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May 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW Unless the federal government changes its funding policy for universities, less well-off ones, particularly regional universities, are going to fail. In Britain, it is already happening. Several bankruptcies are imminent. In Australia, many are clearly in financial difficulties and are ... <a title="Why regional universities are at risk of going under" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/29/why-regional-universities-are-at-risk-of-going-under-109374/" aria-label="Read more about Why regional universities are at risk of going under">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian CH Lee, Associate Professor, Global Studies, RMIT University The monsters that stalk us in popular culture embody fears about our contemporary human condition. As a new Godzilla film opens in cinemas this week, we might gain insight into what currently haunts us most. The endless waves ... <a title="Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/29/why-godzilla-is-the-perfect-monster-for-our-age-of-environmental-destruction-116996/" aria-label="Read more about Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Guihot, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queensland University of Technology Australia is among 42 countries that last week signed up to a new set of policy guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Yet Australia has its own draft guidelines for ethics in AI out ... <a title="Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/29/will-we-ever-agree-to-just-one-set-of-rules-on-the-ethical-development-of-artificial-intelligence-117744/" aria-label="Read more about Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Ritchie, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University In recent days, Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has announced his resignation, failed to formally resign, and is now taking legal action to prevent a parliamentary vote to remove him from office. For most of PNG’s more than ... <a title="Crisis? What crisis? A new prime minister in PNG might not signal meaningful change for its citizens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/crisis-what-crisis-a-new-prime-minister-in-png-might-not-signal-meaningful-change-for-its-citizens-117841/" aria-label="Read more about Crisis? What crisis? A new prime minister in PNG might not signal meaningful change for its citizens">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Kalms, Director of XYX Lab + Associate Professor in the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Monash University, Monash University [I] walk this route to the train station. I often get cat-called whilst walking to the train. It’s also very poorly lit at night. (Female, ... <a title="More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/more-lighting-alone-does-not-create-safer-cities-look-at-what-research-with-young-women-tells-us-113359/" aria-label="Read more about More lighting alone does not create safer cities. Look at what research with young women tells us">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryoni Trezise, Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance Studies, UNSW Review: Prima Facie, Griffin Theatre Company Suzie Miller’s one-woman play Prima Facie is an unsparing study of the Australian legal system’s treatment of sexual assault cases. The play, which opened to standing ovation, concludes with a simple ... <a title="In Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie, theatre finds a voice of reckoning on sexual assault and the law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/in-suzie-millers-prima-facie-theatre-finds-a-voice-of-reckoning-on-sexual-assault-and-the-law-117588/" aria-label="Read more about In Suzie Miller’s Prima Facie, theatre finds a voice of reckoning on sexual assault and the law">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Mortlock, Senior Risk Scientist, Risk Frontiers, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Most major airports in Australia are located on reclaimed swamps, sitting only a few metres above the present day sea level. And the risk of sea level rise from climate change poses a greater threat to ... <a title="Rising seas threaten Australia’s major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/rising-seas-threaten-australias-major-airports-and-it-may-be-happening-faster-than-we-think-115374/" aria-label="Read more about Rising seas threaten Australia’s major airports – and it may be happening faster than we think">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Glenn Hyndes, Professor in Coastal Ecology, Edith Cowan University 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/curious-kids-how-do-sea-creatures-drink-sea-water-and-not-get-sick-110979/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do sea creatures drink sea water and not get sick?">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria Craig, Professor University of Sydney and University of NSW Paediatric Endocrinologist, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, UNSW Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic condition in Australia. At least 1.2 million Australians live with diabetes, and about 10% of them have type 1 diabetes. Diabetes sees the body ... <a title="Flash glucose monitoring: the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/flash-glucose-monitoring-the-little-patches-that-can-make-managing-diabetes-a-whole-lot-easier-117249/" aria-label="Read more about Flash glucose monitoring: the little patches that can make managing diabetes a whole lot easier">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Broadbent, Associate Professor in Dental Public Health, University of Otago In New Zealand, wealth determines dental health. Inequalities in untreated tooth decay are wider in New Zealand than in Australia, Canada or the United States. The latest New Zealand Health Survey, run annually by the Ministry ... <a title="High cost means more than half of NZ’s young adults don’t access dental care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/high-cost-means-more-than-half-of-nzs-young-adults-dont-access-dental-care-117494/" aria-label="Read more about High cost means more than half of NZ’s young adults don’t access dental care">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2019
Papua New Guinea’s Deputy Opposition Leader and Shadow Inter-government and Bougainville Relations Minister Timothy Masiu says the people of Bougainville are closely watching developments over the purported “appointment” of Sir Julius Chan as caretaker PM by Peter O’Neill. The following commentary was published on journalist Sylvester Gawi’s blog Graun Blong Mi – My Land. With ... <a title="Timothy Masiu: Bougainvilleans won’t forget Chan and Sandline mercenaries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/timothy-masiu-bougainvilleans-wont-forget-chan-and-sandline-mercenaries/" aria-label="Read more about Timothy Masiu: Bougainvilleans won’t forget Chan and Sandline mercenaries">Read more</a>
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May 28, 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 Francis Report, workplace bullying Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Why I believe man stood down from Parliament deserves an apology from Trevor Mallard Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): ‘I’m in a very dark place’: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 28 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/28/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-28-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 28 2019">Read more</a>
