CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss the messaging and tactics of the leaders on the campaign trail, the resurrection of the issue of water buybacks, and the impact of ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on week two of the campaign #AusVotes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/video-michelle-grattan-on-week-two-of-the-campaign-ausvotes-116068/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on week two of the campaign #AusVotes">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Aulich, Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra, University of Canberra Our “state of the states” series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states. We’ll check in with our expert political analysts around the country every ... <a title="State of the states: Palmer’s preference deal and watergate woes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/state-of-the-states-palmers-preference-deal-and-watergate-woes-115910/" aria-label="Read more about State of the states: Palmer’s preference deal and watergate woes">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hanlie Booysen, Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington During his two-day royal visit this week, Prince William has met with survivors of the Christchurch mosque shootings and has praised New Zealand’s response to the attacks. To the people of New Zealand and the people of Christchurch, to our ... <a title="Why New Zealand needs to translate its response to Christchurch attacks into foreign policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/why-new-zealand-needs-to-translate-its-response-to-christchurch-attacks-into-foreign-policy-115556/" aria-label="Read more about Why New Zealand needs to translate its response to Christchurch attacks into foreign policy">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Guest, Professor of Economics and National Senior Teaching Fellow, Griffith University Bill Shorten is holding out the prospect of protecting Australian workers from foreign ones. He has pledged to tighten the visa system for short-term skilled migrants, ensuring they have to be paid more so that ... <a title="Labor’s crackdown on temporary visa requirements won’t much help Australian workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/labors-crackdown-on-temporary-visa-requirements-wont-much-help-australian-workers-115844/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s crackdown on temporary visa requirements won’t much help Australian workers">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Fletcher, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, Victoria University of Wellington The latest statistics on childhood poverty in New Zealand suggest that, on some key measures, things are worse than previously estimated. About one in six children (16% or ... <a title="New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/new-zealands-dismal-record-on-child-poverty-and-the-governments-challenge-to-turn-it-around-115366/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s dismal record on child poverty and the government’s challenge to turn it around">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathal D. O’Connell, Researcher and Centre Manager, BioFab3D (St Vincent’s Hospital), University of Melbourne This article is an edited extract from an essay, The search for ET, in The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. We’re publishing it as part of our occasional series Zoom ... <a title="Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/why-the-idea-of-alien-life-now-seems-inevitable-and-possibly-imminent-115643/" aria-label="Read more about Why the idea of alien life now seems inevitable and possibly imminent">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne The integrity of Australia’s electoral processes is under unprecedented challenge in this federal election. The campaign has already been marred by fake news, political exploitation of social media falsehoods and amplification by mainstream ... <a title="Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/lies-obfuscation-and-fake-news-make-for-a-dispiriting-and-dangerous-election-campaign-115845/" aria-label="Read more about Lies, obfuscation and fake news make for a dispiriting – and dangerous – election campaign">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Kyle, Professor of Pharmacy, Queensland University of Technology Are you allergic to penicillin? Perhaps you have a friend or relative who is? With about one in ten people reporting a penicillin allergy, that’s not altogether surprising. Penicillin is the most commonly reported drug allergy. But the ... <a title="Think you’re allergic to penicillin? There’s a good chance you’re wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/think-youre-allergic-to-penicillin-theres-a-good-chance-youre-wrong-112687/" aria-label="Read more about Think you’re allergic to penicillin? There’s a good chance you’re wrong">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gregory John Leach, Honorary Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University Sign up to the Beating Around the Bush newsletter here, and suggest a plant we should cover at batb@theconversation.edu.au. Almost 30 years ago, the specimen of a weird tree collected in the southern ... <a title="Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this ‘mystic’ tree went unidentified for 17 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/bizarrely-distributed-and-verging-on-extinction-this-mystic-tree-went-unidentified-for-17-years-115239/" aria-label="Read more about Bizarrely distributed and verging on extinction, this ‘mystic’ tree went unidentified for 17 years">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frances Flanagan, Researcher, Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney This is an edited extract from The New Disruptors, the 64th edition of Griffith Review. It is a little longer than most published on The Conversation. It is supposed to be a test of character. ... <a title="What’s the school cleaner’s name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/whats-the-school-cleaners-name-how-kids-not-just-cleaners-are-paying-the-price-of-outsourcing-115443/" aria-label="Read more about What’s the school cleaner’s name? How kids, not just cleaners, are paying the price of outsourcing">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dallas Rogers, Program Director, Master of Urbanism, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney More and more podcasts about cities are being produced by journalists and academics. They’re being recorded in research labs, urban planning offices, on the streets and in the neighbourhoods of our ... <a title="Podcasts and cities: ‘you’re always commenting on power’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/podcasts-and-cities-youre-always-commenting-on-power-114176/" aria-label="Read more about Podcasts and cities: ‘you’re always commenting on power’">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
April 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW What do US pizza executive Herman Cain, US conservative commentator Stephen Moore, US Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Australia’s Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe have in common? More than you might think. The immediate issue for Lowe is Wednesday’s inflation figures ... <a title="Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/04/26/vital-signs-zero-inflation-means-the-reserve-bank-should-cut-rates-as-soon-as-it-can-on-tuesday-week-115931/" aria-label="Read more about Vital signs. Zero inflation means the Reserve Bank should cut rates as soon as it can, on Tuesday week">Read more</a>