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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Muneera Bano, Lecturer Software Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology From a very young age, we are conditioned to learn to succeed by avoiding failures or mistakes. Our traditional education system is built largely on examination that marks down students for their mistakes in any assessed work. Students ... <a title="Keen IT students can improve their marks when given a chance to learn from their mistakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/keen-it-students-can-improve-their-marks-when-given-a-chance-to-learn-from-their-mistakes-122792/" aria-label="Read more about Keen IT students can improve their marks when given a chance to learn from their mistakes">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Glover, Postdoctoral research fellow, RMIT University Many Australians have longed to live outside the city. The treechange and seachange movements – migration from urban areas to rural and coastal towns – have been responsible for much of the population growth outside urban areas in recent years. ... <a title="Fancy an e-change? How people are escaping city congestion and living costs by working remotely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/fancy-an-e-change-how-people-are-escaping-city-congestion-and-living-costs-by-working-remotely-123165/" aria-label="Read more about Fancy an e-change? How people are escaping city congestion and living costs by working remotely">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clinton Fernandes, Professor, International and Political Studies, UNSW The attention being given to possible covert influence being exercised by China in Australia shouldn’t distract us from recognising that very overt foreign influence now occurs through investment. Read more: Inside China’s vast influence network – how it works, ... <a title="Worried about agents of foreign influence? Just look at who owns Australia’s biggest companies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/worried-about-agents-of-foreign-influence-just-look-at-who-owns-australias-biggest-companies-123343/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about agents of foreign influence? Just look at who owns Australia’s biggest companies">Read more</a>
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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Hoare, PhD Candidate in Pacific History, Australian National University In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. From Tongan Princes to the daughters of Sāmoan political leaders, elite Australian schools have long been considered desirable locations for the children of high-ranking Pacific families. ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Marau Ta’aroa, the Sydney-schooled ‘last Queen of Tahiti’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/hidden-women-of-history-marau-taaroa-the-sydney-schooled-last-queen-of-tahiti-122539/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Marau Ta’aroa, the Sydney-schooled ‘last Queen of Tahiti’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Liberal member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, has strongly proclaimed her loyalty to Australia and her support for the government’s policy on China, amid a row over her record of past associations with organisations with links to the Chinese Communist ... <a title="Liu defends herself after concerns about her Chinese associations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/liu-defends-herself-after-concerns-about-her-chinese-associations-123362/" aria-label="Read more about Liu defends herself after concerns about her Chinese associations">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Helen Haines, MP for the Victorian regional seat Indi, made history at the election as the first federal independent to succeed another independent. She was backed by grassroots campaigners, Voices for Indi, who had earlier helped her predecessor, Cathy McGowan, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent MP Helen Haines on using ‘soft power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-independent-mp-helen-haines-on-using-soft-power-123347/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent MP Helen Haines on using ‘soft power’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Helen Haines, MP for the Victorian regional seat Indi, made history at the election as the first federal independent to succeed another independent. She was backed by grassroots campaigners, Voices for Indi, who had earlier helped her predecessor, Cathy McGowan, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Helen Haines – an independent – on using ‘soft power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-helen-haines-an-independent-on-using-soft-power-123347/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Helen Haines – an independent – on using ‘soft power’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University When journalist Brian Toohey began researching his book Secret: The Makings of Australia’s Security State, he could not have foreseen publication would coincide with real-time overreach by government agencies of their security responsibilities. Contemporary examples of such ... <a title="BOOK REVIEW: Brian Toohey’s Secret warns against Australia being ‘joined at the hip’ with US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/book-review-brian-tooheys-secret-warns-against-australia-being-joined-at-the-hip-with-us-122848/" aria-label="Read more about BOOK REVIEW: Brian Toohey’s Secret warns against Australia being ‘joined at the hip’ with US">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia The joker, the trickster, the jester, the provocateur – there is a rich cultural history of these roles going back at least as far as Greek mythology’s Hermes. One of the most famous jester figures of ... <a title="The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/the-jokers-origin-story-comes-at-a-perfect-moment-clowns-define-our-times-123009/" aria-label="Read more about The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our times">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments. So why do I and thousands of my colleagues believe most ... <a title="Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/why-do-astronomers-believe-in-dark-matter-122864/" aria-label="Read more about Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is undertaken by one or more academics not involved with the study, and reviewed by another, to make sure ... <a title="Will a vegetarian diet increase your risk of stroke?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/will-a-vegetarian-diet-increase-your-risk-of-stroke-123083/" aria-label="Read more about Will a vegetarian diet increase your risk of stroke?">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Around 2005, the Chinese government began pushing its policy of huaren canzheng, or “ethnic Chinese participation in politics overseas”. It was a new tactic in the Chinese Communist Party’s “united front” strategy ... <a title="Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/why-gladys-liu-must-answer-to-parliament-about-alleged-links-to-the-chinese-government-123339/" aria-label="Read more about Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government">Read more</a>
