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September 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Hoare, PhD Candidate in Pacific History, Australian National University In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. From Tongan Princes to the daughters of Sāmoan political leaders, elite Australian schools have long been considered desirable locations for the children of high-ranking Pacific families. ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Marau Ta’aroa, the Sydney-schooled ‘last Queen of Tahiti’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/12/hidden-women-of-history-marau-taaroa-the-sydney-schooled-last-queen-of-tahiti-122539/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Marau Ta’aroa, the Sydney-schooled ‘last Queen of Tahiti’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Liberal member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, has strongly proclaimed her loyalty to Australia and her support for the government’s policy on China, amid a row over her record of past associations with organisations with links to the Chinese Communist ... <a title="Liu defends herself after concerns about her Chinese associations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/liu-defends-herself-after-concerns-about-her-chinese-associations-123362/" aria-label="Read more about Liu defends herself after concerns about her Chinese associations">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Helen Haines, MP for the Victorian regional seat Indi, made history at the election as the first federal independent to succeed another independent. She was backed by grassroots campaigners, Voices for Indi, who had earlier helped her predecessor, Cathy McGowan, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent MP Helen Haines on using ‘soft power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-independent-mp-helen-haines-on-using-soft-power-123347/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent MP Helen Haines on using ‘soft power’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Helen Haines, MP for the Victorian regional seat Indi, made history at the election as the first federal independent to succeed another independent. She was backed by grassroots campaigners, Voices for Indi, who had earlier helped her predecessor, Cathy McGowan, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Helen Haines – an independent – on using ‘soft power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-helen-haines-an-independent-on-using-soft-power-123347/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Helen Haines – an independent – on using ‘soft power’">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University When journalist Brian Toohey began researching his book Secret: The Makings of Australia’s Security State, he could not have foreseen publication would coincide with real-time overreach by government agencies of their security responsibilities. Contemporary examples of such ... <a title="BOOK REVIEW: Brian Toohey’s Secret warns against Australia being ‘joined at the hip’ with US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/book-review-brian-tooheys-secret-warns-against-australia-being-joined-at-the-hip-with-us-122848/" aria-label="Read more about BOOK REVIEW: Brian Toohey’s Secret warns against Australia being ‘joined at the hip’ with US">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Media Studies, University of Notre Dame Australia The joker, the trickster, the jester, the provocateur – there is a rich cultural history of these roles going back at least as far as Greek mythology’s Hermes. One of the most famous jester figures of ... <a title="The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/the-jokers-origin-story-comes-at-a-perfect-moment-clowns-define-our-times-123009/" aria-label="Read more about The Joker’s origin story comes at a perfect moment: clowns define our times">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University Dark matter, by its very nature, is unseen. We cannot observe it with telescopes, and nor have particle physicists had any luck detecting it via experiments. So why do I and thousands of my colleagues believe most ... <a title="Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/why-do-astronomers-believe-in-dark-matter-122864/" aria-label="Read more about Why do astronomers believe in dark matter?">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, University of South Australia Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is undertaken by one or more academics not involved with the study, and reviewed by another, to make sure ... <a title="Will a vegetarian diet increase your risk of stroke?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/will-a-vegetarian-diet-increase-your-risk-of-stroke-123083/" aria-label="Read more about Will a vegetarian diet increase your risk of stroke?">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University Around 2005, the Chinese government began pushing its policy of huaren canzheng, or “ethnic Chinese participation in politics overseas”. It was a new tactic in the Chinese Communist Party’s “united front” strategy ... <a title="Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/why-gladys-liu-must-answer-to-parliament-about-alleged-links-to-the-chinese-government-123339/" aria-label="Read more about Why Gladys Liu must answer to parliament about alleged links to the Chinese government">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Elphick, Adjunct Research Fellow, Law School, University of Western Australia Two weeks ago, Victorian Reason Party MP Fiona Patten introduced a new anti-vilification bill to the state parliament. In the midst of heated public debate over the federal government’s draft Religious Discrimination Bill, Patten’s bill has ... <a title="Why Victoria’s new anti-vilification bill strikes the right balance in targeting online abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/why-victorias-new-anti-vilification-bill-strikes-the-right-balance-in-targeting-online-abuse-123014/" aria-label="Read more about Why Victoria’s new anti-vilification bill strikes the right balance in targeting online abuse">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claude Roux, Distinguished Professor of Forensic Science, University of Technology Sydney After recent criticism in the US and the UK, forensic science is now coming under attack in Australia. Several recent reports have detailed concerns that innocent people have been jailed because of flawed forensic techniques. Among ... <a title="Forensic science isn’t ‘reliable’ or ‘unreliable’ – it depends on the questions you’re trying to answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/forensic-science-isnt-reliable-or-unreliable-it-depends-on-the-questions-youre-trying-to-answer-123020/" aria-label="Read more about Forensic science isn’t ‘reliable’ or ‘unreliable’ – it depends on the questions you’re trying to answer">Read more</a>
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September 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Rennie, Lecturer in Politics, University of Melbourne Recent jobs taken by former senior ministers Julie Bishop and Christopher Pyne have brought on ire of the Australian Senate, which is now concluding an inquiry into the matter. The testimony before the inquiry has been extraordinary: not just ... <a title="Australia’s political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/11/australias-political-lobbying-regime-is-broken-and-needs-urgent-reform-123003/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s political lobbying regime is broken and needs urgent reform">Read more</a>
