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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Ganter, Senior Climatologist, Australian Bureau of Meteorology The past Australian summer was a season of two contrasting halves. So did the midsummer weather change make a dint in the drought, and is it likely to continue through autumn? The first half of summer was exceptionally hot, ... <a title="After a summer of extremes, here’s what to expect this autumn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/after-a-summer-of-extremes-heres-what-to-expect-this-autumn-132862/" aria-label="Read more about After a summer of extremes, here’s what to expect this autumn">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Review: Beethoven’s Fidelio. West Australian Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Opera and Perth Festival. There’s something disconcertingly compartmentalised about opera – particularly opera in concert. The audience stays lit throughout, and the chorus sit behind the orchestra looking at ... <a title="Fidelio review: Beethoven’s only opera bristles with contemporary relevance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/fidelio-review-beethovens-only-opera-bristles-with-contemporary-relevance-132271/" aria-label="Read more about Fidelio review: Beethoven’s only opera bristles with contemporary relevance">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Priya Chacko, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Adelaide Last week, India’s capital, New Delhi, experienced its worst communal violence targeting a religious minority in more than 30 years. The death toll currently stands at 43 and parts of northeast Delhi remain under lock-down. As per ... <a title="Why Modi’s India has become a dangerous place for Muslims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/why-modis-india-has-become-a-dangerous-place-for-muslims-132591/" aria-label="Read more about Why Modi’s India has become a dangerous place for Muslims">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warwick McKibbin, Chair in Public Policy, ANU Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis (CAMA), Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The COVID-19 coronavirus is spreading across the world. Initially the epicenter was China, with reported cases either in China or in travellers from China. There are ... <a title="The first economic modelling of coronavirus scenarios is grim for Australia, the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/the-first-economic-modelling-of-coronavirus-scenarios-is-grim-for-australia-the-world-132759/" aria-label="Read more about The first economic modelling of coronavirus scenarios is grim for Australia, the world">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dustin Marshall, Professor, Marine Evolutionary Ecology, Monash University Apart from mammals and birds, most animals develop as eggs exposed to the vagaries of the outside world. This development is energetically “costly”. Going from a tiny egg to a fully functioning organism can deplete up to 60% of ... <a title="From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the ‘costs’ paid by developing embryos" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/from-crocodiles-to-krill-a-warming-world-raises-the-costs-paid-by-developing-embryos-132673/" aria-label="Read more about From crocodiles to krill, a warming world raises the ‘costs’ paid by developing embryos">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Campbell, Associate Director – Research, Advocacy and Policy, Centre for Innovative Justice, RMIT University Adolescents are consistently identified as perpetrators of violence against family members. We know this from a decade of Victorian court and police data. Victoria’s Royal Commission into Family Violence also highlighted the ... <a title="Adolescent family violence is a growing problem – and the legal system is making it worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/adolescent-family-violence-is-a-growing-problem-and-the-legal-system-is-making-it-worse-132663/" aria-label="Read more about Adolescent family violence is a growing problem – and the legal system is making it worse">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, University of Western Australia The new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, has infected nearly 90,000 people and caused more than 3,000 deaths so far. Parents are understandably concerned. But it’s important to keep in mind that ... <a title="Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here’s what you need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/worried-about-your-child-getting-coronavirus-heres-what-you-need-to-know-131909/" aria-label="Read more about Worried about your child getting coronavirus? Here’s what you need to know">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Church, Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW For many coastal regions, sea-level rise is a looming crisis threatening our coastal society, livelihoods and coastal ecosystems. A new study, published in Nature Climate Change, has reported the world will lose almost half of its valuable sandy ... <a title="The world may lose half its sandy beaches by 2100. It’s not too late to save most of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/the-world-may-lose-half-its-sandy-beaches-by-2100-its-not-too-late-to-save-most-of-them-132586/" aria-label="Read more about The world may lose half its sandy beaches by 2100. It’s not too late to save most of them">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn MacCann, Associate Professor, University of Sydney The ability to understand emotions contributes almost as much to students’ grades as their IQ. Past studies show two personal qualities are important for student academic success – intelligence and conscientiousness. IQ scores explain about 15% of the differences between ... <a title="Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students’ academic success" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/understanding-emotions-is-nearly-as-important-as-iq-for-students-academic-success-131212/" aria-label="Read more about Understanding emotions is nearly as important as IQ for students’ academic success">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Arthure, PhD Candidate, Archaeology, Flinders University, Flinders University Archaeological research has uncovered the remains of a 19th-century Irish community beneath an otherwise ordinary paddock in rural South Australia. Fitting the clustered form of settlement known as a “clachan”, it’s the first to be identified in Australia. ... <a title="Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/unearthing-a-traditional-irish-village-that-lingered-in-a-south-australian-field-132344/" aria-label="Read more about Unearthing a traditional Irish village that lingered in a South Australian field">Read more</a>
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March 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Stevenson, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient History, UQ, The University of Queensland The Satyricon by Petronius is an unusual surviving text from the ancient world. It is not a work of history, nor a work of soaring epic poetry like Homer’s Iliad or Virgil’s Aeneid, ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/03/guide-to-the-classics-petroniuss-satyricon-sex-satire-and-naughty-boys-129351/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Petronius’s Satyricon – sex, satire and naughty boys">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The coronavirus has moved to a new stage in Australia, with the first two cases of local transmission of the disease. The NSW government announced a 53-year-old Sydney health worker – who had not recently travelled abroad – had been ... <a title="First locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/first-locally-transmitted-covid-19-cases-in-australia-as-attorney-general-warns-drastic-legal-powers-could-be-used-132771/" aria-label="Read more about First locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases in Australia, as Attorney-General warns drastic legal powers could be used">Read more</a>
