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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Postdoctoral research fellow, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier Most children learn that written numbers represent quantities in pre-school or junior primary school. Now our new study shows that honeybees too can learn to match symbols and numerosities, much like we humans do with ... <a title="We taught bees a simple number language – and they got it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/we-taught-bees-a-simple-number-language-and-they-got-it-117816/" aria-label="Read more about We taught bees a simple number language – and they got it">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
By RNZ Pacific A range of initiatives for Pacific people was announced in the New Zealand Budget last week. This Wellbeing Budget included increases in funding for Pacific health, education, language and economic development. While the Ministry of Pacific Peoples has hailed it as an unprecedented support package for Pacific people, there is concern that ... <a title="Mixed reactions to NZ Budget initiatives for Pacific people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/mixed-reactions-to-nz-budget-initiatives-for-pacific-people/" aria-label="Read more about Mixed reactions to NZ Budget initiatives for Pacific people">Read more</a>
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June 5, 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 Budget leak, SSC inquiry Tim Watkin (Pundit): Gabriel Makhlouf’s already had three strikes. Can he really avoid being ‘out’? Liam Hehir (Pundit): Sometimes with politics, you should sweat the small stuff Richard Harman ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 05 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-05-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 05 2019">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland Climate change is now climate crisis and a climate sceptic now a climate denier, according to the recently updated style guide of The Guardian news organisation. The extent to which the ... <a title="Climate sceptic or climate denier? It’s not that simple and here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/climate-sceptic-or-climate-denier-its-not-that-simple-and-heres-why-117913/" aria-label="Read more about Climate sceptic or climate denier? It’s not that simple and here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Support for Māori communities was a funding priority in New Zealand’s well-being budget. In a Facebook post, Labour MP Meka Whaitiri celebrated the new targeted investment of NZ$593 million as “simply unprecedented”. The budget makes a significant ... <a title="Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/budget-lessons-in-the-politics-of-indigenous-self-determination-118118/" aria-label="Read more about Budget lessons in the politics of Indigenous self-determination">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keith D. Parry, Senior Lecturer in Sport Management, University of Winchester It is traditional at major sports events to begin with a rendition of the national anthem. At the State of Origin rugby league clash between New South Wales and Queensland on Wednesday, however, at least four ... <a title="Our national anthem is non-inclusive: Indigenous Australians shouldn’t have to sing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/our-national-anthem-is-non-inclusive-indigenous-australians-shouldnt-have-to-sing-it-118177/" aria-label="Read more about Our national anthem is non-inclusive: Indigenous Australians shouldn’t have to sing it">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Orlando, Researcher: Technology and Learning, Western Sydney University If your child spends long hours playing video games, you might be worried they’re addicted. “Gaming disorder” is real, and has now been classified as a disease in the World Health Organisation’s International Classification of Diseases and Related ... <a title="How to know if your child is addicted to video games and what to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/how-to-know-if-your-child-is-addicted-to-video-games-and-what-to-do-about-it-118038/" aria-label="Read more about How to know if your child is addicted to video games and what to do about it">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Moore, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University The koala’s nose is distinctive – it’s a big black leathery rectangle in the middle of a round, grey face that’s surprisingly soft to the touch. And every koala nose is unique. A ... <a title="What does a koala’s nose know? A bit about food, and a lot about making friends" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/what-does-a-koalas-nose-know-a-bit-about-food-and-a-lot-about-making-friends-117754/" aria-label="Read more about What does a koala’s nose know? A bit about food, and a lot about making friends">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edgar Liu, Senior Research Fellow at City Futures Research Centre, UNSW People’s quality of life, their health and their comfort can suffer when living in poor-quality housing. It can also impose high ongoing costs of maintenance, repairs, heating and cooling. And these problems are more likely to ... <a title="Chilly house? Mouldy rooms? Here’s how to improve low-income renters’ access to decent housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/chilly-house-mouldy-rooms-heres-how-to-improve-low-income-renters-access-to-decent-housing-116749/" aria-label="Read more about Chilly house? Mouldy rooms? Here’s how to improve low-income renters’ access to decent housing">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Murray, Senior Lecturer and former ARC DECRA Fellow in Screen Media, Macquarie University Germany, 1918. Wünsdorf prisoner-of-war camp, not far from Berlin. An Australian Indigenous POW, Douglas Grant, sits as a model for a portrait bust by a German Jewish sculptor, Rudolf Marcuse. The completed work ... <a title="How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/how-we-tracked-down-the-only-known-sculpture-of-a-wwi-indigenous-soldier-117246/" aria-label="Read more about How we tracked down the only known sculpture of a WWI Indigenous soldier">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against child sexual assault convictions kicks off this week, but when that’s over Pell still has another reckoning to face: the unredacted findings of Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. When the royal ... <a title="Media Files: Investigative reporter Louise Milligan on Cardinal Pell and redactions in the Royal Commission’s report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/04/media-files-investigative-reporter-louise-milligan-on-cardinal-pell-and-redactions-in-the-royal-commissions-report-117981/" aria-label="Read more about Media Files: Investigative reporter Louise Milligan on Cardinal Pell and redactions in the Royal Commission’s report">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Patterson, Lecturer, Deakin University Today it was revealed the Australian National University (ANU) fell victim to a cyber security attack two weeks ago. Stolen was a substantial amount of data dating back 19 years relating to staff, students and visitors. We don’t know for sure how ... <a title="19 years of personal data was stolen from ANU. It could show up on the dark web" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/04/19-years-of-personal-data-was-stolen-from-anu-it-could-show-up-on-the-dark-web-118265/" aria-label="Read more about 19 years of personal data was stolen from ANU. It could show up on the dark web">Read more</a>
