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February 14, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 14 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 China-NZ relations Robert Ayson (The Spinoff): New Zealand and China: time for clarity in a hall of mirrors Barry Soper (Herald): Souring relationship ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 14 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-14-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 14 2019">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW University students, like many in society, demonstrate bias against women and particularly women from non-English speaking backgrounds. That’s the take home message from a new and comprehensive analysis of student experience surveys. The study examined a ... <a title="Male teachers are most likely to rate highly in university student feedback" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/male-teachers-are-most-likely-to-rate-highly-in-university-student-feedback-111741/" aria-label="Read more about Male teachers are most likely to rate highly in university student feedback">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leanda McKenna, Lecturer, Curtin University It’s the middle of the night. Your newborn baby is awake. Again. She wants to feed. You lift her to your breast and brace for the pain. Most mothers who breastfeed come to appreciate the convenience and the bonding it provides. But ... <a title="Explainer: what is mastitis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/explainer-what-is-mastitis-108686/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is mastitis?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Orr, Veterinarian and PhD candidate, University of Sydney Have you ever wondered what’s going through your dog’s mind when you say the word “walk”? And does your pup seem to show guilt when you ask them sternly “what have you done?” Their tail might drop between ... <a title="In an Australian first, the ACT may legally recognise animals’ feelings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/in-an-australian-first-the-act-may-legally-recognise-animals-feelings-111079/" aria-label="Read more about In an Australian first, the ACT may legally recognise animals’ feelings">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gigi Foster, Professor, School of Economics, UNSW After three years and 35 polls, the Economic Society of Australia has received its first-ever unanimous response to a survey question. It asked just over 50 of Australia’s leading economists to respond to this statement: There is no way to ... <a title="It’s unanimous: Economists’ poll says we can fix the banks. But that doesn’t mean we will" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/its-unanimous-economists-poll-says-we-can-fix-the-banks-but-that-doesnt-mean-we-will-111748/" aria-label="Read more about It’s unanimous: Economists’ poll says we can fix the banks. But that doesn’t mean we will">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Management, Swinburne University of Technology The leaders of our banks and financial institutions are seen as the most self-serving in the nation, according to a national survey undertaken by researchers at Swinburne University of Technology. More than a third (35.4%) of respondents ... <a title="One-third of Australians think banks do nothing for the greater public good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/one-third-of-australians-think-banks-do-nothing-for-the-greater-public-good-111346/" aria-label="Read more about One-third of Australians think banks do nothing for the greater public good">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Lee, Graduate Researcher, University of Tasmania Who is currently regarded as the greatest guitarist of all time? It’s a hard question to answer but plenty have tried. In the last decade, a plethora of lists have sought to rank our guitar greats, drawing variously on panels ... <a title="We crunched the numbers on ten recent ‘world’s best guitarist’ lists. Where are the women?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/we-crunched-the-numbers-on-ten-recent-worlds-best-guitarist-lists-where-are-the-women-111598/" aria-label="Read more about We crunched the numbers on ten recent ‘world’s best guitarist’ lists. Where are the women?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Milford, Professor, Queensland University of Technology Alita: Battle Angel is an interesting and wild ride, jam-packed full of concepts around cybernetics, dystopian futures and cyberpunk themes. The film – in cinemas from today – revolves around Alita (Rosa Salazar), a female cyborg (with original human brain) ... <a title="A robot that can touch, eat and sleep? The reality of cyborgs like Alita: Battle Angel" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/a-robot-that-can-touch-eat-and-sleep-the-reality-of-cyborgs-like-alita-battle-angel-110430/" aria-label="Read more about A robot that can touch, eat and sleep? The reality of cyborgs like Alita: Battle Angel">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen a decline in the performance of Australian school students on international tests. On the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), Australia ranks a disappointing 20th in mathematics and 12th in reading. However you feel ... <a title="Why we should (carefully) consider paying kids to learn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/why-we-should-carefully-consider-paying-kids-to-learn-111624/" aria-label="Read more about Why we should (carefully) consider paying kids to learn">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Panguna mine in operation … back in its heyday around 1971. Image: Robert Owen Winkler/Wikimedia Commons/PNG Mine Watch Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Autonomous Bougainville Government, led by president Dr John Momis, has been accused by a research and advocacy group of allowing a “reckless land grab” with its planned mining law changes. The proposed ... <a title="Jubilee Australia accuses Bougainville over ‘reckless land grab’ law changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/jubilee-australia-accuses-bougainville-over-reckless-land-grab-law-changes/" aria-label="Read more about Jubilee Australia accuses Bougainville over ‘reckless land grab’ law changes">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne History tells us that no matter which side of politics – Labor or Coalition – is in power, there is no respite for the ABC from incipient government hostility. What does change, however, ... <a title="Australian governments have a long history of trying to manipulate the ABC – and it’s unlikely to stop now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/13/australian-governments-have-a-long-history-of-trying-to-manipulate-the-abc-and-its-unlikely-to-stop-now-110712/" aria-label="Read more about Australian governments have a long history of trying to manipulate the ABC – and it’s unlikely to stop now">Read more</a>
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February 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Independent MP Kerryn Phelps, who set the ball rolling for the medical transfers legislation, says its passage is “a remarkable exercise in cooperation”. Phelps says that of the about 1000 people on Manus and Nauru “around 70 people require urgent ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kerryn Phelps on medical transfer numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-kerryn-phelps-on-medical-transfer-numbers-111751/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kerryn Phelps on medical transfer numbers">Read more</a>
