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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Morey, Senior Lecturer, Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University Editor’s note: This is an updated version on an article that was published in 2016 when the new Senate voting rules were first introduced. The voting system for the Australian Senate combines both preferential voting ... <a title="Explainer: how does preferential voting work in the Senate?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/explainer-how-does-preferential-voting-work-in-the-senate-116347/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: how does preferential voting work in the Senate?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney 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: what’s the point of nits?!" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/curious-kids-whats-the-point-of-nits-116158/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: what’s the point of nits?!">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Langley, ARC DECRA Research Fellow, Griffith University Making fake jewels isn’t a modern phenomenon – it’s a human behaviour that dates back thousands of years. New research published today suggests that traders 2,000 years ago were producing imitation amber beads, coating them with pine tree resin ... <a title="Psst… wanna buy a necklace? Humans have been faking jewellery for thousands of years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/psst-wanna-buy-a-necklace-humans-have-been-faking-jewellery-for-thousands-of-years-116268/" aria-label="Read more about Psst… wanna buy a necklace? Humans have been faking jewellery for thousands of years">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hughes, Lecturer, Research School of Management, Australian National University This year’s election will be the first in Australia where the parties will be advertising more on social and digital platforms than traditional media (TV, radio, newspapers and magazines). There are a few key reasons for this. ... <a title="Facebook videos, targeted texts and Clive Palmer memes: how digital advertising is shaping this election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/facebook-videos-targeted-texts-and-clive-palmer-memes-how-digital-advertising-is-shaping-this-election-campaign-115629/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook videos, targeted texts and Clive Palmer memes: how digital advertising is shaping this election campaign">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle As more Australians opt for meat-free diets, some are cutting out animal products altogether and going vegan. But is this safe for pregnant women and babies? It is possible to meet the specific nutrient requirements of pregnancy, ... <a title="Pregnant women and babies can be vegans but careful nutrition planning is essential" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/pregnant-women-and-babies-can-be-vegans-but-careful-nutrition-planning-is-essential-107709/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant women and babies can be vegans but careful nutrition planning is essential">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McGreevy, Professor of Animal Behaviour and Animal Welfare Science, University of Sydney Labor has released a six-point plan intended to re-establish national leadership on animal welfare. This plan would reverse the direction set by the Abbot government, which withdrew funding from the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy ... <a title="Can Labor’s animal welfare plan improve Australia’s lacklustre record?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/can-labors-animal-welfare-plan-improve-australias-lacklustre-record-116261/" aria-label="Read more about Can Labor’s animal welfare plan improve Australia’s lacklustre record?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Higher Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Labor says it will bring back demand-driven funding for universities if it wins this month’s election. Put simply, this means instead of the government providing each university with a fixed sum of money for teaching (which is what happens ... <a title="Labor wants to restore ‘demand driven’ funding to universities: what does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/labor-wants-to-restore-demand-driven-funding-to-universities-what-does-this-mean-116060/" aria-label="Read more about Labor wants to restore ‘demand driven’ funding to universities: what does this mean?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Steele, Associate Professor, Centre of Urban Research and Urban Futures Enabling Capability Platform, RMIT University The announcement that President Joko Widodo’s government will move Indonesia’s capital to another location, due to the severity of human-induced degradation in Jakarta, highlights a key tension for cities today. In ... <a title="Indonesia isn’t the only country planning new cities. Why not Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/indonesia-isnt-the-only-country-planning-new-cities-why-not-australia-116266/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia isn’t the only country planning new cities. Why not Australia?">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Salvaris, Project Manager, Australian National Development Index, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne As the federal election approaches, we’re expected to drown in slogans like “lower taxes”, “wage growth”, “franking credit reform” or “negative gearing reforms”. These mostly assume voters are as obsessed as the politicians ... <a title="It’s time to vote for happiness and well-being, not mere economic growth. Here’s why:" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/its-time-to-vote-for-happiness-and-well-being-not-mere-economic-growth-heres-why-116061/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time to vote for happiness and well-being, not mere economic growth. Here’s why:">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter van Duyn, Maritime Logistics Expert, Centre for Supply Chain and Logistics (CSCL), Deakin University In movies about ships, a crew feverishly changing their vessel’s name and flag to avoid detection is a common tactic. Nothing so simple could work in reality, right? In a sense, though, ... <a title="How ‘flags of convenience’ have shrunk Australia’s merchant fleet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/how-flags-of-convenience-have-shrunk-australias-merchant-fleet-115059/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘flags of convenience’ have shrunk Australia’s merchant fleet">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Woollard, Head of Theatre and Performance, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Tasmania In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In December 1882, Eliza O’Flaherty died of “diabetes and exhaustion” at her lodgings in Sydney. Aged 64, Eliza lived in a ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Eliza Winstanley, colonial stage star and our first female Richard III" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/02/hidden-women-of-history-eliza-winstanley-colonial-stage-star-and-our-first-female-richard-iii-114732/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Eliza Winstanley, colonial stage star and our first female Richard III">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Whether or not it’s some sort of record, the Liberals’ loss of two Victorian candidates in a single day is way beyond what Oscar Wilde would have dubbed carelessness. Already struggling in that state, the Victorian Liberals managed to select ... <a title="View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal candidates find social media footprints lethal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/01/view-from-the-hill-victorian-liberal-candidates-find-social-media-footprints-lethal-116383/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Victorian Liberal candidates find social media footprints lethal">Read more</a>
