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December 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela McCarthy, Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia A 900kg baby Jesus statue in Mexico that looks remarkably like musician Phil Collins recently became a social media phenomenon. But in considering art history, we can gain some interesting insights into how we have come ... <a title="Baby Jesus in art and the long tradition of depicting Christ as a man-child" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/24/baby-jesus-in-art-and-the-long-tradition-of-depicting-christ-as-a-man-child-127812/" aria-label="Read more about Baby Jesus in art and the long tradition of depicting Christ as a man-child">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Maxwell, Senior Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland I’m a geek. And as a geek, I love my tech toys. But over time I’ve noticed toys are becoming harder to understand. Some modern toys resemble advanced devices. There are flying toys, walking toys, and roving toys. A ... <a title="Robots, AI and drones: when did toys turn into rocket science?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/23/robots-ai-and-drones-when-did-toys-turn-into-rocket-science-127503/" aria-label="Read more about Robots, AI and drones: when did toys turn into rocket science?">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robyn J. Whitaker, Senior Lecturer in New Testament, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity It took 400 years, but sometime in the early fifth century Christians transformed a tradition about Jesus’s miraculous virgin birth into a doctrine that inextricably connected sex with sin. It has plagued the ... <a title="From virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/23/from-virgin-births-to-purity-movements-christians-and-their-problem-with-sex-118327/" aria-label="Read more about From virgin births to purity movements: Christians and their problem with sex">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Forgasz, Associate Professor, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins Sunday, December 22. From Melbourne and New York to Berlin and Moscow, thousands of people will gather to light giant menorahs. In many places, these public ceremonies will be ... <a title="The story of Hanukkah: how a minor Jewish holiday was remade in the image of Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/23/the-story-of-hanukkah-how-a-minor-jewish-holiday-was-remade-in-the-image-of-christmas-127620/" aria-label="Read more about The story of Hanukkah: how a minor Jewish holiday was remade in the image of Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larissa McLean Davies, Associate Professor Language and Literacy Education, University of Melbourne Alfred Tatum, a US education professor specialising in literacy for African American boys, coined the term “bookprint”. He said it’s something we all have – a list of books that have impacted how we see ... <a title="5 Australian books that can help young people understand their place in the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/23/5-australian-books-that-can-help-young-people-understand-their-place-in-the-world-127712/" aria-label="Read more about 5 Australian books that can help young people understand their place in the world">Read more</a>
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December 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dorothy Ann Lee, Stewart Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity College, University of Divinity Belief in the virgin birth comes from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Their birth stories are different, but both present Mary as a virgin when she became pregnant with Jesus. Mary and ... <a title="How the cult of Virgin Mary turned a symbol of female authority into a tool of patriarchy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/23/how-the-cult-of-virgin-mary-turned-a-symbol-of-female-authority-into-a-tool-of-patriarchy-127806/" aria-label="Read more about How the cult of Virgin Mary turned a symbol of female authority into a tool of patriarchy">Read more</a>
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December 20, 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 In October, the Canadian province of British Columbia passed legislation requiring parliament to align its laws with the UN Universal Declaration on the Rights ... <a title="What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia’s implementation of Indigenous rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/what-nz-and-australia-can-learn-from-british-columbias-implementation-of-indigenous-rights-128221/" aria-label="Read more about What NZ and Australia can learn from British Columbia’s implementation of Indigenous rights">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Quilty, Senior Staff Specialist, Alice Springs Hospital. Honorary, Australian National University This is one of our occasional Essays on Health, about one community’s attempt at closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health in the Northern Territory. It’s a long read. You can see the gap ... <a title="How a rethink of emergency care is closing the gap, one person at a time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/how-a-rethink-of-emergency-care-is-closing-the-gap-one-person-at-a-time-127020/" aria-label="Read more about How a rethink of emergency care is closing the gap, one person at a time">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Carley, Principal Engineer, Water Research Laboratory, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UNSW Depending on definitions, the coast of New South Wales, Australia, has about 70 ocean pools, with most located between Newcastle and Wollongong. South Africa has a comparable number, but the rest of the ... <a title="The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it’s a good investment, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/the-timeless-appeal-of-an-ocean-pool-turns-out-its-a-good-investment-too-127912/" aria-label="Read more about The timeless appeal of an ocean pool – turns out it’s a good investment, too">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW As anticipated, the Australian government downsized a number of its economic forecasts in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) released this week. Also as anticipated, the federal government did everything it could to retain its forecast budget surplus for 2019-20. ... <a title="Vital Signs: Australia’s nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/vital-signs-australias-nation-building-opportunity-held-hostage-by-the-deficit-daleks-129000/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Australia’s nation-building opportunity held hostage by the deficit daleks">Read more</a>
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December 20, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Director Photography, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney We are used to being spectators of news events — viewing difficult images beamed to us from the other side of the world, the next state or the next suburb. This spectator lens can start to ... <a title="Friday essay: seeing the news up close, one devastating post at a time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/20/friday-essay-seeing-the-news-up-close-one-devastating-post-at-a-time-128774/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: seeing the news up close, one devastating post at a time">Read more</a>
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December 19, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Dear Michael, Josh, David, et al Sorry to have left you all without my guiding hand this week. But Jen and I really needed the break. And the girls too – it’s hard when you’re the kids of the nation’s ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s Christmas letter to the colleagues" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/19/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrisons-christmas-letter-to-the-colleagues-129140/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s Christmas letter to the colleagues">Read more</a>
