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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Senior research fellow, Southern Cross University Humans’ distant ancestor Australopithecus africanus had a unique approach to raising their young, as shown in our new research published today in Nature. Geochemical analysis of four teeth shows they exclusively breastfed infants for about 6-9 months, before supplementing ... <a title="Teeth ‘time capsule’ reveals that 2 million years ago, early humans breastfed for up to 6 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/teeth-time-capsule-reveals-that-2-million-years-ago-early-humans-breastfed-for-up-to-6-years-117894/" aria-label="Read more about Teeth ‘time capsule’ reveals that 2 million years ago, early humans breastfed for up to 6 years">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland 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, ... <a title="Curious Kids: can people live in space?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/curious-kids-can-people-live-in-space-120334/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: can people live in space?">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joyce Y.M. Nip, Senior lecturer, Department of Media and Communications; Department of Chinese Studies, University of Sydney As China grows more powerful and influential, our New Superpower series looks at what this means for the world – how China maintains its power, how it wields its power ... <a title="Extremist mobs? How China’s propaganda machine tried to control the message in the Hong Kong protests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/extremist-mobs-how-chinas-propaganda-machine-tried-to-control-the-message-in-the-hong-kong-protests-119646/" aria-label="Read more about Extremist mobs? How China’s propaganda machine tried to control the message in the Hong Kong protests">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trent Yarwood, Infectious Diseases Physician, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University and, The University of Queensland This year’s flu season is off to an early start, with 144,000 confirmed cases so far in 2019. That’s more than twice as many confirmed cases of the flu than for all ... <a title="Hand sanitisers in public won’t wipe out the flu but they might help reduce its spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/hand-sanitisers-in-public-wont-wipe-out-the-flu-but-they-might-help-reduce-its-spread-120228/" aria-label="Read more about Hand sanitisers in public won’t wipe out the flu but they might help reduce its spread">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Todd Denham, PhD Candidate, School of Global, Urban & Social Studies, RMIT University Governments are looking to fast rail services to regional cities to relieve population pressures in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The federal government is funding nine business cases for such schemes. But what economic effect ... <a title="Regional cities beware – fast rail might lead to disadvantaged dormitories, not booming economies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/regional-cities-beware-fast-rail-might-lead-to-disadvantaged-dormitories-not-booming-economies-119090/" aria-label="Read more about Regional cities beware – fast rail might lead to disadvantaged dormitories, not booming economies">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yvette Selim, Interim Deputy Director, Anti-Slavery Australia, University of Technology Sydney With China’s western-most province of Xinjiang being turned into a mass internment camp, last night’s ABC Four Corners program reported on the Chinese Communist Party’s alleged plans to put up to a million detained Uyghurs to ... <a title="Four Corners’ forced labour exposé shows why you might be wearing slave-made clothes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/four-corners-forced-labour-expose-shows-why-you-might-be-wearing-slave-made-clothes-115462/" aria-label="Read more about Four Corners’ forced labour exposé shows why you might be wearing slave-made clothes">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zsuzsanna Csereklyei, Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Wholesale prices in the National Electricity Market have climbed significantly in recent years. The increase has coincided with a rapid increase in the proportion of electricity supplied by wind and solar generators. But that needn’t mean the increase in wind ... <a title="Wind and solar cut rather than boost Australia’s wholesale electricity prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/wind-and-solar-cut-rather-than-boost-australias-wholesale-electricity-prices-119979/" aria-label="Read more about Wind and solar cut rather than boost Australia’s wholesale electricity prices">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nary Hong, PhD candidate in Economics, UNSW The 2019 Australian Conference of Economists is taking place in Melbourne from July 14 to 16. During the conference The Conversation is publishing a selection of articles by the authors of papers being delivered at the conference. The Disability Support ... <a title="Reading and writing assistance increases the chance of getting a Disability Support Pension" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/reading-and-writing-assistance-increases-the-chance-of-getting-a-disability-support-pension-119980/" aria-label="Read more about Reading and writing assistance increases the chance of getting a Disability Support Pension">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Koa Whittingham, Psychologist and Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Bluey is a ground-breaking Australian children’s television series and the most downloaded show in ABC iView history. Since premiering in October 2018, Bluey has been played on iView over 100 million times, and it is set to ... <a title="‘Making up games is more important than you think’: why Bluey is a font of parenting wisdom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/making-up-games-is-more-important-than-you-think-why-bluey-is-a-font-of-parenting-wisdom-118583/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Making up games is more important than you think’: why Bluey is a font of parenting wisdom">Read more</a>
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July 16, 2019
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia has a healthy lead on the Pacific Games medals table after the first week of the competition. The French Territory has won 42 gold medals after the first six days of competition and more than 50 silver and bronze, with host nation Samoa the nearest challenger with 26 gold medals ... <a title="Pacific Games: New Caledonia lead, Samoa second at halfway point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/16/pacific-games-new-caledonia-lead-samoa-second-at-halfway-point/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Games: New Caledonia lead, Samoa second at halfway point">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ahmar Mahboob, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Sydney A few months ago, I received a call from a barrister who asked me if I could evaluate whether voice identification testimony submitted in a criminal case against an Indigenous man was based on appropriate analysis. He told ... <a title="Can criminal suspects be identified just by the sound of their voices?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/can-criminal-suspects-be-identified-just-by-the-sound-of-their-voices-114815/" aria-label="Read more about Can criminal suspects be identified just by the sound of their voices?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By João Teixeira, Research associate, University of Adelaide Around 55,000-50,000 years ago, a population of modern humans left Africa and started on the long trek that would lead them around the world. After rapidly crossing Eurasia and Southeast Asia, they travelled through the islands of Indonesia, and eventually ... <a title="Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/15/southeast-asia-was-crowded-with-archaic-human-groups-long-before-we-turned-up-119818/" aria-label="Read more about Southeast Asia was crowded with archaic human groups long before we turned up">Read more</a>
