developed in the 1960s. It proposed that the outer layer of our planet is made up of a small number of rigid plates separated by narrow boundaries. The surface of Earth could be viewed ... <a title="How Earth’s continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/how-earths-continents-became-twisted-and-contorted-over-millions-of-years-116168/" aria-label="Read more about How Earth’s continents became twisted and contorted over millions of years">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney At the 2016 federal election, a small but significant vote cast by foreign-born Australians and their families helped elect the Liberal Party. The voters backed conservative minor parties in typically Labor-leaning electorates, and their preferences flowed to ... <a title="Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/foreign-born-voters-and-their-families-helped-elect-turnbull-in-2016-can-they-save-scomo-116588/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign-born voters and their families helped elect Turnbull in 2016. Can they save ScoMo?">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Davison, Associate professor, Swinburne University of Technology This article is the second part in a series, Where culture meets health. It’s often said that no matter who we are, “we all bleed red”. But although our blood may be the same colour, we’re as individual on ... <a title="Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/australias-ethnic-face-is-changing-and-so-are-our-blood-types-113454/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ethnic face is changing, and so are our blood types">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University New Zealand’s long-awaited zero carbon bill will create sweeping changes to the management of emissions, setting a global benchmark with ambitious reduction targets for all major greenhouse gases. The bill includes two separate targets – one for the long-lived ... <a title="NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/nz-introduces-groundbreaking-zero-carbon-bill-including-targets-for-agricultural-methane-116724/" aria-label="Read more about NZ introduces groundbreaking zero carbon bill, including targets for agricultural methane">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Collard, Research Fellow, The Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide The world’s largest assessment of biodiversity recently shared the alarming news that 1 million species are under threat of extinction. Australia’s extinction record is poor compared to the rest of the world, and ... <a title="Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/fixing-australias-extinction-crisis-means-thinking-bigger-than-individual-species-115559/" aria-label="Read more about Fixing Australia’s extinction crisis means thinking bigger than individual species">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Read, Associate Lecturer, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide Introduced cats are a key threat to 123 of Australia’s threatened species. The management of cats is challenging and divisive; many options such as rehoming, trap-neuter-release and euthanasia have been used around the world with varying ... <a title="Why Australia needs to kill cats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/why-australia-needs-to-kill-cats-116654/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australia needs to kill cats">Read more</a>
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May 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor Faculty of Education, School of Cultural and Professional Learning, Queensland University of Technology The Age newspaper recently highlighted the issue of so-called “helicopter parenting” at universities. The report talked of parents contacting lecturers to ask about their adult children’s grades, sitting in on meetings ... <a title="Too much love: helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/09/too-much-love-helicopter-parents-could-be-raising-anxious-narcissistic-children-116182/" aria-label="Read more about Too much love: helicopter parents could be raising anxious, narcissistic children">Read more</a>
