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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra We’re only days into the federal election campaign and already the first instances of “fake news” have surfaced online. Over the weekend, Labor demanded that Facebook remove posts it says are “fake news” ... <a title="The government and tech companies can’t prevent ‘fake news’ during the election – only the public can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/the-government-and-tech-companies-cant-prevent-fake-news-during-the-election-only-the-public-can-115455/" aria-label="Read more about The government and tech companies can’t prevent ‘fake news’ during the election – only the public can">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Liang-Dar Hwang, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of Queensland You might love sugary doughnuts, but your friends find them too sweet and only take small nibbles. That’s partly because your genes influence how you perceive sweetness and how much sugary food and drink you consume. Now our ... <a title="Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/sickly-sweet-or-just-right-how-genes-control-your-taste-for-sugar-113455/" aria-label="Read more about Sickly sweet or just right? How genes control your taste for sugar">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Waghorne, Academic Historian, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne The first world war was significant to the formation of Australian national identity and defining national characteristics, such as making do and mateship. This is well acknowledged. But it was also a technical war, which ... <a title="A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/a-whole-new-world-how-wwi-brought-new-skills-and-professions-back-to-australia-115375/" aria-label="Read more about A whole new world: how WWI brought new skills and professions back to Australia">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Whitehead, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Move aside electric cars, another disruption set to occur in the next decade is being ignored in current Australian transport infrastructure debates: electric aviation. Electric aircraft technology is rapidly developing locally and overseas, with the aim of potentially reducing ... <a title="Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/get-set-for-take-off-in-electric-aircraft-the-next-transport-disruption-114178/" aria-label="Read more about Get set for take-off in electric aircraft, the next transport disruption">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lindsay Kelley, Lecturer, Art & Design, UNSW Before Anzac biscuits found the sticky sweet form we bake and eat today, Anzac soldiers ate durable but bland “Anzac tiles”, a new name for an ancient ration. Anzac tiles are also known as army biscuits, ship’s biscuits, or hard ... <a title="Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/before-the-anzac-biscuit-soldiers-ate-a-tile-so-hard-you-could-write-on-it-114742/" aria-label="Read more about Before the Anzac biscuit, soldiers ate a tile so hard you could write on it">Read more</a>
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April 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It’s hard to believe Barnaby Joyce really wants to lead the Nationals again. Of course everyone knows he does, desperately, but his unhinged ABC interview with Patricia Karvelas on Monday showed a breathtaking absence of political judgement or personal restraint. ... <a title="View from The Hill: Joyce could be facing waves at a judicial inquiry after the election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/24/view-from-the-hill-joyce-could-be-facing-waves-at-a-judicial-inquiry-after-the-election-115866/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Joyce could be facing waves at a judicial inquiry after the election">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia In 2017, the then agriculture minister, Barnaby Joyce, signed off on an A$80 million purchase of a water entitlement from a company called Eastern Australia Agriculture. The problem is that Energy Minister Angus Taylor ... <a title="Australia’s ‘watergate’: here’s what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/australias-watergate-heres-what-taxpayers-need-to-know-about-water-buybacks-115838/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘watergate’: here’s what taxpayers need to know about water buybacks">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Budarick, Lecturer in Media, University of Adelaide The fact that the community ethnic and multicultural broadcasting sector didn’t receive additional funding in the latest budget reflects a misunderstanding of the important role of ethnic media in Australian society. Ethnic print and broadcasting have a long history ... <a title="Ethnic media are essential for new migrants and should be better funded" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/ethnic-media-are-essential-for-new-migrants-and-should-be-better-funded-115233/" aria-label="Read more about Ethnic media are essential for new migrants and should be better funded">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Last week’s revelation that a New Zealand nurse has been captured by Islamic State and detained in Syria for almost six years has caused tensions for the New Zealand government. Louisa Akavi was working for the International Committee of ... <a title="Rift between NZ government and aid agency over naming of nurse captured by ISIS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/rift-between-nz-government-and-aid-agency-over-naming-of-nurse-captured-by-isis-115593/" aria-label="Read more about Rift between NZ government and aid agency over naming of nurse captured by ISIS">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Today on Media Files, it’s journalism versus the big banks. We’re hearing from Adele Ferguson, the celebrated journalist who many credit as the driving force behind the banking royal commission. Adele Ferguson is a reporter ... <a title="Media Files: Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/media-files-investigative-journalist-adele-ferguson-on-the-disappointing-banking-royal-commission-and-how-she-works-with-whistleblowers-115460/" aria-label="Read more about Media Files: Investigative journalist Adele Ferguson on the ‘disappointing’ banking royal commission and how she works with whistleblowers">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Kingsbury, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Deakin University Sri Lanka has long been subject to extremist violence. Easter Sunday’s coordinated bomb blasts, which killed almost 300 and injured hundreds more, are the latest in a long history of ethno-religious tragedies. While no one has ... <a title="Sri Lanka has a history of conflict, but the recent attacks appear different" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/sri-lanka-has-a-history-of-conflict-but-the-recent-attacks-appear-different-115815/" aria-label="Read more about Sri Lanka has a history of conflict, but the recent attacks appear different">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Brown, Associate Professor in Philosophy, The University of Queensland Imagine you’re looking for your keys and you think you might have left them on the bookshelf. But when you look, you see nothing but books. A natural conclusion to draw is that the keys are not ... <a title="You look but do not find: why the absence of evidence can be a useful thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/23/you-look-but-do-not-find-why-the-a-b-s-e-n-c-e-o-f-e-v-i-d-e-n-c-e-can-be-a-useful-thing-114988/" aria-label="Read more about You look but do not find: why the absence of evidence can be a useful thing">Read more</a>
