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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Veronica Alfano, Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Memorising poetry was once common in classrooms. But it has, for the most part, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Memorisation can clash with creativity and analytical thought. Rote learning can be seen as mindless, drone-like, ... <a title="Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/ode-to-the-poem-why-memorising-poetry-still-matters-for-human-connection-121622/" aria-label="Read more about Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University What do J.J. Abrams, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Shonda Rhimes, David Lynch, Aaron Sorkin, Donald Glover, Jenji Kohan, Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Joss Whedon have in common? They are all television showrunners – ... <a title="From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/from-donald-glover-to-phoebe-waller-bridge-what-exactly-does-a-showrunner-do-121760/" aria-label="Read more about From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has a sharp lecture for bureaucrats about their KPIs, in a comprehensive speech laying down how he expects the Australian Public Service to operate under his government. Morrison stresses the service must be responsive to both its ministers ... <a title="Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/scott-morrison-tells-public-servants-keep-in-mind-the-bacon-and-eggs-principle-122021/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has issued a timetable for the government’s dealing with the recommendations from the royal commission into banking, superannuation and financial services, which aims to have all measures needing legislation introduced by the end of next year. The ... <a title="Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/frydenberg-outlines-financial-sector-reform-timetable-122024/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced their way into a student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya at the weekend. The Papuan students were forcibly removed from their dormitory on Jl Kalasan yesterday ... <a title="Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/indonesian-police-raid-papuan-student-dormitory-with-tear-gas-arrest-43/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Each new generation of Australians since Federation has enjoyed a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now. Today’s young Australians are in danger of falling behind. A new Grattan Institute report, Generation gap: ensuring a ... <a title="For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/18/for-the-first-time-in-centuries-were-setting-up-a-generation-to-be-worse-off-than-the-one-before-it-121983/" aria-label="Read more about For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly “fierce” Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter documental terms to downplay its commitment to climate change mitigation. According to RNZ Pacific, a communiqué and separate statement on climate change was released after a 12-hour meeting between the ... <a title="Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/australia-has-coal-removed-from-pif-documentation/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Australia’s coal policy and its use of carry over credits to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement have come under fire and been major points of contention at this year’s 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. READ MORE: ‘We should have done more for our people’ – Forum climate change fight ... <a title="‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/bullying-australia-disregards-pacific-over-climate-crisis-says-350-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael O’Keefe, Head of Department, Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University The Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week has ended in open division over climate change. Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory. Traditionally, communiques ... <a title="Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia’s inaction on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/pacific-island-nations-will-no-longer-stand-for-australias-inaction-on-climate-change-121976/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia’s inaction on climate change">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle Even in death, the voice of Carl Williams is louder than that of his victims. Intimate prison letters written by the convicted murderer and drug trafficker to his ex-wife, Roberta – herself arrested this month on kidnap and threats to ... <a title="Glamorising violent offenders with ‘true crime’ shows and podcasts needs to stop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/glamorising-violent-offenders-with-true-crime-shows-and-podcasts-needs-to-stop-121806/" aria-label="Read more about Glamorising violent offenders with ‘true crime’ shows and podcasts needs to stop">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brianna Chesser, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Justice, RMIT University In September 2018, a prominent Melbourne surgeon and academic was charged with rape and sexual assault for alleged offences committed a year earlier against a male doctor. The surgeon and doctor had gone out for dinner and ... <a title="Case in Victoria could set new legal precedent for stealthing, or removing condom during sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/case-in-victoria-could-set-new-legal-precedent-for-stealthing-or-removing-condom-during-sex-118343/" aria-label="Read more about Case in Victoria could set new legal precedent for stealthing, or removing condom during sex">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Dearnaley, Associate Professor, University of Southern Queensland The blotched butterfly orchid (Sarcochilus weinthalii) looks fairly unremarkable when it’s not flowering, generally resembling the far more common orange blossom orchid. But when it flowers, it is exquisite. Dark purple blotches stand out on cream petals, resembling a ... <a title="The exquisite blotched butterfly orchid is an airy jewel of the Australian landscape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/the-exquisite-blotched-butterfly-orchid-is-an-airy-jewel-of-the-australian-landscape-121702/" aria-label="Read more about The exquisite blotched butterfly orchid is an airy jewel of the Australian landscape">Read more</a>
