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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Maguire, Associate Professor, University of Newcastle The Australian government has announced its intention to use powers under the Biosecurity Act, if needed, in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Attorney-General Christian Porter has described these powers as “strange and foreign to many Australians”, but potentially necessary in ... <a title="Explainer: what are the Australian government’s powers to quarantine people in a coronavirus outbreak?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/explainer-what-are-the-australian-governments-powers-to-quarantine-people-in-a-coronavirus-outbreak-132877/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what are the Australian government’s powers to quarantine people in a coronavirus outbreak?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Goldenfein, Lecturer, Swinburne University of Technology Australian police agencies are reportedly using a private, unaccountable facial recognition service that combines machine learning and wide-ranging data-gathering practices to identify members of the public from online photographs. The service, Clearview AI, is like a reverse image search for ... <a title="Australian police are using the Clearview AI facial recognition system with no accountability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/australian-police-are-using-the-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-system-with-no-accountability-132667/" aria-label="Read more about Australian police are using the Clearview AI facial recognition system with no accountability">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University Benjamin Netanyahu may well have survived to fight another day as Israel’s prime minister after a third knife-edge election in less than a year. However, it could be days, or even weeks, before a new Israeli government ... <a title="Netanyahu set to survive another knife-edge Israeli election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/netanyahu-set-to-survive-another-knife-edge-israeli-election-132858/" aria-label="Read more about Netanyahu set to survive another knife-edge Israeli election">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ximena Nelson, Associate Professor of Animal Behaviour, University of Canterbury Avian experts have repeatedly demonstrated the remarkable brainpower of birds. Parrots, in particular, have established a reputation as skillful imitators – a talent that requires a complex network of neural connections. Now, researchers Alex Taylor and Amalia ... <a title="Polly knows probability: this parrot can predict the chances of something happening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/polly-knows-probability-this-parrot-can-predict-the-chances-of-something-happening-132767/" aria-label="Read more about Polly knows probability: this parrot can predict the chances of something happening">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niamatullah Ibrahimi, Associate Research Fellow, Deakin University The US has signed an historic agreement with the Taliban that sets Washington and its NATO allies on a path to withdraw their military forces from Afghanistan after more than 18 years of unceasing conflict. It is now hoped the ... <a title="Lasting peace in Afghanistan now relies on the Taliban standing by its word. This has many Afghans concerned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/lasting-peace-in-afghanistan-now-relies-on-the-taliban-standing-by-its-word-this-has-many-afghans-concerned-132756/" aria-label="Read more about Lasting peace in Afghanistan now relies on the Taliban standing by its word. This has many Afghans concerned">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jose Polo, ARC Future Fellow, Anatomy & Developmental Biology, Monash University “I would like to know why organs like your liver and brain can regenerate while others can’t?” – Maggie, age 9, Melbourne This is a great question Maggie. Scientists have actually been trying to answer this ... <a title="Curious Kids: why can some organs regenerate while others can’t?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/curious-kids-why-can-some-organs-regenerate-while-others-cant-128217/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why can some organs regenerate while others can’t?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judith Friedlander, Post-graduate Researcher, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Just like humans, animals like living near coastal plains and waterways. In fact, cities such as Sydney and Melbourne are “biodiversity hotspots” – boasting fresh water, varied topographies and relatively rich soil to sustain and ... <a title="B&Bs for birds and bees: transform your garden or balcony into a wildlife haven" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/bandbs-for-birds-and-bees-transform-your-garden-or-balcony-into-a-wildlife-haven-129907/" aria-label="Read more about B&Bs for birds and bees: transform your garden or balcony into a wildlife haven">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Crotty, Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland In recent weeks, Melbourne’s elite St Kevin’s boy’s college found itself at the centre of a grooming scandal. The school’s principal stood down after a Four Corners episode revealed the poor support provided during court proceedings ... <a title="Elite boys’ schools like St Kevin’s were set up to breed hyper-masculinity, which can easily turn toxic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/elite-boys-schools-like-st-kevins-were-set-up-to-breed-hyper-masculinity-which-can-easily-turn-toxic-132433/" aria-label="Read more about Elite boys’ schools like St Kevin’s were set up to breed hyper-masculinity, which can easily turn toxic">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Muir, Professor of Social Policy / CEO, Centre for Social Impact, UNSW We are a country that has become richer than we possibly ever could have imagined. We have had 29 years of unprecedented, world-record holding economic growth. Although economically things are a little precarious in ... <a title="Today’s GDP figures won’t tell us whether life is getting better — here’s what can" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/todays-gdp-figures-wont-tell-us-whether-life-is-getting-better-heres-what-can-132739/" aria-label="Read more about Today’s GDP figures won’t tell us whether life is getting better — here’s what can">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn McKay, Senior Lecturer – Criminal Law, Procedure, Digital Criminology, University of Sydney Green is a colour that evokes nature, fecundity, sustainability. At the traffic lights it signals go; on a boat, starboard. It’s a soft celadon glaze; an intense Van Eyck wedding dress; frothy, aromatic matcha ... <a title="‘Freshly cut grass – or bile-infused Exorcist vomit?’: how crime books embraced lurid green" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/04/freshly-cut-grass-or-bile-infused-exorcist-vomit-how-crime-books-embraced-lurid-green-132763/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Freshly cut grass – or bile-infused Exorcist vomit?’: how crime books embraced lurid green">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Baker, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago New Zealand joined 48 other countries affected by the novel coronavirus last week when health authorities confirmed the first COVID-19 case. The news prompted panic buying of supplies in some places, but it had long been expected. The ... <a title="COVID-19 has now reached New Zealand. How prepared is it to deal with a pandemic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/covid-19-has-now-reached-new-zealand-how-prepared-is-it-to-deal-with-a-pandemic-132857/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 has now reached New Zealand. How prepared is it to deal with a pandemic?">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Never has a virus featured so prominently in a Reserve Bank statement. Reserve Bank of Australia The word “coronavirus” is mentioned nine times in the governor’s seven-paragraph statement. His board cut the cash rate from ... <a title="One word repeated 9 times explains why the Reserve Bank cut: it’s “coronavirus”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/one-word-repeated-9-times-explains-why-the-reserve-bank-cut-its-coronavirus-132871/" aria-label="Read more about One word repeated 9 times explains why the Reserve Bank cut: it’s “coronavirus”">Read more</a>
