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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christina Ho, Senior Lecturer, Social & Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has re-ignited the ongoing debate about selective schools by announcing a new selective school will be built in the “key growth area” of southwest Sydney. In announcing the school, the premier ... <a title="Selective schools mainly ‘select’ advantage, so another one won’t ease Sydney’s growing pains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/selective-schools-mainly-select-advantage-so-another-one-wont-ease-sydneys-growing-pains-118449/" aria-label="Read more about Selective schools mainly ‘select’ advantage, so another one won’t ease Sydney’s growing pains">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Research Professor, University of Technology Sydney Loneliness is increasingly recognised worldwide as a critical social issue and one of the major health hazards of our time. Our research shows older private renters are at high risk of loneliness and anxiety. This is a growing concern ... <a title="‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/i-really-have-thought-this-cant-go-on-loneliness-looms-for-rising-numbers-of-older-private-renters-118046/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I really have thought this can’t go on’: loneliness looms for rising numbers of older private renters">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, Professor of Economics, School of Economics, Finance and Property, Curtin University The number of mature age Australians carrying mortgage debt into retirement is soaring. And on average each mature age Australian with a mortgage debt owes much more relative to their income than 25 ... <a title="More people are retiring with high mortgage debts. The implications are huge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/more-people-are-retiring-with-high-mortgage-debts-the-implications-are-huge-115134/" aria-label="Read more about More people are retiring with high mortgage debts. The implications are huge">Read more</a>
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June 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Broomhall, Professor of History, University of Western Australia Every day, thousands of people from around the world crowd into a stark, beige room at Paris’s Louvre Museum to view its single mounted artwork, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. To do so, they walk straight past countless ... <a title="What’s so special about the Mona Lisa?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/12/whats-so-special-about-the-mona-lisa-117180/" aria-label="Read more about What’s so special about the Mona Lisa?">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra When Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton told his departmental secretary Mike Pezzullo he shouldn’t go ringing up senators to set them straight, it was a rebuke laced with empathy, a message delivered from one hard man to another in a ... <a title="View from The Hill: A soft reprimand from one hard man to another" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/view-from-the-hill-a-soft-reprimand-from-one-hard-man-to-another-118619/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: A soft reprimand from one hard man to another">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia If you’re a red meat-eater, there’s a good chance you’re eating more of it than you should. At last count, Australians ate an average of 81 grams of red meat per day. The planetary ... <a title="How to get the nutrients you need without eating as much red meat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/how-to-get-the-nutrients-you-need-without-eating-as-much-red-meat-110274/" aria-label="Read more about How to get the nutrients you need without eating as much red meat">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Peterson, Associate Professor, Flinders University Review: Bigger and Blacker, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Sun 9 Jun Nothing beats the Adelaide winter blues quite like a superb, well-crafted cabaret show in a warm, cosy, intimate space. And few theatre spaces are more suited to cabaret than the Famous ... <a title="‘Faboriginal’ Steven Oliver jump-starts a conversation about race in a thrilling new show" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/faboriginal-steven-oliver-jump-starts-a-conversation-about-race-in-a-thrilling-new-show-118582/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Faboriginal’ Steven Oliver jump-starts a conversation about race in a thrilling new show">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University Former Wallabies rugby star Israel Folau is the latest in a series of Australian employees to lose their jobs because of social media posts in recent years. Through a combination of common law rules and broadly expressed codes of ... <a title="Why the Israel Folau case could set an important precedent for employment law and religious freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/why-the-israel-folau-case-could-set-an-important-precedent-for-employment-law-and-religious-freedom-118455/" aria-label="Read more about Why the Israel Folau case could set an important precedent for employment law and religious freedom">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Political commentators are divided over whether the Government’s terrible handling of the so-called “Budget hack” is a “cockup” or a “conspiracy”. It’s still not clear which, and nor is it clear who is responsible. But there is growing agreement that the Government’s handling of the issue was in error, as it was a bizarre mistake ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Budget hack “cockup or conspiracy” debate continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-budget-hack-cockup-or-conspiracy-debate-continues/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Budget hack “cockup or conspiracy” debate continues">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barry Hart, Emeritus Professor Water Science, Monash University The health of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia’s largest and most complex river system, is in rapid decline, and faces major challenges over the next 30 years as the climate changes. In our view, there are still major problems with ... <a title="5 ways the government can clean up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/5-ways-the-government-can-clean-up-the-murray-darling-basin-plan-116265/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways the government can clean up the Murray-Darling Basin Plan">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Collins, Professor of Geology, University of Adelaide 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 and The Conversation, ... <a title="Curious Kids: where do rocks come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/curious-kids-where-do-rocks-come-from-116429/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: where do rocks come from?">Read more</a>
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June 11, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Opinion polls Derek Cheng (Herald): Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern won’t reveal how she will vote in cannabis referendum 1News: New Zealanders against cannabis legalisation in latest 1 NEWS Colmar Brunton Poll Zane Small ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 11 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/11/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-11-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 11 2019">Read more</a>