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September 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Tietz, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design, UNSW With two-thirds of a global population of 9.4 billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2050, we can expect a change in the domestic living arrangements we are familiar with today. In high-density cities, the static apartment ... <a title="‘Transformer’ rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/24/transformer-rooms-and-robo-furniture-are-set-to-remake-our-homes-and-lives-before-our-eyes-123682/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Transformer’ rooms and robo-furniture are set to remake our homes – and lives – before our eyes">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Bray, Lecturer in Science Communication, University of Western Australia Soy milk. Almond milk. Rice milk. To some dairy farmers these products are like a red rag to a bull. They want governments to decree the word “milk” should be reserved for milk from mammals. They argue ... <a title="Crying over plant-based milk: neither science nor history favours a dairy monopoly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/24/crying-over-plant-based-milk-neither-science-nor-history-favours-a-dairy-monopoly-123852/" aria-label="Read more about Crying over plant-based milk: neither science nor history favours a dairy monopoly">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicolas Herault, Academic, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, University of Melbourne If we asked people in New Zealand what they think the best income tax reform would be, we would expect a range of responses. People will no doubt have different views about which ... <a title="How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/24/how-raising-tax-for-high-income-earners-would-reduce-inequality-improve-social-welfare-in-new-zealand-123161/" aria-label="Read more about How raising tax for high-income earners would reduce inequality, improve social welfare in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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September 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Gorman, Senior Lecturer in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University Leila Waddell (1880-1932) was a country girl from Bathurst, NSW, who entered the world stage as an acclaimed violinist – and left it having influenced magical practice into the 21st century. Her early life focused on ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/24/hidden-women-of-history-leila-waddell-australian-violinist-philosopher-of-magic-and-fearless-rebel-122402/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Leila Waddell, Australian violinist, philosopher of magic and fearless rebel">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marissa Parrott, Reproductive Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science, Zoos Victoria, and Honorary Research Associate, BioSciences, University of Melbourne Australia’s water rats, or Rakali, are one of Australia’s beautiful but lesser-known native rodents. And these intelligent, semi-aquatic rats have revealed another talent: they are one of the only ... <a title="Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/eat-your-heart-out-native-water-rats-have-worked-out-how-to-safely-eat-cane-toads-123986/" aria-label="Read more about Eat your heart out: native water rats have worked out how to safely eat cane toads">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
By Jamie Tahana of RNZ Pacific Taiwan suffered two major diplomatic blows in the Pacific this week with both the Solomon Islands and Kiribati severing their ties in favour of China. In just four days, Taiwan’s diplomatic allies fell from 17 to 15, further isolating the island as Beijing aggressively courts the handful of countries ... <a title="Taiwan’s Pacific allies dwindle as Kiribati follows Solomons’ China switch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/taiwans-pacific-allies-dwindle-as-kiribati-follows-solomons-china-switch/" aria-label="Read more about Taiwan’s Pacific allies dwindle as Kiribati follows Solomons’ China switch">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Farrell, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Griffith University If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. Where do phobias come from? – Olivia, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney. Phobias are an intense fear of very specific things like objects, places, ... <a title="Curious Kids: where do phobias come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/curious-kids-where-do-phobias-come-from-121738/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: where do phobias come from?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Rogers, Senior lecturer, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University The phrase “climate emergency” became part of the political lexicon this year. Governments at all levels made declarations of a climate emergency, as did various organisations such as the Australian Medical Association. Even the Pope ... <a title="Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/activists-are-using-the-climate-emergency-as-a-new-legal-defence-to-justify-law-breaking-122949/" aria-label="Read more about Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Luigi Spiller, Associate Professor (Urban Planning) – honorary , University of Melbourne Labor’s Rudd-era National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) has come under attack just when it might be needed. The Abbott government stopped funding new deals under the scheme in 2014, but existing arrangements continued and ... <a title="Don’t tear it down: the idea behind Labor’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/dont-tear-it-down-the-idea-behind-labors-national-rental-affordability-scheme-is-worth-saving-123519/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t tear it down: the idea behind Labor’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving">Read more</a>
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September 23, 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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Foreign affairs and trade Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern to take climate change stage in New York, but is her record strong enough? (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): PM Jacinda Ardern ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-23-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2019">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Casey, Research Associate, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University In all Australia’s capital cities, average share-house rents in the inner suburbs (where jobs are concentrated) leave people without enough money for food and other basics, new research shows. This research, for a forthcoming report by the ... <a title="City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/city-share-house-rents-eat-up-most-of-newstart-leaving-less-than-100-a-week-to-live-on-123772/" aria-label="Read more about City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Lenten, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University Tonight is the AFL’s annual night of nights, the red-carpet spectacular known as the Brownlow Medal vote count. The Brownlow is awarded to the season’s “fairest and best” player. But is the way the medal ... <a title="Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/fairest-and-best-status-counts-in-the-brownlow-medal-123858/" aria-label="Read more about Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal">Read more</a>
