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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Galligan, Associate professor, University of Southern Queensland If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. How was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules? – Bianca, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney. We are all born with a brain ... <a title="Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/curious-kids-how-was-maths-discovered-who-made-up-the-numbers-and-rules-121509/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Baumann, Casual Academic, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough or climate activists like Greta Thunberg. We have seen enough to be convinced that limitless economic growth and ... <a title="Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living. Public housing could offer a way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/access-to-land-is-a-barrier-to-simpler-sustainable-living-public-housing-could-offer-a-way-forward-121246/" aria-label="Read more about Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living. Public housing could offer a way forward">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Borroz, PhD candidate in international business and comparative political economy, University of Auckland India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has settled into lunar orbit, ahead of its scheduled Moon landing on September 7. If it succeeds India will join a very select club, now comprising the former Soviet Union, ... <a title="India has it right: nations either aim for the Moon or get left behind in the space economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/india-has-it-right-nations-either-aim-for-the-moon-or-get-left-behind-in-the-space-economy-121497/" aria-label="Read more about India has it right: nations either aim for the Moon or get left behind in the space economy">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camellia Webb-Gannon, Lecturer, University of Wollongong Last weekend, the Indonesian police took 43 West Papuan students into custody for allegedly disrespecting the Indonesian flag during an independence day celebration (an allegation the students deny). Police stormed the students’ dorm and used teargas to force them out, while ... <a title="Riots in West Papua: why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/riots-in-west-papua-why-indonesia-needs-to-answer-for-its-broken-promises-122127/" aria-label="Read more about Riots in West Papua: why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natalie Klein, Professor, UNSW Prime Minister Scott Morrison has confirmed that Australia will lend military support to protect shipping in the Middle East. The commitment has been long expected, with Australia sending a frigate, an aircraft and some headquarters staff as part of a US-led coalition in ... <a title="Infographic: what is the conflict between the US and Iran about and how is Australia now involved?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/infographic-what-is-the-conflict-between-the-us-and-iran-about-and-how-is-australia-now-involved-121490/" aria-label="Read more about Infographic: what is the conflict between the US and Iran about and how is Australia now involved?">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melanie J Woodfield, Clinical Psychologist and Health Research Council Foxley Fellow, University of Auckland Parenting young children is one of the most stressful times in a parent’s life. Toddlers and preschoolers are learning how to independently regulate their emotions. And parents are developing their ability to be ... <a title="Time out shouldn’t be your go-to parenting tool but can be useful if it’s well planned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/time-out-shouldnt-be-your-go-to-parenting-tool-but-can-be-useful-if-its-well-planned-110700/" aria-label="Read more about Time out shouldn’t be your go-to parenting tool but can be useful if it’s well planned">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia will commit a frigate, an aircraft and some headquarters staff to an American-led freedom of navigation operation in the Middle East. Scott Morrison, announcing the long-expected commitment at a Canberra news conference on Wednesday, stressed this was an international ... <a title="Australia to send naval and air assistance to protect Middle East sea lanes: Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/australia-to-send-naval-and-air-assistance-to-protect-middle-east-sea-lanes-morrison-122187/" aria-label="Read more about Australia to send naval and air assistance to protect Middle East sea lanes: Morrison">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia Populism and environmentalism are words seldom seen in the same sentence. One is associated predominantly with nationalists and charismatic leaders of “real people”, the other with broadly-based collective action to address the world’s single most pressing problem. ... <a title="Can environmental populism save the planet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/can-environmental-populism-save-the-planet-120768/" aria-label="Read more about Can environmental populism save the planet?">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Mathews, Professor, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology Victoria’s Court of Appeal today delivered one of the most significant judgments in Australian legal history, dismissing Cardinal George Pell’s appeal against convictions for five child sex offences. Given Pell’s seniority in the Catholic Church as a ... <a title="George Pell has lost his appeal. What did the court decide and what happens now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/george-pell-has-lost-his-appeal-what-did-the-court-decide-and-what-happens-now-118054/" aria-label="Read more about George Pell has lost his appeal. What did the court decide and what happens now?">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Professor Tim Bentley, Director of Research, professor of Work and Organisation, Massey University According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the workplace can be a positive force for improving mental health. But many workers are exposed to work environments that are damaging to their psychological health and ... <a title="NZ workplace study shows more than quarter of employees feel depressed much of the time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/nz-workplace-study-shows-more-than-quarter-of-employees-feel-depressed-much-of-the-time-118989/" aria-label="Read more about NZ workplace study shows more than quarter of employees feel depressed much of the time">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Alan Jones’s political power is to a large extent based on a self-fulfilling prophecy: politicians believe he can shift votes, so they pay homage to him, which adds to the impression that he ... <a title="It will be money, not morality, that finally turns the tide on Alan Jones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/it-will-be-money-not-morality-that-finally-turns-the-tide-on-alan-jones-122051/" aria-label="Read more about It will be money, not morality, that finally turns the tide on Alan Jones">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Bargh, Associate Professor, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s government statistician resigned last week, following the release of an independent review of the 2018 census. The census was the first to be carried out online, but its 83% response rate fell short of the 94% target ... <a title="Bungled NZ census highlights need for multiple voting options to raise Māori participation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/bungled-nz-census-highlights-need-for-multiple-voting-options-to-raise-maori-participation-121831/" aria-label="Read more about Bungled NZ census highlights need for multiple voting options to raise Māori participation">Read more</a>
