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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thuong Hoang, Lecturer in Virtual and Augmented Reality, Deakin University If you’ve ever participated in a virtual reality (VR) experience, you might have found yourself navigating the virtual world as an avatar. If you haven’t, you probably recognise the experience from its portrayal in film and on ... <a title="Using virtual reality could make you a better person in real life" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/using-virtual-reality-could-make-you-a-better-person-in-real-life-119301/" aria-label="Read more about Using virtual reality could make you a better person in real life">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Fox guarding the henhouse; poacher in charge of the game-keeping. Choose your idiom, but appointing the parliamentary joint committee on intelligence and security to inquire into press freedom is guaranteed to get the ... <a title="Parliamentary press freedom inquiry: letting the fox guard the henhouse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/parliamentary-press-freedom-inquiry-letting-the-fox-guard-the-henhouse-119820/" aria-label="Read more about Parliamentary press freedom inquiry: letting the fox guard the henhouse">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Chapman, Emeritus Professor in Public Health, University of Sydney Smoking rates in Australia are at an all-time low. And yet, nearly 11,500 people are hospitalised from smoking-related cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) disease each year, while almost 6,500 die as a result. And it’s not just ... <a title="Smoking at record low in Australia, but the grim harvest of preventable heart disease continues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/smoking-at-record-low-in-australia-but-the-grim-harvest-of-preventable-heart-disease-continues-119169/" aria-label="Read more about Smoking at record low in Australia, but the grim harvest of preventable heart disease continues">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dustin Marshall, Professor, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University One hectare of ocean in which fishing is not allowed (a marine protected area) produces at least five times the amount of fish as an equivalent unprotected hectare, according to new research published today. This outsized effect means marine ... <a title="No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/no-take-marine-areas-help-fishers-and-fish-far-more-than-we-thought-119659/" aria-label="Read more about No-take marine areas help fishers (and fish) far more than we thought">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martino Malerba, Postdoctoral Fellow, Monash University About half of the coastline of Europe, the United States and Australasia is modified by artificial structures. In newly published research, we identified a new effect of marine urbanisation that has so far gone unrecognised. When we build marinas, ports, jetties ... <a title="Daylight robbery: how human-built structures leave coastal ecosystems in the shadows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/daylight-robbery-how-human-built-structures-leave-coastal-ecosystems-in-the-shadows-118690/" aria-label="Read more about Daylight robbery: how human-built structures leave coastal ecosystems in the shadows">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Kaufman, PhD Scholar in Transport, Griffith University Many mainstays in our lives – phones, personal music libraries and movies – began as pay-as-you-go services. But subscription services are starting to rule, from iTunes shifting to Apple Music, and “all-you-can-watch” subscriptions to the Netflix catalogue. It should ... <a title="We subscribe to movies and music, why not transport?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/we-subscribe-to-movies-and-music-why-not-transport-119538/" aria-label="Read more about We subscribe to movies and music, why not transport?">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne What happens in our first three years profoundly influences the rest of our lives. Children who encounter extreme adversity in those early years – including prolonged exposure to physical or sexual abuse and living in a highly stressful family ... <a title="Early days, but we’ve found a way to lift the IQ and resilience of Australia’s most vulnerable children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/early-days-but-weve-found-a-way-to-lift-the-iq-and-resilience-of-australias-most-vulnerable-children-119003/" aria-label="Read more about Early days, but we’ve found a way to lift the IQ and resilience of Australia’s most vulnerable children">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Pallant, Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology The Woolworths Group proclaims it celebrates “family-friendly values”. Within its supermarkets the company has sought to demonstrate this commitment. Woolies gives out free fruit to kids, for example, and no longer gives out plastic bags. Its goal, the ... <a title="Getting out of liquor and pokies will cost Woolworths, but deliver lasting benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/getting-out-of-liquor-and-pokies-will-cost-woolworths-but-deliver-lasting-benefits-119817/" aria-label="Read more about Getting out of liquor and pokies will cost Woolworths, but deliver lasting benefits">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Doolan, Lecturer in Creative Writing, Southern Cross University In the popular imagination, the term “Gothic” evokes images of grim, crumbling castles, wild moors, jagged mountain peaks, and coffins creaking open in labyrinthine underground crypts. Populating this Gothic terrain are bloodsucking (or, more recently, sparkling) vampires, howling ... <a title="Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/australian-gothic-from-hanging-rock-to-nick-cave-and-kylie-this-genre-explores-our-dark-side-111742/" aria-label="Read more about Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side">Read more</a>
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July 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In an intervention that would resonate with the late Brian Harradine, who was legendary for extracting concessions for Tasmania in return for his Senate vote, Jacqui Lambie has demanded the federal government forgive the state’s housing debt. The Tasmanian senator ... <a title="View from The Hill: Jacqui Lambie plays the Harradine game" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/04/view-from-the-hill-jacqui-lambie-plays-the-harradine-game-119824/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Jacqui Lambie plays the Harradine game">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Frank Brennan, Jesuit priest and member of the expert panel on Religious Freedom set up by Malcolm Turnbull, says the Israel Folau matter is a “simple freedom of contract case regardless of Mr. Folau’s religious views”. “I think the question ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Father Frank Brennan on Israel Folau and religious freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/03/politics-with-michelle-grattan-father-frank-brennan-on-israel-folau-and-religious-freedom-119821/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Father Frank Brennan on Israel Folau and religious freedom">Read more</a>
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July 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland Bob pushed me onto the floor and dragged me into the closet. While I was in the closet he put his hand over my mouth again and pushed on my neck. I started to feel dizzy and was ... <a title="Victoria’s commitment to a non-fatal strangulation offence will make a difference to vulnerable women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/03/victorias-commitment-to-a-non-fatal-strangulation-offence-will-make-a-difference-to-vulnerable-women-119743/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s commitment to a non-fatal strangulation offence will make a difference to vulnerable women">Read more</a>
