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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Jobson, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, Monash University Many of us enjoy writing in a diary, reading autobiographies or nostalgically reflecting with others about past times. Why is remembering our past so important? Are there downsides? And what can we do if dwelling on the past ... <a title="Why do I dwell on the past?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/why-do-i-dwell-on-the-past-121630/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I dwell on the past?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Tuvalu’s Prime Minister has condemned the Australian Prime Minister’s conduct at last week’s Pacific Islands Forum, calling Scott Morrison’s attitude “unfortunate” and “neo-colonial,” and questioning Australia’s future in the 18-member body. In an interview with RNZ on Sunday, Enele Sopoaga also threatened to pull Tuvaluan labour from Australia’s seasonal worker programme in light ... <a title="Australian PM’s attitude ‘neo-colonial’, says Tuvalu PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/australian-pms-attitude-neo-colonial-says-tuvalu-pm/" aria-label="Read more about Australian PM’s attitude ‘neo-colonial’, says Tuvalu PM">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Hon Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney On the morning of the last Monday in April, 2019, federal election officials opened the doors of more than 500 pre-poll voting centres around Australia, and waited for the voters to turn up. ... <a title="Surge in pre-poll numbers at 2019 federal election changes the relationship between voters and parties" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/surge-in-pre-poll-numbers-at-2019-federal-election-changes-the-relationship-between-voters-and-parties-121929/" aria-label="Read more about Surge in pre-poll numbers at 2019 federal election changes the relationship between voters and parties">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Hart, Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne Last week, federal health minister Greg Hunt announced that more than 60,000 Australians will be asked about their mental health and well-being as part of the Intergenerational Health and Mental Health Study. The mental health survey will be run ... <a title="How many people have eating disorders? We don’t really know, and that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/how-many-people-have-eating-disorders-we-dont-really-know-and-thats-a-worry-121938/" aria-label="Read more about How many people have eating disorders? We don’t really know, and that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Veronica Alfano, Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University Memorising poetry was once common in classrooms. But it has, for the most part, gone out of style. There are good reasons for this. Memorisation can clash with creativity and analytical thought. Rote learning can be seen as mindless, drone-like, ... <a title="Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/ode-to-the-poem-why-memorising-poetry-still-matters-for-human-connection-121622/" aria-label="Read more about Ode to the poem: why memorising poetry still matters for human connection">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren Paul Fisher, Head of Directing, Department of Film, Screen and Creative Media, Bond University What do J.J. Abrams, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Shonda Rhimes, David Lynch, Aaron Sorkin, Donald Glover, Jenji Kohan, Jordan Peele, Tina Fey, and Joss Whedon have in common? They are all television showrunners – ... <a title="From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/from-donald-glover-to-phoebe-waller-bridge-what-exactly-does-a-showrunner-do-121760/" aria-label="Read more about From Donald Glover to Phoebe Waller-Bridge: what exactly does a showrunner do?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has a sharp lecture for bureaucrats about their KPIs, in a comprehensive speech laying down how he expects the Australian Public Service to operate under his government. Morrison stresses the service must be responsive to both its ministers ... <a title="Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/scott-morrison-tells-public-servants-keep-in-mind-the-bacon-and-eggs-principle-122021/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison tells public servants: keep in mind the ‘bacon and eggs’ principle">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has issued a timetable for the government’s dealing with the recommendations from the royal commission into banking, superannuation and financial services, which aims to have all measures needing legislation introduced by the end of next year. The ... <a title="Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/frydenberg-outlines-financial-sector-reform-timetable-122024/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg outlines financial sector reform timetable">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2019
By Ghinan Salman in Surabaya As many as 43 Papuan students were taken to the district police headquarters after Indonesian police fired teargas and forced their way into a student dormitory in the East Java provincial capital of Surabaya at the weekend. The Papuan students were forcibly removed from their dormitory on Jl Kalasan yesterday ... <a title="Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/19/indonesian-police-raid-papuan-student-dormitory-with-tear-gas-arrest-43/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian police raid Papuan student dormitory with tear gas, arrest 43">Read more</a>
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August 18, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Senior Associate, Grattan Institute Each new generation of Australians since Federation has enjoyed a better standard of living than the one that came before it. Until now. Today’s young Australians are in danger of falling behind. A new Grattan Institute report, Generation gap: ensuring a ... <a title="For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/18/for-the-first-time-in-centuries-were-setting-up-a-generation-to-be-worse-off-than-the-one-before-it-121983/" aria-label="Read more about For the first time in centuries, were setting up a generation to be worse off than the one before it">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Wording has played a crucial role in a reportedly “fierce” Pacific Islands Forum in Tuvalu with Australia allegedly managing to alter documental terms to downplay its commitment to climate change mitigation. According to RNZ Pacific, a communiqué and separate statement on climate change was released after a 12-hour meeting between the ... <a title="Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/australia-has-coal-removed-from-pif-documentation/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has coal removed from PIF documentation">Read more</a>
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August 16, 2019
Australia’s coal policy and its use of carry over credits to fulfill its obligations under the Paris Agreement have come under fire and been major points of contention at this year’s 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) Meeting in Funafuti, Tuvalu. READ MORE: ‘We should have done more for our people’ – Forum climate change fight ... <a title="‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/16/bullying-australia-disregards-pacific-over-climate-crisis-says-350-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Bullying’ Australia disregards Pacific over climate crisis, says 350 Pacific">Read more</a>
