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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annah Piggott-McKellar, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland The original Fijian village of Vunidogoloa is abandoned. Houses, now dilapidated, remain overgrown with vegetation. Remnants of an old seawall built to protect the village is a stark reminder of what climate change can do to a community’s home. ... <a title="Climate change forced these Fijian communities to move – and with 80 more at risk, here’s what they learned" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/climate-change-forced-these-fijian-communities-to-move-and-with-80-more-at-risk-heres-what-they-learned-116178/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change forced these Fijian communities to move – and with 80 more at risk, here’s what they learned">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Sainsbury, Senior Lecturer Composition, Australian National University Indigenous composers have been around for a long time, with Deborah Cheetham and myself working in composition for some 30 years, Troy Russell for 25 years, and William Barton for 20 years, amongst quite a few others. Many more ... <a title="It’s time to properly acknowledge – and celebrate – Indigenous composers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/its-time-to-properly-acknowledge-and-celebrate-indigenous-composers-115839/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time to properly acknowledge – and celebrate – Indigenous composers">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael (Mike) Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington A recent update on the state of New Zealand’s environment paints a particularly bleak picture about the loss of native ecosystems and the plants and animals within them. Almost two-thirds of rare ... <a title="Despite its green image, NZ has world’s highest proportion of species at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/despite-its-green-image-nz-has-worlds-highest-proportion-of-species-at-risk-116063/" aria-label="Read more about Despite its green image, NZ has world’s highest proportion of species at risk">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland One of the great things about science is that, when you start to observe a new object in space, you can never be sure quite what you’ll find. We received a fantastic reminder of this during observations designed to ... <a title="How we found a white dwarf – a stellar corpse – by accident" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/how-we-found-a-white-dwarf-a-stellar-corpse-by-accident-114089/" aria-label="Read more about How we found a white dwarf – a stellar corpse – by accident">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fabien B. Vincent, Research Fellow; Rheumatology Research Group, Centre for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University Sjögren’s syndrome hit the headlines when US tennis player Venus Williams declared she was suffering from it. What is Sjögren’s syndrome? How do you pronounce it anyway? And is there a cure? What ... <a title="Explainer: what is Sjögren’s syndrome, the condition Venus Williams lives with?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/explainer-what-is-sjogrens-syndrome-the-condition-venus-williams-lives-with-111250/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is Sjögren’s syndrome, the condition Venus Williams lives with?">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McGorrery, PhD Candidate in Criminal Law, Deakin University In the past few years, most parts of the United Kingdom and Ireland have introduced new legislation making it a crime to engage in what’s known as “coercive control” towards an intimate partner. Yet, with the exception of ... <a title="It’s time ‘coercive control’ was made illegal in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/its-time-coercive-control-was-made-illegal-in-australia-114817/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time ‘coercive control’ was made illegal in Australia">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merja Myllylahti, Co-Director JMAD research center, Auckland University of Technology This week New Zealand’s largest newspaper, the NZ Herald, launched digital subscriptions for its online content, making history at the same time. Its paywall is the first for a general newspaper in New Zealand. Back in 2011, ... <a title="How the decision to paywall NZ’s largest newspaper will affect other media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/how-the-decision-to-paywall-nzs-largest-newspaper-will-affect-other-media-116152/" aria-label="Read more about How the decision to paywall NZ’s largest newspaper will affect other media">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lee, Associate Professor of History , UNSW 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’ wages to the ... <a title="Issues that swung elections: the ‘credit squeeze’ that nearly swept Menzies from power in 1961" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/issues-that-swung-elections-the-credit-squeeze-that-nearly-swept-menzies-from-power-in-1961-115140/" aria-label="Read more about Issues that swung elections: the ‘credit squeeze’ that nearly swept Menzies from power in 1961">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Short, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology Controversy over a rare cultural heritage landscape in South Auckland highlights significant failures of heritage protection in New Zealand. The case of Ihumaatao shows how culturally and historically important landscapes continue to fall through the cracks of the heritage system. ... <a title="How a bias towards built heritage threatens the protection of cultural landscapes in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/how-a-bias-towards-built-heritage-threatens-the-protection-of-cultural-landscapes-in-new-zealand-115042/" aria-label="Read more about How a bias towards built heritage threatens the protection of cultural landscapes in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Miller-Jones, Associate Professor, Curtin University We often think of black holes as one-way valves that consume everything they come across. But they are also powerful engines that emit radiation and drive energetic jets out into the cosmos. In research published in the journal Nature, we looked ... <a title="Like a spinning top: wobbling jets from a black hole that’s ‘feeding’ on a companion star" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/like-a-spinning-top-wobbling-jets-from-a-black-hole-thats-feeding-on-a-companion-star-116067/" aria-label="Read more about Like a spinning top: wobbling jets from a black hole that’s ‘feeding’ on a companion star">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute The 2019 election has been heralded as a “generational election” or an “age war”. Labor goes to the election with a series of policies on climate change, housing affordability, wages and budget sustainability clearly designed to ... <a title="More grey tsunami than youthquake: despite record youth enrolments, Australia’s voter base is ageing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/more-grey-tsunami-than-youthquake-despite-record-youth-enrolments-australias-voter-base-is-ageing-115842/" aria-label="Read more about More grey tsunami than youthquake: despite record youth enrolments, Australia’s voter base is ageing">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne Earlier this month, Australian rugby player Israel Folau wrote on Instagram that hell awaits “drunks, homosexuals, adulterers, liars, fornicators, thieves, atheists and idolaters.” Rugby Australia subsequently announced that his comments breached the game’s code of ... <a title="Explainer: does Rugby Australia have legal grounds to sack Israel Folau for anti-gay social media posts?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/30/explainer-does-rugby-australia-have-legal-grounds-to-sack-israel-folau-for-anti-gay-social-media-posts-116170/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: does Rugby Australia have legal grounds to sack Israel Folau for anti-gay social media posts?">Read more</a>
