CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: National’s unsatisfactory exoneration of Sam Uffindell It’s hard to have confidence in the National Party’s supposed exoneration of MP Sam Uffindell over allegations of ethical violations as an adult. The party’s processes have been far too opaque, which means there will always be a cloud over the integrity and ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s unsatisfactory exoneration of Sam Uffindell" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-unsatisfactory-exoneration-of-sam-uffindell/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s unsatisfactory exoneration of Sam Uffindell">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hayley Cullen, Associate lecturer, University of Newcastle In 2000, 18-year-old Baltimore man Adnan Syed was convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999. Syed was sentenced to life in prison and served close to 23 years in prison for the crime. That was until this ... <a title="‘Serial’ podcast’s Adnan Syed has murder conviction vacated. How common are wrongful convictions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/serial-podcasts-adnan-syed-has-murder-conviction-vacated-how-common-are-wrongful-convictions-190968/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Serial’ podcast’s Adnan Syed has murder conviction vacated. How common are wrongful convictions?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Francke, Research Fellow, University of Adelaide Lake Couridjah, Thirlmere Lakes National Park in New South Wales Shutterstock Plants capture around half the carbon we emit by burning fossil fuels, making them a crucial part of mitigating climate change. But carbon is often released back into the ... <a title="We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/we-helped-fill-a-major-climate-change-knowledge-gap-thanks-to-130-000-year-old-sediment-in-sydney-lakes-187784/" aria-label="Read more about We helped fill a major climate change knowledge gap, thanks to 130,000-year-old sediment in Sydney lakes">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cynthia Sear, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne As we have seen from coverage of “The Queue” – capitalised and thus now, apparently, a proper noun – the English are proud of their queuing prowess. The Queue for the queen lying in state is portrayed as testament ... <a title="‘An obsession with order, hierarchy, and one’s place within it’: what The Queue says about Englishness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/an-obsession-with-order-hierarchy-and-ones-place-within-it-what-the-queue-says-about-englishness-191059/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An obsession with order, hierarchy, and one’s place within it’: what The Queue says about Englishness">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dana Wong, Associate Professor & Clinical Neuropsychologist, La Trobe University Shutterstock Almost 50% of Australians experience mental illness in their lifetime, costing our economy up to A$220 billion annually, according to pre-pandemic figures. The full impact of the pandemic on our nation’s mental health is still emerging, ... <a title="We can’t solve Australia’s mental health emergency if we don’t train enough psychologists. Here are 5 fixes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/we-cant-solve-australias-mental-health-emergency-if-we-dont-train-enough-psychologists-here-are-5-fixes-190135/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t solve Australia’s mental health emergency if we don’t train enough psychologists. Here are 5 fixes">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images With local body elections currently under way, democracy makes its triennial appearance in New Zealand’s towns and cities once again. But elections alone don’t automatically make for democratic governance at street level. And ... <a title="Remote control: why Auckland’s local election is neither local nor democratic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/remote-control-why-aucklands-local-election-is-neither-local-nor-democratic-190837/" aria-label="Read more about Remote control: why Auckland’s local election is neither local nor democratic">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Dylan River/SBS First Nations people please be advised this article mentions colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Australian Wars is a new three-part TV series directed and produced by Arrernte ... <a title="In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins dispenses with the myth Aboriginal people didn’t fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/in-the-australian-wars-rachel-perkins-dispenses-with-the-myth-aboriginal-people-didnt-fight-back-190967/" aria-label="Read more about In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins dispenses with the myth Aboriginal people didn’t fight back">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Dylan River/SBS First Nations people please be advised this article mentions colonial violence towards Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The Australian Wars is a new three-part TV series directed and produced by Arrernte ... <a title="In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins dispenses the myth Aboriginal people didn’t fight back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/in-the-australian-wars-rachel-perkins-dispenses-the-myth-aboriginal-people-didnt-fight-back-190967/" aria-label="Read more about In The Australian Wars, Rachel Perkins dispenses the myth Aboriginal people didn’t fight back">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Harvey-Smith, Australian Government Women in STEM Ambassador, Professor, UNSW Sydney ThisisEngineering RAEng/Unsplash Today, the Australian government released the STEM Equity Monitor 2022 – the nation’s annual scorecard on gendered participation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and careers. These data are more relevant than ... <a title="More women are studying STEM, but there are still stubborn workplace barriers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/more-women-are-studying-stem-but-there-are-still-stubborn-workplace-barriers-190839/" aria-label="Read more about More women are studying STEM, but there are still stubborn workplace barriers">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW, UNSW Sydney Unsplash, CC BY-SA A little-known provision of the Privacy Act makes it illegal for many companies in Australia to buy or exchange consumers’ personal data for profiling or targeting purposes. It’s almost never enforced. In ... <a title="This law makes it illegal for companies to collect third-party data to profile you. But they do anyway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/this-law-makes-it-illegal-for-companies-to-collect-third-party-data-to-profile-you-but-they-do-anyway-190758/" aria-label="Read more about This law makes it illegal for companies to collect third-party data to profile you. But they do anyway">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katy Bell, Associate Professor in Clinical Epidemiology, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney original Last week, actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney released a video of themselves getting colonoscopies to encourage others to undergo screening. The procedure detected polyps in the two men, both aged ... <a title="Actor Ryan Reynolds has urged 45 year olds to screen for bowel cancer. But the case for screening in your 40s isn’t clear cut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/actor-ryan-reynolds-has-urged-45-year-olds-to-screen-for-bowel-cancer-but-the-case-for-screening-in-your-40s-isnt-clear-cut-190409/" aria-label="Read more about Actor Ryan Reynolds has urged 45 year olds to screen for bowel cancer. But the case for screening in your 40s isn’t clear cut">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
September 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicky Morrison, Professor of Planning and Director of Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University More and more farming land is being lost to other land uses such as housing on the outskirts of our cities. But how much land is being lost? And why does it ... <a title="Half of Western Sydney foodbowl land may have been lost to development in just 10 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/half-of-western-sydney-foodbowl-land-may-have-been-lost-to-development-in-just-10-years-190148/" aria-label="Read more about Half of Western Sydney foodbowl land may have been lost to development in just 10 years">Read more</a>
