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January 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elle Bowd, PhD scholar, Australian National University The 2009 Black Saturday fires burned 437,000 hectares of Victoria, including tens of thousands of hectares of Mountain Ash forest. As we approach the tenth anniversary of these fires, we are reminded of their legacy by the thousands of tall ... <a title="Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/22/forest-soil-needs-decades-or-centuries-to-recover-from-fires-and-logging-110171/" aria-label="Read more about Forest soil needs decades or centuries to recover from fires and logging">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Munro, Professor, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University This is a longer read at just under 2,000 words. Enjoy! The beginning of the 2019 school year will be a time of planning and crystal-gazing. Teachers will plan their instructional agenda in a general way. ... <a title="How to identify, understand and teach gifted children" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/22/how-to-identify-understand-and-teach-gifted-children-107718/" aria-label="Read more about How to identify, understand and teach gifted children">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Wallis, Lecturer and Research Fellow, University of Southern Queensland Many people move in the summer months, but not everyone realises that moving starts a process of identity transformation that never really stops. I first noticed something about place changing a person when I moved to Canada. ... <a title="How moving house changes you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/22/how-moving-house-changes-you-109225/" aria-label="Read more about How moving house changes you">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter O’Connor, Associate Professor, Business and Management, Queensland University of Technology We work in a world of increasing ambiguity. Over the past few decades technological change and globalisation have fundamentally changed the nature of the “average” job. There is greater competition and higher expectations. We face more ... <a title="As work gets more ambiguous, younger generations may be less equipped for it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/22/as-work-gets-more-ambiguous-younger-generations-may-be-less-equipped-for-it-105674/" aria-label="Read more about As work gets more ambiguous, younger generations may be less equipped for it">Read more</a>
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January 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Thomas, Emeritus Professor of English, La Trobe University In Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847) the marriage ceremony of Jane Eyre and Edward Fairfax Rochester is spectacularly interrupted by the solicitor Mr Briggs declaring an impediment to the union: the prior marriage of Rochester to Bertha ... <a title="Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso Sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/22/guide-to-the-classics-wide-sargasso-sea-107882/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: Wide Sargasso Sea">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Gurrieri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University The controversy over Gillette’s new advertisement focused on toxic masculinity highlights the differences between challenging stereotypes of women and men in advertising. Viewed more than 23 million times on YouTube, the advert has so far attracted more than 330,000 ... <a title="Gillette has it right: advertisers can’t just celebrate masculinity and ignore the #metoo movement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/gillette-has-it-right-advertisers-cant-just-celebrate-masculinity-and-ignore-the-metoo-movement-110034/" aria-label="Read more about Gillette has it right: advertisers can’t just celebrate masculinity and ignore the #metoo movement">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Gurrieri, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University The controversy over Gillette’s new advertisement focused on toxic masculinity highlights the differences between challenging stereotypes of women and men in advertising. Viewed more than 23 million times on YouTube, the advert has so far attracted more than 330,000 ... <a title="Gillette has it right: celebrations of masculinity can’t just ignore the #metoo movement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/gillette-has-it-right-celebrations-of-masculinity-cant-just-ignore-the-metoo-movement-110034/" aria-label="Read more about Gillette has it right: celebrations of masculinity can’t just ignore the #metoo movement">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby Sander, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Many of us have started the year determined to be more organised: no more drawers full of plastic containers with missing lids, or lone socks. The decluttering craze is led by Japanese tidying aficionado Marie ... <a title="Time for a Kondo clean-out? Here’s what clutter does to your brain and body" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/time-for-a-kondo-clean-out-heres-what-clutter-does-to-your-brain-and-body-109947/" aria-label="Read more about Time for a Kondo clean-out? Here’s what clutter does to your brain and body">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Baumgartner, Associate Research Professor (Fisheries and River Management), Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University The recent catastrophic collapse of Darling River fish communities is truly heartbreaking. As fingers continue to be pointed in all directions, two questions bubble to the top of mind: ... <a title="A good plan to help Darling River fish recover exists, so let’s get on with it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/a-good-plan-to-help-darling-river-fish-recover-exists-so-lets-get-on-with-it-110168/" aria-label="Read more about A good plan to help Darling River fish recover exists, so let’s get on with it">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tess Newton Cain, Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Political Science & International Studies, The University of Queensland January is an odd time for high level visits to the Pacific. But Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s decision to focus on the region at the start of the year indicates ... <a title="Yes, Morrison ‘showed up’ in the Pacific, but what did he actually achieve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/yes-morrison-showed-up-in-the-pacific-but-what-did-he-actually-achieve-109792/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, Morrison ‘showed up’ in the Pacific, but what did he actually achieve?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonas Wolff, Research Fellow in the Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University Curious Kids is a series for children. You can 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 on Curious Kids. ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do spiders have hairy legs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/curious-kids-why-do-spiders-have-hairy-legs-108602/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do spiders have hairy legs?">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Moffat, ARC DECRA Research Fellow in Archaeological Science, Flinders University If you bumped into a Homo erectus in the street you might not recognise them as being very different from you. You’d see a certain “human-ness” in the stance, and his or her size and shape ... <a title="A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/a-snapshot-of-our-mysterious-ancestor-homo-erectus-101122/" aria-label="Read more about A snapshot of our mysterious ancestor Homo erectus">Read more</a>
