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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Downing, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow; Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University The availability of junk foods and screens is increasingly creating challenges for parents. But in the home environment, parents have the opportunity to shape their children’s diet, activity, screen time and ... <a title="Kids’ diets and screen time: to set up good habits, make healthy choices the default at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/kids-diets-and-screen-time-to-set-up-good-habits-make-healthy-choices-the-default-at-home-114827/" aria-label="Read more about Kids’ diets and screen time: to set up good habits, make healthy choices the default at home">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brydon T. Wang, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology Humans have a long history of living on water. Our water homes span the fishing villages in Southeast Asia, Peru and Bolivia to modern floating homes in Vancouver and Amsterdam. As our cities grapple with ... <a title="Floating cities: the future or a washed-up idea?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/floating-cities-the-future-or-a-washed-up-idea-116511/" aria-label="Read more about Floating cities: the future or a washed-up idea?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland By mid-June, if everything goes as expected, Adani Australia will receive the final environmental approvals for its proposed Carmichael coal mine and rail line development. Newspaper reports based on briefings from Adani suggest that, once the approvals ... <a title="Explaining Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/explaining-adani-why-would-a-billionaire-persist-with-a-mine-that-will-probably-lose-money-117682/" aria-label="Read more about Explaining Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money?">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Holland, Professor in Human Resource Management and Employee Relations, Swinburne University of Technology In Back to the Future II (1989), fingerprints are used to lock and unlock doors. It’s a benign technology, apart from the rise of “thumb bandits” who amputate thumbs. Gattaca (1997) envisages a ... <a title="As privacy is lost a fingerprint at a time, a biometric rebel asserts our rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/as-privacy-is-lost-a-fingerprint-at-a-time-a-biometric-rebel-asserts-our-rights-117745/" aria-label="Read more about As privacy is lost a fingerprint at a time, a biometric rebel asserts our rights">Read more</a>
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June 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Mokrzycki, PhD Candidate, Victoria University In recent years, there has been a surge in “female empowerment” stories in the Australian picture book market. This long-overdue movement was largely inspired by the success of the crowdfunded book Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, spawning many imitations since its ... <a title="I looked at 100 best-selling picture books: female protagonists were largely invisible" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/03/i-looked-at-100-best-selling-picture-books-female-protagonists-were-largely-invisible-115843/" aria-label="Read more about I looked at 100 best-selling picture books: female protagonists were largely invisible">Read more</a>
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June 2, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Kristina Keneally is continuing her rise and rise, appointed to “shadow” Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton, in Anthony Albanese’s frontbench bench line up announced on Sunday. After last week obtaining a place in the shadow ministry and becoming Labor’s deputy ... <a title="View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/02/view-from-the-hill-kristina-keneally-vs-peter-dutton-should-produce-plenty-of-political-bloodsport-118171/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University The Queensland government has ticked off a crucial environmental approval for Adani’s Carmichael coalmine, bringing the contentious project a step closer to becoming reality. It has approved Adani’s proposed management plan for the endangered black-throated finch, ... <a title="Adani’s finch plan is approved, just weeks after being sent back to the drawing board" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/adanis-finch-plan-is-approved-just-weeks-after-being-sent-back-to-the-drawing-board-118114/" aria-label="Read more about Adani’s finch plan is approved, just weeks after being sent back to the drawing board">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory John Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. The Kakadu Plum fruiting season in the Top End is just finishing. Over one ... <a title="Meet the Kakadu plum: an international superfood thousands of years in the making" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/meet-the-kakadu-plum-an-international-superfood-thousands-of-years-in-the-making-116362/" aria-label="Read more about Meet the Kakadu plum: an international superfood thousands of years in the making">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s budget 2019 promised to usher in a new era of policy addressing well-being. It was meant to go beyond the status quo of measuring how ... <a title="Children had no say in New Zealand’s well-being budget, and that matters" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/children-had-no-say-in-new-zealands-well-being-budget-and-that-matters-118113/" aria-label="Read more about Children had no say in New Zealand’s well-being budget, and that matters">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Geoff Crisp speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss the Coalition’s new ministry, including Indigenous Minister Ken Wyatt and Stuart Robert who will oversee the NDIS and service provision, ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Ken Wyatt’s appointment – and Labor’s frontbench" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/video-michelle-grattan-on-ken-wyatts-appointment-and-labors-frontbench-118119/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on Ken Wyatt’s appointment – and Labor’s frontbench">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University A decade ago, one of New Zealand’s leading scientists, the late Sir Paul Callaghan, put forth his vision for the country in his book Wool to Weta. He envisaged New Zealand emphasising green high-technology industries and reducing dependence on ... <a title="NZ Budget 2019: support for lower-emission business, transport, land use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/nz-budget-2019-support-for-lower-emission-business-transport-land-use-118058/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Budget 2019: support for lower-emission business, transport, land use">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Who’d make a decision that would give a household with an income of A$150,000 an extra $100,000 to $120,000 of borrowing power? APRA, that’s who. APRA is the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. It was hived off from the Reserve Bank and ... <a title="Vital Signs: APRA is going to make it easier to borrow. It could be another one of its bad calls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/vital-signs-apra-is-going-to-make-it-easier-to-borrow-it-could-be-another-one-of-its-bad-calls-117967/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: APRA is going to make it easier to borrow. It could be another one of its bad calls">Read more</a>
