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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaco Le Roux, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. In May, a United Nations report warned that 1 million species are threatened by extinction. More recently, 571 plant species were declared extinct. ... <a title="Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/plants-are-going-extinct-up-to-350-times-faster-than-the-historical-norm-122255/" aria-label="Read more about Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project; and Online Teacher at Education Queensland’s IMPACT Centre, The University of Queensland From as early as Grade 3 teachers start teaching children how to put across their own points of view. It’s not about winning arguments, ... <a title="How to make good arguments at school (and everywhere else)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/how-to-make-good-arguments-at-school-and-everywhere-else-121305/" aria-label="Read more about How to make good arguments at school (and everywhere else)">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW It’s four years since then Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Australia had been heading to “a Greek-style economic future”. He was referring to what he said had been happening under the previous Labor government. When Labor left office in 2013 the ... <a title="Vital Signs: economically, Australia is at risk of becoming Germany, and not in a good way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/vital-signs-economically-australia-is-at-risk-of-becoming-germany-and-not-in-a-good-way-122217/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: economically, Australia is at risk of becoming Germany, and not in a good way">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samia Khatun, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London Some 1,000 kilometres inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins. The mosque was built from corrugated ... <a title="Friday essay: how a Bengali book in Broken Hill sheds new light on Australian history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/friday-essay-how-a-bengali-book-in-broken-hill-sheds-new-light-on-australian-history-121126/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how a Bengali book in Broken Hill sheds new light on Australian history">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Even Scott Morrison, with his abundant self-belief, couldn’t have imagined that on Saturday’s first anniversary of his seizing the prime ministership, he’d be winging his way to France for a G7 meeting, where Australia has observer status for the first ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Courting ‘quiet Australians’ from ‘bubble central’, it’s been a remarkable first year for Scott Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/grattan-on-friday-courting-quiet-australians-from-bubble-central-its-been-a-remarkable-first-year-for-scott-morrison-122260/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Courting ‘quiet Australians’ from ‘bubble central’, it’s been a remarkable first year for Scott Morrison">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
ANALYSIS: By Camellia Webb-Gannon of the University of Wollongong Last weekend, the Indonesian police took 43 West Papuan students into custody for allegedly disrespecting the Indonesian flag during an independence day celebration (an allegation the students deny). Police stormed the students’ dorm and used teargas to force them out, while bystanders and officers called them ... <a title="West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/west-papua-riots-why-indonesia-needs-to-answer-for-its-broken-promises/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua riots: Why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people again took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest against the government – the 11th straight weekend of demonstrations that began in June over a proposed extradition bill. But after more than two ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Why the Hong Kong protesters feel they have nothing to lose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/trust-me-im-an-expert-why-the-hong-kong-protesters-feel-they-have-nothing-to-lose-122031/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Why the Hong Kong protesters feel they have nothing to lose">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hamilton, Strategic Advisory Panel Member, Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne Australia’s primary federal renewable energy target – to have 33 terawatts of renewable energy by 2020 – has essentially been achieved. There is much uncertainty as to what is next. In the absence of ... <a title="We need a national renewables approach, or some states – like NSW – will miss out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/we-need-a-national-renewables-approach-or-some-states-like-nsw-will-miss-out-121192/" aria-label="Read more about We need a national renewables approach, or some states – like NSW – will miss out">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lewis Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath ... <a title="A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/a-hippocratic-oath-for-data-science-well-settle-for-a-little-more-data-literacy-122200/" aria-label="Read more about A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Just when we thought Australia was getting serious about shifting priorities away from the Middle East to its own neighbourhood, the prime minister has announced another Middle East step up. Australia has committed a warship, surveillance ... <a title="Australia’s latest military commitment should spark assessment of how well we use our defence forces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/australias-latest-military-commitment-should-spark-assessment-of-how-well-we-use-our-defence-forces-122207/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s latest military commitment should spark assessment of how well we use our defence forces">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Keogh, ARC DECRA Fellow, Queensland University of Technology In the last three months, the Australian Classification Board has “refused classification” for at least four video games – effectively banning them in Australia. The latest is zombie-survival shooter DayZ. Despite being previously available on digital storefronts with ... <a title="Australia bans video games for things you’d see in movies. But gamers can access them anyway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/australia-bans-video-games-for-things-youd-see-in-movies-but-gamers-can-access-them-anyway-122183/" aria-label="Read more about Australia bans video games for things you’d see in movies. But gamers can access them anyway">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bianca Fileborn, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne The Victorian government is considering changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996. The changes will mean transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people can change the sex recorded on their birth certificate without having to undergo medical ... <a title="Victorian changes to gender on birth certificate will not increase sexual violence. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/victorian-changes-to-gender-on-birth-certificate-will-not-increase-sexual-violence-heres-why-122125/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian changes to gender on birth certificate will not increase sexual violence. Here’s why">Read more</a>
