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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Robinson, Senior Research Fellow (Macroeconomics), Melbourne Institute, University of Melbourne The Australian economy grew by just 0.4% in the March quarter. It was a pick up from 0.2% in the December quarter, but over the year the four quarters taken together amounted to only 1.8%. It’s ... <a title="Expect weak economic growth for quite some time. What Wednesday’s national accounts tell us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/expect-weak-economic-growth-for-quite-some-time-what-wednesdays-national-accounts-tell-us-118273/" aria-label="Read more about Expect weak economic growth for quite some time. What Wednesday’s national accounts tell us">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Blyth, Paediatrician, Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist, University of Western Australia A ten-year-old Perth boy is the latest Australian child to die from suspected influenza so far this year. This follows the deaths of three Victorian children, and a teenager in South Australia. Influenza-associated deaths ... <a title="Kids are more vulnerable to the flu – here’s what to look out for this winter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/kids-are-more-vulnerable-to-the-flu-heres-what-to-look-out-for-this-winter-117748/" aria-label="Read more about Kids are more vulnerable to the flu – here’s what to look out for this winter">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Molloy, Associate research scientist (Ecology), Edith Cowan University When a threatened species is found only in one small area, conservationists often move some individuals to another suitable habitat. This practice, called “translocation”, makes the whole species less vulnerable to threats. In the past, this approach has ... <a title="How we’re helping the western ground parrot survive climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/how-were-helping-the-western-ground-parrot-survive-climate-change-117419/" aria-label="Read more about How we’re helping the western ground parrot survive climate change">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Westrupp, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Deakin University Many parents complain of difficulties in managing clingy children – whether it’s a baby who cries every time the parent is out of sight, a toddler who clings to their parent’s legs at social events, or a primary school ... <a title="Is my child being too clingy and how can I help?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/is-my-child-being-too-clingy-and-how-can-i-help-115372/" aria-label="Read more about Is my child being too clingy and how can I help?">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lockrey, Senior Lecturer/ Research Fellow, RMIT University Australian building owners face a bill that could run into billions of dollars to replace combustible cladding of the sort that fuelled the Greenfell tower fire in the UK, which killed 72 people, as well as fires in Australia ... <a title="Flammable cladding costs could approach billions for building owners if authorities dither" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/flammable-cladding-costs-could-approach-billions-for-building-owners-if-authorities-dither-118121/" aria-label="Read more about Flammable cladding costs could approach billions for building owners if authorities dither">Read more</a>
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June 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather Goodall, Professor, Social and Political Change Group, University of Technology Sydney In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. Like many other Aboriginal kids in 1938, Isabel Flick was denied an education because she was “too black” to be allowed into the segregated ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Isabel Flick, the tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/06/hidden-women-of-history-isabel-flick-the-tenacious-campaigner-who-fought-segregation-in-australia-114174/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Isabel Flick, the tenacious campaigner who fought segregation in Australia">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Ananian-Welsh, Senior Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland The Australian Federal Police has this week conducted two high-profile raids on journalists who have exposed government secrets and their sources. On Tuesday, seven AFP officers spent several hours searching News Corp journalist Annika ... <a title="Why the raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/why-the-raids-on-australian-media-present-a-clear-threat-to-democracy-118334/" aria-label="Read more about Why the raids on Australian media present a clear threat to democracy">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lacey Schaefer, Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Griffith University The man arrested after a deadly gun attack in Darwin Tuesday night is reported to have been on parole and wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet. This leads to the same reaction we see following any high-profile ... <a title="Electronic monitoring bracelets are only crime deterrence tools, they can’t ‘fix’ offenders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/electronic-monitoring-bracelets-are-only-crime-deterrence-tools-they-cant-fix-offenders-118335/" aria-label="Read more about Electronic monitoring bracelets are only crime deterrence tools, they can’t ‘fix’ offenders">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tim Dwyer, Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney In his first address to the caucus after Labor’s shock election loss, Bill Shorten pointed to conservative interests spending unprecedented hundreds of millions of dollars advertising, telling lies, spreading fear … Powerful vested interests campaigned ... <a title="Press, platforms and power: mapping out a stronger Australian media landscape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/press-platforms-and-power-mapping-out-a-stronger-australian-media-landscape-117987/" aria-label="Read more about Press, platforms and power: mapping out a stronger Australian media landscape">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louisa Gordon, Associate Professor – Health Economics, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy will investigate how to better protect patients from doctors charging “really unjustifiable, excessive fees” of up to A$10,000 or more for medical procedures. Murphy said it was potentially unethical ... <a title="It’s perfectly legal for doctors to charge huge amounts for surgery, but should it be allowed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/its-perfectly-legal-for-doctors-to-charge-huge-amounts-for-surgery-but-should-it-be-allowed-118179/" aria-label="Read more about It’s perfectly legal for doctors to charge huge amounts for surgery, but should it be allowed?">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hadeel Al-Alosi, Lecturer, School of Law, Western Sydney University Contrary to popular belief, crimes against the environment are not “victimless”. They affect many people, animals, plants and landscapes. Crimes against the environment should not be taken lightly. Broadly defined, environmental crimes are those that harm the environment. ... <a title="Australia should give victims a voice in tackling environmental crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/australia-should-give-victims-a-voice-in-tackling-environmental-crimes-115711/" aria-label="Read more about Australia should give victims a voice in tackling environmental crimes">Read more</a>
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June 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Finkel, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University This article is an edited extract from Elizabeth Finkel’s address Gene therapy: cure but at what cost? to the National Press Club June 5 2019. We’re publishing it as part of our occasional series Zoom Out, where authors explore key ... <a title="The gene therapy revolution is here. Medicine is scrambling to keep pace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/05/the-gene-therapy-revolution-is-here-medicine-is-scrambling-to-keep-pace-118329/" aria-label="Read more about The gene therapy revolution is here. Medicine is scrambling to keep pace">Read more</a>
