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5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Nyanjom, Lecturer – School of Business and Law, Edith Cowan University Plato and Aristotle. Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey. Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. In each of these famous relationships it was the older person with more experience acting as mentor, guiding the much younger “mentee” ... <a title="5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/5-tips-on-how-to-be-a-good-mentor-to-someone-twice-your-age-114189/" aria-label="Read more about 5 tips on how to be a good mentor to someone twice your age">Read more</a>

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Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology The trial of the man accused of the murders and attempted murders in the Christchurch mosque attacks is one small but important legal process. Another one has now started. A Royal commission of inquiry, to be led by ... <a title="Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/explainer-how-a-royal-commission-will-investigate-christchurch-shootings-116122/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: how a royal commission will investigate Christchurch shootings">Read more</a>

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Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University At about the same time on Sunday afternoon that former Labor prime minister Paul Keating was referring to him as a “fossil with a baseball cap”, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced a re-election promise to crackdown ... <a title="Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/coalition-plans-to-improve-online-safety-dont-address-the-root-cause-of-harms-the-big-tech-business-model-116592/" aria-label="Read more about Coalition plans to improve online safety don’t address the root cause of harms: the big tech business model">Read more</a>

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Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Some weeks back, Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher grimly characterised the election as a choice between an angry dad figure in a baseball cap and a sad sack who learned public speaking in funeral parlour. ... <a title="Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/look-at-me-look-at-me-how-image-conscious-but-visionless-leaders-have-made-for-a-dreary-campaign-116421/" aria-label="Read more about Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign">Read more</a>

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Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/curious-kids-why-dont-horses-sit-or-lie-down-even-while-sleeping-116156/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?">Read more</a>

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Constitutional reform made easy: how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Synot, Senior Research Assistant, Griffith University The Uluru Statement from the Heart is almost two years old and now enjoys bipartisan political support. Labor’s policy, if elected, is to hold a referendum on enshrining a First Nations voice in the Australian Constitution in their first term. ... <a title="Constitutional reform made easy: how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/constitutional-reform-made-easy-how-to-achieve-the-uluru-statement-and-a-first-nations-voice-116141/" aria-label="Read more about Constitutional reform made easy: how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice">Read more</a>

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Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tooran Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellow, University of Sydney The NBN was touted as dream infrastructure, and the Coalition says it is close to completing the A$50 billion national broadband network. But Australia recently slipped three spots to place 62nd in global ... <a title="Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/around-50-of-homes-in-sydney-melbourne-and-brisbane-have-the-oldest-nbn-technology-115131/" aria-label="Read more about Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology">Read more</a>

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The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Lawrence, Affiliate, Sydney Environment Institute; Honorary Associate, Macquarie University, Macquarie University Can a uranium mine be rehabilitated to the environmental standards of a national park and World Heritage site? That’s the challenge faced by the controversial Ranger uranium mine inside Kakadu National Park. But our new ... <a title="The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/the-uranium-mine-in-the-heart-of-kakadu-needs-a-better-clean-up-plan-115566/" aria-label="Read more about The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan">Read more</a>

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For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Martin-Chew, Freelance art writer and PhD candidate, The University of Queensland In the recent Julian Schnabel film about Vincent van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate, Vincent asserts, “I am my painting”. The lives of certain artists are often viewed popularly through the prism of biography. But in ... <a title="For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/for-aboriginal-artists-personal-stories-matter-113029/" aria-label="Read more about For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter">Read more</a>

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Curious Kids: is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney 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, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/curious-kids-is-it-true-that-dogs-at-the-pound-get-killed-if-nobody-adopts-them-115803/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?">Read more</a>

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Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2019

May 7, 2019

Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 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 Environment Spinoff: You live on a planet facing a million-species extinction Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Million species facing extinction: report Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): A million species ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-07-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2019">Read more</a>

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How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy

May 7, 2019

Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney Today we kick off a four-part election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read an analysis of Labor’s living wage ... <a title="How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/how-the-major-parties-stack-up-on-industrial-relations-policy-116256/" aria-label="Read more about How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy">Read more</a>