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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University Queenie Tan is full of financial advice. Whether it is cheap date ideas, buying furniture, saving your first $100,000, doing your tax return or investing in Dogecoin, there is seemingly no topic the 24-year-old Sydney woman can’t confidently tackle. ... <a title="FinTok and ‘finfluencers’ are on the rise: 3 tips to assess if their advice has value" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/fintok-and-finfluencers-are-on-the-rise-3-tips-to-assess-if-their-advice-has-value-161406/" aria-label="Read more about FinTok and ‘finfluencers’ are on the rise: 3 tips to assess if their advice has value">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chelsea Watego, Principal Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland The SBS documentary series See What You Made Me Do aimed to spark a national conversation about criminalising coercive control. Instead it highlighted the stark power imbalances in conversations between Indigenous ... <a title="Carceral feminism and coercive control: when Indigenous women aren’t seen as ideal victims, witnesses or women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/carceral-feminism-and-coercive-control-when-indigenous-women-arent-seen-as-ideal-victims-witnesses-or-women-161091/" aria-label="Read more about Carceral feminism and coercive control: when Indigenous women aren’t seen as ideal victims, witnesses or women">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind — so energy-inefficient they lost most of it as heat. “A normal light bulb ... <a title="Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/going-electric-and-banning-new-petrol-powered-cars-could-be-australias-next-big-light-bulb-moment-161431/" aria-label="Read more about Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lesh, Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne The New South Wales government has released a discussion paper expressing its ambition to review and “modernise” the Heritage Act (1977). Announcing the review, Arts Minister Don Harwin said: “Too often we see once cherished ... <a title="War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/war-on-the-demolishers-probably-not-and-timing-of-nsw-heritage-review-is-curious-159525/" aria-label="Read more about War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert White, Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia Review: John Bell, Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers. With illustrations by Cathy Wilcox. Pantera Press, 2021. John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest ... <a title="Shakespeare’s rulers and generals are all flawed, but the books on his leadership lessons keep coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/shakespeares-rulers-and-generals-are-all-flawed-but-the-books-on-his-leadership-lessons-keep-coming-160270/" aria-label="Read more about Shakespeare’s rulers and generals are all flawed, but the books on his leadership lessons keep coming">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia will shut its residential embassy in Afghanistan before its troops leave the country, amid concerns of an expected worsening security situation. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a Tuesday statement the embassy building in ... <a title="Australian embassy in Afghanistan to close its doors as security situation worsens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/australian-embassy-in-afghanistan-to-close-its-doors-as-security-situation-worsens-161499/" aria-label="Read more about Australian embassy in Afghanistan to close its doors as security situation worsens">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, School of History, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University New battlelines in Samoa’s ongoing political crisis were drawn this week. After an evening swearing-in ceremony on the lawn of parliament house, Samoa now has two governments claiming ... <a title="Samoan democracy hangs in the balance as a constitutional arm wrestle plays out — with the world watching" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/samoan-democracy-hangs-in-the-balance-as-a-constitutional-arm-wrestle-plays-out-with-the-world-watching-161490/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan democracy hangs in the balance as a constitutional arm wrestle plays out — with the world watching">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian Downie, Associate professor, Australian National University The International Energy Agency confirmed last week what many already knew: the world is undergoing a huge transformation in global energy markets. Fossil fuels are dying and renewables are on the rise. Much of the focus has been on what ... <a title="We could be a superpower: 3 ways Australia can take advantage of the changing geopolitics of energy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/we-could-be-a-superpower-3-ways-australia-can-take-advantage-of-the-changing-geopolitics-of-energy-161343/" aria-label="Read more about We could be a superpower: 3 ways Australia can take advantage of the changing geopolitics of energy">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Scott, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Astronomy, University of Sydney It’s no surprise the Milky Way is the most-studied galaxy in the universe, given it’s where we live. But studying just one galaxy can only tell us so much about the complex processes by which galaxies form ... <a title="Stellar secrets of a distant galaxy suggest our Milky Way isn’t so special after all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/stellar-secrets-of-a-distant-galaxy-suggest-our-milky-way-isnt-so-special-after-all-161419/" aria-label="Read more about Stellar secrets of a distant galaxy suggest our Milky Way isn’t so special after all">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly Lewis, Research Associate at the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology As the Israel-Palestine ceasefire agreement holds, social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), continue to come under fire over the censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In times of conflict, ... <a title="Social media platforms are complicit in censoring Palestinian voices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/social-media-platforms-are-complicit-in-censoring-palestinian-voices-161094/" aria-label="Read more about Social media platforms are complicit in censoring Palestinian voices">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University History shows that Labor took too much heart when Labor leader Kim Beazley unexpectedly pushed John Howard to the edge of extinction in 1998. Howard, a first-term prime minister, suffered a 4.6% swing, surrendering the popular vote but ... <a title="Upper Hunter byelection reveals the dangers that lurk for Albanese and federal Labor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/upper-hunter-byelection-reveals-the-dangers-that-lurk-for-albanese-and-federal-labor-161424/" aria-label="Read more about Upper Hunter byelection reveals the dangers that lurk for Albanese and federal Labor">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Last week’s ceasefire in Gaza is holding, but if history is any guide this will not be the last time the Israel-Palestine conflict flares up. In the past 12 years, Israel and Hamas have clashed seriously four times. May’s ... <a title="3 practical ways New Zealand could help with the Israel-Palestine conflict from afar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/3-practical-ways-new-zealand-could-help-with-the-israel-palestine-conflict-from-afar-161408/" aria-label="Read more about 3 practical ways New Zealand could help with the Israel-Palestine conflict from afar">Read more</a>
