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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne After the first Democratic presidential debate on June 25-26, Joe Biden fell in Democratic national presidential polls, and Kamala Harris surged. In the lead-up to the July 30-31 debate, Biden recovered lost support while Harris ... <a title="Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump’s ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/biden-still-leads-us-democratic-primaries-trumps-ratings-fall-slightly-after-gun-massacres-plus-australian-preference-flows-121439/" aria-label="Read more about Biden still leads US Democratic primaries, Trump’s ratings fall slightly after gun massacres, plus Australian preference flows">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gerry Groot, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Adelaide As China grows more powerful and influential, our New Superpower series looks at what this means for the world – how China maintains its power, how it wields its power and how its power might be threatened. ... <a title="Explainer: what is China’s United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/explainer-what-is-chinas-united-front-and-how-much-influence-does-it-have-in-australia-119174/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is China’s United Front, and how much influence does it have in Australia?">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk As four more journalists were assaulted in the North Point in Hong Kong area on Sunday August 11th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have called on the authorities to put an end to the violence against the press. In the past two months, journalists covering the anti-extradition bill protests were increasingly the ... <a title="RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/rsf-condemns-journalist-assault-as-hong-kong-violence-escalates/" aria-label="Read more about RSF condemns journalist assault as Hong Kong violence escalates">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Seadon, Senior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology Recycling in Australia used to be fairly simple. Our older readers may remember bottle drives, paper and cardboard collections, and the trip to the scrap metal merchant to sell metals. This is called, in recycling parlance, sorting the “streams”. ... <a title="How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/how-recycling-is-actually-sorted-and-why-australia-is-quite-bad-at-it-121120/" aria-label="Read more about How recycling is actually sorted, and why Australia is quite bad at it">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique de Andrade, The University of Queensland This is the third in a series of articles discussing a recently released comprehensive evaluation of the Queensland government’s 2016 policy reforms to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and the implications for liquor regulation and the night-time economy in Queensland and Australia. ... <a title="Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/unwanted-sexual-attention-plagues-young-women-going-out-at-night-121116/" aria-label="Read more about Unwanted sexual attention plagues young women going out at night">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University The Morrison government is at risk of losing control of China policy. Push-back from within its own ranks is complicating its ability to manage relations with Beijing. China policy is being subjected to a buffeting from hawkish ... <a title="Morrison needs to take control of China policy – but leave room for dissent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/morrison-needs-to-take-control-of-china-policy-but-leave-room-for-dissent-121739/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison needs to take control of China policy – but leave room for dissent">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra An analysis from The Australia Institute accuses Scott Morrison of planning to exploit a “pollution loophole” equivalent to about eight years of fossil-fuel emissions from the rest of the Pacific and New Zealand. The “loophole” is using Kyoto credits to ... <a title="Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison’s climate policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/australia-institute-analysis-adds-to-pacific-pile-on-over-morrisons-climate-policy-121817/" aria-label="Read more about Australia Institute analysis adds to Pacific pile-on over Morrison’s climate policy">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Victoria University of Wellington The terrorist attacks on the Christchurch Muslim community on 15 March this year resulted in a political response that was decidedly different from what usually follows mass ... <a title="Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/survey-reveals-a-third-of-nz-gun-owners-distrust-gun-lobby-121736/" aria-label="Read more about Survey reveals a third of NZ gun owners distrust gun lobby">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics, La Trobe University Parkinson’s disease, a debilitating neurodegenerative disease common in elderly people, is twice as prevalent in men than women. A new study published this month suggests the sex gene (SRY on the male-specific Y chromosome) plays a role in ... <a title="The sex gene SRY and Parkinson’s disease: how genes act differently in male and female brains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/the-sex-gene-sry-and-parkinsons-disease-how-genes-act-differently-in-male-and-female-brains-121764/" aria-label="Read more about The sex gene SRY and Parkinson’s disease: how genes act differently in male and female brains">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Leuzinger, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it ... <a title="Climate explained: why plants don’t simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/climate-explained-why-plants-dont-simply-grow-faster-with-more-carbon-dioxide-in-air-115907/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: why plants don’t simply grow faster with more carbon dioxide in air">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Garrick, University Fellow in Law, Charles Darwin University What’s happening in Hong Kong right now has direct bearings on Australia. It goes to an issue crucial to our position in a world economic order that is likely to be shaped less by the United States, still ... <a title="Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/hong-kong-fears-losing-its-rule-of-law-the-rest-of-the-world-should-worry-too-121807/" aria-label="Read more about Hong Kong fears losing its rule of law; the rest of the world should worry too">Read more</a>
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August 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Latty, Senior Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. Insects have always been intimately connected with agriculture. Pest insects can cause tremendous damage, while helpful insects like pollinators and predators provide free ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/14/hidden-women-of-history-eleanor-anne-ormerod-the-self-taught-agricultural-entomologist-who-tasted-a-live-newt-120158/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Eleanor Anne Ormerod, the self taught agricultural entomologist who tasted a live newt">Read more</a>
