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February 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stewart Lockie, Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the other pieces in the series here. Rural ... <a title="People and issues outside our big cities are diverse, but these priorities stand out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/28/people-and-issues-outside-our-big-cities-are-diverse-but-these-priorities-stand-out-110971/" aria-label="Read more about People and issues outside our big cities are diverse, but these priorities stand out">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rosalind Smith, Professor and Acting PVC Research and Innovation, University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle The dramatic life of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots is a hot topic in popular culture. Josie Rourke’s 2018 film Mary Queen of Scots has reached wide audiences, while the Sydney Theatre ... <a title="Mary, Queen of Scots is newly relevant in the age of #MeToo" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/28/mary-queen-of-scots-is-newly-relevant-in-the-age-of-metoo-111604/" aria-label="Read more about Mary, Queen of Scots is newly relevant in the age of #MeToo">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Bant, Professor of Law, University of Melbourne At last, our corporate watchdog has a strong set of teeth with which to fight crime and serious misconduct in the financial sector. The Treasury Laws Amendment (Strengthening Corporate and Financial Sector Penalties) Bill finally made it through parliament ... <a title="Fines that’ll hurt. ASIC’s powerful, if ill-fitting, teeth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/fines-thatll-hurt-asics-powerful-if-ill-fitting-teeth-112298/" aria-label="Read more about Fines that’ll hurt. ASIC’s powerful, if ill-fitting, teeth">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Flora D. Salim, Associate Professor in Computer Science, RMIT University Most of us know tech platforms such as Facebook and Google track, store and make money from our data. But there are constantly new revelations about just how much of our privacy has been chipped away. The ... <a title="Your period tracking app could tell Facebook when you’re pregnant. An ‘algorithmic guardian’ could stop it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/your-period-tracking-app-could-tell-facebook-when-youre-pregnant-an-algorithmic-guardian-could-stop-it-111815/" aria-label="Read more about Your period tracking app could tell Facebook when you’re pregnant. An ‘algorithmic guardian’ could stop it.">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kaine, Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney This is part of a major series called Advancing Australia, in which leading academics examine the key issues facing Australia in the lead-up to the 2019 federal election and beyond. Read the ... <a title="The workplace challenge facing Australia (spoiler alert – it’s not technology)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/the-workplace-challenge-facing-australia-spoiler-alert-its-not-technology-111492/" aria-label="Read more about The workplace challenge facing Australia (spoiler alert – it’s not technology)">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Garrick, Senior Lecturer, Business Law, Charles Darwin University Former federal trade minister Andrew Robb says he has quit his A$880,000-a-year consultancy job with Chinese-owned Landbridge Group because it didn’t have anything for him do. Former Victorian premier John Brumby says he has quit as a director ... <a title="Agents of foreign influence: with China it’s a blurry line between corporate and state interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/agents-of-foreign-influence-with-china-its-a-blurry-line-between-corporate-and-state-interests-112403/" aria-label="Read more about Agents of foreign influence: with China it’s a blurry line between corporate and state interests">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Serena Love, Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The ... <a title="Curious Kids: who was the first ancient mummy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/curious-kids-who-was-the-first-ancient-mummy-110436/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: who was the first ancient mummy?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon D Angus, Associate Professor, Monash University What can you do with 99 seconds? Check your email? Fire off a tweet? Walk 100 metres? For current men’s marathon world-record holder, Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, 99 seconds is all that stands between him and the sub two-hour (or “sub-2”) ... <a title="How long before we break the two-hour barrier in the men’s marathon?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/how-long-before-we-break-the-two-hour-barrier-in-the-mens-marathon-112505/" aria-label="Read more about How long before we break the two-hour barrier in the men’s marathon?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine A McDaniel, Senior Research Fellow, George Mason University Digital platforms provide a host of challenges for governments. Questions about how to best protect privacy, democracy, and speech online become more pressing every year. But policies that affect online platforms also affect international trade. Many Australian small ... <a title="Regulating Facebook could hinder small businesses with overseas customers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/regulating-facebook-could-hinder-small-businesses-with-overseas-customers-111822/" aria-label="Read more about Regulating Facebook could hinder small businesses with overseas customers">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Juanita Westbury, Senior Lecturer in Dementia Care, University of Tasmania Last month the aged care minister Ken Wyatt announced he would introduce regulations to address the use of “chemical restraint” in residential aged care – a practice where residents are given psychotropic drugs which affect their mental ... <a title="Chemical restraint has no place in aged care, but poorly designed reforms can easily go wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/chemical-restraint-has-no-place-in-aged-care-but-poorly-designed-reforms-can-easily-go-wrong-112218/" aria-label="Read more about Chemical restraint has no place in aged care, but poorly designed reforms can easily go wrong">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Oisín Sweeney, Senior Ecologist at the National Parks Association of NSW, Research Fellow, University of Sydney Since colonisation, a dizzying array of Australia’s native species and ecosystems have been altered or removed altogether. It therefore seems natural to consider the idea of restoring what’s been lost – ... <a title="We can ‘rewild’ swathes of Australia by focusing on what makes it unique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/we-can-rewild-swathes-of-australia-by-focusing-on-what-makes-it-unique-111749/" aria-label="Read more about We can ‘rewild’ swathes of Australia by focusing on what makes it unique">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Horwood, PhD Candidate, Educational Psychology and Public Policy, Australian Catholic University Principals (including principals, assistant principals and deputy principals) are nation builders. They play a vital role in shaping our society and significantly influence our children in ways academic and non-academic, well beyond graduation. They help ... <a title="One in three principals are seriously stressed, here’s what we need to do about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/27/one-in-three-principals-are-seriously-stressed-heres-what-we-need-to-do-about-it-110774/" aria-label="Read more about One in three principals are seriously stressed, here’s what we need to do about it">Read more</a>
