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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stan Karanasios, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University This week saw the closure of Google+, an attempt by the online giant to create a social media community to rival Facebook. If the Australian usage of Google+ is anything to go by – just 45,000 users in March compared ... <a title="Goodbye Google+, but what happens when online communities close down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/goodbye-google-but-what-happens-when-online-communities-close-down-114729/" aria-label="Read more about Goodbye Google+, but what happens when online communities close down?">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Environmental news is rarely good. But even by those low standards, 2018 was especially bad. That is the main conclusion from Australia’s Environment in 2018, the latest in an annual ... <a title="Australia’s 2018 environmental scorecard: a dreadful year that demands action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/australias-2018-environmental-scorecard-a-dreadful-year-that-demands-action-114760/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s 2018 environmental scorecard: a dreadful year that demands action">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Morgan Pratchett, Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University The severe and repeated bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef has not only damaged corals, it has reduced the reef’s ability to recover. Our research, published today in Nature, found far fewer baby ... <a title="Coral reproduction on the Great Barrier Reef falls 89% after repeated bleaching" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/coral-reproduction-on-the-great-barrier-reef-falls-89-after-repeated-bleaching-114761/" aria-label="Read more about Coral reproduction on the Great Barrier Reef falls 89% after repeated bleaching">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Tanton, Professor, Institute for Governance & Policy Analysis, University of Canberra The Morrison government’s pre-election budget has not been the bonanza some predicted. It is a fairly modest affair. But calculations by the the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, based at the University of ... <a title="NATSEM: federal budget will widen gap between rich and poor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/natsem-federal-budget-will-widen-gap-between-rich-and-poor-114728/" aria-label="Read more about NATSEM: federal budget will widen gap between rich and poor">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katinka van de Ven, Research Fellow, Drug Policy Modelling Program, SPRC, UNSW Physical activity feels good and it’s great for your health. It can reduce your risk of developing chronic conditions like type 2 diabetes, strengthen your bones, muscles and joints, and can even help with certain ... <a title="Do you plan your life around your fitness schedule? You could be addicted to exercise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/do-you-plan-your-life-around-your-fitness-schedule-you-could-be-addicted-to-exercise-112509/" aria-label="Read more about Do you plan your life around your fitness schedule? You could be addicted to exercise">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Jackson, Education Policy Lead, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University One of the more elusive goals of education research is answering the question: what makes one school perform better than another? The evidence base is growing, but so far the answer is: it depends. School success depends on ... <a title="What makes a school good? It’s about more than just test results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/what-makes-a-school-good-its-about-more-than-just-test-results-114372/" aria-label="Read more about What makes a school good? It’s about more than just test results">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Townson, Senior Designer, Chair in Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology You’re smiling as your e-scooter whispers along the riverside path. Without the helmet, the wind can blow through your hair – and it looks good! You hear a shout, “Pull over!”, and turn to see ... <a title="Helmet churn adds to challenges of e-scooter disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/helmet-churn-adds-to-challenges-of-e-scooter-disruption-113754/" aria-label="Read more about Helmet churn adds to challenges of e-scooter disruption">Read more</a>
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April 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathomi Gatwiri, Lecturer, Southern Cross University Review: Growing Up African in Australia, edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf For many African-diaspora people in Australia, belonging means masking yourself. To fit in is to curate one’s Africanness and one’s blackness. You teach yourself to ... <a title="Growing Up African in Australia: racism, resilience and the right to belong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/04/growing-up-african-in-australia-racism-resilience-and-the-right-to-belong-113121/" aria-label="Read more about Growing Up African in Australia: racism, resilience and the right to belong">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Shadow Finance minister Jim Chalmers said Labor was looking for ways to make things fairer for low-income earners who were “largely left behind” in the government’s budget. He told The Conversation the measures “would be through the tax system and ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on Labor’s budget reaction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/03/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-labors-budget-reaction-114830/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on Labor’s budget reaction">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne It says something about the place of the arts in Australian public life that a federal budget speech delivered on the eve of an election chooses not to mention them. Agriculture gets a mention. Culture, however, doesn’t. If The ... <a title="Missing in action: a vision for the arts in the 2019 budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/03/missing-in-action-a-vision-for-the-arts-in-the-2019-budget-114816/" aria-label="Read more about Missing in action: a vision for the arts in the 2019 budget">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne The ABC board comes out badly from the report of the Senate inquiry into political interference in the ABC, which culminated last September in the sacking of the managing director, Michelle Guthrie, and ... <a title="ABC inquiry finds board knew of trouble between Milne and Guthrie, but did nothing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/03/abc-inquiry-finds-board-knew-of-trouble-between-milne-and-guthrie-but-did-nothing-114752/" aria-label="Read more about ABC inquiry finds board knew of trouble between Milne and Guthrie, but did nothing">Read more</a>
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April 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Courtney Hempton, PhD Candidate, Monash University The Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic) comes into effect on June 19, making Victoria the first state in Australia to allow “voluntary assisted dying”. The legislation was passed in November 2017 following the recommendations of a state parliamentary inquiry into ... <a title="Voluntary assisted dying will soon be legal in Victoria, and this is what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/03/voluntary-assisted-dying-will-soon-be-legal-in-victoria-and-this-is-what-you-need-to-know-111836/" aria-label="Read more about Voluntary assisted dying will soon be legal in Victoria, and this is what you need to know">Read more</a>
