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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Ross, Lecturer, Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of the Sunshine Coast Shutterstock For the last 18 months, the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) have been revising the foundation to year 10 curriculum. A draft version of the document released in April, sparked fierce debate about ... <a title="First, it’s not an instruction manual: 3 things education ministers need to know about the Australian Curriculum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/first-its-not-an-instruction-manual-3-things-education-ministers-need-to-know-about-the-australian-curriculum-173058/" aria-label="Read more about First, it’s not an instruction manual: 3 things education ministers need to know about the Australian Curriculum">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Podger, Honorary Professor of Public Policy, Australian National University shutterstock The deeply partisan report of the Senate Inquiry into Media Diversity, tabled on December 9, is a disappointment. The main report by the Greens and Labor endorsed the campaign by former prime ministers Kevin Rudd and ... <a title="Forget calls for a royal commission into Australia’s big media players – this is the inquiry we really need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/forget-calls-for-a-royal-commission-into-australias-big-media-players-this-is-the-inquiry-we-really-need-171842/" aria-label="Read more about Forget calls for a royal commission into Australia’s big media players – this is the inquiry we really need">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Liu, Visiting Scholar: School of Architecture and School of Engineering, University of Technology Sydney In March 1911, in a garment factory in Manhattan, over 100 people, mostly Jewish and Italian women migrants, some as young as 14, were trapped inside and died as the factory burnt ... <a title="How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and the earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/how-we-can-use-the-law-to-make-the-fashion-industry-fairer-to-women-and-the-earth-173235/" aria-label="Read more about How we can use the law to make the fashion industry fairer to women and the earth">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Shutterstock As school and university students ponder their end-of-year results, it’s only fair we cast a critical eye over the country, too. Using international and domestic indices and figures, it’s possible to get an idea of how well – ... <a title="NZ report card 2021: from COVID to housing and happiness, it was a tale of two countries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/15/nz-report-card-2021-from-covid-to-housing-and-happiness-it-was-a-tale-of-two-countries-173726/" aria-label="Read more about NZ report card 2021: from COVID to housing and happiness, it was a tale of two countries">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as Michelle Grattan’s usual interviews with experts and politicians about the news of the day, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where all things political will be discussed with members of The Conversation’s politics ... <a title="Word from The Hill: Government and Labor end 2021 on tenterhooks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/word-from-the-hill-government-and-labor-end-2021-on-tenterhooks-173748/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Government and Labor end 2021 on tenterhooks">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chay Brown, Research and Partnerships Manager, The Equality Institute, & Postdoctoral fellow, Australian National University GettyImages For many First Nations women living in remote and regional areas, the internet, mobile smartphones and social media platforms are a lifeline for connection and support. However our research, funded by ... <a title="Technology-facilitated abuse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is rife in regional and remote areas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/technology-facilitated-abuse-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-women-is-rife-in-regional-and-remote-areas-171727/" aria-label="Read more about Technology-facilitated abuse of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is rife in regional and remote areas">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey Robertson, Associate Professor of Diplomatic Studies, Yonsei University South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s visit to Australia this week comes at a critical point in the relationship between the countries. Moon is the first world leader to visit Australia since the COVID pandemic began and the federal ... <a title="In a changing region, Australia’s relationship with South Korea has been ignored for too long" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/in-a-changing-region-australias-relationship-with-south-korea-has-been-ignored-for-too-long-173737/" aria-label="Read more about In a changing region, Australia’s relationship with South Korea has been ignored for too long">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Gurvich, Associate professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist, Monash University Unsplash/Gantas Vaiciulenas, CC BY For nearly two-thirds of women, menopause comes with an undesirable change in memory. Despite great progress in understanding the medical aspects of menopause – a natural part of life that occurs when a woman ... <a title="‘Brain fog’ during menopause is real – it can disrupt women’s work and spark dementia fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/brain-fog-during-menopause-is-real-it-can-disrupt-womens-work-and-spark-dementia-fears-173150/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Brain fog’ during menopause is real – it can disrupt women’s work and spark dementia fears">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andréa S. Taschetto, Associate Professor, UNSW Last month was Australia’s wettest November on record, and summer in Queensland and parts of New South Wales is also expected to be soggy for the second consecutive year. So why is our summer parade being rained on yet again? Weather ... <a title="Back so soon, La Niña? Here’s why we’re copping two soggy summers in a row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/back-so-soon-la-nina-heres-why-were-copping-two-soggy-summers-in-a-row-173684/" aria-label="Read more about Back so soon, La Niña? Here’s why we’re copping two soggy summers in a row">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Thorne, Astrophysics PhD Candidate, The University of Western Australia ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray), CC BY-SA When the most massive stars die, they collapse to form some of the densest objects known in the Universe: black holes. They are the “darkest” ... <a title="Some black holes are anything but black – and we’ve found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/some-black-holes-are-anything-but-black-and-weve-found-more-than-75-000-of-the-brightest-ones-169938/" aria-label="Read more about Some black holes are anything but black – and we’ve found more than 75,000 of the brightest ones">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lena Waizenegger, Lecturer in Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology Shutterstock Hands up if you’ve ever cursed, mocked or yelled at a chatbot. No surprise if you have. Those automated “helpers” – supposedly designed to make customer service smarter, faster and more efficient – can certainly be ... <a title="‘Sorry, I don’t understand that’ – the trouble with chatbots and how to use them better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/sorry-i-dont-understand-that-the-trouble-with-chatbots-and-how-to-use-them-better-171665/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Sorry, I don’t understand that’ – the trouble with chatbots and how to use them better">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Deller, Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Waves (OzGrav), and Associate Professor in Astrophysics, Swinburne University of Technology An artist’s impression of the Double Pulsar system in which the two pulsars orbit each other every 2.5 hours and send out high-energy beams that sweep ... <a title="We counted 20 billion ticks of an extreme galactic clock to give Einstein’s theory of gravity its toughest test yet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/14/we-counted-20-billion-ticks-of-an-extreme-galactic-clock-to-give-einsteins-theory-of-gravity-its-toughest-test-yet-173157/" aria-label="Read more about We counted 20 billion ticks of an extreme galactic clock to give Einstein’s theory of gravity its toughest test yet">Read more</a>
