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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Killingsworth, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Tasmania Under pressure: the ICC headquarters in The Hague. Shutterstock When the International Criminal Court began operating 20 years ago this month, its existence reflected a unique historical and political epoch. Buoyed by the successful creation of war-crimes ... <a title="Twenty years on, the International Criminal Court is doing more good than its critics claim" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/twenty-years-on-the-international-criminal-court-is-doing-more-good-than-its-critics-claim-186382/" aria-label="Read more about Twenty years on, the International Criminal Court is doing more good than its critics claim">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Cameron, Associate Lecturer/Researcher, The University of Western Australia Getty Home ownership among young people is falling sharply, while renters face worrying insecurity. Nowhere is this more pronounced than for the 4.4 million Australians living with a disability and, in particular, the 660,000 plus Australians with an ... <a title="Not just ramps and doorways – disability housing is about choosing where, how and who you live with" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/not-just-ramps-and-doorways-disability-housing-is-about-choosing-where-how-and-who-you-live-with-183523/" aria-label="Read more about Not just ramps and doorways – disability housing is about choosing where, how and who you live with">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hespos, Psychology Department at Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois, USA and Professor of Infant Studies at MARCS Institute, Western Sydney University Shutterstock In a world rife with opposing views, let’s draw attention to something we can all agree on: if I show you my pen, and then ... <a title="Researchers trained an AI model to ‘think’ like a baby, and it suddenly excelled" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/researchers-trained-an-ai-model-to-think-like-a-baby-and-it-suddenly-excelled-186563/" aria-label="Read more about Researchers trained an AI model to ‘think’ like a baby, and it suddenly excelled">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Horvath, Senior lecturer, La Trobe University Sinister terminology: Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin last month.AP Photo/, Pool) READ LESS Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AP No concept is more central to Vladimir Putin’s propaganda today than “Russophobia”. Internationally and on the home front, his propagandists claim they are ... <a title="Is Vladimir Putin the greatest Russophobe of all?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/is-vladimir-putin-the-greatest-russophobe-of-all-186642/" aria-label="Read more about Is Vladimir Putin the greatest Russophobe of all?">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renee Carey, Senior Research Fellow, Curtin University Shutterstock Silica dust is a very fine dust produced when products such as bricks, concrete and pavers are cut or drilled. Artificial stone, which is used mainly for kitchen benchtops, is a particularly potent source of silica dust. Breathing this ... <a title="Banning artificial stone could prevent 100 lung cancers and 1,000 cases of silicosis, where dust scars the lungs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/banning-artificial-stone-could-prevent-100-lung-cancers-and-1-000-cases-of-silicosis-where-dust-scars-the-lungs-182420/" aria-label="Read more about Banning artificial stone could prevent 100 lung cancers and 1,000 cases of silicosis, where dust scars the lungs">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Fitz-Henry, Deputy Coordinator – Anthropology, Development Studies & Social Theory, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock “Climate change is racist”. So reads the title of a recent book by British journalist Jeremy Williams. While this title might seem provocative, it’s long been recognised that people of colour ... <a title="Climate change is white colonisation of the atmosphere. It’s time to tackle this entrenched racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/climate-change-is-white-colonisation-of-the-atmosphere-its-time-to-tackle-this-entrenched-racism-185579/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is white colonisation of the atmosphere. It’s time to tackle this entrenched racism">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anabela Malpique, Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University www.shutterstock.com Learning how to be a confident and communicative writer is one of the most important skills students learn at school. But NAPLAN results show a significant decline in Australian students’ writing performance. Research for the period to 2018, shows ... <a title="From shopping lists to jokes on the fridge – 6 ways parents can help their primary kids learn to write well" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/from-shopping-lists-to-jokes-on-the-fridge-6-ways-parents-can-help-their-primary-kids-learn-to-write-well-186216/" aria-label="Read more about From shopping lists to jokes on the fridge – 6 ways parents can help their primary kids learn to write well">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Priya Vaughan, Postdoctoral research Fellow, UNSW Sydney There’s growing recognition that creative pursuits like painting, singing or dancing can have a positive impact on physical and mental health, can lessen isolation, and can increase connection to community. Creative activities can also be an effective and safe way ... <a title="‘Sometimes I don’t have the words for things’: how we are using art to research stigma and marginalisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/sometimes-i-dont-have-the-words-for-things-how-we-are-using-art-to-research-stigma-and-marginalisation-183819/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sometimes I don’t have the words for things’: how we are using art to research stigma and marginalisation">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and Lecturer in Law, University of Sydney Shutterstock A non-profit group is imploring the new federal environment minister Tanya Plibersek to consider the climate change impacts of 19 fossil fuel projects currently pending approval, drawing on ... <a title="Times have changed: why the environment minister is being forced to reconsider climate-related impacts of pending fossil fuel approvals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/11/times-have-changed-why-the-environment-minister-is-being-forced-to-reconsider-climate-related-impacts-of-pending-fossil-fuel-approvals-186715/" aria-label="Read more about Times have changed: why the environment minister is being forced to reconsider climate-related impacts of pending fossil fuel approvals">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Ensuring equal opportunities and pay for women is one of the wide range of topics laid down for the federal government’s jobs summit, to be held September 1-2. About 100 invitees will come from business, unions, civil society groups, and ... <a title="Women’s job opportunities in the spotlight at Albanese’s summit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/11/womens-job-opportunities-in-the-spotlight-at-albaneses-summit-186743/" aria-label="Read more about Women’s job opportunities in the spotlight at Albanese’s summit">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Singh, Research fellow, University of South Australia Shutterstock During the pandemic, some people found their level of exercise greatly reduced, whereas for others it was a catalyst to increase their physical activity. With the widespread switch to working from home, incidental physical activity was reduced. Some ... <a title="COVID has changed our exercise habits, but it doesn’t have to be for the worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/11/covid-has-changed-our-exercise-habits-but-it-doesnt-have-to-be-for-the-worse-181493/" aria-label="Read more about COVID has changed our exercise habits, but it doesn’t have to be for the worse">Read more</a>
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July 11, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Scott, Associate Professor in Geology, University of Otago This image shows meteors that skimmed the atmosphere during just one night in March this year. Author provided Meteorites hit New Zealand three or four times a year, but the fireball that shot across the sky above Cook ... <a title="Equivalent to 1,800 tonnes of TNT: what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/11/equivalent-to-1-800-tonnes-of-tnt-what-we-now-know-about-the-meteor-that-lit-up-the-daytime-sky-above-new-zealand-186636/" aria-label="Read more about Equivalent to 1,800 tonnes of TNT: what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New Zealand">Read more</a>
