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February 7, 2019
Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations by Dr Bryce Edwards There has been a striking mood of positivity and optimism in the commentary about Waitangi Day, and race relations in general, this year. It’s as if we have turned a corner as a nation. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern epitomised this in her prayer yesterday in ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nzs-changing-race-relations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: NZ’s changing race relations">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne In this series, we look at under acknowledged women through the ages. Born in 1749, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was a supremely talented painter who forged her career at a time when the Parisian art world was dominated by aristocratic and male ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, prodigiously talented painter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/hidden-women-of-history-adela-de-labille-guiard-prodigiously-talented-painter-107801/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, prodigiously talented painter">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, UNSW This weeks marks 15 years since Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg first set up the platform with his college roommate Eduardo Saverin. Since then, Facebook has grown into a giant global enterprise. The platform now has more than 2.32 billion monthly users and ... <a title="Why are Australians still using Facebook?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/why-are-australians-still-using-facebook-111183/" aria-label="Read more about Why are Australians still using Facebook?">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ramesh Thakur, Professor of International Relations, Australian National University On October 20 2018, US President Donald Trump announced he intends to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) – an arms control treaty with Russia that contributed to the end of the Cold War. Secretary of ... <a title="The collapse of the US-Russia INF Treaty makes arms control a global priority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/the-collapse-of-the-us-russia-inf-treaty-makes-arms-control-a-global-priority-111251/" aria-label="Read more about The collapse of the US-Russia INF Treaty makes arms control a global priority">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
A tragedy in Papua New Guinea’s Western Province. Image: Sally Lloyd/My Land, My Country By Sally Lloyd as told to Scott Waide in Lae A few days ago, I asked Sally Lloyd about the picture she posted on Facebook of a distraught mother weeping over the body of her baby who had died. This is ... <a title="A weeping mum from PNG and her long walk for a dying child" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/a-weeping-mum-from-png-and-her-long-walk-for-a-dying-child/" aria-label="Read more about A weeping mum from PNG and her long walk for a dying child">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Truong Duy Nhat’s disappearance is all the more disturbing because he is widely respected as a blogger. Image: RSF/Youtube). Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on the Thai authorities to shed all possible light on the disappearance of Truong Duy Nhat, a famous Vietnamese blogger who went missing in Bangkok last ... <a title="Vietnamese blogger critic missing and feared ‘kidnapped’ in Bangkok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/vietnamese-blogger-critic-missing-and-feared-kidnapped-in-bangkok/" aria-label="Read more about Vietnamese blogger critic missing and feared ‘kidnapped’ in Bangkok">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danny Davis, Executive Director, Australian Institute of Performance Sciences, and researcher at, La Trobe University What does the American Netflix fantasy-comedy The Good Place have in common with Australia’s banking royal commission? The Good Place, in case you don’t know, is about a happy afterlife accessed through ... <a title="What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations are in a bad place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/what-tv-comedy-the-good-place-tells-us-about-why-banks-and-other-corporations-are-in-a-bad-place-111062/" aria-label="Read more about What TV comedy The Good Place tells us about why banks and other corporations are in a bad place">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 07 2019 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. The Beehive and Parliament Buildings.Today’s content Waitangi Day Henry Cooke (Stuff):Jacinda Ardern has pulled off a second successful Waitangi. A third will be much ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 07 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-07-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 07 2019">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vince Polito, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Science, Macquarie University Microdosing means regularly taking very small doses of psychedelic substances such as LSD or psilocybin (magic mushrooms) over a period of weeks or months. The practice has made countless headlines over the past couple of years, with ... <a title="Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here’s what the research says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/does-microdosing-improve-your-mood-and-performance-heres-what-the-research-says-106850/" aria-label="Read more about Does microdosing improve your mood and performance? Here’s what the research says">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jayne Lucke, Chair, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University Abortion is a common experience for Australian women. Around one in six have had an abortion by their mid-30s, according our new research published today in the Australia New Zealand Journal of Public ... <a title="One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we’re starting to understand why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/one-in-six-australian-women-in-their-30s-have-had-an-abortion-and-were-starting-to-understand-why-111246/" aria-label="Read more about One in six Australian women in their 30s have had an abortion – and we’re starting to understand why">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Tolhurst, Senior Lecturer, Fire Ecology and Management, University of Melbourne Black Saturday was a day like no other; it will be forever remembered in the history of bushfire disasters in Australia. The fires burned about 300,000 hectares in a single day; 173 human lives were lost ... <a title="What has Australia learned from Black Saturday?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/what-has-australia-learned-from-black-saturday-111245/" aria-label="Read more about What has Australia learned from Black Saturday?">Read more</a>
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February 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hamilton, Strategic Advisory Panel Member, Australian-German Energy Transition Hub, University of Melbourne Ten years ago, on February 7, 2009, the Black Saturday bushfires killed 173 people. More than 2,000 houses were destroyed in Victoria, including at Kilmore, Kinglake, Vectis (Horsham), Narbethong, Marysville, Strathewan, Beechworth, Labertouche (Bunyip), ... <a title="Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/07/climate-change-is-poised-to-deliver-more-black-saturdays-in-decades-to-come-111064/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change is poised to deliver more Black Saturdays in decades to come">Read more</a>
