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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dani Larkin, Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle Gunnai-Kurnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe was recently elected by Greens party members to replace the former party leader, Richard Di Natale, as senator for Victoria. Thorpe is the first Indigenous woman to represent the Greens in federal ... <a title="Lidia Thorpe wants to shift course on Indigenous recognition. Here’s why we must respect the Uluru Statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/lidia-thorpe-wants-to-shift-course-on-indigenous-recognition-heres-why-we-must-respect-the-uluru-statement-141609/" aria-label="Read more about Lidia Thorpe wants to shift course on Indigenous recognition. Here’s why we must respect the Uluru Statement">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charlene Zietsma, Associate professor, Pennsylvania State University In May this year, we were convening a dream conference: 140 like-minded academics on a Greek island for three-and-a-half days to work on a topic we cared about – organising sustainably. We recognised the contradiction of travelling to Crete to ... <a title="COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/covid-19-forced-us-to-move-a-conference-from-a-greek-island-to-the-web-and-quickly-heres-what-we-learnt-140634/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 forced us to move a conference from a Greek island to the web — and quickly. Here’s what we learnt">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology Only 40% of students in China who previously intended to study overseas still plan to, while just under 50% of those who had studied overseas plan to return to their study after the borders ... <a title="Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/students-in-china-heed-their-governments-warnings-against-studying-in-australia-141871/" aria-label="Read more about Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bjorn Sturmberg, Research Leader, Battery Storage & Grid Integration Program, Australian National University Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities – as we’ve seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns – but they face two obstacles. In the short term ... <a title="Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/owners-of-electric-vehicles-to-be-paid-to-plug-into-the-grid-to-help-avoid-blackouts-132519/" aria-label="Read more about Owners of electric vehicles to be paid to plug into the grid to help avoid blackouts">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University In an age of isolation, video sharing platform TikTok has emerged as a bonding force for many. But recent headlines allege the service, owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance, is feeding users’ data to the Chinese Communist Party. ... <a title="China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/china-could-be-using-tiktok-to-spy-on-australians-but-banning-it-isnt-a-simple-fix-142157/" aria-label="Read more about China could be using TikTok to spy on Australians, but banning it isn’t a simple fix">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kingsley Dixon, John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University This article is a preview from Flora, Fauna, Fire, a multimedia project launching on Monday July 13. The project tracks the recovery of Australia’s native plants and animals after last summer’s bushfire tragedy. Sign up to The Conversation’s newsletter ... <a title="After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/after-last-summers-fires-the-bell-tolls-for-australias-endangered-mountain-bells-139665/" aria-label="Read more about After last summer’s fires, the bell tolls for Australia’s endangered mountain bells">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Shulmeister, Professor, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/climate-explained-what-the-world-was-like-the-last-time-carbon-dioxide-levels-were-at-400ppm-141784/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: what the world was like the last time carbon dioxide levels were at 400ppm">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney A target of 70% private and 30% public dwellings is an accepted standard for public housing renewal projects in several Australian states. This level of private ownership is said to be necessary to counter ... <a title="Public housing ‘renewal’ likely to drive shift to private renters, not owners, in Sydney" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/public-housing-renewal-likely-to-drive-shift-to-private-renters-not-owners-in-sydney-133352/" aria-label="Read more about Public housing ‘renewal’ likely to drive shift to private renters, not owners, in Sydney">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lacey, Senior Lecturer in International Trade, University of Adelaide When the United Kingdom completed its telecom supply chain review last year it gave a green light to Huawei by concluding that nationality-based bans did nothing to improve network security and could actually harm it by weakening ... <a title="Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/huaweis-window-of-opportunity-closes-how-geopolitics-triumphed-over-technology-142158/" aria-label="Read more about Huawei’s window of opportunity closes: how geopolitics triumphed over technology">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison M Joubert, Lecturer in Marketing, The University of Queensland Cancel culture — withdrawing support for public figures when they do or say something offensive — has become so widespread it was Macquarie Dictionary’s 2019 word of the year. A practice where people come together to remove ... <a title="Celebrities can be cancelled. Fandoms are forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/celebrities-can-be-cancelled-fandoms-are-forever-141775/" aria-label="Read more about Celebrities can be cancelled. Fandoms are forever">Read more</a>
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July 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Fastnedge, Lecturer in Advertising Creativity, Auckland University of Technology When the New Zealand government wanted a campaign to keep kids safe online, naturally it turned to a couple of naked porn actors to get the message across. Actually the government turned to video advertising agency Motion ... <a title="Small budgets, big ideas — what a viral adult film awareness campaign tells us about New Zealand advertising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/08/small-budgets-big-ideas-what-a-viral-adult-film-awareness-campaign-tells-us-about-new-zealand-advertising-141529/" aria-label="Read more about Small budgets, big ideas — what a viral adult film awareness campaign tells us about New Zealand advertising">Read more</a>
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July 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary-Louise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW From midnight Wednesday, all of Metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire will return to Stage 3 lockdown for six weeks. There are only four reasons for residents to leave their homes: shopping for essentials, care-giving, exercise, ... <a title="Melbourne’s lockdown came too late. It’s time to consider moving infected people outside the home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/melbournes-lockdown-came-too-late-its-time-to-consider-moving-infected-people-outside-the-home-142162/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne’s lockdown came too late. It’s time to consider moving infected people outside the home">Read more</a>
