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June 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Dinale, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney The traditional understanding of women’s economic empowerment is that, as participation in paid employment increases, fertility decreases. This was certainly true in industrialised nations up to the early 1980s. But then things began to change. OECD data now shows a ... <a title="How English-speaking countries upended the trade-off between babies and jobs without even trying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/26/how-english-speaking-countries-upended-the-trade-off-between-babies-and-jobs-without-even-trying-118459/" aria-label="Read more about How English-speaking countries upended the trade-off between babies and jobs without even trying">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The attitudes of Australians towards China have soured dramatically in the past year, according to the Lowy Institute’s annual poll released on Wednesday. Only 32% trust China to act responsibly in the world – which is a drop of 20 ... <a title="Australians’ feelings sour towards China: Lowy poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/26/australians-feelings-sour-towards-china-lowy-poll-119392/" aria-label="Read more about Australians’ feelings sour towards China: Lowy poll">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison will warn of the danger of any further escalation in US-China tensions and declare Australia won’t let its relations with China be dominated by inevitable differences, in a major speech ahead of this week’s G20 meeting. Walking a ... <a title="Australia’s PM Morrison warns of widespread pain if US-China trade tensions are not contained" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/26/morrison-warns-of-widespread-pain-if-us-china-trade-tensions-are-not-contained-119424/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s PM Morrison warns of widespread pain if US-China trade tensions are not contained">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Wood, Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney This year, we’ve seen a resurgence of measles around the globe. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recorded more than 230,000 cases in the first five months of 2019, compared to 160,000 in a similar ... <a title="To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/to-protect-us-all-babies-travelling-overseas-may-need-the-measles-shot-at-6-months-instead-of-12-119230/" aria-label="Read more about To protect us all, babies travelling overseas may need the measles shot at 6 months instead of 12">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Thompson, Coordinator of Studies: Systematic Theology, Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity For many Christians, Israel Folau has become the talisman in the fight for religious freedom. This week, some Australian Christians rallied behind Folau’s legal battle against Rugby Australia, stepping in when the rugby star’s ... <a title="Why Christians disagree over the Israel Folau saga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/why-christians-disagree-over-the-israel-folau-saga-118773/" aria-label="Read more about Why Christians disagree over the Israel Folau saga">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Martyn Iles, managing director of the Australian Christian Lobby, dodged the question this week when asked by Lisa Wilkinson on The Sunday Project if he believed that homosexuals go to hell. Apparently we ... <a title="5 things to know about the traditional Christian doctrine of hell" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/5-things-to-know-about-the-traditional-christian-doctrine-of-hell-119380/" aria-label="Read more about 5 things to know about the traditional Christian doctrine of hell">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jade Sheen, Associate Professor, School of Psychology, Deakin University 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: why can’t we do whatever we want?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/curious-kids-why-cant-we-do-whatever-we-want-118606/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why can’t we do whatever we want?">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Douglas, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia When you go online and write something nasty about a person, or even a small business, you risk being sued for defamation. But if someone else goes online and writes something nasty about a person on your ... <a title="Can you be liable for defamation for what other people write on your Facebook page? Australian court says: maybe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/can-you-be-liable-for-defamation-for-what-other-people-write-on-your-facebook-page-australian-court-says-maybe-119352/" aria-label="Read more about Can you be liable for defamation for what other people write on your Facebook page? Australian court says: maybe">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Banks Bernard Hickey (Newsroom): A proper banking and insurance inquiry please Thomas Coughlan (Newsroom): Are the banks too safe? Or not safe enough? Gyles Beckford (RNZ): New bank scheme serves as rebuke to RBNZ’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 25 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-25-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 25 2019">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donell Holloway, Senior research fellow, Edith Cowan University I recently purchased a bedroom bundle (mattress, bed base, pillows and sheets) from a well known Australian startup for my son, who has flown the nest. Now I’m swamped with Google and Facebook ads for beds and bedding. The ... <a title="Explainer: what is surveillance capitalism and how does it shape our economy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/explainer-what-is-surveillance-capitalism-and-how-does-it-shape-our-economy-119158/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: what is surveillance capitalism and how does it shape our economy?">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Reilly, Director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit, Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide With all the hyperbole about the medevac law, it is easy to lose sight of its purpose. Refugees have been transferred off Nauru and Manus Island for emergency medical treatment ... <a title="Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/peter-dutton-is-whipping-up-fear-on-the-medevac-law-but-it-defies-logic-and-compassion-119297/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton is whipping up fear on the medevac law, but it defies logic and compassion">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Allen Cheng, Professor in Infectious Diseases Epidemiology, Monash University Influenza is a moving target for vaccines. Each year, up to four different strains circulate, and they are constantly evolving to escape our immune system. So rather than childhood jabs giving long lasting immunity, we need annual flu ... <a title="You can’t get influenza from a flu shot – here’s how it works" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/25/you-cant-get-influenza-from-a-flu-shot-heres-how-it-works-118916/" aria-label="Read more about You can’t get influenza from a flu shot – here’s how it works">Read more</a>