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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Keogh, ARC DECRA Fellow, Queensland University of Technology In the last three months, the Australian Classification Board has “refused classification” for at least four video games – effectively banning them in Australia. The latest is zombie-survival shooter DayZ. Despite being previously available on digital storefronts with ... <a title="Australia bans video games for things you’d see in movies. But gamers can access them anyway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/australia-bans-video-games-for-things-youd-see-in-movies-but-gamers-can-access-them-anyway-122183/" aria-label="Read more about Australia bans video games for things you’d see in movies. But gamers can access them anyway">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bianca Fileborn, Lecturer in Criminology, University of Melbourne The Victorian government is considering changes to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1996. The changes will mean transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people can change the sex recorded on their birth certificate without having to undergo medical ... <a title="Victorian changes to gender on birth certificate will not increase sexual violence. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/victorian-changes-to-gender-on-birth-certificate-will-not-increase-sexual-violence-heres-why-122125/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian changes to gender on birth certificate will not increase sexual violence. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle The Heart Foundation now recommends full-fat milk, cheese and yoghurt or reduced-fat options as part of its updated dietary advice released yesterday. This moves away from earlier advice that recommended only reduced-fat dairy when it comes to ... <a title="Why full-fat milk is now OK if you’re healthy, but reduced-fat dairy is still best if you’re not" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/why-full-fat-milk-is-now-ok-if-youre-healthy-but-reduced-fat-dairy-is-still-best-if-youre-not-122184/" aria-label="Read more about Why full-fat milk is now OK if you’re healthy, but reduced-fat dairy is still best if you’re not">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby Porter, Professor of Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University The Victorian government has announced it is seeking heritage listing for parts of the Eastern Freeway in Melbourne. We heard this news on Wednesday as we sat under a grandfather tree in solidarity with Djab ... <a title="What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/what-kind-of-state-values-a-freeways-heritage-above-the-heritage-of-our-oldest-living-culture-122195/" aria-label="Read more about What kind of state values a freeway’s heritage above the heritage of our oldest living culture?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Former deputy prime minister Tim Fischer, who has died aged 73 of cancer, leaves a political and personal legacy as a man of courage, conviction and congeniality. The support that Fischer as National Party leader gave was crucial in John ... <a title="Tim Fischer – a man of courage and loyalty – dies from cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/tim-fischer-a-man-of-courage-and-loyalty-dies-from-cancer-122188/" aria-label="Read more about Tim Fischer – a man of courage and loyalty – dies from cancer">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Felicity Jensz, Research associate professor, University of Münster Donald Trump is not the first US President to make an offer of buying Greenland from Denmark – but he might be the last. Home of some 56,000 people and around 80% covered by ice, Greenland is culturally connected ... <a title="Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell: some essential reading for Trump on Colonialism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/greenland-isnt-denmarks-to-sell-some-essential-reading-for-trump-on-colonialism-122193/" aria-label="Read more about Greenland isn’t Denmark’s to sell: some essential reading for Trump on Colonialism">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University As the abortion decriminalisation bill gradually makes its way through the NSW parliament, opponents have been increasingly drawing on their long relationship with the right-to-life movement in the United States to lobby ... <a title="How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/how-the-us-right-to-life-movement-is-influencing-the-abortion-debate-in-australia-121974/" aria-label="Read more about How the US right-to-life movement is influencing the abortion debate in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Hansen, Chief of Staff, The Conversation With the advent of online ancestry DNA testing, and advancements in genetic screening for various medical aliments, we’re able to know more than ever about the genes that make us who we are. But is there a point to knowing ... <a title="Should I get my DNA tested? We asked five experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/should-i-get-my-dna-tested-we-asked-five-experts-120664/" aria-label="Read more about Should I get my DNA tested? We asked five experts">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Linda Galligan, Associate professor, University of Southern Queensland If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. How was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules? – Bianca, age 12, Strathfield, Sydney. We are all born with a brain ... <a title="Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/curious-kids-how-was-maths-discovered-who-made-up-the-numbers-and-rules-121509/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how was maths discovered? Who made up the numbers and rules?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Baumann, Casual Academic, School of Social Sciences & Psychology, Western Sydney University Many of us do not need to hear any more warnings from the IPCC, David Attenborough or climate activists like Greta Thunberg. We have seen enough to be convinced that limitless economic growth and ... <a title="Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living. Public housing could offer a way forward" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/access-to-land-is-a-barrier-to-simpler-sustainable-living-public-housing-could-offer-a-way-forward-121246/" aria-label="Read more about Access to land is a barrier to simpler, sustainable living. Public housing could offer a way forward">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Borroz, PhD candidate in international business and comparative political economy, University of Auckland India’s Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft has settled into lunar orbit, ahead of its scheduled Moon landing on September 7. If it succeeds India will join a very select club, now comprising the former Soviet Union, ... <a title="India has it right: nations either aim for the Moon or get left behind in the space economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/22/india-has-it-right-nations-either-aim-for-the-moon-or-get-left-behind-in-the-space-economy-121497/" aria-label="Read more about India has it right: nations either aim for the Moon or get left behind in the space economy">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camellia Webb-Gannon, Lecturer, University of Wollongong Last weekend, the Indonesian police took 43 West Papuan students into custody for allegedly disrespecting the Indonesian flag during an independence day celebration (an allegation the students deny). Police stormed the students’ dorm and used teargas to force them out, while ... <a title="Riots in West Papua: why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/21/riots-in-west-papua-why-indonesia-needs-to-answer-for-its-broken-promises-122127/" aria-label="Read more about Riots in West Papua: why Indonesia needs to answer for its broken promises">Read more</a>
