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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monique Retamal, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Last year many Australians were surprised to learn that around half of our plastic waste collected for recycling is exported, and up to 70% was going to China. So much of the world’s plastic was ... <a title="Here’s what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/heres-what-happens-to-our-plastic-recycling-when-it-goes-offshore-110356/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what happens to our plastic recycling when it goes offshore">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trivess Moore, Lecturer, RMIT University Summer in Australia seems to bite harder each year. Adelaide set a record maximum temperature for the nation’s capital cities of 46.6°C last week and there have been extreme heatwaves around Australia. The challenge to remain at a comfortable temperature in our ... <a title="When the heat hits: how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/when-the-heat-hits-how-to-make-our-homes-comfortable-without-cranking-up-the-aircon-110496/" aria-label="Read more about When the heat hits: how to make our homes comfortable without cranking up the aircon">Read more</a>
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January 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University She had quite forgotten the Duchess by this time, and was a little startled when she heard her voice close to her ear. “You’re thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget ... <a title="How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/30/how-creativity-can-help-us-cultivate-moral-imagination-101968/" aria-label="Read more about How creativity can help us cultivate moral imagination">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Barron, Associate Professor, Macquarie University We’ve known for a while that honey bees are smart cookies. They have excellent navigation skills, they communicate symbolically through dance, and they’re the only insects that have been shown to learn abstract concepts. Honey bees might also add the title ... <a title="Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/bees-can-learn-the-difference-between-european-and-australian-indigenous-art-styles-in-a-single-afternoon-110494/" aria-label="Read more about Bees can learn the difference between European and Australian Indigenous art styles in a single afternoon">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Your trousers fit when you put them on in the morning. But come mid-afternoon, they’re uncomfortably tight – and you didn’t even overdo it at lunchtime. Sound familiar? Around one in six people without a health ... <a title="Health Check: what causes bloating and gassiness?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/health-check-what-causes-bloating-and-gassiness-107605/" aria-label="Read more about Health Check: what causes bloating and gassiness?">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Analysis by Keith Rankin. While our traditional economic indicators all seem positive and on target, it is nevertheless clear to almost everyone that something is very wrong with the economic health of New Zealand and other liberal-capitalist economies. Far too many people – especially young people – are poor. Many are trapped in their poverty. ... <a title="Keith Rankin’s Chart of the Month – The Unsurprising Problem of the Poor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/keith-rankins-chart-of-the-month-the-unsurprising-problem-of-the-poor/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin’s Chart of the Month – The Unsurprising Problem of the Poor">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Political Roundup: Don’t write off a new centrist green party yet by Dr Bryce Edwards Is environmentalism intrinsically leftwing? Has the Green Party got a monopoly on environmental concerns? Do environmentally-concerned voters only vote for the Green Party? The answer to all of those questions is surely “no”, yet a speculative “blue-green” centrist party is ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Don’t write off a new centrist green party yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-dont-write-off-a-new-centrist-green-party-yet/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Don’t write off a new centrist green party yet">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Shaw, Professor of Politics, Massey University The nation whose anthem lauds “the land of the free and the home of the brave” and whose constitution was drafted “in order to form a more perfect union … and secure the blessings of liberty” continues to flirt with ... <a title="Why Trump’s wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/why-trumps-wall-rhetoric-is-about-power-rather-than-policy-110499/" aria-label="Read more about Why Trump’s wall rhetoric is about power rather than policy">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 29 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 Housing Jason Walls (Herald): Finance Minister Grant Robertson says the Govt will relook at its KiwiBuild targets Craig McCulloch ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 29 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-january-29-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – January 29 2019">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines president Archbishop Romulo Valles (right) and vice-president Bishop Pablo Virgilio David address the media in a press conference yesterday. Image: Maria Tan/Rappler By Paterno Esmaquel II in Manila The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has slammed the “cycle of hate” in the country as seen in the ... <a title="Bishops slam ‘cycle of hate’ they say is destroying moral fabric of Philippines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/bishops-slam-cycle-of-hate-they-say-is-destroying-moral-fabric-of-philippines/" aria-label="Read more about Bishops slam ‘cycle of hate’ they say is destroying moral fabric of Philippines">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Salinger, Honorary Associate, Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, University of Tasmania As the Australian heatwave is spilling across the Tasman and pushing up temperatures in New Zealand, we take a look at the conditions that caused a similar event last year and the impacts it had. Last ... <a title="Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer’s heatwave in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/farmed-fish-dying-grape-harvest-weeks-early-just-some-of-the-effects-of-last-summers-heatwave-in-nz-110577/" aria-label="Read more about Farmed fish dying, grape harvest weeks early – just some of the effects of last summer’s heatwave in NZ">Read more</a>
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January 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Ellison, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University 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, ... <a title="Curious Kids: how did spoken language start?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/29/curious-kids-how-did-spoken-language-start-109190/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how did spoken language start?">Read more</a>
