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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>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Senior Fellow, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Liberal women must surely be asking why their party is so clear-eyed when facilitating the departure of competent women, and yet so mealy-mouthed about recruiting and promoting them. Prominent among Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s comments on Kelly ... <a title="Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/liberals-lose-yet-another-high-profile-woman-yet-still-no-action-on-gender-110158/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals lose yet another high-profile woman, yet still no action on gender">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gina Masterton, PhD Candidate, Law School, Griffith University Fiona (not her real name) came to Australia from New Zealand as a 19-year-old backpacker. Here, she met a man, got married and had two boys. The domestic violence began after her first son’s birth, and Fiona endured it ... <a title="Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not ‘abduction’, but that’s how the law sees it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/fleeing-family-violence-to-another-country-and-taking-your-child-is-not-abduction-but-thats-how-the-law-sees-it-109664/" aria-label="Read more about Fleeing family violence to another country and taking your child is not ‘abduction’, but that’s how the law sees it">Read more</a>
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January 21, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hobbins, ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney At Sydney’s enormous Rookwood Cemetery, a lichen-spotted headstone captures a family’s double burden of grief. The grave contains the remains of 19-year-old Harriet Ann Ottaway, who died on 2 July 1919. Its monument also commemorates her brother Henry James ... <a title="100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of “Spanish flu”?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/01/21/100-years-later-why-dont-we-commemorate-the-victims-and-heroes-of-spanish-flu-109885/" aria-label="Read more about 100 years later, why don’t we commemorate the victims and heroes of “Spanish flu”?">Read more</a>
