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August 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jason Pallant, Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology Barneys, the iconic chain of upscale New York department stores established in 1923, has just filed for bankruptcy protection. Another of America’s great department store brands, Chicago’s Sears (dating from 1925), did the same a year ago. Times ... <a title="Death of the department store: don’t just blame the internet, it’s to do with a dwindling middle class" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/08/death-of-the-department-store-dont-just-blame-the-internet-its-to-do-with-a-dwindling-middle-class-121499/" aria-label="Read more about Death of the department store: don’t just blame the internet, it’s to do with a dwindling middle class">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Giles, Professor, Challis Chair of English, University of Sydney Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, was the most influential and studied American author of her generation. Born as Chloe Wofford in Ohio in 1931, she graduated in 1953 with a B.A. in English from Howard ... <a title="The most influential American author of her generation, Toni Morrison’s writing was radically ambiguous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/the-most-influential-american-author-of-her-generation-toni-morrisons-writing-was-radically-ambiguous-121557/" aria-label="Read more about The most influential American author of her generation, Toni Morrison’s writing was radically ambiguous">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW What kind of person do you imagine having a heart attack? Is it a middle-aged white businessman clutching his chest? Someone like the Roger Sterling character from the popular television ... <a title="According to TV, heart attack victims are rich, white men who clutch their hearts and collapse. Here’s why that’s a worry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/according-to-tv-heart-attack-victims-are-rich-white-men-who-clutch-their-hearts-and-collapse-heres-why-thats-a-worry-120894/" aria-label="Read more about According to TV, heart attack victims are rich, white men who clutch their hearts and collapse. Here’s why that’s a worry">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University The Israel Folau termination case has dominated headlines for months now. Many Australians have been intrigued by the extent to which employers like Rugby Australia are able to control the social media activity of their employees – in Folau’s ... <a title="Will the High Court ruling on public servant’s tweets have a ‘powerful chill’ on free speech?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/will-the-high-court-ruling-on-public-servants-tweets-have-a-powerful-chill-on-free-speech-121556/" aria-label="Read more about Will the High Court ruling on public servant’s tweets have a ‘powerful chill’ on free speech?">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shanthi Robertson, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Recent articles in the media have raised concerns about the rapid rise in migrants living and working in Australia on bridging visas, whose numbers have more than doubled in the last four years. A ... <a title="Most migrants on bridging visas aren’t ‘scammers’, they’re well within their rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/most-migrants-on-bridging-visas-arent-scammers-theyre-well-within-their-rights-120989/" aria-label="Read more about Most migrants on bridging visas aren’t ‘scammers’, they’re well within their rights">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor H. Worthy, Associate professor, Flinders University Say hello to Heracles inexpectatus, a parrot the size of a human child. But don’t worry, you won’t meet one face to face. Our new discovery, published today, lived around 20 million years ago in what is now New Zealand ... <a title="Meet the ‘Hercules parrot’ from prehistoric New Zealand – the biggest ever discovered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/meet-the-hercules-parrot-from-prehistoric-new-zealand-the-biggest-ever-discovered-121437/" aria-label="Read more about Meet the ‘Hercules parrot’ from prehistoric New Zealand – the biggest ever discovered">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Weijers, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Co-editor International Journal of Wellbeing, University of Waikato At a conference about disruptive innovations in food production last week, dairy industry spokespeople criticised the “milk” labelling of non-dairy products such as almond or rice milks. Federated Farmers, a rural advocacy group, ... <a title="Almonds don’t lactate, but that’s no reason to start calling almond milk juice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/almonds-dont-lactate-but-thats-no-reason-to-start-calling-almond-milk-juice-121306/" aria-label="Read more about Almonds don’t lactate, but that’s no reason to start calling almond milk juice">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University When US President Donald Trump announced via Twitter on Friday that he was slapping tariffs on an extra US$300 billion of China’s exports, it was widely expected that China’s currency would slide against the US dollar. ... <a title="The China-Trump trade war has spread to Australia. We’re now at risk of global currency war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/the-china-trump-trade-war-has-spread-to-australia-were-now-at-risk-of-global-currency-war-121486/" aria-label="Read more about The China-Trump trade war has spread to Australia. We’re now at risk of global currency war">Read more</a>
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August 7, 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 by Dr Bryce Edwards. Abortion Jo Moir (RNZ): Abortion reform: Little says no deal as Peters springs referendum call Stuff: No referendum on abortion law – Andrew Little Henry Cooke (Stuff): Winston Peters pulls ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-07-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 07 2019">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kamran Khalid, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Tensions are on the rise in Jammu and Kashmir, an Indian state situated mostly in the Himalayas. For decades, it has had constitutional autonomy from India. The region is an area of major territorial conflict between India and Pakistan. Parts ... <a title="India revokes Kashmir’s autonomy, risking yet another war with Pakistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/india-revokes-kashmirs-autonomy-risking-yet-another-war-with-pakistan-121485/" aria-label="Read more about India revokes Kashmir’s autonomy, risking yet another war with Pakistan">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaquelyne Hughes, Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au. Why is urine yellow? – Ronan, aged 9, Greenslopes, Brisbane. Thank you for your question, Ronan. Our bodies use nutrients from the food ... <a title="Curious Kids: why is urine yellow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/curious-kids-why-is-urine-yellow-117747/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why is urine yellow?">Read more</a>
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August 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Macmillan, Senior Lecturer in environmental sustainability and public health and co-convenor of OraTaiao: NZ Climate & Health Council, University of Otago Climate change explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If ... <a title="Climate Q&A: will we be less healthy because of climate change?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/08/07/climate-qanda-will-we-be-less-healthy-because-of-climate-change-115800/" aria-label="Read more about Climate Q&A: will we be less healthy because of climate change?">Read more</a>
