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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriet Radermacher, Adjunct Lecturer, Department of General Practice, Monash University Who decides what matters in the lives of voters? In the run-up to the 2018 Victorian state election, media focused on a few potential big issues of concern or interest. Newspapers featured pieces on the consequences of ... <a title="Vital conversations: older women have their say about the challenges of life in a city like Melbourne" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/vital-conversations-older-women-have-their-say-about-the-challenges-of-life-in-a-city-like-melbourne-112772/" aria-label="Read more about Vital conversations: older women have their say about the challenges of life in a city like Melbourne">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Bolton, PhD student, Media and Communications, University of Sydney Boosting workforce participation has been the gender catchcry for at least a decade. Women are paid less than men? Increase female workforce participation! Want to boost the economy? Increase female workforce participation! It can look like a ... <a title="What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/what-if-weve-had-gender-the-wrong-way-around-what-if-for-workplace-parity-we-focused-on-men-107142/" aria-label="Read more about What if we’ve had gender the wrong way around? What if, for workplace parity, we focused on men?">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University 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 other pieces in the ... <a title="Future budgets are going to have to spend more on welfare, which is fine. It’s spending on us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/future-budgets-are-going-to-have-to-spend-more-on-welfare-which-is-fine-its-spending-on-us-111498/" aria-label="Read more about Future budgets are going to have to spend more on welfare, which is fine. It’s spending on us">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer, Deakin University More women on boards is seen as an important indicator of gender equality and board effectiveness. The Australian government’s annual gender insights report, published last week, says greater female board membership helps drive more equitable pay across all levels of an organisation. ... <a title="Reality check. Having a woman on your board needn’t make it diverse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/reality-check-having-a-woman-on-your-board-neednt-make-it-diverse-103526/" aria-label="Read more about Reality check. Having a woman on your board needn’t make it diverse">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Hopper, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Sarah is an aspiring actor, recently graduated from a prestigious acting school. She lands her first contract with a major theatre company to work with a respected director. The play includes performance of a simulated rape scene. Over the weeks of ... <a title="Hollywood may be able to afford #MeToo, but it’s a stretch for the Australian arts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/hollywood-may-be-able-to-afford-metoo-but-its-a-stretch-for-the-australian-arts-111842/" aria-label="Read more about Hollywood may be able to afford #MeToo, but it’s a stretch for the Australian arts">Read more</a>
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March 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Scott, Professor, University of Melbourne In an attempt to crack down on specialists charging exorbitant fees, the Morrison government has pledged to create a website listing individual specialists’ fees. The website is voluntary and doctors will post their own fees. Patients will be able to compare ... <a title="We need more than a website to stop Australians paying exorbitant out-of-pocket health costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/07/we-need-more-than-a-website-to-stop-australians-paying-exorbitant-out-of-pocket-health-costs-108740/" aria-label="Read more about We need more than a website to stop Australians paying exorbitant out-of-pocket health costs">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Adams, Isotope Bioarchaeologist Research Fellow, Griffith University To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at how researchers use some of the elements in their work. Today’s it’s strontium, a chemical that can help fireworks burn red. It’s ... <a title="Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that question" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/where-did-you-grow-up-how-strontium-in-your-teeth-can-help-answer-that-question-112705/" aria-label="Read more about Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that question">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shaun Adams, Isotope Bioarchaeologist Research Fellow, Griffith University To mark the International Year of the Periodic Table of Chemical Elements we’re taking a look at how researchers use some of the elements in their work. Today’s it’s strontium, a chemical that can help fireworks burn red. It’s ... <a title="Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/where-did-you-grow-up-how-strontium-in-your-teeth-can-help-answer-that-112705/" aria-label="Read more about Where did you grow up? How strontium in your teeth can help answer that">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Meyrick, Professor of Creative Arts, Flinders University Review: La Reprise. Histoire(s) du théâtre, Adelaide Festival By chance, I happened to overhear a conversation on theatre audiences before seeing this remarkable, sulphurous show about the senseless murder of a gay man, Ihsane Jarfi, in Liege, Belgium in ... <a title="La Reprise: startling theatre and a call to the dead to speak" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/la-reprise-startling-theatre-and-a-call-to-the-dead-to-speak-113032/" aria-label="Read more about La Reprise: startling theatre and a call to the dead to speak">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wencheng Yang, Post Doctoral Researcher, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University Despite what every spy movie in the past 30 years would have you think, fingerprint and face scanners used to unlock your smartphone or other devices aren’t nearly as secure as they’re made out to be. ... <a title="Fingerprint and face scanners aren’t as secure as we think they are" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/fingerprint-and-face-scanners-arent-as-secure-as-we-think-they-are-112414/" aria-label="Read more about Fingerprint and face scanners aren’t as secure as we think they are">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Attfield, Scholarly Teaching Fellow, Communications, University of Technology Sydney When I heard about the new ABC TV soap The Heights (set in a fictional suburb of Perth), I was pretty excited. The promos suggested the show would include representation of working-class social housing residents. I tried ... <a title="The Heights – at last, a credible Australian working-class soap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/the-heights-at-last-a-credible-australian-working-class-soap-112961/" aria-label="Read more about The Heights – at last, a credible Australian working-class soap">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Elphick, Honorary Research Fellow, Law School, University of Western Australia 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 other pieces in the ... <a title="Marriage equality was momentous, but there is still much to do to progress LGBTI+ rights in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/06/marriage-equality-was-momentous-but-there-is-still-much-to-do-to-progress-lgbti-rights-in-australia-110786/" aria-label="Read more about Marriage equality was momentous, but there is still much to do to progress LGBTI+ rights in Australia">Read more</a>
