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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Bailey, Associate Professor of Psychology, Western Sydney University Populations around the world are ageing rapidly. Almost one in four people will be aged 60 or more by 2050. This growing cohort of older adults is often portrayed as too trusting – why should this be so? ... <a title="The trust trap: why older Australians are more trusting, and what that means for them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/the-trust-trap-why-older-australians-are-more-trusting-and-what-that-means-for-them-119092/" aria-label="Read more about The trust trap: why older Australians are more trusting, and what that means for them">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk The Cook Islands censor has backtracked on its initial decision to ban Rocketman. Instead, the Cook Islands Internal Affairs has followed the New Zealand censor’s classification and rated the film R18, reports Cook Islands News. The censor announced the ban last week, after Samoa banned screenings of the film due to ... <a title="Cook Islands backtracks on Rocketman ban" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/cook-islands-backtracks-on-rocketman-ban/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands backtracks on Rocketman ban">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
By RNZ Pacific Doused in black warpaint, draped in ammunition and clutching guns almost as big as some of them, the boys stare with hardened gazes into the camera. The photo, taken somewhere in Papua’s remote hills, is like countless others released by the West Papua Liberation Army, a rebel group waging war on the ... <a title="West Papua child soldiers in ‘cycle of violence’ with Indonesia military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/west-papua-child-soldiers-in-cycle-of-violence-with-indonesia-military/" aria-label="Read more about West Papua child soldiers in ‘cycle of violence’ with Indonesia military">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University The phrase “colonial settlement” sounds benign, but Julie Gough’s Tense Past presents compelling evidence to the contrary. Since 1994, Gough has been searching the archives, piecing together the evidence and representing Tasmania’s overlooked history of dispossession and frontier ... <a title="Julie Gough’s ‘Tense Past’ reminds us how the brutalities of colonial settlement are still felt today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/julie-goughs-tense-past-reminds-us-how-the-brutalities-of-colonial-settlement-are-still-felt-today-118923/" aria-label="Read more about Julie Gough’s ‘Tense Past’ reminds us how the brutalities of colonial settlement are still felt today">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Nixon, PhD, The University of Queensland Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do spiders need so many eyes but we only need two?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/curious-kids-why-do-spiders-need-so-many-eyes-but-we-only-need-two-116821/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do spiders need so many eyes but we only need two?">Read more</a>
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June 24, 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 Euthanasia Derek Cheng (Herald): Hundreds of proposed amendments could push euthanasia bill well into next year Tracy Watkins (Stuff): It’s down to the wire – the life and death battle over dying Grant ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 24 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-24-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 24 2019">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Andrejevic, Professor, School of Media, Film, and Journalism, Monash University The recent viral “deepfake” video of Mark Zuckerberg declaring, “whoever controls the data controls the world” was not a particularly convincing imitation of the Facebook CEO, but it was spectacularly successful at focusing attention on the ... <a title="People who spread deepfakes think their lies reveal a deeper truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/people-who-spread-deepfakes-think-their-lies-reveal-a-deeper-truth-119156/" aria-label="Read more about People who spread deepfakes think their lies reveal a deeper truth">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Manwaring, Senior Lecturer, Politics and Public Policy, Flinders University The ALP’s defeat at the 2019 federal election was a surprise. Shorten’s Labor fell short, against both wider commentariat predictions and unrepresentative polls. Yet, if we take a step back, the result is less surprising if we ... <a title="Australian Centre-left politics: dead, in crisis, or in transition?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/centre-left-politics-dead-in-crisis-or-in-transition-119159/" aria-label="Read more about Australian Centre-left politics: dead, in crisis, or in transition?">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrienne O’Neil, Principal Research Fellow & Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellow, Deakin University The latest government statistics, released last week, show that from 2001-2016, the rate of cardiac events (heart attacks or unstable angina) fell by more than half among Australian women. That’s largely because of greater ... <a title="For women’s sake, let’s screen for depression as part of the new heart health checks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/for-womens-sake-lets-screen-for-depression-as-part-of-the-new-heart-health-checks-118910/" aria-label="Read more about For women’s sake, let’s screen for depression as part of the new heart health checks">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leigh Ackland, Professor in Molecular Biosciences, Deakin University For many of us, eating a meal containing meat is a normal part of daily life. But if we dig deeper, some sobering issues emerge. Every year, 66 billion terrestrial animals are slaughtered for food. Predictions are that meat ... <a title="Would you eat meat grown from cells in a laboratory? Here’s how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/would-you-eat-meat-grown-from-cells-in-a-laboratory-heres-how-it-works-117420/" aria-label="Read more about Would you eat meat grown from cells in a laboratory? Here’s how it works">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Gelber, Professor of Politics and Public Policy, The University of Queensland The federal education minister, Dan Tehan, has called on universities to implement a model code to protect freedom of speech and academic freedom on campus. He’s referring to the code drafted by a former High ... <a title="Dan Tehan wants a ‘model code’ on free speech at universities – what is it and do unis need it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/dan-tehan-wants-a-model-code-on-free-speech-at-universities-what-is-it-and-do-unis-need-it-119163/" aria-label="Read more about Dan Tehan wants a ‘model code’ on free speech at universities – what is it and do unis need it?">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trivess Moore, Lecturer, RMIT University New housing in Australia must meet minimum energy performance requirements. We wondered how many buildings exceeded the minimum standard. What our analysis found is that four in five new houses are being built to the minimum standard and a negligible proportion to ... <a title="Australia’s still building 4 in every 5 new houses to no more than the minimum energy standard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/24/australias-still-building-4-in-every-5-new-houses-to-no-more-than-the-minimum-energy-standard-118820/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s still building 4 in every 5 new houses to no more than the minimum energy standard">Read more</a>
