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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Professor Deep Saini and Michelle Grattan discuss the acts of civil disobedience by climate activist group Extinction Rebellion – including the harsh bail conditions faced by protesters, and whether the tactics they use will ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Extinction Rebellion protests – and Australia’s responsibility at the Turkish-Syrian border" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-extinction-rebellion-protests-and-australias-responsibility-at-the-turkish-syrian-border-125136/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Extinction Rebellion protests – and Australia’s responsibility at the Turkish-Syrian border">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon D Angus, Associate Professor, Monash University “Where were you on October 12, 2019?” Could this be the question we are all asking ourselves in 50 years’ time as we remember the moment a male runner finally broke the 2-hour marathon barrier — the “four-minute mile” of ... <a title="Can Eliud Kipchoge run a sub-2hr marathon? It all comes down to 15 extraordinary seconds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/can-eliud-kipchoge-run-a-sub-2hr-marathon-it-all-comes-down-to-15-extraordinary-seconds-124981/" aria-label="Read more about Can Eliud Kipchoge run a sub-2hr marathon? It all comes down to 15 extraordinary seconds">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piero Moraro, Lecturer in Criminal Justice, Charles Sturt University Scores of arrests have been made across Australia as the Extinction Rebellion enters its fifth day of protests. The activists are desperately trying to force the Australian government to take serious and effective action against climate change. And ... <a title="Cattle prods and welfare cuts: mounting threats to Extinction Rebellion show demands are being heard, but ignored" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/cattle-prods-and-welfare-cuts-mounting-threats-to-extinction-rebellion-show-demands-are-being-heard-but-ignored-124990/" aria-label="Read more about Cattle prods and welfare cuts: mounting threats to Extinction Rebellion show demands are being heard, but ignored">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In several speeches of late, Prime Minister Scott Morrison insisted with a straight face that Australia is doing its bit on climate change. The claim was swiftly and thoroughly debunked. The truth is that the Morrison government ... <a title="We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/we-thought-australian-cars-were-using-less-fuel-new-research-shows-we-were-wrong-122378/" aria-label="Read more about We thought Australian cars were using less fuel. New research shows we were wrong">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Hansen, Lecture in English/Writing, James Cook University When you imagine the setting for Macbeth, misty heaths, battlefields, and the brooding highlands spring to mind. Teaching the play in the midst of a tropical summer in Townsville, far north Queensland, highlights disjunctions and surprising correlations between play ... <a title="Tropic of Shakespeare: what studying Macbeth in Queensland could teach us about place and shipwrecks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/tropic-of-shakespeare-what-studying-macbeth-in-queensland-could-teach-us-about-place-and-shipwrecks-119819/" aria-label="Read more about Tropic of Shakespeare: what studying Macbeth in Queensland could teach us about place and shipwrecks">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Dyer, Associate Professor, RMIT University Bees are pretty good at maths – as far as insects go, at least. We already know, for example, that they can count up to four and even understand the concept of zero. But in a new study, published today in ... <a title="Bees can learn higher numbers than we thought – if we train them the right way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/bees-can-learn-higher-numbers-than-we-thought-if-we-train-them-the-right-way-124887/" aria-label="Read more about Bees can learn higher numbers than we thought – if we train them the right way">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keith Chappell, Senior Research Fellow, School of Chemistry and Molecular Biosciences, The University of Queensland A virus that infects koalas is steadily integrating itself into their DNA, ensuring that it is passed down from generation to generation. But the koala genome is defending itself, revealing that DNA ... <a title="A virus is attacking koalas’ genes. But their DNA is fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/a-virus-is-attacking-koalas-genes-but-their-dna-is-fighting-back-124896/" aria-label="Read more about A virus is attacking koalas’ genes. But their DNA is fighting back">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ozalp, Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Turkey did not waste much time in launching an attack on Syrian soil just days after US President Donald Trump ... <a title="As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/as-turkish-troops-move-in-to-syria-the-risks-are-great-including-for-turkey-itself-124782/" aria-label="Read more about As Turkish troops move in to Syria, the risks are great – including for Turkey itself">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Armour, Post-doctoral research fellow, Western Sydney University The average cost for a woman with endometriosis both personally and for society is around A$30,000 a year, according to our research, published today in the journal PLOS ONE. Most of these costs are not from medication, or doctors’ ... <a title="Endometriosis costs women and society $30,000 a year for every sufferer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/endometriosis-costs-women-and-society-30-000-a-year-for-every-sufferer-124975/" aria-label="Read more about Endometriosis costs women and society $30,000 a year for every sufferer">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabio Mattioli, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Melbourne Months after Labor’s shock election loss, it is still pondering how the Liberals metamorphosed from party of the bosses to party of the workers – one that stole an election win from under them. At the May 18 ... <a title="Coal miners and urban greenies have one thing in common, and Labor must use it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/coal-miners-and-urban-greenies-have-one-thing-in-common-and-labor-must-use-it-123257/" aria-label="Read more about Coal miners and urban greenies have one thing in common, and Labor must use it">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Young, Lecturer in Social Work, Griffith University Last year, I received a phone call from a prospective student. She wanted to know if our university would accept her into a Master of Social Work program. Another local university had just knocked her back. The caller had ... <a title="A traumatic past can make you a better social worker, but it might block you studying it in the first place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/a-traumatic-past-can-make-you-a-better-social-worker-but-it-might-block-you-studying-it-in-the-first-place-115291/" aria-label="Read more about A traumatic past can make you a better social worker, but it might block you studying it in the first place">Read more</a>
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October 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Lenten, Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University If you want to know how bonus schemes can come unstuck, take a look at the Rugby World Cup It’s inching its way towards the end of the group stage in Japan, where Australia takes ... <a title="Points for tries? The Rugby World Cup shows how bonus schemes can come unstuck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/10/11/points-for-tries-the-rugby-world-cup-shows-how-bonus-schemes-can-come-unstuck-124892/" aria-label="Read more about Points for tries? The Rugby World Cup shows how bonus schemes can come unstuck">Read more</a>
