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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Haverd, Principal research scientist, CSIRO The alarming rate of carbon dioxide flowing into our atmosphere is affecting plant life in interesting ways – but perhaps not in the way you’d expect. Despite large losses of vegetation to land clearing, drought and wildfires, carbon dioxide is absorbed ... <a title="Yes, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps plants grow, but it’s no excuse to downplay climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/yes-more-carbon-dioxide-in-the-atmosphere-helps-plants-grow-but-its-no-excuse-to-downplay-climate-change-130603/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere helps plants grow, but it’s no excuse to downplay climate change">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosalie Gillett, Research Associate in Digital Platform Regulation, Queensland University of Technology The dating app Tinder has faced increasing scrutiny over abusive interactions on the service. In November 2019, an Auckland man was convicted of murdering British woman Grace Millane after they met on Tinder. Incidents such ... <a title="Tinder’s new safety features won’t prevent all types of abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/tinders-new-safety-features-wont-prevent-all-types-of-abuse-131375/" aria-label="Read more about Tinder’s new safety features won’t prevent all types of abuse">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Assistant Professor, School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra In 2017, Toni Watson was busking on the streets of Byron Bay. A couple of years later, using the moniker Tones and I, her song about that experience would become the world’s most played ... <a title="BTS are winning hearts the world over – but we are still wary of language diversity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/bts-are-winning-hearts-the-world-over-but-we-are-still-wary-of-language-diversity-130133/" aria-label="Read more about BTS are winning hearts the world over – but we are still wary of language diversity">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Robinson, Research Fellow/Hospitality Management, The University of Queensland The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage-theft scandal, with the high-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Melbourne allegedly underpaying its staff by A$4 million, is the tip of the iceberg for wage exploitation in the hospitality industry. Blumenthal joins a ... <a title="All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry norm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/all-these-celebrity-restaurant-wage-theft-scandals-point-to-an-industry-norm-131286/" aria-label="Read more about All these celebrity restaurant wage-theft scandals point to an industry norm">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
It is very telling that the biggest conflict around Waitangi Day this year was over whether National Party leader Simon Bridges should have given an overtly political speech on the Treaty Grounds on Tuesday. Regardless of the rights or wrongs of this, it illustrated how little conflict there was, but also just how depoliticised the ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The new depoliticised mood of Waitangi Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-new-depoliticised-mood-of-waitangi-day/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The new depoliticised mood of Waitangi Day">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
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 Newshub-Reid Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): National and Labour neck-and-neck in new Newshub-Reid Research poll Jenna Lynch (Newshub): National-New Zealand First voters want parties to work together, Newshub-Reid Research poll shows Tova O’Brien ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 10 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-10-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 10 2020">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gail Broadbent, PhD candidate Faculty of Science UNSW, UNSW A total of 6718 electric vehicles were sold in Australia in 2019. That’s three times as many as in 2018, but it’s still small beer. More than a million fossil-fueled light vehicles (including SUVs and utes) were sold ... <a title="Electric car sales tripled last year. Here’s what we can do to keep them growing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/electric-car-sales-tripled-last-year-heres-what-we-can-do-to-keep-them-growing-131372/" aria-label="Read more about Electric car sales tripled last year. Here’s what we can do to keep them growing">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Rice, Professor of Law; Director of Professional and Community Engagement, University of Sydney Submissions on the second version Christian Porter’s religious discrimination bill are closed, and we await the verdict. The first version of the bill was widely criticised for going too far, or not far ... <a title="Government’s religious discrimination bill enshrines the right to harm others in the name of faith" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/governments-religious-discrimination-bill-enshrines-the-right-to-harm-others-in-the-name-of-faith-131206/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s religious discrimination bill enshrines the right to harm others in the name of faith">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mia Schaumberg, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, School of Health and Sport Sciences, University of the Sunshine Coast A tweet saying ibuprofen reduces menstrual flow by 50% went viral last month. The original tweet and ensuing responses fuelled a debate about society’s supposed unwillingness to talk about periods. ... <a title="Ibuprofen might make your periods lighter, but it’s not a long-term solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/ibuprofen-might-make-your-periods-lighter-but-its-not-a-long-term-solution-130885/" aria-label="Read more about Ibuprofen might make your periods lighter, but it’s not a long-term solution">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Australia must do better in school education. Following our worst ever results in international tests last year, politicians are keen to act, and quickly. But Australia has had any number of educational reforms over the past few decades, and ... <a title="Making better use of Australia’s top teachers will improve student outcomes: here’s how to do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/making-better-use-of-australias-top-teachers-will-improve-student-outcomes-heres-how-to-do-it-131297/" aria-label="Read more about Making better use of Australia’s top teachers will improve student outcomes: here’s how to do it">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney The private rental sector has expanded at more than twice the rate of the increase in Australian households in the last two decades. This increasingly diverse form of tenure now houses about one in four of us. Australia’s lightly ... <a title="‘I wouldn’t want to buy even if I had the money.’ The rise of renters by choice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/i-wouldnt-want-to-buy-even-if-i-had-the-money-the-rise-of-renters-by-choice-130696/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I wouldn’t want to buy even if I had the money.’ The rise of renters by choice">Read more</a>
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February 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Gruen, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney We think of Gough Whitlam’s 1972-1975 government as the most radical in our postwar history, dedicated to its leader’s “crash through or crash” style. (In the end, he crashed.) But Whitlam’s approach to Australian honours was bold ... <a title="Whitlam didn’t really end our old honours system. We’re still handing Orders of Australia to the wrong people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/10/whitlam-didnt-really-end-our-old-honours-system-were-still-handing-orders-of-australia-to-the-wrong-people-130800/" aria-label="Read more about Whitlam didn’t really end our old honours system. We’re still handing Orders of Australia to the wrong people">Read more</a>
