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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Farrell, Associate Professor and Clinical Psychologist, Griffith University If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. Where do phobias come from? – Olivia, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney. Phobias are an intense fear of very specific things like objects, places, ... <a title="Curious Kids: where do phobias come from?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/curious-kids-where-do-phobias-come-from-121738/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: where do phobias come from?">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Rogers, Senior lecturer, School of Law and Justice, Southern Cross University The phrase “climate emergency” became part of the political lexicon this year. Governments at all levels made declarations of a climate emergency, as did various organisations such as the Australian Medical Association. Even the Pope ... <a title="Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/activists-are-using-the-climate-emergency-as-a-new-legal-defence-to-justify-law-breaking-122949/" aria-label="Read more about Activists are using the climate emergency as a new legal defence to justify law-breaking">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Luigi Spiller, Associate Professor (Urban Planning) – honorary , University of Melbourne Labor’s Rudd-era National Rental Affordability Scheme (NRAS) has come under attack just when it might be needed. The Abbott government stopped funding new deals under the scheme in 2014, but existing arrangements continued and ... <a title="Don’t tear it down: the idea behind Labor’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/dont-tear-it-down-the-idea-behind-labors-national-rental-affordability-scheme-is-worth-saving-123519/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t tear it down: the idea behind Labor’s National Rental Affordability Scheme is worth saving">Read more</a>
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September 23, 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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Foreign affairs and trade Derek Cheng (Herald): Jacinda Ardern to take climate change stage in New York, but is her record strong enough? (paywalled) Craig McCulloch (RNZ): PM Jacinda Ardern ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-23-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 23 2019">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Casey, Research Associate, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University In all Australia’s capital cities, average share-house rents in the inner suburbs (where jobs are concentrated) leave people without enough money for food and other basics, new research shows. This research, for a forthcoming report by the ... <a title="City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/city-share-house-rents-eat-up-most-of-newstart-leaving-less-than-100-a-week-to-live-on-123772/" aria-label="Read more about City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Lenten, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University Tonight is the AFL’s annual night of nights, the red-carpet spectacular known as the Brownlow Medal vote count. The Brownlow is awarded to the season’s “fairest and best” player. But is the way the medal ... <a title="Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/fairest-and-best-status-counts-in-the-brownlow-medal-123858/" aria-label="Read more about Fairest and best? Status counts in the Brownlow Medal">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gianluca Demartini, Associate professor, The University of Queensland The information we encounter online everyday can be misleading, incomplete or fabricated. Being exposed to “fake news” on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter can influence our thoughts and decisions. We’ve already seen misinformation interfere with elections ... <a title="Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn’t smart enough yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/users-and-their-bias-are-key-to-fighting-fake-news-on-facebook-ai-isnt-smart-enough-yet-123767/" aria-label="Read more about Users (and their bias) are key to fighting fake news on Facebook – AI isn’t smart enough yet">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Manns, Lecturer in Linguistics, Monash University Not to put a damper on things, but Australian food hasn’t always made us happy little Vegemites. One needn’t look further than the humble meat pie to see how our love/hate relationship with Aussie tucker has evolved. In the early ... <a title="How Australians talk about tucker is a story that’ll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/how-australians-talk-about-tucker-is-a-story-thatll-make-you-want-to-eat-the-bum-out-of-an-elephant-121492/" aria-label="Read more about How Australians talk about tucker is a story that’ll make you want to eat the bum out of an elephant">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirrie J Ballard, Professor, Speech Pathology, University of Sydney Sam is a high school drama teacher — articulate, funny, smart. It’s an ordinary day and she isn’t feeling great, but pushes through. At morning tea, she spills coffee down her shirt; at lunch she notices a strange ... <a title="In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there’s help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/in-a-chatty-world-losing-your-speech-can-be-alienating-but-theres-help-121943/" aria-label="Read more about In a chatty world, losing your speech can be alienating. But there’s help">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penelope Carroll, Researcher in Public Health, Massey University Our research project explored the everyday lives of disabled young people, aged from 12 to 25 years, with mobility, vision and hearing impairments. We measured and asked them about factors that enabled or constrained their opportunities to fully participate ... <a title="Comic explainer: young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/comic-explainer-young-disabled-new-zealanders-on-the-barriers-to-a-better-life-122226/" aria-label="Read more about Comic explainer: young disabled New Zealanders on the barriers to a better life">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jagannath Adhikari, Sessional Lecturer, UNSW Reducing emissions from deforestation and farming is an urgent global priority if we want to control climate change. However, like many climate change problems, the solution is complicated. Cutting down forests to plant edible crops feeds some of the world’s hungriest people. ... <a title="‘Edible forests’ can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/edible-forests-can-fight-land-clearing-and-world-hunger-at-the-same-time-122540/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Edible forests’ can fight land clearing and world hunger at the same time">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Margaret Kristin Merga, Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University Reading aloud can help young children learn about new words and how to sound them. There’s great value too in providing opportunities for children to enjoy regular silent reading, which is sustained reading of materials they select ... <a title="10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/23/10-ways-to-get-the-most-out-of-silent-reading-in-schools-123531/" aria-label="Read more about 10 ways to get the most out of silent reading in schools">Read more</a>
