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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thijs Dhollander, Post-doctoral neuroscientist, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health While looking at the MRI brain scan of a 29-year-old woman that had been taken for a different study, researchers in Israel recently stumbled upon a scientific mystery. The woman appears to have no olfactory bulbs. ... <a title="Some women seem to lack a key brain structure for smell — but their sense of smell is fine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/some-women-seem-to-lack-a-key-brain-structure-for-smell-but-their-sense-of-smell-is-fine-126496/" aria-label="Read more about Some women seem to lack a key brain structure for smell — but their sense of smell is fine">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Holland, Senior Lecturer in Australian History, Macquarie University When the minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, recently announced a co-design process for creating an Indigenous “voice to government”, it was characterised as a shift in rhetoric. Yet, on closer inspection, it was less a shift than ... <a title="The government’s ‘new page’ on Indigenous policy is actually just more of the same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/the-governments-new-page-on-indigenous-policy-is-actually-just-more-of-the-same-126179/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s ‘new page’ on Indigenous policy is actually just more of the same">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Zadro, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney Patients might not be getting the best advice about which treatments do or don’t work, according to our study published today. We found professional societies are more likely to call out other health professionals for providing low-value treatments rather ... <a title="Dodgy treatment: it’s not us, it’s the other lot, say the experts. So who do we believe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/dodgy-treatment-its-not-us-its-the-other-lot-say-the-experts-so-who-do-we-believe-124638/" aria-label="Read more about Dodgy treatment: it’s not us, it’s the other lot, say the experts. So who do we believe?">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Abou-Nemeh, Lecturer in Early Modern History, Victoria University of Wellington This week New Zealand’s parliamentarians will vote on the third reading of the End of Life Choice Bill. Much public discussion on the merits of euthanasia has centred around the role of the medical practitioner as ... <a title="As NZ votes on euthanasia bill, here is a historical perspective on a ‘good death’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/as-nz-votes-on-euthanasia-bill-here-is-a-historical-perspective-on-a-good-death-126580/" aria-label="Read more about As NZ votes on euthanasia bill, here is a historical perspective on a ‘good death’">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cris Brack, Associate Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Trees die. You don’t have to like it, but they do. And this comes as a surprise to some. A senior public servant once told one of us (Brack): “Trees don’t die; people kill ... <a title="When a tree dies, don’t waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/when-a-tree-dies-dont-waste-your-breath-rescue-the-wood-to-honour-its-memory-125137/" aria-label="Read more about When a tree dies, don’t waste your breath. Rescue the wood to honour its memory">Read more</a>
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November 12, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elaine Stratford, Professor, University of Tasmania In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. We are all touched by relationships with animals — as domestic and working companions, wild inspirations, threats, or pests. Some of us may know about the enduring worth of organisations ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Frances Levvy, Australia’s quietly radical early animal rights campaigner" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/12/hidden-women-of-history-frances-levvy-australias-quietly-radical-early-animal-rights-campaigner-125940/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Frances Levvy, Australia’s quietly radical early animal rights campaigner">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Staples, Senior Lecturer in Management, RMIT University In the wake of systemic corporate misconduct scandals such as those brought to light in the banking royal commission, and issues such as income inequality and climate change, there are growing public demands for increased corporate accountability and less ... <a title="Shareholder activism might sound good, but it’s delusional to think it will change anything much" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/shareholder-activism-might-sound-good-but-its-delusional-to-think-it-will-change-anything-much-125807/" aria-label="Read more about Shareholder activism might sound good, but it’s delusional to think it will change anything much">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By T.J. Thomson, Lecturer in Digital Journalism & Professional Communication, Queensland University of Technology We can’t all be at city council meetings or down at parliament house directly engaging with the issues that affect us. But through photography and video, we’re able to orient ourselves to the rest ... <a title="Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/photojournalists-are-telling-an-important-story-and-they-should-interact-with-their-subjects-124882/" aria-label="Read more about Photojournalists are telling an important story and they should interact with their subjects">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Bradstock, Professor, Centre for Environmental Risk Management of Bushfires, University of Wollongong Last week saw an unprecedented outbreak of large, intense fires stretching from the mid-north coast of New South Wales into central Queensland. The most tragic losses are concentrated in northern NSW, where 970,000 hectares ... <a title="Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/drought-and-climate-change-were-the-kindling-and-now-the-east-coast-is-ablaze-126750/" aria-label="Read more about Drought and climate change were the kindling, and now the east coast is ablaze">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Thorburn, co-Group Leader, Brain & Mitochondrial Research, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Mitochondrial donation is an assisted reproductive technology sometimes described as “three-parent IVF”. It’s designed for women at high risk of passing on faulty mitochondrial DNA and having a child with severe mitochondrial disease. Mitochondrial diseases ... <a title="3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it’s really more like 2.002-parent IVF)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/3-parent-ivf-could-prevent-illness-in-many-children-but-its-really-more-like-2-002-parent-ivf-126591/" aria-label="Read more about 3-parent IVF could prevent illness in many children (but it’s really more like 2.002-parent IVF)">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Ricketson, Professor of Communication, Deakin University Media companies around the world are in an existential funk. The tech giants – Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon – have built a better mousetrap for profiting from consumers’ attention than the traditional media can offer. To add insult to ... <a title="Media Files: Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don’t want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/media-files-media-companies-are-mad-as-hell-at-tech-giants-and-dont-want-to-take-it-anymore-but-what-choice-do-they-have-126352/" aria-label="Read more about Media Files: Media companies are mad as hell at tech giants and don’t want to take it anymore. But what choice do they have?">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University Is Australia’s award system so complex major corporations capable of handling millions of customers and billions of dollars can’t manage to pay employees properly? That’s the spin flowing freely in the wake of Australian supermarket behemoth Woolworths admitting it ... <a title="No, a ‘complex’ system is not to blame for corporate wage theft" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/11/no-a-complex-system-is-not-to-blame-for-corporate-wage-theft-126279/" aria-label="Read more about No, a ‘complex’ system is not to blame for corporate wage theft">Read more</a>
