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December 16, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government is going over the top in trying to outsmart and smother Bill Shorten and the Labor national conference. Leaving aside the holding of the July Super Saturday byelections when the ALP meeting was originally due, the government ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/16/view-from-the-hill-morrison-goes-a-bridge-too-far-to-outsmart-shorten-108890/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison goes a bridge too far to outsmart Shorten">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Carey, Professor, Director of the Centre for Remote Health, Flinders University This article was written with Rob McPhee, Deputy CEO of the Kimberley Aboriginal Medical Service and co-chair of the Commonwealth-funded Kimberley Aboriginal Suicide Prevention Working Group. Last year, 165 Indigenous Australians died as a result ... <a title="It’s despair, not depression, that’s responsible for Indigenous suicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/its-despair-not-depression-thats-responsible-for-indigenous-suicide-108497/" aria-label="Read more about It’s despair, not depression, that’s responsible for Indigenous suicide">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Woodcock, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Technology Sydney Ahead of the start of the 2018-19 Big Bash League season comes news of a radical change that will bring a smile to the faces of backyard cricketers across the country. In a move familiar to everyone ... <a title="Can the Big Bash League’s backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/can-the-big-bash-leagues-backyard-cricket-bat-flip-truly-be-fair-108601/" aria-label="Read more about Can the Big Bash League’s backyard cricket bat flip truly be fair?">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregg Müller, Lecturer in Natural History, La Trobe University People don’t like parasites. But there’s a local Aussie tree that’s only a little bit parasitic: the native cherry, or cherry ballart. It’s what we call hemiparasitic. It can photosynthesise, but gains extra nutrients by attaching its roots ... <a title="Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/native-cherries-are-a-bit-mysterious-and-possibly-inside-out-108760/" aria-label="Read more about Native cherries are a bit mysterious, and possibly inside-out">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Heap, Adjunct Professor at Institute of Religion, Politics and Society, Australian Catholic University There are good reasons why those experiencing sexual harassment – particularly in the workplace – don’t report it at the time it occurs. To do so is likely to result in ostracism, exclusion, ... <a title="Women don’t speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/women-dont-speak-up-over-workplace-harassment-because-no-one-hears-them-if-they-do-107803/" aria-label="Read more about Women don’t speak up over workplace harassment because no one hears them if they do">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Roff, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland There has been a striking decline in the number of large sharks caught off Queensland’s coast over the past 50 years, suggesting that populations have declined dramatically. Our study, published today in the journal Communications Biology, used historical ... <a title="Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland’s coast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/some-sharks-have-declined-by-92-in-the-past-half-century-off-queenslands-coast-108742/" aria-label="Read more about Some sharks have declined by 92% in the past half-century off Queensland’s coast">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Hall, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Johns Hopkins University New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stands out on the international stage. In an era of poisonous xenophobia and mean-spirited rhetoric, she has called for more compassion and kindness in politics and has stressed the importance of ... <a title="How to narrow the gap between Ardern’s foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/how-to-narrow-the-gap-between-arderns-foreign-policy-aspirations-and-domestic-debate-106230/" aria-label="Read more about How to narrow the gap between Ardern’s foreign policy aspirations and domestic debate">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Hartley, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Human Rights Education, Curtin University Accessing higher education is critical for many people seeking asylum. It’s not simply a means of acquiring the qualifications and skills necessary for employment. It’s also essential to living a meaningful life Despite this, people seeking ... <a title="How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/how-people-seeking-asylum-in-australia-access-higher-education-and-the-enormous-barriers-they-face-107892/" aria-label="Read more about How people seeking asylum in Australia access higher education, and the enormous barriers they face">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cris Brack, Associate professor in forest measurement and management, Australian National University I teach measurement – the quantification of things. Some people think this is the most objective of the sciences; just numbers and observations, or what many people call objective facts. Lord Kelvin, a famous British ... <a title="It’s not so easy to gain the true measure of things" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/its-not-so-easy-to-gain-the-true-measure-of-things-92741/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not so easy to gain the true measure of things">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The A$1.25 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this week should be awarded a big policy fail. The move sets back Commonwealth-state relations by decades – and it’s unclear exactly how much money will actually ... <a title="Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/morrisons-health-handout-is-bad-policy-but-might-be-good-politics-108747/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastien Darchen, Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland Thirty years after the landmark Brundtland report, the debate on urban sustainability continues. Urban planners are still grappling with the challenges of making our cities sustainable. Urban sustainability is an evolving concept. Our edited volume provides planning ... <a title="Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/our-cities-fall-short-on-sustainability-but-planning-innovations-offer-local-solutions-107091/" aria-label="Read more about Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney An appallingly perfect storm is brewing for the federal budget: a government with much more income than expected a federal election due within months a government well behind in the polls With the election all but announced for May, ... <a title="Monday’s MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/mondays-myefo-will-look-good-but-it-will-set-the-budget-up-for-awful-trouble-down-the-track-107567/" aria-label="Read more about Monday’s MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track">Read more</a>
