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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington The latest statistics on childhood poverty in New Zealand suggest that, on some key measures, things are worse than previously estimated. About one in six children (16% or ... <a title="New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/new-zealands-dismal-record-on-child-poverty-and-the-governments-challenge-to-turn-it-around-115366/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathal D. O’Connell, Researcher and Centre Manager, BioFab3D (St Vincent’s Hospital), University of Melbourne This article is an edited extract from an essay, The search for ET, in The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. We’re publishing it as part of our occasional series Zoom ... <a title="Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/why-the-idea-of-alien-life-now-seems-inevitable-and-possibly-imminent-115643/" aria-label="Read more about Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne The integrity of Australia’s electoral processes is under unprecedented challenge in this federal election. The campaign has already been marred by fake news, political exploitation of social media falsehoods and amplification by mainstream ... <a title="Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/lies-obfuscation-and-fake-news-make-for-a-dispiriting-and-dangerous-election-campaign-115845/" aria-label="Read more about Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Kyle, Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology Are you allergic to penicillin? Perhaps you have a friend or relative who is? With about one in ten people reporting a penicillin allergy, that’s not altogether surprising. Penicillin is the most commonly reported drug allergy. But the ... <a title="Think you’re allergic to penicillin? There’s a good chance you’re wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/think-youre-allergic-to-penicillin-theres-a-good-chance-youre-wrong-112687/" aria-label="Read more about Think you’re allergic to penicillin? There’s a good chance you’re wrong">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory John Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. Almost 30 years ago, the specimen of a weird tree collected in the southern ... <a title="Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this ‘mystic’ tree went unidentified for 17 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/bizarrely-distributed-and-verging-on-extinction-this-mystic-tree-went-unidentified-for-17-years-115239/" aria-label="Read more about Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this ‘mystic’ tree went unidentified for 17 years">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frances Flanagan, Researcher, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney This is an edited extract from The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. It is a little longer than most published on The Conversation. It is supposed to be a test of character. ... <a title="What’s the school cleaner’s name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/whats-the-school-cleaners-name-how-kids-not-just-cleaners-are-paying-the-price-of-outsourcing-115443/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the school cleaner’s name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, Program Director, Master of Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney More and more podcasts about cities are being produced by journalists and academics. They’re being recorded in research labs, urban planning offices, on the streets and in the neighbourhoods of our ... <a title="Podcasts and cities: ‘you’re always commenting on power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/podcasts-and-cities-youre-always-commenting-on-power-114176/" aria-label="Read more about Podcasts and cities: ‘you’re always commenting on power’">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW What do US pizza executive Herman Cain, US conservative commentator Stephen Moore, US Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Australia’s Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have in common? More than you might think. The immediate issue for Lowe is Wednesday’s inflation figures ... <a title="Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/vital-signs-zero-inflation-means-the-reserve-bank-should-cut-rates-as-soon-as-it-can-on-tuesday-week-115931/" aria-label="Read more about Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Less than a week after the attack on the Twin Towers in New York on 11 September 2001, US President George W. Bush gave a remarkable speech about America’s “Muslim Brothers and sisters”. ... <a title="Friday essay: how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/friday-essay-how-western-attitudes-towards-islam-have-changed-111989/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire F.R. Wordley, Research Associate in Conservation Evidence, University of Cambridge The effects of European consumption are being felt in Brazil, driving disastrous deforestation and violence. But the destruction can end if the European Union demands higher environmental standards on Brazilian goods. Hundreds of scientists and Indigenous ... <a title="Message to the EU: you have the chance to stop fuelling devastation in the Amazon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/message-to-the-eu-you-have-the-chance-to-stop-fuelling-devastation-in-the-amazon-115465/" aria-label="Read more about Message to the EU: you have the chance to stop fuelling devastation in the Amazon">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This election is acquiring quite a few back-to-the-future touches. There’s John Howard, in robust campaign mode. One of those he’s spruiking for is the embattled Tony Abbott, with a letter to Warringah voters, a video and a planned street walk. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/grattan-on-friday-all-is-forgiven-in-the-liberal-embrace-of-palmer-116011/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in the Liberal embrace of Palmer">Read more</a>
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April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This election is acquiring quite a few back-to-the-future touches. There’s John Howard, in robust campaign mode. One of those he’s spruiking for is the embattled Tony Abbott, with a letter to Warringah voters, a video and a planned street walk. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in Liberal-Palmer embrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/grattan-on-friday-all-is-forgiven-in-liberal-palmer-embrace-116011/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: All is forgiven in Liberal-Palmer embrace">Read more</a>
