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January 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Ellerton, Lecturer in Critical Thinking; Curriculum Director, UQ Critical Thinking Project, The University of Queensland Few people doubt the value of developing students’ thinking skills. A 2013 survey in the United States found 93% of employers believe a candidate’s demonstrated capacity to think critically, communicate clearly, ... <a title="Thinking about thinking helps kids learn. How can we teach critical thinking?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/28/thinking-about-thinking-helps-kids-learn-how-can-we-teach-critical-thinking-129795/" aria-label="Read more about Thinking about thinking helps kids learn. How can we teach critical thinking?">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University A key question facing us all after Australia’s unprecedented bushfires is how will we do reconstruction differently? We need to ensure our rebuilding and recovery efforts make us safer, protect our environment and improve our ... <a title="Rebuilding from the ashes of disaster: this is what Australia can learn from India" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/28/rebuilding-from-the-ashes-of-disaster-this-is-what-australia-can-learn-from-india-130385/" aria-label="Read more about Rebuilding from the ashes of disaster: this is what Australia can learn from India">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University 2020 is shaping up as a dismal year for the economy, with no progress on many of the key measures that matter for Australians. Unemployment will stay above 5% and probably rise rather than fall. ... <a title="2020 survey: no lift in wage growth, no lift in economic growth and no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/28/2020-survey-no-lift-in-wage-growth-no-lift-in-economic-growth-and-no-progress-on-unemployment-in-year-of-low-expectations-130289/" aria-label="Read more about 2020 survey: no lift in wage growth, no lift in economic growth and no progress on unemployment in year of low expectations">Read more</a>
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January 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah McCann, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne What happens when people visit beauty and hair salons? Are trips to the salon simply about shaping how one looks on the outside, or can these spaces involve something deeper? Research shows that beyond “beauty”, salons can be ... <a title="More than skin deep, beauty salons are places of sharing and caring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/28/more-than-skin-deep-beauty-salons-are-places-of-sharing-and-caring-127006/" aria-label="Read more about More than skin deep, beauty salons are places of sharing and caring">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger S. Seymour, Professor Emeritus of Physiology, University of Adelaide How did human intelligence evolve? Anthropologists have studied this question for decades by looking at tools found in archaeological digs, evidence of the use of fire and so on, and changes in brain size measured from fossil ... <a title="How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/27/how-smart-were-our-ancestors-turns-out-the-answer-isnt-in-brain-size-but-blood-flow-130387/" aria-label="Read more about How smart were our ancestors? Turns out the answer isn’t in brain size, but blood flow">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Nicholson, Associate Lecturer and Co-director of the Sydney Centre for International Law, University of Sydney Should we remember January 26 1788 as “Invasion Day”? The colonisation of Australia was an invasion from an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspective. But critics of the name “Invasion Day” ... <a title="Yes, this continent was invaded in 1788 – an international law expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/27/yes-this-continent-was-invaded-in-1788-an-international-law-expert-explains-130462/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, this continent was invaded in 1788 – an international law expert explains">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Barratt, Professor of Public Health, University of Sydney Almost one in four cancers detected in men were overdiagnosed in 2012, according to our new research, published today in the Medical Journal of Australia. In the same year, we found that approximately one in five cancers in ... <a title="29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/27/29-000-cancers-overdiagnosed-in-australia-in-a-single-year-127791/" aria-label="Read more about 29,000 cancers overdiagnosed in Australia in a single year">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ellen Heyting, PhD student in Education and Head of Years 11 and 12, Monash University It started as a New Year’s resolution driven by guilt and a touch of sibling rivalry – but by the end of the year, it taught me valuable lessons as a teacher, ... <a title="How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/27/how-a-year-of-trying-to-buy-nothing-made-me-a-smarter-shopper-and-a-better-teacher-128624/" aria-label="Read more about How a year of trying to buy nothing made me a smarter shopper and a better teacher">Read more</a>
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January 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Williams, Lecturer, Flinders University Every author is asked by new writers for advice. There is, however, no all-encompassing, single answer that also happens to be correct. Quite a lot of commonly offered suggestions (“write every day”) don’t work for everyone and must be approached with caution. ... <a title="10½ commandments of writing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/27/10-commandments-of-writing-129069/" aria-label="Read more about 10½ commandments of writing">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
Pacific Media Watch An American environmental journalist accused of violating the terms of his visa has been freed after three days in jail and is likely to be deported soon, a top Indonesian government minister said, reports The New York Times. The journalist, Philip Jacobson, 30, who works for the nonprofit news site Mongabay and ... <a title="Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/indonesia-releases-us-mongabay-journalist-held-on-visa-charge/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia releases US Mongabay journalist held on visa charge">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
By Mata’afa Keni Lesa in Apia Prime Minister Tuilaepa Dr Sa’ilele Malielegaoi has attacked the Samoa Observer, accusing the nation’s only daily newspaper of being “nosy,” spreading “lies” and employing “kids” whose writing, he says, are misleading the public. Tuilaepa issued his attack in response to the Samoa Observer’s coverage of the Legislative Assembly’s decision ... <a title="Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/samoan-pm-tuilaepa-attacks-observer-over-criticism-of-media-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan PM Tuilaepa attacks Observer over criticism of media ban">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University New South Wales Health has confirmed three men in their 30s, 40s and 50s in Sydney have tested positive to the new Wuhan coronavirus after returning from China. This follows Australia’s first case of the ... <a title="The Wuhan coronavirus is now in Australia – here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/26/the-wuhan-coronavirus-is-now-in-australia-heres-what-you-need-to-know-130580/" aria-label="Read more about The Wuhan coronavirus is now in Australia – here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
