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March 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University The great British economist John Maynard Keynes said he longed for the day when economics could be thought of as a “matter for specialists – like dentistry”. It’s easier to become an economist than a ... <a title="Dentists need a licence to practice. Why not economists?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/14/dentists-need-a-licence-to-practice-why-not-economists-113380/" aria-label="Read more about Dentists need a licence to practice. Why not economists?">Read more</a>
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March 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kacey Sinclair, PhD Candidate in History, La Trobe University In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. On 22 January 1856, an extraordinary event in Australia’s history occurred. It is not part of our collective national identity, nor has it been mythologised over the ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Australia’s first known female voter, the famous Mrs Fanny Finch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/14/hidden-women-of-history-australias-first-known-female-voter-the-famous-mrs-fanny-finch-112962/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Australia’s first known female voter, the famous Mrs Fanny Finch">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Political Roundup: The Seriousness of electoral fraud in NZ by Dr Bryce Edwards The Police passing over the National Party’s electoral donation case to the Serious Fraud Office is more than a “bad look”, even though that’s the phrase being used by commentators to describe this latest headache for the National Party and Simon Bridges. ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Seriousness of electoral fraud in NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-seriousness-of-electoral-fraud-in-nz/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Seriousness of electoral fraud in NZ">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 13 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 SFO investigation into National Party Audrey Young (Herald): Just when Simon Bridges had turned a corner, along comes Serious ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 13 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-13-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 13 2019">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriele Suder, Professorial Fellow, University of Melbourne & Director, International CEO Forum, University of Melbourne Now that the British Parliament has rejected the revised Brexit deal, all parties involved realise that uncertainties are here to stay. The only certainty at this stage is that British politicians are ... <a title="Why wait for the Brexit fog to clear? Australian, British and multinational businesses are moving on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/why-wait-for-the-brexit-fog-to-clear-australian-british-and-multinational-businesses-are-moving-on-113478/" aria-label="Read more about Why wait for the Brexit fog to clear? Australian, British and multinational businesses are moving on">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Dell, Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia Australia’s decision to suspend all Boeing 737 Max 8 flights in and out of the country appears to be a prudent precaution. It comes after two fatal accidents overseas involving the aircraft. On Sunday, 157 people ... <a title="Flights suspended and vital questions remain after second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash within five months" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/flights-suspended-and-vital-questions-remain-after-second-boeing-737-max-8-crash-within-five-months-113272/" aria-label="Read more about Flights suspended and vital questions remain after second Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash within five months">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Lecturer in Digital Media at the School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared last week that the company would shift away from open networks that embody “the town square” towards private, encrypted services that are more like “the digital equivalent ... <a title="Becoming more like WhatsApp won’t solve Facebook’s woes – here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/becoming-more-like-whatsapp-wont-solve-facebooks-woes-heres-why-113368/" aria-label="Read more about Becoming more like WhatsApp won’t solve Facebook’s woes – here’s why">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Fitz-Gibbon, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University In 2011, Sally Challen was convicted of murdering her husband. She was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment, which was reduced to 18 on appeal. On February 28, 2019 three judges of the England and Wales’ appeal court quashed Challen’s ... <a title="Why Sally Challen’s appeal is not a win for women victims of coercive control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/why-sally-challens-appeal-is-not-a-win-for-women-victims-of-coercive-control-112869/" aria-label="Read more about Why Sally Challen’s appeal is not a win for women victims of coercive control">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University Review: Manus, Adelaide Festival, March 8 How to review a play whose relationship with matters of fact is so serious and politically culpable it overwhelms the critical distinctions that might normally be used to judge it? Where is Stanislavski’s ... <a title="In Manus, theatre delivers home truths that can’t be dodged" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/in-manus-theatre-delivers-home-truths-that-cant-be-dodged-113352/" aria-label="Read more about In Manus, theatre delivers home truths that can’t be dodged">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
By Johnny Blades of RNZ Pacific As the numbers of casualties and displaced people in Papua’s Highlands pile up, prospects for an end to armed conflict in the Indonesian-ruled region appear dim. Humanitarian concern is growing for villagers who have been displaced by conflict in the Highlands between Indonesia’s military and the West Papua Liberation ... <a title="Humanitarian concerns grow as violent conflict worsens in West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/humanitarian-concerns-grow-as-violent-conflict-worsens-in-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Humanitarian concerns grow as violent conflict worsens in West Papua">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
By Lance Polu in Apia World Rugby must adopt a “one country one national team” in world competitions as it is done in the Olympics and all the other world sports, says the prime minister of Samoa who is also his nation’s rugby chairman. This means the United Kingdom must have one rugby team to ... <a title="End ‘colonial mindset’ over skewed world rugby, says Samoan PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/end-colonial-mindset-over-skewed-world-rugby-says-samoan-pm/" aria-label="Read more about End ‘colonial mindset’ over skewed world rugby, says Samoan PM">Read more</a>
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March 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Agar, Professor of Ethics, Victoria University of Wellington Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more like us. You can ask Google Home to switch off your bedroom lights, much as you might ask your human partner. When you text inquiries to Amazon online it’s sometimes unclear ... <a title="Careful how you treat today’s AI: it might take revenge in the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/13/careful-how-you-treat-todays-ai-it-might-take-revenge-in-the-future-112611/" aria-label="Read more about Careful how you treat today’s AI: it might take revenge in the future">Read more</a>
