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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel A. Ankeny, Professor of History and Philosophy, and Deputy Dean Research (Faculty of Arts), University of Adelaide The South Australian government recently announced its intention to lift the long-standing statewide moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops, following a statutory six-week consultation period. A government-commissioned independent review ... <a title="GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That’s not the question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/gm-crops-to-ban-or-not-to-ban-thats-not-the-question-122202/" aria-label="Read more about GM crops: to ban or not to ban? That’s not the question">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vicki Sentas, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Law, UNSW Being strip searched by the police can be intrusive, humiliating and harmful. Typically, strip searches involve being required to strip naked in front of police officers, who often give the direction to “squat and cough”, bend over or otherwise contort ... <a title="Unlawful strip searches are on the rise in NSW and police aren’t being held accountable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/unlawful-strip-searches-are-on-the-rise-in-nsw-and-police-arent-being-held-accountable-121986/" aria-label="Read more about Unlawful strip searches are on the rise in NSW and police aren’t being held accountable">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Remond, Clinical Psychologist, University of Technology Sydney Hi, I was just wondering if something’s wrong with me because I’m never happy and never want to do anything and I’m getting really lazy and I really hate school. Thanks – Anonymous Everyone experiences down days at times. ... <a title="‘What is wrong with me? I’m never happy and I hate school’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/what-is-wrong-with-me-im-never-happy-and-i-hate-school-120889/" aria-label="Read more about ‘What is wrong with me? I’m never happy and I hate school’">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaco Le Roux, Associate Professor, Macquarie University Earth is seeing an unprecedented loss of species, which some ecologists are calling a sixth mass extinction. In May, a United Nations report warned that 1 million species are threatened by extinction. More recently, 571 plant species were declared extinct. ... <a title="Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/plants-are-going-extinct-up-to-350-times-faster-than-the-historical-norm-122255/" aria-label="Read more about Plants are going extinct up to 350 times faster than the historical norm">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Zaphir, Researcher for the University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project; and Online Teacher at Education Queensland’s IMPACT Centre, The University of Queensland From as early as Grade 3 teachers start teaching children how to put across their own points of view. It’s not about winning arguments, ... <a title="How to make good arguments at school (and everywhere else)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/how-to-make-good-arguments-at-school-and-everywhere-else-121305/" aria-label="Read more about How to make good arguments at school (and everywhere else)">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW It’s four years since then Prime Minister Tony Abbott warned Australia had been heading to “a Greek-style economic future”. He was referring to what he said had been happening under the previous Labor government. When Labor left office in 2013 the ... <a title="Vital Signs: economically, Australia is at risk of becoming Germany, and not in a good way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/vital-signs-economically-australia-is-at-risk-of-becoming-germany-and-not-in-a-good-way-122217/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: economically, Australia is at risk of becoming Germany, and not in a good way">Read more</a>
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August 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samia Khatun, Senior Lecturer, SOAS, University of London Some 1,000 kilometres inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins. The mosque was built from corrugated ... <a title="Friday essay: how a Bengali book in Broken Hill sheds new light on Australian history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/23/friday-essay-how-a-bengali-book-in-broken-hill-sheds-new-light-on-australian-history-121126/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how a Bengali book in Broken Hill sheds new light on Australian history">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Even Scott Morrison, with his abundant self-belief, couldn’t have imagined that on Saturday’s first anniversary of his seizing the prime ministership, he’d be winging his way to France for a G7 meeting, where Australia has observer status for the first ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Courting ‘quiet Australians’ from ‘bubble central’, it’s been a remarkable first year for Scott Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/grattan-on-friday-courting-quiet-australians-from-bubble-central-its-been-a-remarkable-first-year-for-scott-morrison-122260/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Courting ‘quiet Australians’ from ‘bubble central’, it’s been a remarkable first year for Scott Morrison">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Last weekend, hundreds of thousands of people again took to the streets in Hong Kong to protest against the government – the 11th straight weekend of demonstrations that began in June over a proposed extradition bill. But after more than two ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Why the Hong Kong protesters feel they have nothing to lose" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/trust-me-im-an-expert-why-the-hong-kong-protesters-feel-they-have-nothing-to-lose-122031/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Why the Hong Kong protesters feel they have nothing to lose">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hamilton, Strategic Advisory Panel Member, Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne Australia’s primary federal renewable energy target – to have 33 terawatts of renewable energy by 2020 – has essentially been achieved. There is much uncertainty as to what is next. In the absence of ... <a title="We need a national renewables approach, or some states – like NSW – will miss out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/we-need-a-national-renewables-approach-or-some-states-like-nsw-will-miss-out-121192/" aria-label="Read more about We need a national renewables approach, or some states – like NSW – will miss out">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lewis Mitchell, Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide I swear by Hypatia, by Lovelace, by Turing, by Fisher (and/or Bayes), and by all the statisticians and data scientists, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath ... <a title="A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/a-hippocratic-oath-for-data-science-well-settle-for-a-little-more-data-literacy-122200/" aria-label="Read more about A Hippocratic Oath for data science? We’ll settle for a little more data literacy">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Blaxland, Professor, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University Just when we thought Australia was getting serious about shifting priorities away from the Middle East to its own neighbourhood, the prime minister has announced another Middle East step up. Australia has committed a warship, surveillance ... <a title="Australia’s latest military commitment should spark assessment of how well we use our defence forces" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/australias-latest-military-commitment-should-spark-assessment-of-how-well-we-use-our-defence-forces-122207/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s latest military commitment should spark assessment of how well we use our defence forces">Read more</a>
