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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture, University of Waikato Recently, several elite sportswomen have spoken out about toxic sport culture and the damage it does to their long-term health. Mary Cain went from being the fastest and the youngest American track and field ... <a title="Toxic sport cultures are damaging female athletes’ health, but we can do better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/toxic-sport-cultures-are-damaging-female-athletes-health-but-we-can-do-better-128376/" aria-label="Read more about Toxic sport cultures are damaging female athletes’ health, but we can do better">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Reid, Professor Emeritus of Education, University of South Australia Since the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) began in 2000, published results have sent commentators and politicians in some countries into meltdown. The release of the 2018 test results last week was no exception. Out ... <a title="PISA doesn’t define education quality, and knee-jerk policy proposals won’t fix whatever is broken" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/pisa-doesnt-define-education-quality-and-knee-jerk-policy-proposals-wont-fix-whatever-is-broken-128389/" aria-label="Read more about PISA doesn’t define education quality, and knee-jerk policy proposals won’t fix whatever is broken">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eric Keys, PhD Researcher, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University This is the second article in a series to mark the 50th anniversary of the landmark Melbourne Transportation Plan. Transport models are often singled out as a barrier to providing more sustainable and equitable transport services. However, ... <a title="The problem with transport models is political abuse, not their use in planning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/the-problem-with-transport-models-is-political-abuse-not-their-use-in-planning-127720/" aria-label="Read more about The problem with transport models is political abuse, not their use in planning">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Toohey, Professor of Law, University of Newcastle An important part of the World Trade Organization will cease to function from midnight. December 10 is when the terms of two of the remaining three members of its Appellate Body expire. It is meant to have seven. The ... <a title="Key trade rules will become unenforceable from midnight. Australia should be worried" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/key-trade-rules-will-become-unenforceable-from-midnight-australia-should-be-worried-126768/" aria-label="Read more about Key trade rules will become unenforceable from midnight. Australia should be worried">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aaron Burton, Lecturer in Media Arts, University of Wollongong Fans of Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner returned to cinemas last month for an unusual milestone: history catching up with science fiction. Blade Runner opens in Los Angeles, in November 2019. Furnaces burst flames into the perennial ... <a title="How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/10/how-our-screen-stories-of-the-future-went-from-flying-cars-to-a-darker-version-of-now-128220/" aria-label="Read more about How our screen stories of the future went from flying cars to a darker version of now">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Cronin, Professor of Earth Sciences, University of Auckland Five people have been confirmed dead, 23 have been rescued and several remain unaccounted for after a sudden volcanic eruption on Whakaari/White Island off the east coast of New Zealand. The island is a tourist destination and around ... <a title="Why White Island erupted and why there was no warning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/why-white-island-erupted-and-why-there-was-no-warning-128550/" aria-label="Read more about Why White Island erupted and why there was no warning">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merja Myllylahti, Co-Director JMAD research center, Auckland University of Technology New Zealand’s broadcasting sector, both public and commercial, is facing the biggest structural upheaval in a decade. The latest report on New Zealand media ownership, compiled by the Journalism, Media and Democracy Research Centre, shows the country’s ... <a title="Job losses expected as NZ’s broadcasting sector faces biggest overhaul in a decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/job-losses-expected-as-nzs-broadcasting-sector-faces-biggest-overhaul-in-a-decade-128447/" aria-label="Read more about Job losses expected as NZ’s broadcasting sector faces biggest overhaul in a decade">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences, Auckland University of Technology and Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Federal Immigration Minister David Coleman has cancelled the visas of two overseas born Indigenous men with a criminal past. They are, Coleman says, aliens ... <a title="Can Indigenous Australians be deported as ‘aliens’? A High Court decision will show us the strength of modern colonial power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/can-indigenous-australians-be-deported-as-aliens-a-high-court-decision-will-show-us-the-strength-of-modern-colonial-power-128314/" aria-label="Read more about Can Indigenous Australians be deported as ‘aliens’? A High Court decision will show us the strength of modern colonial power">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Government John Armstrong (1News): Despite lead in polls, National should be worried by Jacinda Ardern’s recent ‘double whammy’ 1News: What the country thinks of the Government’s performance so far Henry Cooke (Stuff): Labour screws up a ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-09-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 09 2019">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Chinese government influence and interference has been a contentious issue in Australia politics in the past year. Weighing up concerns about foreign money in state and federal campaigns, candidates’ direct relationships with arms of the Chinese Communist Party and the ... <a title="Australian Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Hastie on foreign influence, security and veteran mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/politics-with-michelle-grattan-andrew-hastie-on-foreign-influence-security-and-veteran-mental-health-128545/" aria-label="Read more about Australian Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Hastie on foreign influence, security and veteran mental health">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniela Kaleva, Associate Head Research and Scholarship, Australian Institute of Music Review: Farnace, composed by Vivaldi, Pinchgut Opera When a performance of Farnace was cancelled at the theatre of Ferrara after the artistic failure of Vivaldi’s opera Siroe re di Persia in December 1738, Vivaldi’s chance to ... <a title="‘One of the most poignant opera scenes I have ever experienced’: Pinchgut’s Farnace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/one-of-the-most-poignant-opera-scenes-i-have-ever-experienced-pinchguts-farnace-126586/" aria-label="Read more about ‘One of the most poignant opera scenes I have ever experienced’: Pinchgut’s Farnace">Read more</a>
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December 9, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Humphery-Jenner, Associate Professor of Finance, UNSW Westpac can expect a bumper turnout of shareholders at its annual general meeting in Sydney on Thursday, many of them angry at its alleged role in facilitating child exploitation in the Philippines, its 23 million alleged breaches of anti-money-laundering laws, ... <a title="Litigation is the real reason financial reports are becoming harder to read" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/09/litigation-is-the-real-reason-financial-reports-are-becoming-harder-to-read-127102/" aria-label="Read more about Litigation is the real reason financial reports are becoming harder to read">Read more</a>
