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February 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Literature, Popular Entertainment Studies and Science in Fiction Studies, Australian National University Australian scientists have led many crucial scientific breakthroughs – from the manufacturing and processing of penicillin, to the first in-vitro fertilisation pregnancy. Yet there is still a need for ... <a title="Eight great Australian fictional scientists worth reading about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/12/eight-great-australian-fictional-scientists-worth-reading-about-110697/" aria-label="Read more about Eight great Australian fictional scientists worth reading about">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brenda Midson, Editor, New Zealand Law Journal; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato One of New Zealand’s most notorious sexual misconduct cases re-emerged recently when a ringleader of the Roast Busters, a group of teenagers who were investigated five years ago for alleged sexual offences against ... <a title="How antiquated legal language undermines complainants in cases of sexual assault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/how-antiquated-legal-language-undermines-complainants-in-cases-of-sexual-assault-110596/" aria-label="Read more about How antiquated legal language undermines complainants in cases of sexual assault">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Bell-James, Senior lecturer, The University of Queensland On Friday, Chief Judge Brian Preston of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court handed down a landmark judgement confirming a decision to refuse a new open-cut coal mine near Gloucester in the Hunter Valley. The proposed Rocky ... <a title="Landmark Rocky Hill ruling could pave the way for more courts to choose climate over coal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/landmark-rocky-hill-ruling-could-pave-the-way-for-more-courts-to-choose-climate-over-coal-111533/" aria-label="Read more about Landmark Rocky Hill ruling could pave the way for more courts to choose climate over coal">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naser Ghobadzadeh, Senior lecturer, National School of Arts, Australian Catholic University Iran’s ruling clergy are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution, during which Shi’ite Islamists, led by religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini, toppled Mohammad Reza Shah’s secular monarchy. The linchpin of the Islamic Republic’s political system ... <a title="Forty years on from the Iranian Revolution, could the country be at risk of another one?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/forty-years-on-from-the-iranian-revolution-could-the-country-be-at-risk-of-another-one-110693/" aria-label="Read more about Forty years on from the Iranian Revolution, could the country be at risk of another one?">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
An international non-government organisation, The Global Witness, has reported that 48 individuals were killed in the country last year, a majority related to agribusiness. Image: Philstar By KEN E. CAGULA in Davao City The massive human rights violations committed against indigenous peoples or Lumads and peasants are designed to silence the opposition to the continuing ... <a title="Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/killings-arrests-as-military-flush-out-mindanao-environmental-defenders/" aria-label="Read more about Killings, arrests as military ‘flush out’ Mindanao environmental defenders">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Richards, Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia Following the great success of Barry Jenkins’ 2016 film Moonlight is no easy feat. The movie was exquisite: every shot added meaning, the heartbreak was visceral and Nicholas Britell’s score was divine. The film won the Academy ... <a title="If Beale Street Could Talk is a sumptuous, emotional follow up to Moonlight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/if-beale-street-could-talk-is-a-sumptuous-emotional-follow-up-to-moonlight-111336/" aria-label="Read more about If Beale Street Could Talk is a sumptuous, emotional follow up to Moonlight">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Newspoll, conducted February 7-10 from a sample of 1,570, gave Labor a 53-47 lead, unchanged from last fortnight. Primary votes were 39% Labor (up one), 37% Coalition (steady), 9% Greens (steady) and 5% ... <a title="Poll wrap: Labor maintains Newspoll lead but Morrison’s ratings up, and Abbott behind in Warringah" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/poll-wrap-labor-maintains-newspoll-lead-but-morrisons-ratings-up-and-abbott-behind-in-warringah-111523/" aria-label="Read more about Poll wrap: Labor maintains Newspoll lead but Morrison’s ratings up, and Abbott behind in Warringah">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuan Lei, Graduate Student, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences We’ve all experienced the unpleasant sensation of being itchy. For many years, scientists suspected that pain and itch were the same thing, only differentiated by their intensity: itch was just light pain, and pain was strong ... <a title="Health Check: why do we itch?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/health-check-why-do-we-itch-109435/" aria-label="Read more about Health Check: why do we itch?">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Matthews, Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre | PhD Candidate in Image Forensics and Cyber | Councillor, University of Adelaide Every day, often multiple times a day, you are invited to click on links sent to you by brands, politicians, friends and strangers. You download apps ... <a title="Don’t click that link! How criminals access your digital devices and what happens when they do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/dont-click-that-link-how-criminals-access-your-digital-devices-and-what-happens-when-they-do-109802/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t click that link! How criminals access your digital devices and what happens when they do">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Goldsworthy, Associate Professor in Criminology, Bond University Curious Kids is a series for children. Send your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based on Curious Kids. Is it more dangerous for police ... <a title="Curious Kids: is it more dangerous for police to pursue a suspect than to call off the pursuit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/curious-kids-is-it-more-dangerous-for-police-to-pursue-a-suspect-than-to-call-off-the-pursuit-109440/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: is it more dangerous for police to pursue a suspect than to call off the pursuit?">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Bant, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne One of the most important lessons to come out of last week’s banking royal commission is one of the least likely to grab attention, certainly not in the way the resignation of NAB chair Ken Henry did. It’s that, ... <a title="Understanding Hayne. Why less is more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/understanding-hayne-why-less-is-more-110509/" aria-label="Read more about Understanding Hayne. Why less is more">Read more</a>
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February 11, 2019
Facebook announced last week that it had taken down hundreds of pages, groups and accounts with ties to Saracen, an online syndicate believed to have been involved in creating hoaxes for money. Image: Panchenko Vladimir/Jakarta Post/Shutterstock By Marguerite Afra Sapiie in Jakarta Indonesian social media activist Permadi Arya has threatened to file a Rp 1 ... <a title="Jakarta media activist threatens to sue Facebook for shutting accounts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/11/jakarta-media-activist-threatens-to-sue-facebook-for-shutting-accounts/" aria-label="Read more about Jakarta media activist threatens to sue Facebook for shutting accounts">Read more</a>
