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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McDonald, Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne Australia’s population is among the fastest growing in the OECD with an increase of 1.7 per cent in 2016-17. In Sydney and Melbourne traffic congestion has become so intolerable many believe a cut to migration ... <a title="Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/why-cutting-australias-migrant-intake-would-do-more-harm-than-good-at-least-for-the-next-decade-108748/" aria-label="Read more about Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Clark, PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland We’re in for a pre-Christmas treat this weekend, as the cosmos entertains us with two equally exciting gifts: the Geminid meteor shower and the interplanetary comet 46P/Wirtanen. The Geminids are actually an annual event. But the comet is a ... <a title="We have a Christmas comet: how to spot 2018’s interplanetary bauble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/we-have-a-christmas-comet-how-to-spot-2018s-interplanetary-bauble-108597/" aria-label="Read more about We have a Christmas comet: how to spot 2018’s interplanetary bauble">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government will introduce a Religious Discrimination Act to protect the rights of people of faith, with Scott Morrison declaring he would like the legislation passed before the election. Announcing the government’s long-awaited response to the Ruddock inquiry into religious ... <a title="Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/morrison-wants-religious-discrimination-act-passed-before-election-108755/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
ANALYSIS: By Professor Derrick Armstrong A traditional view of the tension between research and policy suggests that researchers are poor at communicating their research findings to policy-makers in clear and unambiguous ways. I am arguing that this is an outdated view of the relationship between research and policy. Science, including social science, and policy come ... <a title="Pacific ‘smart’ thinking grows creative tension between policy and research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/pacific-smart-thinking-grows-creative-tension-between-policy-and-research/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific ‘smart’ thinking grows creative tension between policy and research">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Adams, Isotope Bioarchaeologist Research Fellow, Griffith University The poor health conditions of eight young Aboriginal people who died around the time of early European colonisation have been revealed in their skeletal remains, according to a new study. The bones provide evidence of the displacement of Indigenous ... <a title="Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/poor-health-in-aboriginal-children-after-european-colonisation-revealed-in-their-skeletal-remains-106616/" aria-label="Read more about Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rayner Thwaites, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Last month, the federal government introduced a bill into parliament that, if passed, will make it easier to strip an Australian of citizenship by: making lesser offences a trigger for deprivation dropping the requirement that, to trigger ... <a title="How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/how-a-proposed-new-bill-would-make-it-easier-to-strip-australian-citizenship-108072/" aria-label="Read more about How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Tiller, Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser – Public Health Genomics, Monash University A woman recently sued a London hospital for doctors not disclosing that her father had the genetic mutation that causes Huntington disease – a neurodegenerative disorder. The woman was pregnant at the time. She ... <a title="Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/can-and-should-a-doctor-tell-my-biological-relative-my-genetic-results-without-my-consent-108165/" aria-label="Read more about Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Pezzey, Senior Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University As delegates at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, discuss the possibility of restraining global warming to 1.5℃, it might sound like a reasonable question to ask how much money it will cost ... <a title="We can’t know the future cost of climate change. Let’s focus on the cost of avoiding it instead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/we-cant-know-the-future-cost-of-climate-change-lets-focus-on-the-cost-of-avoiding-it-instead-108051/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t know the future cost of climate change. Let’s focus on the cost of avoiding it instead">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Wintle, Professor Conservation Ecology, University of Melbourne It may not look like a pristine expanse of Amazon rainforest or an African savannah, but the patch of bush at the end of the street could be one of the only places on the planet that harbour a ... <a title="The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/the-small-patch-of-bush-over-your-back-fence-might-be-key-to-a-species-survival-108672/" aria-label="Read more about The small patch of bush over your back fence might be key to a species’ survival">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Harcourt, J.W. Nevile Fellow in Economics, UNSW It has been called “the Kylie effect”, after one of Australia’s most famous exports. It is the path taken by Australians wanting to crack the big time in Britain. Long before pop princess Kylie Minogue hit the stage, indeed, ... <a title="Australia’s Brexit strategy: a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/australias-brexit-strategy-a-little-less-britpopulism-a-little-more-eurovision-please-108587/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Brexit strategy: a little less Britpopulism, a little more Eurovision please">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Phillips, Associate Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Director, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Australian National University It would be unlikely if our current welfare system gave us the best possible value for the A$120 billion we hand out in benefits each year. For ... <a title="Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/cut-the-pension-boost-newstart-what-our-algorithm-says-is-the-best-way-to-get-value-for-our-welfare-dollars-108417/" aria-label="Read more about Cut the pension, boost Newstart. What our algorithm says is the best way to get value for our welfare dollars">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Lilley, Professor in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, The University of Queensland Journalist Stan Grant once compared our Indigenous cultural heritage to the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. Ironically, though Grant pointed to the Lake Mungo site in the Willandra Lakes as an example, Aboriginal people are ... <a title="Australia’s problem with Aboriginal World Heritage" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/australias-problem-with-aboriginal-world-heritage-82912/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s problem with Aboriginal World Heritage">Read more</a>
