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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Some weeks back, Sydney Morning Herald political editor Peter Hartcher grimly characterised the election as a choice between an angry dad figure in a baseball cap and a sad sack who learned public speaking in funeral parlour. ... <a title="Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/look-at-me-look-at-me-how-image-conscious-but-visionless-leaders-have-made-for-a-dreary-campaign-116421/" aria-label="Read more about Look at me! Look at me! How image-conscious but visionless leaders have made for a dreary campaign">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide 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 ... <a title="Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/curious-kids-why-dont-horses-sit-or-lie-down-even-while-sleeping-116156/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why don’t horses sit or lie down even while sleeping?">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eddie Synot, Senior Research Assistant, Griffith University The Uluru Statement from the Heart is almost two years old and now enjoys bipartisan political support. Labor’s policy, if elected, is to hold a referendum on enshrining a First Nations voice in the Australian Constitution in their first term. ... <a title="Constitutional reform made easy: how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/constitutional-reform-made-easy-how-to-achieve-the-uluru-statement-and-a-first-nations-voice-116141/" aria-label="Read more about Constitutional reform made easy: how to achieve the Uluru statement and a First Nations voice">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tooran Alizadeh, Senior Lecturer in Urbanism, Sydney Research Accelerator (SOAR) Fellow, University of Sydney The NBN was touted as dream infrastructure, and the Coalition says it is close to completing the A$50 billion national broadband network. But Australia recently slipped three spots to place 62nd in global ... <a title="Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/around-50-of-homes-in-sydney-melbourne-and-brisbane-have-the-oldest-nbn-technology-115131/" aria-label="Read more about Around 50% of homes in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have the oldest NBN technology">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Lawrence, Affiliate, Sydney Environment Institute; Honorary Associate, Macquarie University, Macquarie University Can a uranium mine be rehabilitated to the environmental standards of a national park and World Heritage site? That’s the challenge faced by the controversial Ranger uranium mine inside Kakadu National Park. But our new ... <a title="The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/the-uranium-mine-in-the-heart-of-kakadu-needs-a-better-clean-up-plan-115566/" aria-label="Read more about The uranium mine in the heart of Kakadu needs a better clean up plan">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Martin-Chew, Freelance art writer and PhD candidate, The University of Queensland In the recent Julian Schnabel film about Vincent van Gogh, At Eternity’s Gate, Vincent asserts, “I am my painting”. The lives of certain artists are often viewed popularly through the prism of biography. But in ... <a title="For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/for-aboriginal-artists-personal-stories-matter-113029/" aria-label="Read more about For Aboriginal artists, personal stories matter">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Starling, Postdoctoral researcher, University of Sydney 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: is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/curious-kids-is-it-true-that-dogs-at-the-pound-get-killed-if-nobody-adopts-them-115803/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: is it true that dogs at the pound get killed if nobody adopts them?">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A former editor of the PNG Post-Courier has condemned is old newspaper for a front page article “insulting the intelligence” of Papua New Guineans as tension builds over the looming vote of no confidence in the government. Parliament resumes today and Prime Minister Peter O’Neill faces the biggest challenge to his ... <a title="Former editor blasts Post-Courier over ‘trash’ coverage on PNG crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/former-editor-blasts-post-courier-over-trash-coverage-on-png-crisis/" aria-label="Read more about Former editor blasts Post-Courier over ‘trash’ coverage on PNG crisis">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 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. Today’s content Environment Spinoff: You live on a planet facing a million-species extinction Farah Hancock (Newsroom): Million species facing extinction: report Amber-Leigh Woolf (Stuff): A million species ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-07-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 07 2019">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney Today we kick off a four-part election series on wages, industrial relations, Labor and the union movement ahead of the 2019 federal election. You can read an analysis of Labor’s living wage ... <a title="How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/how-the-major-parties-stack-up-on-industrial-relations-policy-116256/" aria-label="Read more about How the major parties stack up on industrial relations policy">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University If, as the polls indicate, Labor wins government on May 18, what role will the unions play? There are two mutually exclusive, extreme views on unions and politics – sometimes argued by the ... <a title="If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/if-labor-wins-the-2019-federal-election-what-role-will-unions-play-116343/" aria-label="Read more about If Labor wins the 2019 federal election, what role will unions play?">Read more</a>
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May 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The major parties’ manifestos for the 2019 federal election present voters with starkly contrasting health policies. These policies are shaped and constrained by the overall themes presented by the party leaders, but have some unique elements. Liberal – money in ... <a title="What are the major parties promising on health this election?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/07/what-are-the-major-parties-promising-on-health-this-election-116427/" aria-label="Read more about What are the major parties promising on health this election?">Read more</a>