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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>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Melville, Senior Curator, Terrestrial Vertebrates, Museums Victoria You may have seen news in recent days of the suspected demise of the Victorian grassland earless dragon – now thought to be the first lizard species to be driven to extinction by humans in mainland Australia. That suspicion ... <a title="Why we’re not giving up the search for mainland Australia’s ‘first extinct lizard’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/why-were-not-giving-up-the-search-for-mainland-australias-first-extinct-lizard-117831/" aria-label="Read more about Why we’re not giving up the search for mainland Australia’s ‘first extinct lizard’">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carolyn Masel, Lecturer in Literature, Australian Catholic University This is a longer read. Enjoy! This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman, America’s most admired poet. Celebrations will be especially joyful around his birthday on May 31 and in New York City, whose ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and the complex life of the ‘poet of America’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/guide-to-the-classics-walt-whitmans-leaves-of-grass-and-the-complex-life-of-the-poet-of-america-116055/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and the complex life of the ‘poet of America’">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Reilly, Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide The Coalition’s election victory on May 18 had an immediate psychological effect on the refugees on Manus Island, with reports of several people attempting suicide. Two class-action lawsuits currently before ... <a title="Cruel, and no deterrent: why Australia’s policy on asylum seekers must change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/cruel-and-no-deterrent-why-australias-policy-on-asylum-seekers-must-change-117969/" aria-label="Read more about Cruel, and no deterrent: why Australia’s policy on asylum seekers must change">Read more</a>
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May 31, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Scott Morrison travels to Europe for D-Day commemorations next week. While there, he may also hold talks with leaders such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the G20 meeting in Japan in June. With the UK ... <a title="As Morrison heads to the Pacific, our nearest neighbours will be looking for more than kind words" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/31/as-morrison-heads-to-the-pacific-our-nearest-neighbours-will-be-looking-for-more-than-kind-words-118037/" aria-label="Read more about As Morrison heads to the Pacific, our nearest neighbours will be looking for more than kind words">Read more</a>
