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November 22, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age Sixteen-year-olds aren’t about to get the right to vote anytime soon. Despite yesterday’s Supreme Court declaration that a voting age of 18 violates the Bill of Rights, there are still many barriers to get over before the voting age could ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-high-barriers-to-lowering-the-voting-age/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The High barriers to lowering the voting age">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Munn, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Waikato GettyI mages This week’s Supreme Court judgment on lowering New Zealand’s legal voting age has, at times, been interpreted as some kind of mandate for change. That’s not quite the case, but the court’s ruling does at least ... <a title="Parliament now has to justify keeping the voting age at 18 – it’s a hard argument to make" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/parliament-now-has-to-justify-keeping-the-voting-age-at-18-its-a-hard-argument-to-make-195009/" aria-label="Read more about Parliament now has to justify keeping the voting age at 18 – it’s a hard argument to make">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute An election campaign can sometimes feel like Groundhog Day, but this Victorian election is genuinely different. While the major parties are still making plenty of transport promises, they’ve dialled them way down from the dizzy heights of 2018. ... <a title="Transport election promises are much smaller this time round in Victoria, but the quality control is no better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/transport-election-promises-are-much-smaller-this-time-round-in-victoria-but-the-quality-control-is-no-better-194740/" aria-label="Read more about Transport election promises are much smaller this time round in Victoria, but the quality control is no better">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Gleeson, Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University Global inequities in access to COVID vaccines have turned out to be a “catastrophic moral failure”, just as the World Health Organization warned they would in January 2021. Yet it took 20 months of negotiations for members ... <a title="Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/intellectual-property-waiver-for-covid-vaccines-should-be-expanded-to-include-treatments-and-tests-194918/" aria-label="Read more about Intellectual property waiver for COVID vaccines should be expanded to include treatments and tests">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aysu Kuru, Lecturer in Architecture and Construction, University of Sydney Coleen Rivas/Unsplash Almost all buildings today are built using similar conventional technologies and manufacturing and construction processes. These processes use a lot of energy and produce huge carbon emissions. This is hardly sustainable. Perhaps the only way ... <a title="What mirrored ants, vivid blue butterflies and Monstera house plants can teach us about designing buildings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/what-mirrored-ants-vivid-blue-butterflies-and-monstera-house-plants-can-teach-us-about-designing-buildings-194636/" aria-label="Read more about What mirrored ants, vivid blue butterflies and Monstera house plants can teach us about designing buildings">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edward Doddridge, Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania Shutterstock There’s a piece of gardening lore in my hometown which has been passed down for generations: never plant your tomatoes before Show Day, which, in Tasmania, is the fourth Saturday in October. If you’re foolhardy enough ... <a title="What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/what-planting-tomatoes-shows-us-about-climate-change-193830/" aria-label="Read more about What planting tomatoes shows us about climate change">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maya Gunawardena, Assistant professor, University of Canberra Matese Fields/Unsplash, CC BY-NC It is not uncommon for kids to complain about school, but studies show significant numbers of Australian students are actually disengaged with their education. A 2017 Grattan Institute report found as many as 40% are unproductive ... <a title="Personalised learning is billed as the ‘future’ of schooling: what is it and could it work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/personalised-learning-is-billed-as-the-future-of-schooling-what-is-it-and-could-it-work-194630/" aria-label="Read more about Personalised learning is billed as the ‘future’ of schooling: what is it and could it work?">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Signe Dean, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation Greg Shirah/NASA Scientific Visualisation Studio This year, Australia’s prestigious Prime Minister’s Prize for Science has been awarded to a physical oceanographer whose work has had a “transformative impact” on our understanding of Earth’s oceans. Professor Trevor McDougall AC from ... <a title="Groundbreaking studies of Earth’s churning oceans recognised at Australia’s most prestigious science prizes this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/22/groundbreaking-studies-of-earths-churning-oceans-recognised-at-australias-most-prestigious-science-prizes-this-year-195015/" aria-label="Read more about Groundbreaking studies of Earth’s churning oceans recognised at Australia’s most prestigious science prizes this year">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University By rights, Victorians marking their ballot papers in the 2022 election this week should be casting judgment on the unprecedented emergency powers enforced during the COVID-19 crisis, while also evaluating the health, education and economic policies put forward ... <a title="Victorian Liberals embarrassed by extremists within: how does this keep happening?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/21/victorian-liberals-embarrassed-by-extremists-within-how-does-this-keep-happening-194984/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian Liberals embarrassed by extremists within: how does this keep happening?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Jackson, Visiting Scholar, Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge Shutterstock With Brisbane to host the 2032 Olympic Games, Queensland is accelerating “smart” and “green” infrastructure projects right across the coast from Coolangatta to Coolum. So what practical steps is the state government taking to bring Brisbane ... <a title="Queensland’s high-tech plan to make the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games smarter and greener" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/21/queenslands-high-tech-plan-to-make-the-2032-brisbane-olympic-games-smarter-and-greener-193949/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland’s high-tech plan to make the 2032 Brisbane Olympic Games smarter and greener">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriella Edelstein, Lecturer in English, University of Newcastle Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre Company Review: The Tempest, directed by Kip Williams, Sydney Theatre Company. The Tempest, first performed in 1611 and probably Shakespeare’s last solo-written play before his late collaborations with John Fletcher, used to be read as the ... <a title="We’ve been editing Shakespeare’s plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/21/weve-been-editing-shakespeares-plays-for-400-years-but-does-a-new-australian-production-of-the-tempest-idealise-the-bard-194635/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve been editing Shakespeare’s plays for 400 years – but does a new Australian production of The Tempest idealise the Bard?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darryl Veitch, Professor of Computer Networking, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Meeting in Versailles, France, on Friday, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has called time-out on “leap seconds” – the little jumps occasionally added to clocks running on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), to keep ... <a title="It’s time-out for leap seconds: an expert explains why the tiny clock adjustments will be paused from 2035" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/11/21/its-time-out-for-leap-seconds-an-expert-explains-why-the-tiny-clock-adjustments-will-be-paused-from-2035-194922/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time-out for leap seconds: an expert explains why the tiny clock adjustments will be paused from 2035">Read more</a>
