CoveragePost
August 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathalie Butt, Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland According to records compiled by the campaign group Global Witness, 1,738 people described as environmental defenders were killed between 2002 and 2018, across 50 countries. Their latest report for 2018, released last week, identified 164 killings Although the figure ... <a title="More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/06/more-than-1-700-activists-have-been-killed-this-century-defending-the-environment-120352/" aria-label="Read more about More than 1,700 activists have been killed this century defending the environment">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heiko Timmers, Associate Professor of Physics, UNSW Last year Australia sold more than 7,000 tonnes of uranium, at a value of nearly A$600 million. This uranium produced nearly as much energy as Australia uses in a year, but with less than 10% of the carbon dioxide from ... <a title="Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/australia-should-explore-nuclear-waste-before-we-try-domestic-nuclear-power-121361/" aria-label="Read more about Australia should explore nuclear waste before we try domestic nuclear power">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hocking, Postdoctoral fellow, Monash University Some people don’t like sharing their food – we all have a friend who gets cranky when you steal a chip from their plate. For wild animals, this makes sense, because any food shared is energy lost that could otherwise have ... <a title="Buffet buddies: footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/buffet-buddies-footage-reveals-that-fierce-leopard-seals-work-together-when-king-penguin-is-on-the-menu-121186/" aria-label="Read more about Buffet buddies: footage reveals that fierce leopard seals work together when king penguin is on the menu">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien Manuel, Director, Centre for Cyber Security Research & Innovation (CSRI), Deakin University It was bound to happen, and it did. Poorly crafted legislation – designed to allow national security agencies to collect information with the aim of protecting Australians from terrorists – is now reportedly being ... <a title="Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/think-your-metadata-is-only-visible-to-national-security-agencies-think-again-121253/" aria-label="Read more about Think your metadata is only visible to national security agencies? Think again">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne When two swimmers refused to acknowledge victories by Chinese swimmer Sun Yang at the last month’s world swimming championships, the very public protests riveted the swimming world and cast a spotlight (again) on suspected doping ... <a title="Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/why-drug-cheats-are-still-being-caught-seven-years-after-the-2012-london-olympics-121123/" aria-label="Read more about Why drug cheats are still being caught seven years after the 2012 London Olympics">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karleen Gribble, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University Australian women want to breastfeed but many struggle. And the most disadvantaged face the biggest challenges. Among them are mothers who are involved with the child protection and criminal justice systems, who need extra ... <a title="Mums in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/mums-in-prison-or-whose-babies-are-in-care-need-breastfeeding-support-too-121039/" aria-label="Read more about Mums in prison or whose babies are in care need breastfeeding support too">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Associate Professor at La Trobe University. Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University You don’t need to look far to find doom and gloom stories about traditional media in the digital age. Yet linking media hardship to a view that investigative journalism is ... <a title="Why investigative reporting in the digital age is waving, not drowning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/why-investigative-reporting-in-the-digital-age-is-waving-not-drowning-121045/" aria-label="Read more about Why investigative reporting in the digital age is waving, not drowning">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Romane H. Cristescu, Posdoc in Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast In a country like Australia – a wealthy, economically and politically stable nation with multiple environmental laws and comparatively effective governance – the public could be forgiven for assuming that environmental laws are effective in protecting ... <a title="Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia’s threatened species protection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/koala-detecting-dogs-sniff-out-flaws-in-australias-threatened-species-protection-121118/" aria-label="Read more about Koala-detecting dogs sniff out flaws in Australia’s threatened species protection">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Among the many touching gifts following the March 2019 shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, were two paintings by artists from South Australia’s remote Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. The paintings showed a honey grevillea shrub, a native ... <a title="Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/indigenous-art-centres-that-sustain-remote-communities-are-at-risk-the-vet-sector-can-help-121179/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous art centres that sustain remote communities are at risk. The VET sector can help">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elyse Warner, Lecturer in Health and Social Sciences, Deakin University Newer high-rise developments in Australia’s inner-city areas are increasingly home to parents raising young children. In the 2016 Census, family households represented nearly half of apartment residents. Close to one in ten children aged 0-4 live in ... <a title="Apartment life for families means living at close quarters, but often feeling isolated too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/apartment-life-for-families-means-living-at-close-quarters-but-often-feeling-isolated-too-120983/" aria-label="Read more about Apartment life for families means living at close quarters, but often feeling isolated too">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Smith, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University COAG Health Council. August 2, 2019 Australia’s new National Breastfeeding Strategy sets ambitious goals. By 2022 it wants 40% of Australian babies to exclusively breastfeed until they are six months old. At present it’s 25%. By 2025 it wants ... <a title="The National Breastfeeding Strategy is a start, but if we really valued breast milk we’d put it in the GDP" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/the-national-breastfeeding-strategy-is-a-start-but-if-we-really-valued-breast-milk-wed-put-it-in-the-gdp-121302/" aria-label="Read more about The National Breastfeeding Strategy is a start, but if we really valued breast milk we’d put it in the GDP">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
August 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Hausler, PhD Candidate, Researcher, and Sessional Lecturer in Japanese Studies, School of Languages and Cultures, The University of Queensland Today (August 5) marks the 75th anniversary of Australia’s largest prison escape: the Cowra breakout, in New South Wales, during the second world war. In fact, it ... <a title="The Cowra breakout: remembering and reflecting on Australia’s biggest prison escape 75 years on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/05/the-cowra-breakout-remembering-and-reflecting-on-australias-biggest-prison-escape-75-years-on-120410/" aria-label="Read more about The Cowra breakout: remembering and reflecting on Australia’s biggest prison escape 75 years on">Read more</a>
