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August 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology “Fill ’er up?” That was the immediate greeting from the driveway attendant when pulling into the service station in the days before self-serve pumps. Yes, once there was someone to pump your fuel and check ... <a title="Why BP is getting into bed with David Jones. The promising marriage of petrol and gourmet food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/28/why-bp-is-getting-into-bed-with-david-jones-the-promising-marriage-of-petrol-and-gourmet-food-122450/" aria-label="Read more about Why BP is getting into bed with David Jones. The promising marriage of petrol and gourmet food">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Fleming, Professor, University of Technology Sydney The legitimacy crisis facing corporate America must be starting to scare its affluent elite. The US Business Round Table has just published an open letter arguing that it’s time for business to put people before profits. Signed by chief executives ... <a title="Lachlan Murdoch and scores of other business chiefs want to put people before profits? Really?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/28/lachlan-murdoch-and-scores-of-other-business-chiefs-want-to-put-people-before-profits-really-122449/" aria-label="Read more about Lachlan Murdoch and scores of other business chiefs want to put people before profits? Really?">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sascha Morrell, Lecturer in English, Monash University The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece of the Jazz Age, ushers readers into a corrupt but glittering world of cocktails, fast cars, stolen kisses and broken dreams. Status anxiety and conspicuous consumption generate a dazzling, often surreal poetry ... <a title="Guide to the classics: The Great Gatsby" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/28/guide-to-the-classics-the-great-gatsby-112508/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: The Great Gatsby">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Merwood-Salisbury, Professor of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington Public space is an essential component of democratic cities. Modelled on the agora of ancient Greece, it is a marketplace for the exchange of goods and ideas, a place where public affairs are debated and disputes resolved. But ... <a title="How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/28/how-new-yorks-union-square-helped-shape-free-speech-in-the-us-118677/" aria-label="Read more about How New York’s Union Square helped shape free speech in the US">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk A senior Jakarta Post managing editor has predicted it is possible that West Papua may face a self-determination vote following the Timor-Leste example and this could pave the way for independence. Writing an opinion column in the Post today, Kornelius Purba warned the Papuan people may “fulfill their dream of independence ... <a title="East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Post editor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/east-timor-style-referendum-possible-for-papua-says-post-editor/" aria-label="Read more about East Timor-style referendum possible for Papua, says Post editor">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling The dust has well and truly settled on Scott Morrison’s surprise victory in this year’s federal election but opinion is still divided on exactly what happened in Queensland. Why did Labor perform so poorly in the Sunshine State? Is Queensland an ... <a title="Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Queensland still mystifies too many politicians but its needs are surprisingly simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/trust-me-im-an-expert-queensland-still-mystifies-too-many-politicians-but-its-needs-are-surprisingly-simple-122386/" aria-label="Read more about Trust Me, I’m An Expert: Queensland still mystifies too many politicians but its needs are surprisingly simple">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Judi Lowe, PhD Candidate, Southern Cross University A group of the world’s poorest fishermen are protecting endangered whale sharks from being finned alive at Oslob in the Philippines. The fishermen have stopped fishing and turned to tourism, feeding whale sharks tiny amounts of krill to draw them ... <a title="Poor Filipino fishermen are making millions protecting whale sharks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/poor-filipino-fishermen-are-making-millions-protecting-whale-sharks-122451/" aria-label="Read more about Poor Filipino fishermen are making millions protecting whale sharks">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lesh, University of Sydney Federation Square in Melbourne has been listed on the Victorian state heritage register just 17 years after its completion. The push for heritage status was provoked by the now-abandoned Apple store proposal for the city centre site. Heritage considerations will now guide ... <a title="How can a 17-year-old place gain heritage status? What this means for Melbourne’s Fed Square" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/how-can-a-17-year-old-place-gain-heritage-status-what-this-means-for-melbournes-fed-square-122455/" aria-label="Read more about How can a 17-year-old place gain heritage status? What this means for Melbourne’s Fed Square">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Arvanitakis, Professor in Cultural and Social Analysis, Western Sydney University For most of us, it is easy to pass judgement on others while finding it difficult to reflect on ourselves. Diversity Arts Australia recently undertook a research project, Shifting the Balance, with the assistance of Western ... <a title="Australia’s art institutions don’t reflect our diversity: it’s time to change that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/australias-art-institutions-dont-reflect-our-diversity-its-time-to-change-that-122308/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s art institutions don’t reflect our diversity: it’s time to change that">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thalia Anthony, Associate Professor in Law, University of Technology Sydney As the inquest begins into the death in custody of Yorta Yorta woman Tanya Day, who fell asleep on a train in Victoria before she was arrested for public intoxication, questions are being asked about what it ... <a title="Legal and welfare checks should be extended to save Aboriginal lives in custody" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/legal-and-welfare-checks-should-be-extended-to-save-aboriginal-lives-in-custody-121814/" aria-label="Read more about Legal and welfare checks should be extended to save Aboriginal lives in custody">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition leader Anthony Albanese is a step closer to securing the expulsion of rogue union leader John Setka from the ALP, although a court judgment has highlighted possible internal party complications. The Supreme Court of Victoria on Tuesday dismissed the ... <a title="Albanese one step closer in long march towards John Setka’s expulsion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/albanese-one-step-closer-in-long-march-towards-john-setkas-expulsion-122457/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese one step closer in long march towards John Setka’s expulsion">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government has declared that Australian citizen and writer Dr Yang Hengjun has not been spying for Australia. Yang, 54, who has been incarcerated by the Chinese for more than seven months, was formally arrested last Friday on suspicion ... <a title="Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Yang Hengjun is not Australian spy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/27/foreign-minister-marise-payne-says-yang-hengjun-is-not-australian-spy-122453/" aria-label="Read more about Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Yang Hengjun is not Australian spy">Read more</a>
