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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate & PhD Candidate, Australian National University How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals? The fact is, ... <a title="Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/strength-from-perpetual-grief-how-aboriginal-people-experience-the-bushfire-crisis-129448/" aria-label="Read more about Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Juan Pablo Guerschman, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO In recent days, many worrying bushfire maps have been circulating online, some appearing to suggest all of Australia is burning. You might have seen this example, decried by some as misleading, prompting this Instagram post by its creator: As he ... <a title="6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/6-things-to-ask-yourself-before-you-share-a-bushfire-map-on-social-media-129557/" aria-label="Read more about 6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Oliver, Research Leader in Respiratory cellular and molecular biology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney In previous years, Australians might have been exposed to bushfire smoke for a few days, or even a week. But this ... <a title="We know bushfire smoke affects our health, but the long-term consequences are hazy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/we-know-bushfire-smoke-affects-our-health-but-the-long-term-consequences-are-hazy-129451/" aria-label="Read more about We know bushfire smoke affects our health, but the long-term consequences are hazy">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hudson, Researcher on sociomaterial transformations, social movements, Keele University As someone who has studied Australian climate policy and politics closely, this summer’s bushfire crisis have been both heartbreaking and bewildering. The grave warnings politicians ignored for so long have now come to pass. The fires may ... <a title="Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/watching-our-politicians-fumble-through-the-bushfire-crisis-im-overwhelmed-by-deja-vu-129338/" aria-label="Read more about Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salvatore Ferraro, PhD candidate, RMIT University Calls by the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims for Australian businesses to cut the hurdle rates of return they expect on new investments should be taken with a grain of salt. A hurdle rate is the ... <a title="High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/high-hurdle-rates-are-holding-back-businesses-but-perhaps-they-should-be-129435/" aria-label="Read more about High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yves Rees, David Myers Research Fellow, La Trobe University Today marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the League of Nations — the intergovernmental organisation, headquartered in Geneva, that emerged from the ashes of the first world war. Although the League was branded a failure due ... <a title="The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/the-league-of-nations-was-formed-100-years-ago-today-meet-the-australian-women-who-lobbied-to-join-it-129185/" aria-label="Read more about The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin T. Jones, Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia Bill Shorten promised a plebiscite on Australia becoming a republic if he won the 2019 federal election. That did not happen but it is interesting to imagine what the result of such a vote would have been. On the ... <a title="Prince Harry’s decision to ‘step back’ from the monarchy is a gift to republicans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/prince-harrys-decision-to-step-back-from-the-monarchy-is-a-gift-to-republicans-129624/" aria-label="Read more about Prince Harry’s decision to ‘step back’ from the monarchy is a gift to republicans">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Hutchison, Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland With 26 fatalities, half a billion animals impacted and 10.7 million hectares of land burnt, Australia faces a record-breaking bushfire season. Yet, amid the despondency, moving stories have emerged of phenomenal fundraising conducted through social ... <a title="As fires rage, we must use social media for long-term change, not just short-term fundraising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/as-fires-rage-we-must-use-social-media-for-long-term-change-not-just-short-term-fundraising-129446/" aria-label="Read more about As fires rage, we must use social media for long-term change, not just short-term fundraising">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University US President Donald Trump’s statement overnight confirming the US would not take further military action in response to Iran’s missile strikes on American bases in Iraq eases regional tensions for now. In hitting back ... <a title="Iran and US step back from all-out war, giving Trump a win (for now)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/iran-and-us-step-back-from-all-out-war-giving-trump-a-win-for-now-129615/" aria-label="Read more about Iran and US step back from all-out war, giving Trump a win (for now)">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johan Barthélemy, Research Fellow, SMART Infrastructure Facility, University of Wollongong As more commercial precincts develop, we see more shopping trolleys abandoned far away from the shops they belong to. Programs are in place to tackle this issue but haven’t solved the problem. We need a more sophisticated ... <a title="The war on abandoned trolleys can be won. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/the-war-on-abandoned-trolleys-can-be-won-heres-how-127718/" aria-label="Read more about The war on abandoned trolleys can be won. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matteo Farina, Adjunct Lecturer, Flinders University The world is starting to see the gradual decline of Facebook, with 15 million US users dropping off between 2017 and last year. Nonetheless, Facebook remains the largest social network in the world. As of late last year, almost 60% of ... <a title="Winning at social media is probably simpler than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/winning-at-social-media-is-probably-simpler-than-you-think-128704/" aria-label="Read more about Winning at social media is probably simpler than you think">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosemary Williamson, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been harshly criticised for being on holiday in Hawaii as the catastrophic bushfires were burning Australia. Since his return, he has visited stricken communities – most recently, ... <a title="How should leaders respond to disasters? Be visible, offer real comfort – and don’t force handshakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/how-should-leaders-respond-to-disasters-be-visible-offer-real-comfort-and-dont-force-handshakes-129444/" aria-label="Read more about How should leaders respond to disasters? Be visible, offer real comfort – and don’t force handshakes">Read more</a>
