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March 29, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison’s ruling that the Liberals should put One Nation below Labor on their how-to-vote cards is less a stand on principle than a political gesture and a compromise. A gesture that came because the Prime Minister recognised he must ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison struggles to straddle the south-north divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/29/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-struggles-to-straddle-the-south-north-divide-114461/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison struggles to straddle the south-north divide">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Watts, Professor of Information Law and Policy, La Trobe University Data ethics is now a cause célèbre. “Digital ethics and privacy” shot into research and advisory company Gartner’s top ten strategic technology trends for 2019. Before that it barely raised a mention. In the past year ... <a title="How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/how-big-tech-designs-its-own-rules-of-ethics-to-avoid-scrutiny-and-accountability-113457/" aria-label="Read more about How big tech designs its own rules of ethics to avoid scrutiny and accountability">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ivan Diaz-Rainey, Associate Professor of Finance & Director, Climate and Energy Finance Group, University of Otago The greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, from burping and urinating livestock, account for about half of New Zealand’s total emissions. These agricultural emissions have been the elephant in the room ... <a title="NZ’s environmental watchdog challenges climate policy on farm emissions and forestry offsets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/nzs-environmental-watchdog-challenges-climate-policy-on-farm-emissions-and-forestry-offsets-114281/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s environmental watchdog challenges climate policy on farm emissions and forestry offsets">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amelia Thorpe, Associate Professor, UNSW The federal Labor Party announced this week that, if elected, it will restore funding to Environmental Defenders Offices (EDOs) across Australia, in a package worth $14 million over four years. Deputy Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek explained: These organisations ensure that ordinary Australians ... <a title="Labor pledges $14m funding boost to Environmental Defenders Offices – what do these services do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/labor-pledges-14m-funding-boost-to-environmental-defenders-offices-what-do-these-services-do-114360/" aria-label="Read more about Labor pledges $14m funding boost to Environmental Defenders Offices – what do these services do?">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Woollard, Head of Theatre and Performance, Lecturer in Theatre and Performance, University of Tasmania Review: The Mares, Tasmanian Theatre Company and Ten Days on the Island The Mares, a new work by playwright Kate Mulvany, was commissioned by the Tasmanian Theatre Company as a vehicle for ... <a title="Kate Mulvany’s The Mares bristles with energetic feminist storytelling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/kate-mulvanys-the-mares-bristles-with-energetic-feminist-storytelling-114191/" aria-label="Read more about Kate Mulvany’s The Mares bristles with energetic feminist storytelling">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Jyoti Dutta, Dean’s Chair Professor, Massey University The terrorist attack in Christchurch was an expression of racist hatred that is being disseminated systematically across the globe by some media, think tanks and grassroots groups. To actively challenge and dismantle racism, we need to create communication platforms ... <a title="How to challenge racism by listening to those who experience it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/how-to-challenge-racism-by-listening-to-those-who-experience-it-113909/" aria-label="Read more about How to challenge racism by listening to those who experience it">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne In the wake of the far-right terrorist atrocity in Christchurch on March 15, there has been much condemnation of independent senator Fraser Anning’s anti-Muslim comments. Anning won just 19 personal votes below the line, so ... <a title="How Fraser Anning was elected to the Senate – and what the major parties can do to keep extremists out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/how-fraser-anning-was-elected-to-the-senate-and-what-the-major-parties-can-do-to-keep-extremists-out-114011/" aria-label="Read more about How Fraser Anning was elected to the Senate – and what the major parties can do to keep extremists out">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate O’Brien, Associate professor, The University of Queensland Still in 2019 women and men grapple with how best to balance work and other responsibilities in and out of the home. Women bare the brunt of household labor, take career hits if they become mothers, and are poorly ... <a title="Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/why-we-still-struggle-with-work-home-conflict-in-women-and-men-112698/" aria-label="Read more about Why we still struggle with work-home conflict in women and men">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney NSW Labor leader Michael Daley’s “young Asians with PhDs taking our jobs” blunder cost him dearly in the recent NSW state election. His defeat also offered a taste of the crucial role the Chinese social ... <a title="Chinese social media platform WeChat could be a key battleground in the federal election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/chinese-social-media-platform-wechat-could-be-a-key-battleground-in-the-federal-election-113925/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese social media platform WeChat could be a key battleground in the federal election">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Ravenswood, Associate professor, Auckland University of Technology For decades, the people caring for the most vulnerable members of society have been paid as little as possible. Care and support workers in residential aged care, home and community care and disability support are predominantly women, and they ... <a title="Historic pay equity settlement for NZ care workers delivers mixed results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/historic-pay-equity-settlement-for-nz-care-workers-delivers-mixed-results-114283/" aria-label="Read more about Historic pay equity settlement for NZ care workers delivers mixed results">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Stratemeyer, Associate Lecturer, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne A man sits in a doctor’s office after months of his wife’s increasingly desperate pleas for him to seek professional help for his constant coughing. In the end, she was the one who booked his appointment ... <a title="How challenging masculine stereotypes is good for men" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/how-challenging-masculine-stereotypes-is-good-for-men-114300/" aria-label="Read more about How challenging masculine stereotypes is good for men">Read more</a>
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March 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Letnic, Professor, Centre for Ecosystem Science, UNSW A federal parliamentary inquiry into stopping cane toads’ relentless march across Australia has proposed creating “waterless barriers” in the semi-arid land between Western Australia’s Kimberley and Pilbara regions. Because cane toads need regular access to water to survive, the ... <a title="What is a waterless barrier and how could it slow cane toads?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/28/what-is-a-waterless-barrier-and-how-could-it-slow-cane-toads-114363/" aria-label="Read more about What is a waterless barrier and how could it slow cane toads?">Read more</a>
