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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Yosar, Associate Lecturer, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland 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: will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/curious-kids-will-i-go-blind-if-i-shut-my-eyes-and-face-the-sun-109070/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: will I go blind if I shut my eyes and face the Sun?">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zenobia Jacobs, Professor, University of Wollongong We know that some modern human genomes contain fragments of DNA from an ancient population of humans called Denisovans, the remains of which have been found at only one site, a cave in what is now Siberia. Two papers published in ... <a title="Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/fresh-clues-to-the-life-and-times-of-the-denisovans-a-little-known-ancient-group-of-humans-110504/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh clues to the life and times of the Denisovans, a little-known ancient group of humans">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Joseph, Professor, Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University Hakeem Al-Araibi is a refugee from Bahrain who plays semi-professional soccer in Melbourne for Pascoe Vale. He is a former member of the Bahraini national football team. He is currently detained in Thailand, the subject ... <a title="Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case is a test of world soccer’s human rights credentials. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/hakeem-al-araibis-case-is-a-test-of-world-soccers-human-rights-credentials-heres-why-110580/" aria-label="Read more about Hakeem Al-Araibi’s case is a test of world soccer’s human rights credentials. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University Drug-related offences take up a lot of the resources within Australia’s criminal justice system. In 2016–17 law enforcement made 113,533 illicit drug seizures and 154,650 drug-related arrests. Harm-reduction advocates are calling for the legalisation of some ... <a title="History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/history-not-harm-dictates-why-some-drugs-are-legal-and-others-arent-110564/" aria-label="Read more about History, not harm, dictates why some drugs are legal and others aren’t">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bradley J. Moggridge, Indigenous Water Research, University of Canberra The Murray-Darling crisis has led to drinking water shortages, drying rivers, and fish kills in the Darling, Macintyre and Murrumbidgee Rivers. This has been the catalyst for recommendations for a Royal Commission and creation of two independent scientific ... <a title="Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/aboriginal-voices-are-missing-from-the-murray-darling-basin-crisis-110769/" aria-label="Read more about Aboriginal voices are missing from the Murray-Darling Basin crisis">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Dickson, Associate Professor of Psychology, Edith Cowan University The final year of high school is one of the most significant transition periods in a young person’s life. One of the least enjoyable by-products is the stress associated with year 12 – the daunting sense that it’s ... <a title="Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/five-tips-to-help-year-12-students-set-better-goals-in-the-final-year-of-school-109954/" aria-label="Read more about Five tips to help year 12 students set better goals in the final year of school">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Walters, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, The University of Queensland One of the stark differences between neighbourhoods in the inner city and outer suburbs in Australia is the quality and type of retail offerings. Gentrifying inner-city suburbs – places like West End in Brisbane, Fitzroy in Melbourne ... <a title="Why outer suburbs lack inner city’s ‘third places’: a partial defence of the hipster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/why-outer-suburbs-lack-inner-citys-third-places-a-partial-defence-of-the-hipster-110177/" aria-label="Read more about Why outer suburbs lack inner city’s ‘third places’: a partial defence of the hipster">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Australian National University In its interim report published four months ago, the Banking Royal Commission chalks up shocking misconduct in the finance industry to greed – “the pursuit of short-term profit at the expense of basic standards of honesty”. “How else,” ... <a title="What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/what-banking-regulators-can-learn-from-deepwater-horizon-and-other-industrial-catastrophes-108989/" aria-label="Read more about What banking regulators can learn from Deepwater Horizon and other industrial catastrophes">Read more</a>
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January 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Davis, Deputy Dean Research, Education and the Arts, CQUniversity Australia In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. This year marks 50 years since the launch of one of Australia’s first major conservation battles, waged against Queensland’s ultra-conservative, pro-development premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. It ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/31/hidden-women-of-history-kathleen-mcarthur-the-wildflower-woman-who-took-on-joh-bjelke-petersen-110269/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Kathleen McArthur, the wildflower woman who took on Joh Bjelke-Petersen">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Burton, Lecturer in Media Arts, University of Wollongong SBS’s suite of slow TV programs, “Slow Summer”, arrived at a fortuitous time in our annual media trajectory, when we were briefly relieved of the busyness plaguing our lives. On the back of last year’s successful trip on ... <a title="Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/why-slow-tv-deserves-our-divided-attention-110695/" aria-label="Read more about Why slow TV deserves our (divided) attention">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Usman W. Chohan, Economist, UNSW The seat of World Bank president is becoming vacant. Its president, Jim Yong Kim, will step down on January 31, three years earlier than his term formally ends. His move – described as “sudden” and a “shock,” particularly since the World Bank ... <a title="A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/a-trump-aligned-world-bank-may-be-bad-for-climate-action-and-trade-but-good-for-chinese-ambitions-110265/" aria-label="Read more about A Trump-aligned World Bank may be bad for climate action and trade, but good for Chinese ambitions">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Newspoll, conducted January 24-27 from a sample of 1,630, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, a two-point gain for the Coalition since the last Newspoll in early December. Primary votes were 38% Labor (down ... <a title="Poll wrap: Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/poll-wrap-coalition-gains-in-first-newspoll-of-2019-but-big-swings-to-labor-in-victorian-seats-nsw-is-tied-110684/" aria-label="Read more about Poll wrap: Coalition gains in first Newspoll of 2019, but big swings to Labor in Victorian seats; NSW is tied">Read more</a>
