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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Seton, ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney Lord Howe Island is a beautiful and incredibly isolated world heritage site some 600km off the coast of New South Wales, lauded for its unique volcanic landforms and endemic species. In a study published this month in Geological Magazine, ... <a title="How we traced the underwater volcanic ancestry of Lord Howe Island" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/how-we-traced-the-underwater-volcanic-ancestry-of-lord-howe-island-110503/" aria-label="Read more about How we traced the underwater volcanic ancestry of Lord Howe Island">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Pears, Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University A new OECD report has warned that Australia risks falling short of its 2030 emissions target unless it implements “a major effort to move to a low-carbon model”. This view is consistent both with official government projections released late last ... <a title="Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/australia-is-counting-on-cooking-the-books-to-meet-its-climate-targets-110768/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is counting on cooking the books to meet its climate targets">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Nancy Pelosi is back. Back throwing her weight around. Back in charge. As the newly-elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives – arguably the most powerful position after the president – the top-ranking Democrat is suddenly ... <a title="How Australia’s political ageism may be robbing us of our best leaders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/how-australias-political-ageism-may-be-robbing-us-of-our-best-leaders-110491/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s political ageism may be robbing us of our best leaders">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Yosar, Associate Lecturer, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/curious-kids-will-i-go-blind-if-i-shut-my-eyes-and-face-the-sun-109070/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zenobia Jacobs, Professor, University of Wollongong We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient population of humans called Denisovans, the remains of which have been found at only one site, a cave in what is now Siberia. Two papers published in ... <a title="Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/fresh-clues-to-the-life-and-times-of-the-denisovans-a-little-known-ancient-group-of-humans-110504/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Joseph, Professor, Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Hakeem Al-Araibi is a refugee from Bahrain who plays semi-professional soccer in Melbourne for Pascoe Vale. He is a former member of the Bahraini national football team. He is currently detained in Thailand, the subject ... <a title="Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case is a test of world soccer’s human rights credentials. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/hakeem-al-araibis-case-is-a-test-of-world-soccers-human-rights-credentials-heres-why-110580/" aria-label="Read more about Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case is a test of world soccer’s human rights credentials. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug seizures and 154,650 drug-related arrests. Harm-reduction advocates are calling for the legalisation of some ... <a title="History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/history-not-harm-dictates-why-some-drugs-are-legal-and-others-arent-110564/" aria-label="Read more about History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bradley J. Moggridge, Indigenous Water Research, University of Canberra The Murray-Darling crisis has led to drinking water shortages, drying rivers, and fish kills in the Darling, Macintyre and Murrumbidgee Rivers. This has been the catalyst for recommendations for a Royal Commission and creation of two independent scientific ... <a title="Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/aboriginal-voices-are-missing-from-the-murray-darling-basin-crisis-110769/" aria-label="Read more about Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Dickson, Associate Professor of Psychology, Edith Cowan University The final year of high school is one of the most significant transition periods in a young person’s life. One of the least enjoyable by-products is the stress associated with year 12 – the daunting sense that it’s ... <a title="Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/five-tips-to-help-year-12-students-set-better-goals-in-the-final-year-of-school-109954/" aria-label="Read more about Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Walters, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Queensland One of the stark differences between neighbourhoods in the inner city and outer suburbs in Australia is the quality and type of retail offerings. Gentrifying inner-city suburbs – places like West End in Brisbane, Fitzroy in Melbourne ... <a title="Why outer suburbs lack inner city’s ‘third places’: a partial defence of the hipster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/why-outer-suburbs-lack-inner-citys-third-places-a-partial-defence-of-the-hipster-110177/" aria-label="Read more about Why outer suburbs lack inner city’s ‘third places’: a partial defence of the hipster">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University In its interim report published four months ago, the Banking Royal Commission chalks up shocking misconduct in the finance industry to greed – “the pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of basic standards of honesty”. “How else,” ... <a title="What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/what-banking-regulators-can-learn-from-deepwater-horizon-and-other-industrial-catastrophes-108989/" aria-label="Read more about What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Davis, Deputy Dean Research, Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. This year marks 50 years since the launch of one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, waged against Queensland’s ultra-conservative, pro-development premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/hidden-women-of-history-kathleen-mcarthur-the-wildflower-woman-who-took-on-joh-bjelke-petersen-110269/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen">Read more</a>
