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August 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Pitt, PhD candidate, UNSW In April 2020, Australia will mark 250 years since James Cook sailed into Kamay (later known as Botany Bay) on the Endeavour, kicking off a series of events that resulted in the British arriving and staying uninvited first at Warrane (Sydney Cove) ... <a title="How clay helped shape colonial Sydney" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/20/how-clay-helped-shape-colonial-sydney-120580/" aria-label="Read more about How clay helped shape colonial Sydney">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Walvisch, Lecturer, Monash University This morning an Extinction Rebellion protester was arrested after hanging from a rope over the William Jolly Bridge in Brisbane, blocking all lanes to peak hour traffic. And earlier this month in Brisbane, more than 70 climate change protesters were charged with ... <a title="Altruistic or self-serving? Four things judges consider when sentencing politically-motivated crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/altruistic-or-self-serving-four-things-judges-consider-when-sentencing-politically-motivated-crimes-121691/" aria-label="Read more about Altruistic or self-serving? Four things judges consider when sentencing politically-motivated crimes">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Jobson, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Monash University Many of us enjoy writing in a diary, reading autobiographies or nostalgically reflecting with others about past times. Why is remembering our past so important? Are there downsides? And what can we do if dwelling on the past ... <a title="Why do I dwell on the past?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/why-do-i-dwell-on-the-past-121630/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I dwell on the past?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Hon Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney On the morning of the last Monday in April, 2019, federal election officials opened the doors of more than 500 pre-poll voting centres around Australia, and waited for the voters to turn up. ... <a title="Surge in pre-poll numbers at 2019 federal election changes the relationship between voters and parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/surge-in-pre-poll-numbers-at-2019-federal-election-changes-the-relationship-between-voters-and-parties-121929/" aria-label="Read more about Surge in pre-poll numbers at 2019 federal election changes the relationship between voters and parties">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Hart, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Last week, federal health minister Greg Hunt announced that more than 60,000 Australians will be asked about their mental health and well-being as part of the Intergenerational Health and Mental Health Study. The mental health survey will be run ... <a title="How many people have eating disorders? We don’t really know, and that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/how-many-people-have-eating-disorders-we-dont-really-know-and-thats-a-worry-121938/" aria-label="Read more about How many people have eating disorders? We don’t really know, and that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Veronica Alfano, Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Memorising poetry was once common in classrooms. But it has, for the most part, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Memorisation can clash with creativity and analytical thought. Rote learning can be seen as mindless, drone-like, ... <a title="Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/ode-to-the-poem-why-memorising-poetry-still-matters-for-human-connection-121622/" aria-label="Read more about Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University What do J.J. Abrams, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Shonda Rhimes, David Lynch, Aaron Sorkin, Donald Glover, Jenji Kohan, Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Joss Whedon have in common? They are all television showrunners – ... <a title="From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/from-donald-glover-to-phoebe-waller-bridge-what-exactly-does-a-showrunner-do-121760/" aria-label="Read more about From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has a sharp lecture for bureaucrats about their KPIs, in a comprehensive speech laying down how he expects the Australian Public Service to operate under his government. Morrison stresses the service must be responsive to both its ministers ... <a title="Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/scott-morrison-tells-public-servants-keep-in-mind-the-bacon-and-eggs-principle-122021/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has issued a timetable for the government’s dealing with the recommendations from the royal commission into banking, superannuation and financial services, which aims to have all measures needing legislation introduced by the end of next year. The ... <a title="Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/frydenberg-outlines-financial-sector-reform-timetable-122024/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Each new generation of Australians since Federation has enjoyed a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now. Today’s young Australians are in danger of falling behind. A new Grattan Institute report, Generation gap: ensuring a ... <a title="For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/18/for-the-first-time-in-centuries-were-setting-up-a-generation-to-be-worse-off-than-the-one-before-it-121983/" aria-label="Read more about For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael O’Keefe, Head of Department, Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University The Pacific Islands Forum meeting in Tuvalu this week has ended in open division over climate change. Australia ensured its official communique watered down commitments to respond to climate change, gaining a hollow victory. Traditionally, communiques ... <a title="Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia’s inaction on climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/pacific-island-nations-will-no-longer-stand-for-australias-inaction-on-climate-change-121976/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Island nations will no longer stand for Australia’s inaction on climate change">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Xanthe Mallett, Forensic Criminologist, University of Newcastle Even in death, the voice of Carl Williams is louder than that of his victims. Intimate prison letters written by the convicted murderer and drug trafficker to his ex-wife, Roberta – herself arrested this month on kidnap and threats to ... <a title="Glamorising violent offenders with ‘true crime’ shows and podcasts needs to stop" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/glamorising-violent-offenders-with-true-crime-shows-and-podcasts-needs-to-stop-121806/" aria-label="Read more about Glamorising violent offenders with ‘true crime’ shows and podcasts needs to stop">Read more</a>
