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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Davis, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife Ecology, Edith Cowan University It’s the smell that hits you first. The scent of urine and decomposing bodies. Then you notice other signs: scuttles and squeaks, small dead bodies leaking blood, tails sticking out of hubcaps. If you’ve lived through a ... <a title="Mouse plague: bromadialone will obliterate mice, but it’ll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/mouse-plague-bromadialone-will-obliterate-mice-but-itll-poison-eagles-snakes-and-owls-too-160995/" aria-label="Read more about Mouse plague: bromadialone will obliterate mice, but it’ll poison eagles, snakes and owls, too">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Charles Deneen, Senior Lecturer in Higher Education Curriculum & Assessment, The University of Melbourne With some universities returning to face-to-face teaching this year, ANU Vice Chancellor Brian Schmidt noted that, while his university was one of them, lectures would be much less common and not a ... <a title="Good riddance to boring lectures? Technology isn’t the answer – understanding good teaching is" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/good-riddance-to-boring-lectures-technology-isnt-the-answer-understanding-good-teaching-is-158217/" aria-label="Read more about Good riddance to boring lectures? Technology isn’t the answer – understanding good teaching is">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Tranter, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Science, UNSW Slowing transport in cities provides immense benefits for the health of people, economies and the planet, so why are we still obsessed with speed? As Mahatma Gandhi observed: There is more to life than increasing its speed. This ... <a title="Slaves to speed, we’d all benefit from ‘slow cities’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/slaves-to-speed-wed-all-benefit-from-slow-cities-152756/" aria-label="Read more about Slaves to speed, we’d all benefit from ‘slow cities’">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The key narrative in Josh Frydenberg’s 2021 budget was the need to use more aggressive fiscal policy to drive unemployment down and wages up. Two key pieces of data this week indicate how things are tracking. On Wednesday the Australian Bureau ... <a title="Vital Signs: wages growth desultory, unemployment stunning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/vital-signs-wages-growth-desultory-unemployment-stunning-161099/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: wages growth desultory, unemployment stunning">Read more</a>
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May 21, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University When town planners mapped Byron Bay in 1884 they mistakenly believed Captain James Cook had named Cape Byron after the English poet Lord Byron — when in fact it was named after the poet’s grandfather, a navy ... <a title="Friday essay: why there’s still something about Byron, beyond Insta influencers and beige linen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/21/friday-essay-why-theres-still-something-about-byron-beyond-insta-influencers-and-beige-linen-159055/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: why there’s still something about Byron, beyond Insta influencers and beige linen">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australians of Indian heritage are not just trying to get back home — many are attempting to go to India. Scott Morrison revealed on Wednesday that since April 23, more more than 1,000 people had sought to travel there. “Now ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison locked Australia’s border gate and now he’s hiding the key" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/grattan-on-friday-morrison-locked-australias-border-gate-and-now-hes-hiding-the-key-161284/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison locked Australia’s border gate and now he’s hiding the key">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah-Catherine Rodan, PhD candidate, University of Sydney The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is considering rescheduling psilocybin and MDMA from their current classification as Schedule 9 prohibited substances to Schedule 8 controlled substances. This would allow psychiatrists to use these drugs in combination with psychotherapy for the treatment ... <a title="Why the TGA should reschedule MDMA and psilocybin for the treatment of mental illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/why-the-tga-should-reschedule-mdma-and-psilocybin-for-the-treatment-of-mental-illness-160276/" aria-label="Read more about Why the TGA should reschedule MDMA and psilocybin for the treatment of mental illness">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Crowley, Associate, Grattan Institute Victoria’s budget shows a Treasurer engaged in a high-wire balancing act: ensuring a job-rich economic ‘soft landing’ on one hand, while trying to improve the state’s long-term fiscal position on the other. The budget partly delivers on both goals but, like any ... <a title="Like a high-wire act, Victoria’s budget is a mix of hard work, luck and optical illusion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/like-a-high-wire-act-victorias-budget-is-a-mix-of-hard-work-luck-and-optical-illusion-161103/" aria-label="Read more about Like a high-wire act, Victoria’s budget is a mix of hard work, luck and optical illusion">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Curtin, Professor of Politics and Policy, University of Auckland New Zealand has now had three “Wellbeing Budgets”: the prototype in 2019, the COVID-19 “Rebuilding Together” version in 2020, and today Finance Minister Grant Robertson announced the Labour government is “Securing our Recovery”. With Labour governing with ... <a title="NZ Budget 2021: billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/nz-budget-2021-billions-more-for-benefits-but-one-eye-on-the-bottom-line-161083/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2021: billions more for benefits, but one eye on the bottom line">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Honorary Fellow at University of Wollongong, University of Wollongong The Black Summer bushfires burned far more temperate forest than any other fire season recorded in Australia. The disaster was clearly a climate change event; however, other human activities also ... <a title="Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/native-forest-logging-makes-bushfires-worse-and-to-say-otherwise-ignores-the-facts-161177/" aria-label="Read more about Native forest logging makes bushfires worse – and to say otherwise ignores the facts">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tregear, Principal Fellow, The University of Melbourne Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana is one of only a handful of 20th century classical concert pieces that can claim to have become embedded in popular culture. Its opening movement in particular has featured in epic film battle scenes, coffee, ... <a title="Decoding the music masterpieces: how Carmina Burana, based on Benedictine poems, travelled from Bavaria to a beer ad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/decoding-the-music-masterpieces-how-carmina-burana-based-on-benedictine-poems-travelled-from-bavaria-to-a-beer-ad-159057/" aria-label="Read more about Decoding the music masterpieces: how Carmina Burana, based on Benedictine poems, travelled from Bavaria to a beer ad">Read more</a>
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May 20, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Newhouse, Adjunct Professor of Law, Macquarie University Geoffrey Robertson is one of Australia’s most acclaimed international jurists and human rights advocates. His latest book, Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them, explains the history of international human rights law and acknowledges its failings. ... <a title="Book review: Geoffrey Robertson makes the case for naming and shaming human rights abusers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/20/book-review-geoffrey-robertson-makes-the-case-for-naming-and-shaming-human-rights-abusers-160985/" aria-label="Read more about Book review: Geoffrey Robertson makes the case for naming and shaming human rights abusers">Read more</a>
