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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By DB Subedi, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of New England Over 37 million Myanmar citizens, including 5 million first-time voters, will go to the polls on November 8. The election represents a litmus test for the popularity of National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi, ... <a title="Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/why-myanmars-election-is-unlikely-to-herald-major-political-reform-or-support-transition-to-democracy-146021/" aria-label="Read more about Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Two former New Zealand prime ministers have called for an end to polarisation and the need for “healing” as the US presidential election remains in limbo. Both former Labour PM Helen Clark and ex-National PM Sir John Key talked up the “television spectacle” in newspaper columns today with Key admitting that ... <a title="Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/two-former-nz-prime-ministers-call-for-us-to-restore-global-leadership/" aria-label="Read more about Two former NZ prime ministers call for US to restore global ‘leadership’">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Sarah John, Flinders University Facing the gradual erosion of early leads in several battleground states — and increasingly likely defeat in the presidential election — the Trump campaign is launching a well-planned legal assault to challenge the validity of ballots and the process of vote-counting itself. The Biden campaign is responding with an ... <a title="With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/with-re-election-hopes-fading-trump-tries-for-an-election-win-in-the-courts/" aria-label="Read more about With re-election hopes fading, Trump tries for an election win in the courts">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Bevitt, Senior Instrument Scientist, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Albanerpetontids, or “albies” for short, are the cute little salamander-like amphibians you’ve likely never heard of. Now extinct, Albies had a dream run. They’d been around since the Middle Jurassic around 165 million years ago, and ... <a title="This tiny amphibian that outlived the dinosaurs provides the earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/this-tiny-amphibian-that-outlived-the-dinosaurs-provides-the-earliest-example-of-a-rapid-fire-tongue-149445/" aria-label="Read more about This tiny amphibian that outlived the dinosaurs provides the earliest example of a rapid-fire tongue">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Munro, Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University How can we concentrate on a particular thing (like studies) without getting distracted? Melvina, aged 14 Thanks for this great question Melvina! Many students are probably wondering the same thing as end-of-year assessments approach. To concentrate ... <a title="Curious Kids: how can we concentrate on study without getting distracted?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/curious-kids-how-can-we-concentrate-on-study-without-getting-distracted-146572/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how can we concentrate on study without getting distracted?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel da Silva, Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne As fires ravaged large sections of the Australian bush last summer, cities and towns all along the coast were blanketed in toxic smoke. Air pollutants were measured at unheard of levels across the country. Hazardous air ... <a title="Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/frequent-extreme-bushfires-are-our-new-reality-we-need-to-learn-how-to-live-with-smoke-filled-air-149427/" aria-label="Read more about Frequent extreme bushfires are our new reality. We need to learn how to live with smoke-filled air">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas Cole-Hunter, Research fellow, Queensland University of Technology When it comes to handling the waste crisis in Australia, options are limited: we either export our waste or bury it. But to achieve current national targets, policy-makers are increasingly asking if we can instead safely burn waste as ... <a title="Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark? Well, it’s complicated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/can-we-safely-burn-waste-to-make-fuel-like-they-do-in-denmark-well-its-complicated-148250/" aria-label="Read more about Can we safely burn waste to make fuel like they do in Denmark? Well, it’s complicated">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivia Karaolis, PhD Student, University of Sydney Children come into the world ready to communicate. A baby cries and coos to express their feelings and respond to sounds. The ability to communicate develops quickly but uniquely in every child. By the age of three, most children are ... <a title="Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/talking-through-play-3-ways-puppets-can-help-your-child-open-up-132353/" aria-label="Read more about Talking through play: 3 ways puppets can help your child open up">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University Counsel assisting the NSW Inquiry into the suitability of Crown Resorts to operate Sydney’s new Barangaroo casino summed up this week by telling the Commissioner Crown was not a suitable person to continue to ... <a title="If Crown is unfit to hold a Sydney casino licence, what about Melbourne, and Perth?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/if-crown-is-unfit-to-hold-a-sydney-casino-licence-what-about-melbourne-and-perth-149443/" aria-label="Read more about If Crown is unfit to hold a Sydney casino licence, what about Melbourne, and Perth?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janna Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, La Trobe University In 2017, when a biology professor in a state college in Washington protested against a proposed day-long ban on the presence of white students on campus, radical students shut the campus down. The ban was part of a yearly ... <a title="Friday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/friday-essay-a-new-front-in-the-culture-wars-cynical-theories-takes-unfair-aim-at-the-humanities-148524/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University The US presidential election may still be extremely close, but one thing is clear: those pundits and pollsters who predicted Trump was in no position to win will be going back to the drawing board. ... <a title="Who are Donald Trump’s supporters in New Zealand and what do we know about them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/who-are-donald-trumps-supporters-in-new-zealand-and-what-do-we-know-about-them-149424/" aria-label="Read more about Who are Donald Trump’s supporters in New Zealand and what do we know about them?">Read more</a>
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November 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Joe Hockey, former Australian ambassador to the United States who’s now in business there, came under sharp attack for some ill-informed comments about the high Democrat vote in Washington, DC. Despite this faux pas, Hockey’s description of the American system ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: A Biden presidency would put pressure on Scott Morrison over climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/06/grattan-on-friday-a-biden-presidency-would-put-pressure-on-scott-morrison-over-climate-change-149548/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: A Biden presidency would put pressure on Scott Morrison over climate change">Read more</a>
