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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Rathus, Senior Lecturer in Law, Griffith University One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s unfounded claim women that lie about domestic abuse to deny fathers access to their children is what’s driving the latest parliamentary inquiry into the family law system. But this isn’t a new idea. Hanson’s ... <a title="‘Parental alienation’: the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/parental-alienation-the-debunked-theory-that-women-lie-about-violence-is-still-used-in-court-125823/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Parental alienation’: the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lin Fritschi, Professor of Epidemiology, Curtin University The National Dust Disease Taskforce is preparing to read submissions next week on how best to handle the resurgence of the fatal lung disease silicosis. This can develop after breathing in silica dust when cutting artificial stone — also known ... <a title="Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here’s why a ban’s the only answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/engineered-stone-benchtops-are-killing-our-tradies-heres-why-a-bans-the-only-answer-126489/" aria-label="Read more about Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here’s why a ban’s the only answer">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Altman, Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University Land titling in Australia has undergone a revolutionary shift over the past four decades. The return of diverse forms of title to Indigenous Australians has produced some semblance of land justice. About half ... <a title="Remote Indigenous Australia’s ecological economies give us something to build on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/remote-indigenous-australias-ecological-economies-give-us-something-to-build-on-123917/" aria-label="Read more about Remote Indigenous Australia’s ecological economies give us something to build on">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Monteath, Flinders University Even the sound of a bayonet could be frightening. The audible whetting of blades in the enemy’s trenches could puncture a night’s rest with premonitions of steely death. The sight of gleaming blades, too, turned the stomach of many a soldier. For all ... <a title="Friday essay: a short, sharp history of the bayonet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/friday-essay-a-short-sharp-history-of-the-bayonet-126010/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: a short, sharp history of the bayonet">Read more</a>
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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The messages for next time from Labor’s 2019 election post-mortem are clear. Have a better strategy. Have a stronger narrative, fewer policies, greater emphasis on economic growth. Have a better leader. Obvious. Incontestable. Just, as a package, devilishly hard to ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor’s post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/grattan-on-friday-labors-post-mortem-leaves-the-hard-work-still-to-be-done-126596/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor’s post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute In the past, when you needed chemotherapy or intravenous (in-the-vein) treatments such as antibiotics or hydration, you needed to be admitted to hospital. These days, it’s possible to have such treatments in the comfort of your home, with nursing or ... <a title="Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/private-health-insurers-should-start-paying-for-hospital-type-care-at-home-126345/" aria-label="Read more about Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Winston Peters is well known for being belligerent, complaining and prone to political conspiracies. It’s easy to write-off his current High Court trial as hubris and score-settling. Peters is suing former National Cabinet Ministers and heads of government departments for their alleged role in his embarrassing 2017 scandal when his pension overpayments were made public ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Winston Peters puts dirty politics on trial" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-winston-peters-puts-dirty-politics-on-trial/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Winston Peters puts dirty politics on trial">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University A directive ordering Queensland Health staff to avoid upgrades to the state’s hospital electronic medical record system during parliamentary sitting weeks was recently reversed. After the email containing the directive was leaked, the state’s health minister Steven Miles revoked ... <a title="Queensland Health’s history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/queensland-healths-history-of-software-mishaps-is-proof-of-how-hard-e-health-can-be-126272/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland Health’s history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia There are two basic components to the Morrison government’s latest A$1 billion package response to the drought affecting large parts eastern Australia. One part involves extra subsidies to farmers and farm-related business. The other ... <a title="Australia’s drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/australias-drought-relief-package-hits-the-political-spot-but-misses-the-bigger-point-126583/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonny Cassidy, Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. From Patrick White’s Voss to Tim Winton’s Breath, white, male Australian novelists have reproduced ... <a title="Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/woke-to-the-past-shaun-prescotts-the-town-moves-beyond-colonialism-and-then-its-protagonist-112867/" aria-label="Read more about Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The long-awaited ALP campaign review says Labor lost “because of a weak strategy that could not adapt to the change in Liberal leadership, a cluttered policy agenda that looked risky and an unpopular leader”. “No one of these shortcomings was ... <a title="Labor’s election post-mortem warns against ‘becoming a grievance-based organisation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/labors-election-post-mortem-warns-against-becoming-a-grievance-based-organisation-126592/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s election post-mortem warns against ‘becoming a grievance-based organisation’">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aurora Elmes, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology Margaret was depressed, jobless, broke and behind on her rent when the single mother of two heard about Vanguard Laundry Services, in Toowoomba, Queensland. “I was desperate for work, any work,” she recalls. She started working at the laundry ... <a title="This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/this-laundry-is-changing-the-vicious-cycle-of-unemployment-and-mental-illness-117965/" aria-label="Read more about This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness">Read more</a>
