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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lyn Craig, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Melbourne Much has changed since 2006 about the way we use our time. Back then we didn’t have iPhones, iPads, Tinder, Snapchat, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, or machines that could play us streamed music, check our heart rates ... <a title="A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we’re about to find out how we use our time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/a-decade-after-the-invention-of-the-smartphone-were-about-to-find-out-how-we-use-our-time-107195/" aria-label="Read more about A decade after the invention of the smartphone, we’re about to find out how we use our time">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel May, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Australians familiar with “Black Friday” sales might associate them with images of Americans clambering over each other to battle for iPhones and TVs. Yet this term – used here by companies such as Amazon, Kogan, Bonds, and The Good Guys ... <a title="Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their ‘Black Friday’ sales" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/why-australian-retailers-should-respect-the-past-and-rename-their-black-friday-sales-107015/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian retailers should respect the past and rename their ‘Black Friday’ sales">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ozren Bogdanovic, Lab Head-Developmental Epigenomics and Senior Research Fellow, Garvan Institute Today a large international consortium of researchers published a complex but important study looking at how DNA works in animals. The research focused on a marine organism, a creature called amphioxus (also known as “the lancelet”), ... <a title="It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/it-looks-like-an-anchovy-fillet-but-this-ancient-creature-helps-us-understand-how-dna-works-107353/" aria-label="Read more about It looks like an anchovy fillet but this ancient creature helps us understand how DNA works">Read more</a>
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November 22, 2018
Headline: A bridge too far. – 36th Parallel Assessments by Dr Paul G. Buchanan Jiaozhou Bay/Qingdao-Haiwan Bridge, China. Photo: Feel the Planet (feel-planet.com). The Labour-led government in New Zealand has settled on a new mantra when it comes to addressing the US-China rivalry. It claims that New Zealand is ideally situated to become a bridge ... <a title="Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/22/a-bridge-too-far/" aria-label="Read more about Geopolitics Analysis: A bridge too far – Dr Paul Buchanan">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edwin Creely, Lecturer in literacy and English education, Monash University NAPLAN results indicate a decline in students’ ability to write. Outcomes in literacy, including writing, affect student achievement across multiple subject areas (including maths and science). Read more: NAPLAN writing tests hinder creativity, so what could we ... <a title="Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/where-has-the-joy-of-writing-gone-and-how-do-we-get-it-back-for-our-children-101900/" aria-label="Read more about Where has the joy of writing gone and how do we get it back for our children?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Water Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Government could take water companies from councils Richard Harman (Politik): Councils under threat Dominic Harris (Stuff): New regulations in the pipeline as Goverment ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-november-21-2018/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – November 21 2018">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History; Graduate Research Coordinator, School of Humanities; Course Coordinator, Diploma of History, University of Tasmania When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately ... <a title="Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/colonial-australia-was-surprisingly-concerned-about-aboriginal-deaths-in-custody-107268/" aria-label="Read more about Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Studies, University of Wollongong If Scott Morrison was looking for a way to prove Australia is a good neighbour to Pacific nations, he could hardly have chosen a worse option. Looking for a policy to combat both China and his ... <a title="If there’s one thing Pacific nations don’t need, it’s yet another infrastructure investment bank" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/if-theres-one-thing-pacific-nations-dont-need-its-yet-another-infrastructure-investment-bank-107198/" aria-label="Read more about If there’s one thing Pacific nations don’t need, it’s yet another infrastructure investment bank">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne Scientists have become increasingly adept at creating brain organoids – which are essentially miniature human brains grown in the laboratory from stem cells. Although brain organoid research might seem ... <a title="Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/fresh-urgency-in-mapping-out-ethics-of-brain-organoid-research-107186/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Effie Karageorgos, Academic Tutor, History and Academic Skills, University of Melbourne The 100th anniversary of the truce that ended the first world war has been marked. More than $1 billion is being spent on remembering the dead. Now is the time to become more honest – respectfully ... <a title="An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/an-urgent-rethink-is-needed-on-the-idealised-image-of-the-anzac-digger-107003/" aria-label="Read more about An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Zwick, Molecular Systematist, CSIRO Curious Kids is a series for children, where we ask experts to answer questions from kids. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the bottom. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen ... <a title="Curious Kids: How do moths eat our clothes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/curious-kids-how-do-moths-eat-our-clothes-105978/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: How do moths eat our clothes?">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea came under attack yesterday as angry police and corrections officers stormed into Parliament Haus and destroyed the main entrance. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk National District Governor Powes Parkop has pledged that it will be business as usual today in the Papua New Guinean capital of ... <a title="‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/business-as-usual-vows-parkop-after-storming-of-png-parliament-rioting/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Business as usual’ vows Parkop after storming of PNG Parliament, rioting">Read more</a>
