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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Raymond, Research fellow, Australian National University There is no evidence that China has ever contemplated using its nuclear weapons to coerce another state. Instead, China has maintained a “no first use policy” on nuclear weapons. Surprising as it may sound to many, China wants to build ... <a title="With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/with-china-us-tensions-on-the-rise-does-australia-need-a-new-defence-strategy-106515/" aria-label="Read more about With China-US tensions on the rise, does Australia need a new defence strategy?">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Ibrahim, Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University We don’t often think of older women being victims of sexual assault, but such assaults occur in many settings and circumstances, including in nursing homes. Our research, published this week in the ... <a title="It’s hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/its-hard-to-think-about-but-frail-older-women-in-nursing-homes-get-sexually-abused-too-107013/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to think about, but frail older women in nursing homes get sexually abused too">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alanna Kamp, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Australian Cultural Geography, Western Sydney University This is the fourth article in our series, Australian Cities in the Asian Century. These articles draw on newly published research, in a special issue of Geographical Research, into how Australian cities are being influenced ... <a title="Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/asians-out-not-in-this-suburb-not-in-this-apartment-103919/" aria-label="Read more about Asians out! Not in this suburb. Not in this apartment">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lyn Craig, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Melbourne Much has changed since 2006 about the way we use our time. Back then we didn’t have iPhones, iPads, Tinder, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or machines that could play us streamed music, check our heart rates ... <a title="A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we’re about to find out how we use our time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/a-decade-after-the-invention-of-the-smartphone-were-about-to-find-out-how-we-use-our-time-107195/" aria-label="Read more about A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we’re about to find out how we use our time">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel May, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Australians familiar with “Black Friday” sales might associate them with images of Americans clambering over each other to battle for iPhones and TVs. Yet this term – used here by companies such as Amazon, Kogan, Bonds, and The Good Guys ... <a title="Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their ‘Black Friday’ sales" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/why-australian-retailers-should-respect-the-past-and-rename-their-black-friday-sales-107015/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their ‘Black Friday’ sales">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ozren Bogdanovic, Lab Head-Developmental Epigenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute Today a large international consortium of researchers published a complex but important study looking at how DNA works in animals. The research focused on a marine organism, a creature called amphioxus (also known as “the lancelet”), ... <a title="It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/it-looks-like-an-anchovy-fillet-but-this-ancient-creature-helps-us-understand-how-dna-works-107353/" aria-label="Read more about It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Headline: A bridge too far. – 36th Parallel Assessments by Dr Paul G. Buchanan Jiaozhou Bay/Qingdao-Haiwan Bridge, China. Photo: Feel the Planet (feel-planet.com). The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge ... <a title="Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/a-bridge-too-far/" aria-label="Read more about Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edwin Creely, Lecturer in literacy and English education, Monash University NAPLAN results indicate a decline in students’ ability to write. Outcomes in literacy, including writing, affect student achievement across multiple subject areas (including maths and science). Read more: NAPLAN writing tests hinder creativity, so what could we ... <a title="Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/where-has-the-joy-of-writing-gone-and-how-do-we-get-it-back-for-our-children-101900/" aria-label="Read more about Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Water Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Government could take water companies from councils Richard Harman (Politik): Councils under threat Dominic Harris (Stuff): New regulations in the pipeline as Goverment ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-21-2018/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History; Graduate Research Coordinator, School of Humanities; Course Coordinator, Diploma of History, University of Tasmania When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately ... <a title="Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/colonial-australia-was-surprisingly-concerned-about-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-107268/" aria-label="Read more about Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Studies, University of Wollongong If Scott Morrison was looking for a way to prove Australia is a good neighbour to Pacific nations, he could hardly have chosen a worse option. Looking for a policy to combat both China and his ... <a title="If there’s one thing Pacific nations don’t need, it’s yet another infrastructure investment bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/if-theres-one-thing-pacific-nations-dont-need-its-yet-another-infrastructure-investment-bank-107198/" aria-label="Read more about If there’s one thing Pacific nations don’t need, it’s yet another infrastructure investment bank">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne Scientists have become increasingly adept at creating brain organoids – which are essentially miniature human brains grown in the laboratory from stem cells. Although brain organoid research might seem ... <a title="Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/fresh-urgency-in-mapping-out-ethics-of-brain-organoid-research-107186/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research">Read more</a>
