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August 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University In a previous century, I conducted doctoral fieldwork among the abandoned warehouses, smoky pubs and crumbling squats of the British post-punk, independent rock scene. How strange that I should become re-acquainted with ... <a title="Will time time tear us apart? Exploring the appeal of Joy Division 40 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/06/will-time-time-tear-us-apart-exploring-the-appeal-of-joy-division-40-years-on-121314/" aria-label="Read more about Will time time tear us apart? Exploring the appeal of Joy Division 40 years on">Read more</a>
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August 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathalie Butt, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland According to records compiled by the campaign group Global Witness, 1,738 people described as environmental defenders were killed between 2002 and 2018, across 50 countries. Their latest report for 2018, released last week, identified 164 killings Although the figure ... <a title="More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/06/more-than-1-700-activists-have-been-killed-this-century-defending-the-environment-120352/" aria-label="Read more about More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heiko Timmers, Associate Professor of Physics, UNSW Last year Australia sold more than 7,000 tonnes of uranium, at a value of nearly A$600 million. This uranium produced nearly as much energy as Australia uses in a year, but with less than 10% of the carbon dioxide from ... <a title="Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/australia-should-explore-nuclear-waste-before-we-try-domestic-nuclear-power-121361/" aria-label="Read more about Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University Some people don’t like sharing their food – we all have a friend who gets cranky when you steal a chip from their plate. For wild animals, this makes sense, because any food shared is energy lost that could otherwise have ... <a title="Buffet buddies: footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/buffet-buddies-footage-reveals-that-fierce-leopard-seals-work-together-when-king-penguin-is-on-the-menu-121186/" aria-label="Read more about Buffet buddies: footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Manuel, Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University It was bound to happen, and it did. Poorly crafted legislation – designed to allow national security agencies to collect information with the aim of protecting Australians from terrorists – is now reportedly being ... <a title="Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/think-your-metadata-is-only-visible-to-national-security-agencies-think-again-121253/" aria-label="Read more about Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne When two swimmers refused to acknowledge victories by Chinese swimmer Sun Yang at the last month’s world swimming championships, the very public protests riveted the swimming world and cast a spotlight (again) on suspected doping ... <a title="Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/why-drug-cheats-are-still-being-caught-seven-years-after-the-2012-london-olympics-121123/" aria-label="Read more about Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karleen Gribble, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University Australian women want to breastfeed but many struggle. And the most disadvantaged face the biggest challenges. Among them are mothers who are involved with the child protection and criminal justice systems, who need extra ... <a title="Mums in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/mums-in-prison-or-whose-babies-are-in-care-need-breastfeeding-support-too-121039/" aria-label="Read more about Mums in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too">Read more</a>
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August 5, 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. Greens conference Jason Walls (Herald): The Greens had two jobs at their annual conference. They accomplished neither. (paywalled) Jane Patterson (RNZ): Transparency falters at Greens’ annual conference Mike Houlahan (ODT): Aspirations ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 05 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-05-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 05 2019">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards – Earlier this year Greens’ co-leader James Shaw declared that if the capital gains tax wasn’t implemented then this Government didn’t deserve to be re-elected. With many other complaints at the moment about the lack of progress on important issues from the Government, and also the Greens role in government, ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Have the Greens done enough to be re-elected?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-have-the-greens-done-enough-to-be-re-elected/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Have the Greens done enough to be re-elected?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University You don’t need to look far to find doom and gloom stories about traditional media in the digital age. Yet linking media hardship to a view that investigative journalism is ... <a title="Why investigative reporting in the digital age is waving, not drowning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/why-investigative-reporting-in-the-digital-age-is-waving-not-drowning-121045/" aria-label="Read more about Why investigative reporting in the digital age is waving, not drowning">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romane H. Cristescu, Posdoc in Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast In a country like Australia – a wealthy, economically and politically stable nation with multiple environmental laws and comparatively effective governance – the public could be forgiven for assuming that environmental laws are effective in protecting ... <a title="Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia’s threatened species protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/koala-detecting-dogs-sniff-out-flaws-in-australias-threatened-species-protection-121118/" aria-label="Read more about Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia’s threatened species protection">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Among the many touching gifts following the March 2019 shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, were two paintings by artists from South Australia’s remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The paintings showed a honey grevillea shrub, a native ... <a title="Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/indigenous-art-centres-that-sustain-remote-communities-are-at-risk-the-vet-sector-can-help-121179/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help">Read more</a>
