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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abishek Santhakumar, Senior Lecturer in Haematology, Charles Sturt University How and why do we get bruises? – Francesca, aged 8. Hi Francesca, thanks for sending in this great question. If you fall off your bike or knock yourself on the coffee table at home, you might notice ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do we get bruises?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/curious-kids-why-do-we-get-bruises-127994/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do we get bruises?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan R. Witt, Conjoint Lecturer | Conservation Biology Research Group, University of Newcastle Thousands of koalas may have died in fires burning through New South Wales but expert evidence to a state parliamentary inquiry on Monday said we are unlikely to ever know the real numbers. Unprecedented ... <a title="To save koalas from fire, we need to start putting their genetic material on ice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/to-save-koalas-from-fire-we-need-to-start-putting-their-genetic-material-on-ice-128049/" aria-label="Read more about To save koalas from fire, we need to start putting their genetic material on ice">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
I have written elsewhere (see reference list below) about the important principles that suggest all enfranchised residents should receive a share of public income, and how the realisation of this is essentially a matter of reformed public accounting. Here I just consider two typical New Zealanders of different generations, and two policy options. And no ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/keith-rankins-chart-analysis-universal-dividends-and-universal-superannuation/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart Analysis – Universal Dividends and Universal Superannuation">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Warner, Australian Catholic University Last week Britain’s Turner Prize for visual art was announced. For the first time, the award went to a collective instead of the usual singular winner. The four finalists – Helen Cammock, Oscar Murillo, Tai Shani and Lawrence Abu Hamden – came ... <a title="(Almost) everyone’s a winner? Art is meant to break rules and prizes must adapt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/almost-everyones-a-winner-art-is-meant-to-break-rules-and-prizes-must-adapt-128461/" aria-label="Read more about (Almost) everyone’s a winner? Art is meant to break rules and prizes must adapt">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Genna Churches, PhD Candidate, UNSW After watching this year’s media raids and the prosecution of lawyers and whistleblowers, it’s not hard to see why Australians wonder about excessive police power and dwindling journalistic freedom. But these problems are compounded by another, less known issue: police, and other ... <a title="Unlawful metadata access is easy when we’re flogging a dead law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/unlawful-metadata-access-is-easy-when-were-flogging-a-dead-law-127621/" aria-label="Read more about Unlawful metadata access is easy when we’re flogging a dead law">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland The Morrison government’s waiving of almost A$500 million in dodgy vocational education and training debts holds many lessons about the nature of education and public services being provided by for-profit enterprises. The debts were collected by about ... <a title="Why the profit motive fails in education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/why-the-profit-motive-fails-in-education-128091/" aria-label="Read more about Why the profit motive fails in education">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Celine Boehm, Head of School for Physics, University of Sydney A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at the existence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The team first reported finding traces of the particle in 2016, and they now report more ... <a title="The X17 factor: a particle new to physics might solve the dark matter mystery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/the-x17-factor-a-particle-new-to-physics-might-solve-the-dark-matter-mystery-127987/" aria-label="Read more about The X17 factor: a particle new to physics might solve the dark matter mystery">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Connell, Research Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When farmers descended on Parliament House in Canberra this month to demand the Murray Darling Basin Plan be dumped, they reserved sharp words for Nationals leader Michael McCormack. “The National Party is not going to ... <a title="The water crisis has plunged the Nats into a world of pain. But they reap what they sow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/the-water-crisis-has-plunged-the-nats-into-a-world-of-pain-but-they-reap-what-they-sow-128238/" aria-label="Read more about The water crisis has plunged the Nats into a world of pain. But they reap what they sow">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Jacinda Ardern speaks about deadly Whakaari / White Island eruption RNZ: Live: Whakaari / White Island eruption – day 2 Zane Small (Newshub): ‘A significant issue’: Jacinda Ardern fronts on ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-10-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 10 2019">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jean-Philippe Deranty, Professor, Macquarie University Hardly a week goes by without a report announcing the end of work as we know it. In 2013, Oxford University academics Carl Frey and Michael Osborne were the first to capture this anxiety in a paper titled: “The Future of Employment: ... <a title="Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/work-is-a-fundamental-part-of-being-human-robots-wont-stop-us-doing-it-127925/" aria-label="Read more about Work is a fundamental part of being human. Robots won’t stop us doing it">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University 2019 may well go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the subsequent implosion of the former Soviet Union. However, the likelihood is that 2020 ... <a title="2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/2019-was-a-year-of-global-unrest-spurred-by-anger-at-rising-inequality-and-2020-is-likely-to-be-worse-128384/" aria-label="Read more about 2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Asha Bowen, Head, Skin Health, Telethon Kids Institute Antibiotic-resistant infections already cause at least 700,000 deaths globally every year. Although the phenomenon is most concerning for serious infections people are admitted to hospital with, antibiotic resistance means common bacterial infections could one day be impossible to treat. ... <a title="Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/antibiotic-resistance-is-an-even-greater-challenge-in-remote-indigenous-communities-121696/" aria-label="Read more about Antibiotic resistance is an even greater challenge in remote Indigenous communities">Read more</a>
