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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University Australia’s attempts to secure the release of an Australian national and two with joint UK-Australian citizenship from an Iranian prison have become vastly more complicated following the brazen attacks on Saudi oil facilities over the weekend. Room ... <a title="As pressure on Iran mounts, there is little room for quiet diplomacy to free detained Australians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/as-pressure-on-iran-mounts-there-is-little-room-for-quiet-diplomacy-to-free-detained-australians-123599/" aria-label="Read more about As pressure on Iran mounts, there is little room for quiet diplomacy to free detained Australians">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison McEwen, Head of Discipline of Genetic Counselling, Graduate School of Health, University of Technology Sydney If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. Why are some twins identical and some not? – Chloe, age 12, Australia We have spent ... <a title="Curious Kids: why are some twins identical and some not?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/curious-kids-why-are-some-twins-identical-and-some-not-121435/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why are some twins identical and some not?">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Flannery, Professorial fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne In this age of rapidly melting glaciers, terrifying megafires and ever more puissant hurricanes, of acidifying and rising oceans, it is hard to believe that any further prod to climate action is needed. But the reality ... <a title="The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/the-gloves-are-off-predatory-climate-deniers-are-a-threat-to-our-children-123594/" aria-label="Read more about The gloves are off: ‘predatory’ climate deniers are a threat to our children">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hudson, Researcher, University of Manchester Paddy Manning’s excellent account of the Australian Greens will not be the last word on Australia’s most successful third party, but will doubtless remain important and influential for many years to come. Manning’s exhaustive (but never exhausting) Inside the Greens pulls ... <a title="Greens’ challenge aptly described by Paddy Manning, but with no solutions in sight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/greens-challenge-aptly-described-by-paddy-manning-but-with-no-solutions-in-sight-122050/" aria-label="Read more about Greens’ challenge aptly described by Paddy Manning, but with no solutions in sight">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abby Mellick Lopes, Senior Lecturer in Design, Western Sydney University This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. A recent report by the Greater Sydney Commission singles out urban heat as ... <a title="Keeping the city cool isn’t just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/keeping-the-city-cool-isnt-just-about-tree-cover-it-calls-for-a-commons-based-climate-response-120491/" aria-label="Read more about Keeping the city cool isn’t just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eve Vincent, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University “This is a bit controversial, we know that,” deputy prime minister Michael McCormick told the National Party’s federal council, which on the weekend voted for a national roll-out of cashless debit cards for anyone younger than 35 on the dole or ... <a title="‘An insult’ – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/an-insult-politicians-sing-the-praises-of-the-cashless-welfare-card-but-those-forced-to-use-it-disagree-123352/" aria-label="Read more about ‘An insult’ – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pat Ranald, Research fellow, University of Sydney The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership has been touted as the best hope for keeping world trade flowing after the attacks on the World Trade Organisation. The WTO isn’t dead yet, but in a two-pronged attack, US President Donald Trump has ... <a title="Suddenly, the world’s biggest trade agreement won’t allow corporations to sue governments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/suddenly-the-worlds-biggest-trade-agreement-wont-allow-corporations-to-sue-governments-123582/" aria-label="Read more about Suddenly, the world’s biggest trade agreement won’t allow corporations to sue governments">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University In 1955, an enormous photographic exhibition, The Family of Man, challenged the world as to what it meant to be human. The curator, Edward Steichen, assembled 503 photographs by 273 photographers from 68 countries, while his brother-in-law, ... <a title="Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/civilization-the-way-we-live-now-powerful-troubling-photographs-of-a-crowded-planet-and-uncertain-future-123593/" aria-label="Read more about Civilization: The Way We Live Now – powerful, troubling photographs of a crowded planet and uncertain future">Read more</a>
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September 17, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Belgrave, Professor History, Massey University From 2022, New Zealand history will be taught at all schools as part of the compulsory national curriculum. The announcement is an astonishing turnaround, given that the ministry of education and parliament’s education and workforce select committee were opposed to any ... <a title="Why it’s time for New Zealanders to learn more about their own country’s history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/17/why-its-time-for-new-zealanders-to-learn-more-about-their-own-countrys-history-123527/" aria-label="Read more about Why it’s time for New Zealanders to learn more about their own country’s history">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it’s time to change Australia’s economic course “in a responsible and affordable way which doesn’t jeopardise the surplus”. Chalmers predicts the budget outcome for last financial year, forecast to be a deficit at budget time, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the need to change economic course" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/16/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-the-need-to-change-economic-course-123597/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the need to change economic course">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Maguire, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, James Cook University Lucy (Charlotte Nicado) is a pink-haired millennial having a quarter-life crisis. Her school friends have drifted away, she has a useless law degree, and a depressing rotation of casual jobs has left her broke. To top ... <a title="Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping – watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/16/reality-slippages-and-narcissistic-stereotyping-watching-content-a-tv-show-made-for-smart-phones-123595/" aria-label="Read more about Reality slippages and narcissistic stereotyping – watching Content, a TV show made for smart phones">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Sherwen, Director Wildlife Conservation and Science, Zoos Victoria, University of Melbourne Each year, from September to mid-October, the tiny and very precious mountain pygmy-possums arise from their months of hibernation under the snow and begin feasting on billions of bogong moths that migrate from Queensland to ... <a title="You can help track 4 billion bogong moths with your smartphone – and save pygmy possums from extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/16/you-can-help-track-4-billion-bogong-moths-with-your-smartphone-and-save-pygmy-possums-from-extinction-123512/" aria-label="Read more about You can help track 4 billion bogong moths with your smartphone – and save pygmy possums from extinction">Read more</a>
