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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A senior Liberal backbencher, Russell Broadbent, has strongly attacked the government’s legislation for mandatory sentencing for serious child sex offences under federal law and indicated he won’t vote for it in parliament. Attorney-General Christian Porter specifically acknowledged the Victorian MP’s ... <a title="Liberal moderate Russell Broadbent will not vote for government’s mandatory sentencing legislation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/liberal-moderate-russell-broadbent-will-not-vote-for-governments-mandatory-sentencing-legislation-123273/" aria-label="Read more about Liberal moderate Russell Broadbent will not vote for government’s mandatory sentencing legislation">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Everywhere you turn these days, there’s a diet ad, or family member or friend raving about some new diet that apparently works wonders. But what does the research actually say about how to lose weight – and if you even need ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: what science says about how to lose weight and whether you really need to" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/trust-me-im-an-expert-what-science-says-about-how-to-lose-weight-and-whether-you-really-need-to-122635/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: what science says about how to lose weight and whether you really need to">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Dominey-Howes, Professor of Hazards and Disaster Risk Sciences, University of Sydney Spring has barely arrived, and bushfires are burning across Australia’s eastern seaboard. More than 50 fires are currently burning in New South Wales, and some 15,000 hectares have burned in Queensland since late last week. ... <a title="Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/climate-change-is-bringing-a-new-world-of-bushfires-123261/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is bringing a new world of bushfires">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renae Barker, Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia Sometimes legal disputes are about more than money. Sometimes what is really wanted is an apology – an acknowledgement of wrongful treatment. As former President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Sir Ronald Wilson, said in ... <a title="How might an apology feature in the new religious freedom bill?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/how-might-an-apology-feature-in-the-new-religious-freedom-bill-122873/" aria-label="Read more about How might an apology feature in the new religious freedom bill?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Allen, PhD candidate researching galaxy formation and evolution, Swinburne University of Technology Over the weekend, India attempted to make history by becoming just the fourth nation to successfully land a probe on the Moon. It came agonisingly close, but after journeying millions of kilometres, the Vikram ... <a title="India’s moon mission should be considered a success, and a lesson in spacefaring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/indias-moon-mission-should-be-considered-a-success-and-a-lesson-in-spacefaring-123171/" aria-label="Read more about India’s moon mission should be considered a success, and a lesson in spacefaring">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Mahady, Gastroenterologist & Clinical Epidemiologist, Senior Lecturer, Monash University Australia has one of the highest rates of bowel cancer in the world. In 2017, bowel cancer was the second most common cancer in Australia and rates are increasing in people under 50. Up to 35% of ... <a title="Here’s what you can eat and avoid to reduce your risk of bowel cancer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/heres-what-you-can-eat-and-avoid-to-reduce-your-risk-of-bowel-cancer-120084/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what you can eat and avoid to reduce your risk of bowel cancer">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra Gattenhof, Associate professor, Queensland University of Technology There has been renewed scrutiny in recent weeks about spending on private school capital works. Alongside science labs, sporting fields, and “wellbeing spaces”, many of Australia’s richest schools feature elaborate performing arts centres. Melbourne’s Wesley College’s redevelopment, for example, ... <a title="Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/arts-education-helps-school-students-learn-and-socialise-we-must-invest-in-it-122199/" aria-label="Read more about Arts education helps school students learn and socialise. We must invest in it">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content by Dr Bryce Edwards. Labour Party sexual assault allegations Katie Fitzgerald: Jacinda Ardern won’t say if she has confidence in Labour Party President Nigel Haworth Andrea Vance and Alison Mau (Stuff): Labour took ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 10 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-september-10-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – September 10 2019">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The relationship between ministers and the Australian public service has transformed from a partnership to one more like “master-servant”, with the “master” including the minister’s staff, according to former senior bureaucrat Andrew Podger. Podger, who headed various federal departments and ... <a title="Don’t practice ‘promiscuous partisanship’, former public service commissioner warns bureaucrats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/dont-practice-promiscuous-partisanship-former-public-service-commissioner-warns-bureaucrats-123181/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t practice ‘promiscuous partisanship’, former public service commissioner warns bureaucrats">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philippa Martyr, Lecturer, Pharmacology, Women’s Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, UWA, University of Western Australia Would you like to go to your local pharmacy and buy prescription medicines without seeing the doctor first? Or would you like to collect your prescription medicines at the local supermarket? These ... <a title="How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the ‘turf war’ we see today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/how-rivalries-between-doctors-and-pharmacists-turned-into-the-turf-war-we-see-today-122534/" aria-label="Read more about How rivalries between doctors and pharmacists turned into the ‘turf war’ we see today">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracey-Ann Palmer, Lecturer, Initial Teacher Education, University of Technology Sydney Thousands of Year 10 students are in the process of choosing subjects for their final years of school and half will probably choose to ditch science. For someone like me who thinks science is one of the ... <a title="Keep your job options open and don’t ditch science when choosing next year’s school subjects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/keep-your-job-options-open-and-dont-ditch-science-when-choosing-next-years-school-subjects-123012/" aria-label="Read more about Keep your job options open and don’t ditch science when choosing next year’s school subjects">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Taha Chaiechi, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University Some 60% of the planet’s expected urban area by 2030 is yet to be built. This forecast highlights how rapidly the world’s people are becoming urban. Cities now occupy about 2% of the world’s land area, but are home to ... <a title="Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: the costs multiply in tropical cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/10/urban-growth-heat-islands-humidity-climate-change-the-costs-multiply-in-tropical-cities-120825/" aria-label="Read more about Urban growth, heat islands, humidity, climate change: the costs multiply in tropical cities">Read more</a>
