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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Stewart, Marine Physicist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research The ocean that surrounds Antarctica plays a crucial role in regulating the mass balance of the continent’s ice cover. We now know that the thinning of ice that affects nearly a quarter of the West Antarctic ... <a title="How solar heat drives rapid melting of parts of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/how-solar-heat-drives-rapid-melting-of-parts-of-antarcticas-largest-ice-shelf-118835/" aria-label="Read more about How solar heat drives rapid melting of parts of Antarctica’s largest ice shelf">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sherif Abbas, Research Fellow, RMIT University 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: how does electricity work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/curious-kids-how-does-electricity-work-118686/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how does electricity work?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Dumped police commissioner Gary Baki announces his challenge to the new government, claiming that he is the legal commander. Video: EMTV News By RNZ Pacific Papua New Guinea’s police minister claims there is a plot involving the former prime minister to have him arrested. Police Minister Bryan Kramer said high ranking police officers were plotting ... <a title="PNG police minister Kramer claims plot to arrest him" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/png-police-minister-kramer-claims-plot-to-arrest-him/" aria-label="Read more about PNG police minister Kramer claims plot to arrest him">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne Review: Contemporary Worlds: Indonesia, National Gallery of Australia They talk of a family of nations, or families of nations. In Australia, the UK can still be referred to as the mother country, while the ... <a title="Indonesian art is fresh, energetic and lively. Why do we not see more of it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/indonesian-art-is-fresh-energetic-and-lively-why-do-we-not-see-more-of-it-119747/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian art is fresh, energetic and lively. Why do we not see more of it?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
By Godwin Ligo in Port Vila Vanuatu’s first President and one of the founding fathers of political Independence, Ati George Sokomanu, is calling on the Vanuatu government to stop the sale of Vanuatu passports under its citizenship programme. “It is lowering our dignity as Ni-Vanuatu and Melanesian people,” Sokomanu told the Vanuatu Daily Post. “It ... <a title="Sale of Vanuatu passports ‘degrading’, says Sokomanu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/sale-of-vanuatu-passports-degrading-says-sokomanu/" aria-label="Read more about Sale of Vanuatu passports ‘degrading’, says Sokomanu">Read more</a>
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July 9, 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 Poverty and inequality, welfare Stacey Kirk (Stuff): This Government promised a war on poverty – is it gaining any ground? Susan St John (Newsroom): Poverty: not an earthquake but still a crisis Auckland ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 09 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-09-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 09 2019">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Onno van der Groen, Research Fellow in the school of medical and health sciences, Edith Cowan University Like to work in a noisy environment while your colleague prefers silence? It could be your brain is simply less “noisy” so this extra, external noise improves your cognitive functioning. ... <a title="Like to work with background noise? It could be boosting your performance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/like-to-work-with-background-noise-it-could-be-boosting-your-performance-119598/" aria-label="Read more about Like to work with background noise? It could be boosting your performance">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annette Greenhow, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Bond University In the not too distant past, players who suffered head injuries in professional contact sports quickly returned to the field of play, sometimes in the same game, seemingly able to shake off any concussion concerns. Australian professional sports ... <a title="Is the National Rugby League legally liable for the long-term impacts of concussions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/is-the-national-rugby-league-legally-liable-for-the-long-term-impacts-of-concussions-119880/" aria-label="Read more about Is the National Rugby League legally liable for the long-term impacts of concussions?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katja Siefken, Lecturer, University of South Australia Inactivity in school children has been in the news again with the release of a study into the health of Australian 11-12 year olds from around the country. The 1,800 person study found most children were healthy. But there was ... <a title="Look up north. Here’s how Aussie kids can move more at school, Nordic style" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/look-up-north-heres-how-aussie-kids-can-move-more-at-school-nordic-style-112957/" aria-label="Read more about Look up north. Here’s how Aussie kids can move more at school, Nordic style">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graham Fulton, PhD student, School of Biological Sciences, The University of 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: where do swallows sleep?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/curious-kids-where-do-swallows-sleep-116658/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: where do swallows sleep?">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Alexandra, PhD candidate, RMIT University Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle climate change. And Australia’s sprawling car-based cities are gradually changing to embrace green or living infrastructure. Green cities bring together elements of architectural ... <a title="For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/for-green-cities-to-become-mainstream-we-need-to-learn-from-local-success-stories-and-scale-up-119933/" aria-label="Read more about For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up">Read more</a>
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July 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Nations behave wisely, Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban observed five decades ago, “once they have exhausted all other alternatives”. One can only hope that proves the case with water policy in Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin, the nation’s largest ... <a title="Australia: The Murray-Darling Basin scandal: economists have seen it coming for decades" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/09/the-murray-darling-basin-scandal-economists-have-seen-it-coming-for-decades-119989/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: The Murray-Darling Basin scandal: economists have seen it coming for decades">Read more</a>
