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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Lee Brien, Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia When health care workers make news that news is usually bad. Either staff are protesting the lack of resources or patients and families are complaining about their standard of care. When nursing hits the headlines, the news is usually ... <a title="Friday essay: saints or monsters, pop culture’s limited view of nurses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/friday-essay-saints-or-monsters-pop-cultures-limited-view-of-nurses-107696/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: saints or monsters, pop culture’s limited view of nurses">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government, politically-speaking, is trying to do a loaves-and-fishes exercise with the Medevac legislation, over which the parliament defied the executive this week. It is attempting to inflate Labor’s support for a modest measure to facilitate medical transfers from ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/grattan-on-friday-what-does-reopening-christmas-island-actually-mean-and-why-do-it-111866/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University The devastating Townsville floods have receded but the clean up is being complicated by the appearance of a serious bacterial infection known as melioidosis. One person has died from melioidosis and nine others have been ... <a title="Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-melioidosis-the-deadly-infection-that-can-spread-after-floods-111813/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sunanda Creagh, Head of Digital Storytelling Today, we’re bringing you a special episode of our podcast Trust Me, I’m An Expert for anyone wondering: what the hell happened this week? A sitting government lost a vote on the floor of parliament (which hasn’t happened in decades) over ... <a title="A refugee legal expert on a week of ‘reckless’ rhetoric and a new way to process asylum seeker claims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/a-refugee-legal-expert-on-a-week-of-reckless-rhetoric-and-a-new-way-to-process-asylum-seeker-claims-111756/" aria-label="Read more about A refugee legal expert on a week of ‘reckless’ rhetoric and a new way to process asylum seeker claims">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saurav Dutta, Head of School at the School of Accounting, Curtin University Zip Co’s “buy now, pay later” service is fast becoming a ubiquitous payment option in Australia. Retailers from Bunnings and Best & Less to Target and Tigerair offer it. All up, the company now boasts ... <a title="How Zip Pay works, and why the extra cost of ‘buy now, pay later’ is still enticing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/how-zip-pay-works-and-why-the-extra-cost-of-buy-now-pay-later-is-still-enticing-110429/" aria-label="Read more about How Zip Pay works, and why the extra cost of ‘buy now, pay later’ is still enticing">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Biddle, Associate Professor, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University Scott Morrison today became the fifth prime minister to deliver a Closing the Gap report to parliament – the 11th since the strategy began in 2008. Closing the Gap has aimed to reduce ... <a title="Four lessons from 11 years of Closing the Gap reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/four-lessons-from-11-years-of-closing-the-gap-reports-111816/" aria-label="Read more about Four lessons from 11 years of Closing the Gap reports">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Reid Boyd, Senior Lecturer School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University We must discover … the redemptive power of love. And when we do that, we will make of this whole world a new world. But love, love is the only way. In his spirited ... <a title="Love, Academically. Why scholarly hearts are beating for Love Studies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/love-academically-why-scholarly-hearts-are-beating-for-love-studies-104697/" aria-label="Read more about Love, Academically. Why scholarly hearts are beating for Love Studies">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Lovell, Research Director of the Security and Surveillance Research group; Professor, The University of Queensland Recently, the Victorian Government brought in new rules stating Victorian state schools will be banned from using facial recognition technology in classrooms unless they have the approval of parents, students and ... <a title="Face recognition technology in classrooms is here – and that’s ok" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/face-recognition-technology-in-classrooms-is-here-and-thats-ok-111351/" aria-label="Read more about Face recognition technology in classrooms is here – and that’s ok">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Curious Kids is a series for children. Send your question to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do we have a drought?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-a-drought-110592/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do we have a drought?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merlin Crossley, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Academic and Professor of Molecular Biology, UNSW University students, like many in society, demonstrate bias against women and particularly women from non-English speaking backgrounds. That’s the take home message from a new and comprehensive analysis of student experience surveys. The study examined a ... <a title="Male teachers are most likely to rate highly in university student feedback" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/male-teachers-are-most-likely-to-rate-highly-in-university-student-feedback-111741/" aria-label="Read more about Male teachers are most likely to rate highly in university student feedback">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leanda McKenna, Lecturer, Curtin University It’s the middle of the night. Your newborn baby is awake. Again. She wants to feed. You lift her to your breast and brace for the pain. Most mothers who breastfeed come to appreciate the convenience and the bonding it provides. But ... <a title="Explainer: what is mastitis?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/explainer-what-is-mastitis-108686/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is mastitis?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Orr, Veterinarian and PhD candidate, University of Sydney Have you ever wondered what’s going through your dog’s mind when you say the word “walk”? And does your pup seem to show guilt when you ask them sternly “what have you done?” Their tail might drop between ... <a title="In an Australian first, the ACT may legally recognise animals’ feelings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/in-an-australian-first-the-act-may-legally-recognise-animals-feelings-111079/" aria-label="Read more about In an Australian first, the ACT may legally recognise animals’ feelings">Read more</a>
