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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Deputy Vice-Chancellor Leigh Sullivan joins Michelle Grattan to talk about the week in politics. They discuss the first leaders debate on Monday held in Western Australia, the loss of candidates from multiple parties over offensive ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on candidate troubles – and pre-polling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/video-michelle-grattan-on-candidate-troubles-and-pre-polling-116530/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on candidate troubles – and pre-polling">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Scott, Lecturer, School of Creative Industries, Faculty of Education and Arts, University of Newcastle The Newcastle Herald has won eight Walkley awards for journalistic excellence over the past seven years. This includes a Gold Walkley for the groundbreaking reportage that led to Australia’s royal commission into ... <a title="What a local newspaper means to a regional city like Newcastle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/what-a-local-newspaper-means-to-a-regional-city-like-newcastle-116276/" aria-label="Read more about What a local newspaper means to a regional city like Newcastle">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tara Murphy, Professor and ARC Future Fellow, University of Sydney The hunt for gravitational waves is back on with the announcement overnight of the detection of signals from what’s thought to be the merger of two neutron stars, the incredibly dense remains of a collapsed star. The ... <a title="We’ve detected new gravitational waves, we just don’t know where they come from (yet)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/weve-detected-new-gravitational-waves-we-just-dont-know-where-they-come-from-yet-116267/" aria-label="Read more about We’ve detected new gravitational waves, we just don’t know where they come from (yet)">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwenda Tavan, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, La Trobe University With taxes and health care emerging as key issues in the upcoming federal election, we’re running a series this week looking at the main issues that swung elections in the past, from agricultural workers’ wages to ... <a title="Issues that swung elections: Tampa and the national security election of 2001" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/issues-that-swung-elections-tampa-and-the-national-security-election-of-2001-115143/" aria-label="Read more about Issues that swung elections: Tampa and the national security election of 2001">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christa Lam-Cassettari, Interim Leader MARCS Institute BabyLab, Western Sydney University Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and ... <a title="Curious Kids: how do babies learn to talk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/curious-kids-how-do-babies-learn-to-talk-111613/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how do babies learn to talk?">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW In a continuation of a recent trend, there are no politicians in this year’s Archibald Prize. The last time a portrait of a politician was awarded the ... <a title="Puckish charm and no politicians: the 2019 Archibald Prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/puckish-charm-and-no-politicians-the-2019-archibald-prize-116346/" aria-label="Read more about Puckish charm and no politicians: the 2019 Archibald Prize">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dr Angela Pattison, Research scientist at Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, University of Sydney Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. The species Solanum centrale, also known as kutjera in several Aboriginal languages, or ... <a title="The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/the-tasty-weed-like-desert-raisin-plant-is-as-big-as-a-carpark-115121/" aria-label="Read more about The tasty, weed-like desert raisin plant is as big as a carpark">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shirleene Robinson, Associate Professor and Vice Chancellor’s Innovation Fellow, Macquarie University With taxes, health care and climate change emerging as key issues in the upcoming federal election, we’re running a series this week looking at the main issues that swung elections in the past, from agricultural workers’ ... <a title="Issues that swung elections: the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-Petersen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/issues-that-swung-elections-the-dramatic-and-inglorious-fall-of-joh-bjelke-petersen-115141/" aria-label="Read more about Issues that swung elections: the dramatic and inglorious fall of Joh Bjelke-Petersen">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam, PhD Candidate (Law), University of Newcastle In the case of Julian Assange, focus has turned to the United States’ efforts to extradite him from Britain to the US to face a charge of conspiracy “to commit computer intrusion”. The initial extradition hearing, which took ... <a title="Julian Assange has refused to surrender himself for extradition to the US. What now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/julian-assange-has-refused-to-surrender-himself-for-extradition-to-the-us-what-now-116173/" aria-label="Read more about Julian Assange has refused to surrender himself for extradition to the US. What now?">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeanti St Clair, Lecturer in Journalism, Southern Cross University In the north-east corner of Australia’s most populous state of New South Wales is a small former dairying and banana farming community. Today, however, that village is unrecognisable. Nimbin is now widely acknowledged as Australia’s counter-cultural capital, a ... <a title="Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/nimbin-before-and-after-local-voices-on-how-the-1973-aquarius-festival-changed-a-town-forever-116165/" aria-label="Read more about Nimbin before and after: local voices on how the 1973 Aquarius Festival changed a town forever">Read more</a>
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May 3, 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 This federal election is a tale of two campaigns. The first is the old-style, business-as-usual campaign: party leaders criss-crossing the country attending set events to garner as many headlines and ... <a title="Leaders try to dodge them. Voters aren’t watching. So, are debates still relevant?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/leaders-try-to-dodge-them-voters-arent-watching-so-are-debates-still-relevant-115456/" aria-label="Read more about Leaders try to dodge them. Voters aren’t watching. So, are debates still relevant?">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Diesendorf, Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW As the federal election approaches, Labor has two principal climate and energy targets: a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the 2005 level by 2030, and for half of Australia’s electricity to come from renewable sources by 2030 (up from ... <a title="Fixing the gap between Labor’s greenhouse gas goals and their policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/03/fixing-the-gap-between-labors-greenhouse-gas-goals-and-their-policies-115550/" aria-label="Read more about Fixing the gap between Labor’s greenhouse gas goals and their policies">Read more</a>
