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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Batty, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner has won many awards since it was published in 2017, including the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Australian Book Industry Award General Non-Fiction Book of the Year. While the title may ... <a title="Inside the story: The Trauma Cleaner – a beautiful meditation on death and decay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/inside-the-story-the-trauma-cleaner-a-beautiful-meditation-on-death-and-decay-127436/" aria-label="Read more about Inside the story: The Trauma Cleaner – a beautiful meditation on death and decay">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron J. Cavosie, Senior research fellow, Curtin University The world’s oldest remaining asteroid crater is at a place called Yarrabubba, southeast of the town of Meekatharra in Western Australia. Our new study puts a precise age on the cataclysmic impact – showing Yarrabubba is the oldest known ... <a title="We found the world’s oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/we-found-the-worlds-oldest-asteroid-strike-in-western-australia-it-might-have-triggered-a-global-thaw-130192/" aria-label="Read more about We found the world’s oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jemma Holt, Research Fellow/ Acting Executive Officer (Research), Tasmania Law Reform Institute, University of Tasmania Juries are supposed to consider evidence without influence or bias from the outside world. However, the widespread access to and use of the internet and social media threatens to undermine this, with ... <a title="Juries need to be told how they’re allowed to use the internet to ensure fair trials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/juries-need-to-be-told-how-theyre-allowed-to-use-the-internet-to-ensure-fair-trials-130127/" aria-label="Read more about Juries need to be told how they’re allowed to use the internet to ensure fair trials">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Carson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia In the days before antibiotics, deaths from bacterial infections were common. Seemingly minor illnesses could escalate in severity, becoming deadly in a matter of hours or days. These days, antibiotics can be life-savers. In ... <a title="I’m taking antibiotics – how do I know I’ve been prescribed the right ones?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/im-taking-antibiotics-how-do-i-know-ive-been-prescribed-the-right-ones-122868/" aria-label="Read more about I’m taking antibiotics – how do I know I’ve been prescribed the right ones?">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Will Steffen, Emeritus Professor, Australian National University Those who say “I told you so” are rarely welcomed, yet I am going to say it here. Australian scientists warned the country could face a climate change-driven bushfire crisis by 2020. It arrived on schedule. For several decades, the ... <a title="Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/scientists-hate-to-say-i-told-you-so-but-australia-you-were-warned-130211/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists hate to say ‘I told you so’. But Australia, you were warned">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Briony Towers, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Children and young people have been deeply impacted by the current bushfire crisis. Schools have been destroyed and thousands of houses have burnt down. Hazardous air pollution is causing major public health concerns and the devastating impacts ... <a title="Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/bushfire-education-is-too-abstract-we-need-to-get-children-into-the-real-world-129789/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfire education is too abstract. We need to get children into the real world">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jolanda Jetten, Professor, School of Psychology, ARC Laureate Fellow, The University of Queensland If you’ve ever dreamt of fame and fortune, Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle turning their backs on the royal lifestyle might seem churlish. So too their desire to be “financially independent”. As ... <a title="The science backs Harry and Meghan turning in their royal privilege. Fame and fortune aren’t the keys to happiness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/the-science-backs-harry-and-meghan-turning-in-their-royal-privilege-fame-and-fortune-arent-the-keys-to-happiness-130132/" aria-label="Read more about The science backs Harry and Meghan turning in their royal privilege. Fame and fortune aren’t the keys to happiness">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute In public, the government is crab-walking away from its commitment to a budget surplus, saying since the bushfires that other things have become more important. Asked directly on Tuesday whether he was prepared to sacrifice this ... <a title="New year, new strategy? Unheralded change to budget targets creates space for stimulus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/new-year-new-strategy-unheralded-change-to-budget-targets-creates-space-for-stimulus-129690/" aria-label="Read more about New year, new strategy? Unheralded change to budget targets creates space for stimulus">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Pezzutto, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Australian National University “Porn is the billboard. Cam is the product,” my housemate and porn performer in Las Vegas tells me. She makes most of her money from camming: a form of live streaming, where viewers tip for a sexual performance ... <a title="The rise of the ‘porntropreneur’: even hustlers need side hustles in the gig economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/22/the-rise-of-the-porntropreneur-even-hustlers-need-side-hustles-in-the-gig-economy-129067/" aria-label="Read more about The rise of the ‘porntropreneur’: even hustlers need side hustles in the gig economy">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Harvey-Smith, Professor and Australian Government’s Women in STEM Ambassador, UNSW Engineering skills underpin the functioning of our societies and economies. As we face the global challenges presented by a changing climate, food and water scarcity, loss of biodiversity and globalisation, these skills will only become more ... <a title="Australia needs more engineers. And more of them need to be women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/australia-needs-more-engineers-and-more-of-them-need-to-be-women-130282/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs more engineers. And more of them need to be women">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Hancock, Lead, Mental Health Stream, Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) promises a life-changing opportunity for Australians living with disabilities to get the supports they need to engage and participate fully in their communities. The size, complexity ... <a title="It’s hard for people with severe mental illness to get in the NDIS – and the problems don’t stop there" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/its-hard-for-people-with-severe-mental-illness-to-get-in-the-ndis-and-the-problems-dont-stop-there-130198/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard for people with severe mental illness to get in the NDIS – and the problems don’t stop there">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Australia is a land that has known fire. Our diverse plant and animal species have become accustomed to life with fire, and in fact some require it to procreate. But in recent decades the ... <a title="Many of our plants and animals have adapted to fires, but now the fires are changing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/21/many-of-our-plants-and-animals-have-adapted-to-fires-but-now-the-fires-are-changing-129754/" aria-label="Read more about Many of our plants and animals have adapted to fires, but now the fires are changing">Read more</a>
