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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Vredenburg, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology First it was burning running shoes, and now it’s boycotting razors. This is how some customers are responding to recent brand activism initiatives. Read more: Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark Brand ... <a title="Post Gillette: other brands are better at matching practice with talk, but don’t get the publicity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/post-gillette-other-brands-are-better-at-matching-practice-with-talk-but-dont-get-the-publicity-110595/" aria-label="Read more about Post Gillette: other brands are better at matching practice with talk, but don’t get the publicity">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mustapha Bangura, Part-time lecturer and PhD Candidate in Property Economics, Western Sydney University Housing affordability changes over the years for home owners, but this has been largely ignored. The focus has mostly been on entry-level affordability for home buyers. But how does affordability change over the years ... <a title="Head start for home owners makes a big difference for housing stress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/head-start-for-home-owners-makes-a-big-difference-for-housing-stress-109007/" aria-label="Read more about Head start for home owners makes a big difference for housing stress">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University In the wake of revelations of water theft, fish kills, and towns running out of water, the South Australian Royal Commission into the Murray-Darling Basin has reported that the Basin Plan must be strengthened if ... <a title="Damning royal commission report leaves no doubt that we all lose if the Murray-Darling Basin Plan fails" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/damning-royal-commission-report-leaves-no-doubt-that-we-all-lose-if-the-murray-darling-basin-plan-fails-110908/" aria-label="Read more about Damning royal commission report leaves no doubt that we all lose if the Murray-Darling Basin Plan fails">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in Australian politics. They discuss the week in politics including; independents Zali Steggall of Warringah; Oliver Yates in Kooyong and Julia Banks in Flinders, ministers ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the march of the independents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-march-of-the-independents-110983/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the march of the independents">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hunter, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Flinders University This article is part of our occasional long read series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity. Scientists have many tools at their disposal to study, ... <a title="Cloning monkeys for research puts humans on a slippery ethical slope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/cloning-monkeys-for-research-puts-humans-on-a-slippery-ethical-slope-90936/" aria-label="Read more about Cloning monkeys for research puts humans on a slippery ethical slope">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Behrouz Boochani … wrote his award-winning book bit-by-bit via texting from Papua New Guinea. Image: Hoda Afshar/Behrouz Boochani/RNZ Pacific Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk An Iranian asylum-seeker detained in Papua New Guinea under Australian asylum laws has won Australia’s most valuable literary prize for a book he reportedly wrote using the online messaging service WhatsApp, reports ... <a title="Iran refugee detained in PNG wins Australia’s richest literary prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/iran-refugee-detained-in-png-wins-australias-richest-literary-prize/" aria-label="Read more about Iran refugee detained in PNG wins Australia’s richest literary prize">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Medhavi Gupta, PhD Candidate, George Institute for Global Health You’d be hard pressed to have missed the news that there’s been a big spike in the number of drowning deaths this summer – up about 50% since last year. The media’s been full of stories of migrants ... <a title="Australia’s spike in summer drownings: what the media misses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/australias-spike-in-summer-drownings-what-the-media-misses-109948/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s spike in summer drownings: what the media misses">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Douglas, Professor of Law, The University of Queensland Migrant women with temporary visa status are particularly vulnerable when it comes to domestic and family violence. That vulnerability is intensified when you add technology to the mix. Technology-facilitated abuse has been recognised as a new breed of ... <a title="Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/migrant-women-are-particularly-vulnerable-to-technology-facilitated-domestic-abuse-110270/" aria-label="Read more about Migrant women are particularly vulnerable to technology-facilitated domestic abuse">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Fisher, Assistant Professor in Journalism, University of Canberra It’s election season again and behind the scenes, the political “spin doctors” are working around the clock. They are the campaign advisers, social media strategists, press secretaries and others who craft political messages to help “sell” their candidate. ... <a title="The vomit principle, the dead bat, the freeze: how political spin doctors’ tactics aim to shape the news" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/the-vomit-principle-the-dead-bat-the-freeze-how-political-spin-doctors-tactics-aim-to-shape-the-news-106453/" aria-label="Read more about The vomit principle, the dead bat, the freeze: how political spin doctors’ tactics aim to shape the news">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling It’s February, the holidays seem like a distant memory and here we are barrelling toward a federal election, which the government has indicated will be in May. Remember in the olden days – as in, a few elections ago – we ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: how to spot the work of a political spin doctor this election season" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/trust-me-im-an-expert-how-to-spot-the-work-of-a-political-spin-doctor-this-election-season-106338/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: how to spot the work of a political spin doctor this election season">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Rizzari, Lecturer in Fisheries Science, Deakin University Much of the Great Barrier Reef is legally protected in an effort to conserve and rebuild the fragile marine environment. Marine reserves are considered the gold standard for conservation, and often shape our perception of what an “undisturbed ecosystem” ... <a title="The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier Reef" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/the-presence-of-people-is-slowing-shark-recovery-on-the-great-barrier-reef-110877/" aria-label="Read more about The presence of people is slowing shark recovery on the Great Barrier Reef">Read more</a>
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February 1, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Becky Batagol, Associate Professor of Law, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University The Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry delivers its final report today. During its hearings there was an important problem that it has missed. Banks and financial service providers ... <a title="Banks are enabling economic abuse. Here’s how they could be stopping it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/01/banks-are-enabling-economic-abuse-heres-how-they-could-be-stopping-it-110439/" aria-label="Read more about Banks are enabling economic abuse. Here’s how they could be stopping it">Read more</a>
