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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Read, Climate Criminologist & Senior Instructor/Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Monash University It’s hard to estimate the eventual economic cost of Australia’s 2019-20 megafires, partly because they are still underway, and partly because it is hard to know the cost to attribute to deaths and the decimation ... <a title="With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia’s costliest natural disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/with-costs-approaching-100-billion-the-fires-are-australias-costliest-natural-disaster-129433/" aria-label="Read more about With costs approaching $100 billion, the fires are Australia’s costliest natural disaster">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bill Lord, Adjunct Associate Professor, Monash University Each year more than 24,000 Australians experience a sudden cardiac arrest. This means their heart unexpectedly stops beating. A cardiac arrest leads to loss of consciousness and will result in death if not recognised and treated immediately. While survival rates ... <a title="In cases of cardiac arrest, time is everything. Community responders can save lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/in-cases-of-cardiac-arrest-time-is-everything-community-responders-can-save-lives-126491/" aria-label="Read more about In cases of cardiac arrest, time is everything. Community responders can save lives">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maria O’Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, and Deputy Director, Castan Centre for Human Rights Law, Monash University When Australians pay their income tax, they assume the money is going to areas of the community that need it, rather than being used by the government to shore ... <a title="So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/so-the-government-gave-sports-grants-to-marginal-seats-what-happens-now-130057/" aria-label="Read more about So the government gave sports grants to marginal seats. What happens now?">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University It is the year of the Tokyo Olympics, and the International Olympic Committee was quickly out of the blocks with new guidelines regarding athlete protests. The IOC is worried the biggest stories ... <a title="The Olympics have always been a platform for protest. Banning hand gestures and kneeling ignores their history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/the-olympics-have-always-been-a-platform-for-protest-banning-hand-gestures-and-kneeling-ignores-their-history-129694/" aria-label="Read more about The Olympics have always been a platform for protest. Banning hand gestures and kneeling ignores their history">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Barron, Professor, Macquarie University How did homosexuality in humans evolve? Typically, this question is posed as a paradox. The argument is this: gay sex alone can’t produce children, and for traits to evolve, they have to be passed onto children, who get some form of competitive ... <a title="Homosexuality may have evolved for social, not sexual reasons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/homosexuality-may-have-evolved-for-social-not-sexual-reasons-128123/" aria-label="Read more about Homosexuality may have evolved for social, not sexual reasons">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology There’s been an overwhelming outpouring of love and support around the world for those impacted by the bushfires, from social-media donation drives to music concerts to authors auctioning off their books. ... <a title="Beware of bushfire scams: how fraudsters take advantage of those in need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/beware-of-bushfire-scams-how-fraudsters-take-advantage-of-those-in-need-129549/" aria-label="Read more about Beware of bushfire scams: how fraudsters take advantage of those in need">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Response, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University Many firefighters will by now be exhausted, having been on the front line of Australia’s bushfire crisis for weeks or months. This bushfire season has been unrelenting, and the ... <a title="To improve firefighters’ mental health, we can’t wait for them to reach out – we need to ‘reach in’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/to-improve-firefighters-mental-health-we-cant-wait-for-them-to-reach-out-we-need-to-reach-in-129900/" aria-label="Read more about To improve firefighters’ mental health, we can’t wait for them to reach out – we need to ‘reach in’">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucy Commander, Adjunct Lecturer, University of Western Australia In a fire-blackened landscape, signs of life are everywhere. A riot of red and green leaves erupt from an otherwise dead-looking tree trunk, and the beginnings of wildflowers and grasses peek from the crunchy charcoal below. Much Australian flora ... <a title="Yes, native plants can flourish after bushfire. But there’s only so much hardship they can take" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/yes-native-plants-can-flourish-after-bushfire-but-theres-only-so-much-hardship-they-can-take-129748/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, native plants can flourish after bushfire. But there’s only so much hardship they can take">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susanne Gannon, Associate Professor, Western Sydney University We are being asked to do work experience this year, in a field we might like to work in. We are being asked to think about choosing electives that are directing us towards our career choices. I have no idea ... <a title="‘What subjects do I choose for my last years of school?’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/what-subjects-do-i-choose-for-my-last-years-of-school-126194/" aria-label="Read more about ‘What subjects do I choose for my last years of school?’">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW There has already been a fair number of jobs lost to automation over recent decades – from factory workers to bank tellers. In the coming decade we might see radically larger numbers of jobs lost to automation, thanks to advances in ... <a title="Vital Signs: the end of the checkout signals a dire future for those without the right skills" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/vital-signs-the-end-of-the-checkout-signals-a-dire-future-for-those-without-the-right-skills-129894/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: the end of the checkout signals a dire future for those without the right skills">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University Estimates of the economic damage caused by the bushfires are rolling in, some of them big and some unprecedented, as is the scale of the fires themselves. These types of estimates will be refined and used to ... <a title="Take care when examining the economic impact of fires. GDP doesn’t tell the full story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/take-care-when-examining-the-economic-impact-of-fires-gdp-doesnt-tell-the-full-story-129535/" aria-label="Read more about Take care when examining the economic impact of fires. GDP doesn’t tell the full story">Read more</a>
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January 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerrie Davies, Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. In 1886, a year before American journalist Nellie Bly feigned insanity to enter an asylum in New York and became a household name, Catherine Hay Thomson ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/17/hidden-women-of-history-catherine-hay-thomson-the-australian-undercover-journalist-who-went-inside-asylums-and-hospitals-129352/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Catherine Hay Thomson, the Australian undercover journalist who went inside asylums and hospitals">Read more</a>
