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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McGorrery, PhD Candidate in Criminal Law, Deakin University The Sentencing Advisory Council has just released the first ever review of how animal cruelty offenders are sentenced in Victoria. That report was developed in response to growing community concern about how animal cruelty offenders are sentenced. Several ... <a title="New report shines light on who commits animal cruelty and how they are punished" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/new-report-shines-light-on-who-commits-animal-cruelty-and-how-they-are-punished-111262/" aria-label="Read more about New report shines light on who commits animal cruelty and how they are punished">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University The Cambrian explosion more than 500 million years ago is often considered biology’s “big bang”. Virtually all the major kinds of animals evolved in life’s greatest ever burst of evolution, rapidly populating a ... <a title="Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution’s big bang" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/life-quickly-finds-a-way-the-surprisingly-swift-end-to-evolutions-big-bang-110984/" aria-label="Read more about Life quickly finds a way: the surprisingly swift end to evolution’s big bang">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janna Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University A second woman is said to be pregnant with a gene-edited baby in China, according to reports this year. It follows revelations last November that gene-edited twins had been born, which caused much debate. One of the fears expressed ... <a title="What we risk as humans if we allow gene-edited babies: a philosopher’s view" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/what-we-risk-as-humans-if-we-allow-gene-edited-babies-a-philosophers-view-110498/" aria-label="Read more about What we risk as humans if we allow gene-edited babies: a philosopher’s view">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Walsh, Associate Director, Government Relations, Australian Catholic University Eight months is a long time in politics. (If you don’t believe me, take a look at what’s happened in the federal parliament in the past week.) So waiting eight months for a response to a parliamentary report ... <a title="How big ideas for regional Australia were given short shrift" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/how-big-ideas-for-regional-australia-were-given-short-shrift-111817/" aria-label="Read more about How big ideas for regional Australia were given short shrift">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rhian Parker, Academic Convenor, MAEVe ( Melbourne Alliance to End Violence against women and their children, University of Melbourne Every week in Australia, a woman is murdered by someone she knows. And it’s usually an intimate male partner or ex-partner. One in three women has suffered physical ... <a title="How domestic violence affects women’s mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/how-domestic-violence-affects-womens-mental-health-104926/" aria-label="Read more about How domestic violence affects women’s mental health">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine M. Philip, Doctor of Philosophy, Ecosystem Management, University of New England One of the many difficulties faced by the pioneers of Australia’s sheep industry was finding a reliable shepherd. Among the convict labour available, for every two experienced farm labourers there were five convicted sheep, horse, ... <a title="How Australia made poisoning animals normal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/how-australia-made-poisoning-animals-normal-107004/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia made poisoning animals normal">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Fellow, Grattan Institute Parliament is failing workers with superannuation. And this time it’s Labor and the Greens who are doing it. The Coalition’s Protecting Your Super Package Bill was designed to cut the unnecessary costs in super, significantly boosting balances when workers retire. It was ... <a title="This time it’s Labor and the Greens standing in the way of cheaper super" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/this-time-its-labor-and-the-greens-standing-in-the-way-of-cheaper-super-111977/" aria-label="Read more about This time it’s Labor and the Greens standing in the way of cheaper super">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia 2018 was a good year for cinema but this is not reflected in the Oscar nominations for Best Picture. This year’s nominees are notable mainly for their mediocrity. There are, of course, a couple of exceptions. ... <a title="Best Picture at the Oscars? Why it has to be The Favourite out of a weak bunch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/best-picture-at-the-oscars-why-it-has-to-be-the-favourite-out-of-a-weak-bunch-111996/" aria-label="Read more about Best Picture at the Oscars? Why it has to be The Favourite out of a weak bunch">Read more</a>
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February 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Sear, PhD Candidate, UNSW Canberra Cyber, Australian Defence Force Academy, UNSW The Australian political digital infrastructure is a target in an ongoing nation state cyber competition which falls just below the threshold of open conflict. Today Prime Minister Scott Morrison made a statement to parliament, saying: ... <a title="A state actor has targeted Australian political parties – but that shouldn’t surprise us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/19/a-state-actor-has-targeted-australian-political-parties-but-that-shouldnt-surprise-us-111997/" aria-label="Read more about A state actor has targeted Australian political parties – but that shouldn’t surprise us">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Many parts of Australia have suffered a run of severe and, in some cases, unprecedented weather events this summer. One common feature of many of these events – including the Tasmanian heatwave and the devastating Townsville floods – ... <a title="How climate change can make catastrophic weather systems linger for longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/18/how-climate-change-can-make-catastrophic-weather-systems-linger-for-longer-111832/" aria-label="Read more about How climate change can make catastrophic weather systems linger for longer">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra “A sophisticated state actor” has hacked the networks of the major political parties, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has told Parliament. Recently the Parliament House network was disrupted, and the intrusion into the parties’ networks was discovered when this was being ... <a title="‘State actor’ makes cyber attack on Australian political parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/18/state-actor-makes-cyber-attack-on-australian-political-parties-111993/" aria-label="Read more about ‘State actor’ makes cyber attack on Australian political parties">Read more</a>
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February 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Neale, Career Development Fellow (Lecturer), University of Wollongong The Australian Dietary Guidelines recommend we eat 30g of nuts – a small handful – each day. But many of us know nuts are high in calories and fat. So should we be eating nuts or will they ... <a title="Health check: will eating nuts make you gain weight?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/18/health-check-will-eating-nuts-make-you-gain-weight-108491/" aria-label="Read more about Health check: will eating nuts make you gain weight?">Read more</a>
