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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Two reports out this week – one into the operations of Facebook and Google, the other into the competitive neutrality of the ABC and SBS – present the federal government with significant policy ... <a title="A tale of two media reports: one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/a-tale-of-two-media-reports-one-poses-challenges-for-digital-media-the-other-gives-abc-and-sbs-a-clean-bill-of-health-108743/" aria-label="Read more about A tale of two media reports: one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University The federal government has announced it will establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. This new commission will be the peak body to detect and investigate corrupt and criminal behaviour by Commonwealth employees. This announcement followed mounting pressure from Labor, ... <a title="The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/the-proposed-national-integrity-commission-is-a-watered-down-version-of-a-federal-icac-108753/" aria-label="Read more about The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Hemsley, Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney Swallowing food, drink, and saliva is a central part of our lives. It’s something we do about 900 times a day, yet we barely give it a second thought. We’re mostly unaware of the many food decisions ... <a title="Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to ‘eat, drink and be merry’ this Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/many-people-have-a-hard-time-swallowing-help-them-to-eat-drink-and-be-merry-this-christmas-108426/" aria-label="Read more about Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to ‘eat, drink and be merry’ this Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anja Hilkemeijer, Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter have released both the Ruddock Panel Report on Religious Freedom and the government’s response. Given the panel’s recommendations were leaked to the media some time ago, the full report contains few ... <a title="In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/in-long-awaited-response-to-ruddock-review-the-government-pushes-hard-on-religious-freedom-108750/" aria-label="Read more about In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Suburban affluence is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Yet ... <a title="The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/the-suburbs-are-the-spiritual-home-of-overconsumption-but-they-also-hold-the-key-to-a-better-future-108496/" aria-label="Read more about The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McDonald, Professor of Demography, Centre for Health Policy, University of Melbourne Australia’s population is among the fastest growing in the OECD with an increase of 1.7 per cent in 2016-17. In Sydney and Melbourne traffic congestion has become so intolerable many believe a cut to migration ... <a title="Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/why-cutting-australias-migrant-intake-would-do-more-harm-than-good-at-least-for-the-next-decade-108748/" aria-label="Read more about Why cutting Australia’s migrant intake would do more harm than good, at least for the next decade">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Clark, PhD Candidate, University of Southern Queensland We’re in for a pre-Christmas treat this weekend, as the cosmos entertains us with two equally exciting gifts: the Geminid meteor shower and the interplanetary comet 46P/Wirtanen. The Geminids are actually an annual event. But the comet is a ... <a title="We have a Christmas comet: how to spot 2018’s interplanetary bauble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/we-have-a-christmas-comet-how-to-spot-2018s-interplanetary-bauble-108597/" aria-label="Read more about We have a Christmas comet: how to spot 2018’s interplanetary bauble">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government will introduce a Religious Discrimination Act to protect the rights of people of faith, with Scott Morrison declaring he would like the legislation passed before the election. Announcing the government’s long-awaited response to the Ruddock inquiry into religious ... <a title="Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/morrison-wants-religious-discrimination-act-passed-before-election-108755/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison wants Religious Discrimination Act passed before election">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Adams, Isotope Bioarchaeologist Research Fellow, Griffith University The poor health conditions of eight young Aboriginal people who died around the time of early European colonisation have been revealed in their skeletal remains, according to a new study. The bones provide evidence of the displacement of Indigenous ... <a title="Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/poor-health-in-aboriginal-children-after-european-colonisation-revealed-in-their-skeletal-remains-106616/" aria-label="Read more about Poor health in Aboriginal children after European colonisation revealed in their skeletal remains">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rayner Thwaites, Senior Lecturer, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney Last month, the federal government introduced a bill into parliament that, if passed, will make it easier to strip an Australian of citizenship by: making lesser offences a trigger for deprivation dropping the requirement that, to trigger ... <a title="How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/how-a-proposed-new-bill-would-make-it-easier-to-strip-australian-citizenship-108072/" aria-label="Read more about How a proposed new bill would make it easier to strip Australian citizenship">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Tiller, Ethical, Legal & Social Adviser – Public Health Genomics, Monash University A woman recently sued a London hospital for doctors not disclosing that her father had the genetic mutation that causes Huntington disease – a neurodegenerative disorder. The woman was pregnant at the time. She ... <a title="Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/can-and-should-a-doctor-tell-my-biological-relative-my-genetic-results-without-my-consent-108165/" aria-label="Read more about Can (and should) a doctor tell my biological relative my genetic results without my consent?">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Pezzey, Senior Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University As delegates at the UN climate summit in Katowice, Poland, discuss the possibility of restraining global warming to 1.5℃, it might sound like a reasonable question to ask how much money it will cost ... <a title="We can’t know the future cost of climate change. Let’s focus on the cost of avoiding it instead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/we-cant-know-the-future-cost-of-climate-change-lets-focus-on-the-cost-of-avoiding-it-instead-108051/" aria-label="Read more about We can’t know the future cost of climate change. Let’s focus on the cost of avoiding it instead">Read more</a>
