MIL-Evening Report: Keith Jackson: Act now over grave threat facing Australian press freedom
OPEN LETTER: By Keith Jackson I joined the Australian Journalists Association (now the MEAA – Media Alliance) in, I think, 1971, when I still lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. When I formally retired from paid work a few years back, I was given honorary membership but, to bolster the journalism profession and its […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local readers, is understandable. However, the mass media also need to […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Reportage: Science Writing and Climate Change – a new environmental journalism book
Source: Pacific Media Centre Analysis published with permission of PMC David Robie ISBN/code: 9781927184578 Price: $20.00 Publication date: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 Publisher: Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication (AIJC) in association with SciDev.Net and the Pacific Media Centre: Manila and Auckland. “Disaster reporting, which focuses on deaths and casualties for the benefit of local […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Quantum physics experiment shows Heisenberg was right about uncertainty, in a certain sense
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Howard Wiseman, Director, Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University The word uncertainty is used a lot in quantum mechanics. One school of thought is that this means there’s something out there in the world that we are uncertain about. But most physicists believe nature itself is uncertain. […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Court appearance: Mosque attack survivors’ and families’ painful day
FIRST PERSON: By Katie Todd, of RNZ News, reporting outside the High Court in Christchurch The latest chapter in the court proceedings of the accused mosque gunman played out in cold, misty weather in Christchurch today. Reporters and camera crews from around the world lined Lichfield Street from 6.30am, with all eyes and lenses on […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Setka furore opens division within the labour movement – and there is no easy solution
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Markey, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University John Setka’s reported comments about Rosie Batty have the potential to seriously damage the Labor Party and unions generally in the public eye. The Labor Party’s new federal leader, Anthony Albanese, moved quickly to seek Setka’s expulsion from the party following […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Built like buildings, boab trees are life-savers with a chequered past
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. When you are in the northern part of Western Australia, one of nature’s joys is seeing a large boab tree […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Everything that’s great about boab trees
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, University of Melbourne Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. When you are in the northern part of Western Australia, one of nature’s joys is seeing a large boab tree […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand sparks campaign to protect it
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nic Rawlence, Lecturer in Ancient DNA, University of Otago An Australian company’s application to mine a fossil-rich site in the south of New Zealand has been met with fierce criticism and a campaign to protect it in perpetuity. Foulden Maar, near Dunedin, is arguably the most important […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: How a cyber attack hampered Hong Kong protesters
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stanley Shanapinda, Research Fellow, La Trobe University Massive public protests taking place in Hong Kong over the past week are aimed at a new extradition law, known as the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance, that would see accused criminals extradited to mainland China to face prosecution. Hongkongers feel the […]
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