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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Chinna, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, University of Western Australia Review: Speechless, Perth Festival Speechless is the new opera by award-winning composer Cat Hope, co-commissioned by the Perth Festival and Tura New Music. This is Hope’s powerful response to the Australian Human Rights Commission’s 2014 report into ... <a title="The sounds of Speechless, where words are superfluous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/the-sounds-of-speechless-where-words-are-superfluous-112760/" aria-label="Read more about The sounds of Speechless, where words are superfluous">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation; Co-Director, Australian Intervention Support Hub, Deakin University This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 ... <a title="National security is too important to be abandoned to the politics of fear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/national-security-is-too-important-to-be-abandoned-to-the-politics-of-fear-110897/" aria-label="Read more about National security is too important to be abandoned to the politics of fear">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Hansen, Chief of Staff, The Conversation Vegetarianism is on the rise in Australia, as many vegetarians will gladly tell you. While many people who eschew meat products do so for the sake of animals and the environment, we’re starting to learn more about the negative health ... <a title="We asked five experts: is vegetarianism healthier?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/we-asked-five-experts-is-vegetarianism-healthier-112133/" aria-label="Read more about We asked five experts: is vegetarianism healthier?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Skarbek, CEO at ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series here. Strong ... <a title="We can be a carbon-neutral nation by 2050, if we just get on with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/we-can-be-a-carbon-neutral-nation-by-2050-if-we-just-get-on-with-it-111628/" aria-label="Read more about We can be a carbon-neutral nation by 2050, if we just get on with it">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aurelie Moya, Research Fellow, James Cook University Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do shells get made?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/curious-kids-how-do-shells-get-made-111072/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do shells get made?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cecilia Bischeri, Lecturer in Architecture, Griffith University A flood-ravaged Townsville has captured public attention, highlighting the vulnerability of many of our cities to flooding. The extraordinary amount of rain is just one aspect of the disaster in Queensland’s third-biggest city. The flooding, increasing urban density, the management ... <a title="Townsville floods show cities that don’t adapt to risks face disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/townsville-floods-show-cities-that-dont-adapt-to-risks-face-disaster-112607/" aria-label="Read more about Townsville floods show cities that don’t adapt to risks face disaster">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Maak, Director, Centre for Workplace Leadership, University of Melbourne After months of debate, the Australian Securities Exchange last week dumped a proposal to include reference to a “social licence to operate” in its updated Corporate Governance Guidelines. It was wrong to do so. The new guidelines, ... <a title="The ASX abandons push to require companies to have a social licence to operate. Was it only ever ‘politically correct nonsense’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/the-asx-abandons-push-to-require-companies-to-have-a-social-licence-to-operate-was-it-only-ever-politically-correct-nonsense-112840/" aria-label="Read more about The ASX abandons push to require companies to have a social licence to operate. Was it only ever ‘politically correct nonsense’?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Mazza, Senior Lecturer in Creative Arts, Edith Cowan University Kangaroos are the most visible of Australia’s unique animals, but despite their charm and national icon status, Australian writers perpetually kill them off. A kangaroo appears struggling in a rabbit trap, doomed and dying in Charlotte Wood’s ... <a title="Why are Australian authors obsessed with killing off kangaroos?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/04/why-are-australian-authors-obsessed-with-killing-off-kangaroos-111735/" aria-label="Read more about Why are Australian authors obsessed with killing off kangaroos?">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Standish, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Murdoch University Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian. Firewood banksia is rugged and yet stunning. Short, stout and gnarled, it is often ignored by tree ... <a title="The firewood banksia is bursting with beauty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/02/the-firewood-banksia-is-bursting-with-beauty-112696/" aria-label="Read more about The firewood banksia is bursting with beauty">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss Scott Morrison’s attempt to burnish the Coalition’s climate change credentials; focus group research into the independent push in Tony Abbott’s seat ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Morrison’s climate pitch to voters and Warringah votes research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/01/video-michelle-grattan-on-morrisons-climate-pitch-to-voters-and-warringah-votes-research-112773/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Morrison’s climate pitch to voters and Warringah votes research">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss Scott Morrison’s attempt to burnish the Coalition’s climate change credentials; focus group research into the independent push in Tony Abbott’s seat ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Morrison’s climate pitch to voters and Warringah votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/01/video-michelle-grattan-on-morrisons-climate-pitch-to-voters-and-warringah-votes-112773/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Morrison’s climate pitch to voters and Warringah votes">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vivienne Glance, Hon Research Fellow in Poetry and Theatre studies, University of Western Australia Review: Giselle, Perth Festival To reimagine a classic and present it as a story relevant for our times takes more than fiddling around the edges. It requires a courageous retelling, and that is ... <a title="Dada Masilo’s Giselle is a courageous retelling for our times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/01/dada-masilos-giselle-is-a-courageous-retelling-for-our-times-112764/" aria-label="Read more about Dada Masilo’s Giselle is a courageous retelling for our times">Read more</a>