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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor’s Joel Fitzgibbon this week quit the frontbench, ensuring he’ll become even more vocal in his campaign to have Labor’s climate policy move to the centre and the party give greater attention to the working class part of its constituency. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Joel Fitzgibbon on Labor climate policy and leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-joel-fitzgibbon-on-labor-climate-policy-and-leadership-149925/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Joel Fitzgibbon on Labor climate policy and leadership">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney Tackling the health, economic and social crises wrought by the coronavirus pandemic is the first order of business for US president-elect Joe Biden and his transition team. Biden this week announced his bipartisan coronavirus ... <a title="Biden has announced a COVID taskforce to guide him through the crisis. But there are many challenges ahead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/biden-has-announced-a-covid-taskforce-to-guide-him-through-the-crisis-but-there-are-many-challenges-ahead-149850/" aria-label="Read more about Biden has announced a COVID taskforce to guide him through the crisis. But there are many challenges ahead">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Throsby, Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University Female artists across all areas of the arts experience gender-related disadvantage in pursuing their creative careers, which reflects discriminatory problems affecting women in society more generally. This is our conclusion after delving more deeply into our 2014-15 data on ... <a title="Why is the gender pay gap in the arts so large? Widespread discrimination is the most likely cause" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/why-is-the-gender-pay-gap-in-the-arts-so-large-widespread-discrimination-is-the-most-likely-cause-149626/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the gender pay gap in the arts so large? Widespread discrimination is the most likely cause">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Normann Witzleb, Associate Professor in Law, Monash University Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has called for submissions to the long-awaited review of the federal Privacy Act 1988. This is the first wide-ranging review of privacy laws since the Australian Law Reform Commission produced a landmark report in 2008. ... <a title="83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/83-of-australians-want-tougher-privacy-laws-nows-your-chance-to-tell-the-government-what-you-want-149535/" aria-label="Read more about 83% of Australians want tougher privacy laws. Now’s your chance to tell the government what you want">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Program Director, Master of Communication, University of South Australia Last weekend, a few hours after the US presidential election was called for Joe Biden, Myanmar voters started lining up for their own chance to decide whether the National League for Democracy (NLD) government, led by ... <a title="Aung San Suu Kyi wins big in Myanmar’s elections, but will it bring peace — or restore her reputation abroad?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/aung-san-suu-kyi-wins-big-in-myanmars-elections-but-will-it-bring-peace-or-restore-her-reputation-abroad-149619/" aria-label="Read more about Aung San Suu Kyi wins big in Myanmar’s elections, but will it bring peace — or restore her reputation abroad?">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anita M Elias, Senior lecturer, Dept O & G, Monash University The social and cultural messages we receive around sex give the impression everyone’s “doing it” and it’s always fun and enjoyable. But for many people, having sexual intercourse is extremely painful or impossible. One of the ... <a title="Vaginismus: the common condition leading to painful sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/vaginismus-the-common-condition-leading-to-painful-sex-148801/" aria-label="Read more about Vaginismus: the common condition leading to painful sex">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Patrick Rule, Palaeontology PhD Candidate, Monash University A fossil discovery in New Zealand has revealed a new species of monk seal that once called Australasia home. We introduce the three million-year-old seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis, in a paper published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society ... <a title="Scientists thought these seals evolved in the north. 3-million-year-old fossils from New Zealand suggest otherwise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/scientists-thought-these-seals-evolved-in-the-north-3-million-year-old-fossils-from-new-zealand-suggest-otherwise-149746/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists thought these seals evolved in the north. 3-million-year-old fossils from New Zealand suggest otherwise">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Thomas, Research assistant, University of Technology Sydney When the Black Lives Matter movement re-emerged powerfully this year, it encouraged a cultural reckoning about how Black stories are told, reaching deep into Australia’s mainstream media. Once more, research showed just how unselfconsciously white Australian media is. Our ... <a title="The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked a cultural reckoning about how Black stories are told" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/the-black-lives-matter-movement-has-provoked-a-cultural-reckoning-about-how-black-stories-are-told-149544/" aria-label="Read more about The Black Lives Matter movement has provoked a cultural reckoning about how Black stories are told">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Wake, Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University Immediately after ABC’s Four Corners aired allegations about the conduct of government ministers Alan Tudge and Christian Porter, questions were raised about whether the report was in the “public interest”. The Australian’s editor-at-large, Paul Kelly, said on Q&A that Porter ... <a title="What’s in the ‘public interest’? Why the ABC is right to cover allegations of inappropriate ministerial conduct" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/whats-in-the-public-interest-why-the-abc-is-right-to-cover-allegations-of-inappropriate-ministerial-conduct-149821/" aria-label="Read more about What’s in the ‘public interest’? Why the ABC is right to cover allegations of inappropriate ministerial conduct">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marija Taflaga, Lecturer, School of Political Science and International Relations, Australian National University Sex and politics is a well-established theme of political life. Often the debate comes back to whether or not politicians deserve private lives. The short answer is yes, of course. But this question is ... <a title="Is Canberra having a #metoo moment? It will take more than reports of MPs behaving badly for parliament to change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/is-canberra-having-a-metoo-moment-it-will-take-more-than-reports-of-mps-behaving-badly-for-parliament-to-change-149819/" aria-label="Read more about Is Canberra having a #metoo moment? It will take more than reports of MPs behaving badly for parliament to change">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University Peter Morgan’s fourth season of The Crown faces perhaps its greatest challenge so far. The 1980s was one of the most documented, catalogued, debated and scrutinised decades of the House of Windsor. Morgan will, no doubt be keenly aware ... <a title="The Crown season 4 review: a triumphant portrait of the 1980s with a perfectly wide-eyed Diana" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/the-crown-season-4-review-a-triumphant-portrait-of-the-1980s-with-a-perfectly-wide-eyed-diana-149633/" aria-label="Read more about The Crown season 4 review: a triumphant portrait of the 1980s with a perfectly wide-eyed Diana">Read more</a>
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November 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Bisley, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University, La Trobe University The election of Joe Biden represents not only a repudiation of Donald Trump and his divisiveness, but an embrace of centrism and a mainstream approach to government ... <a title="Biden will place Asia back at the centre of foreign policy – but will his old-school diplomacy still work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/11/biden-will-place-asia-back-at-the-centre-of-foreign-policy-but-will-his-old-school-diplomacy-still-work-148095/" aria-label="Read more about Biden will place Asia back at the centre of foreign policy – but will his old-school diplomacy still work?">Read more</a>
