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March 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Grimmer, Lecturer in Retail Marketing, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania Venture to the local shops and you’ll probably see dogs outside on the footpath waiting for their owners. Perhaps the store has provided a hook for dog leads and a bowl of ... <a title="Australians love their pets, so why don’t more public places welcome them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/11/australians-love-their-pets-so-why-dont-more-public-places-welcome-them-112062/" aria-label="Read more about Australians love their pets, so why don’t more public places welcome them?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Murray, Lecturer in Economics, The University of Queensland When you want to take back a multibillion-dollar giveaway to the country’s wealthiest, expect them to put up a fight. The Labor Party’s proposal to reduce the tax advantages of being a landlord by limiting negative gearing to ... <a title="The Game of Homes: how the vested interests lie about negative gearing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/11/the-game-of-homes-how-the-vested-interests-lie-about-negative-gearing-112222/" aria-label="Read more about The Game of Homes: how the vested interests lie about negative gearing">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Gibson, Art writer and Tutor, UNSW In 2014 I rang artist Janet Laurence and suggested I write a book about her art. Not all of it, just the plant-related artworks. This was to be a philosophical musing on our mutual fascination with the crossover between art ... <a title="Janet Laurence: After Nature sounds an exquisite warning bell for extinction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/11/janet-laurence-after-nature-sounds-an-exquisite-warning-bell-for-extinction-112942/" aria-label="Read more about Janet Laurence: After Nature sounds an exquisite warning bell for extinction">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra [embedded content] University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics. They discuss the departures of two more cabinet ministers – Steve Ciobo and Chris Pyne; the latest national accounts figures; Bill Shorten’s focus ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on more cabinet departures, national accounts figures and Morrison’s Christmas island visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/video-michelle-grattan-on-more-cabinet-departures-national-accounts-figures-and-morrisons-christmas-island-visit-113194/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on more cabinet departures, national accounts figures and Morrison’s Christmas island visit">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Glencross, Research Fellow, Southern Cross University Sign up to Beating Around the Bush, a series that profiles native plants: part gardening column, part dispatches from country, entirely Australian. When I first came across the kauri pine (Agathis robusta), I certainly wasn’t impressed by their growth. Mixed ... <a title="Kauri pines are late-blooming rainforest giants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/kauri-pines-are-late-blooming-rainforest-giants-112866/" aria-label="Read more about Kauri pines are late-blooming rainforest giants">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brenda Midson, Editor, New Zealand Law Journal; Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Waikato This week, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Crimes Amendment Bill, abolishing the “year and a day” rule. This rule meant that no one could be liable for killing another person unless that ... <a title="New Zealand’s repeal of “year and a day” rule expands liability for homicide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/new-zealands-repeal-of-year-and-a-day-rule-expands-liability-for-homicide-113042/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s repeal of “year and a day” rule expands liability for homicide">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pani Farvid, Senior Lecturer, Psychology, University of Auckland In the wake of the #MeToo movement, addressing gender inequality in New Zealand remains a challenge. As the first country to grant women the vote, we have a long way to go to until there’s genuine equality across all ... <a title="Beyond the binary: how teaching children about gender could help reduce sexism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/beyond-the-binary-how-teaching-children-about-gender-could-help-reduce-sexism-113140/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond the binary: how teaching children about gender could help reduce sexism">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Williamson, Senior Lecturer, Human Resource Management, UNSW Canberra, UNSW We are in the midst of an outpouring of feminist activism kicked off by the pink pussy hat movement in the United States and propelled by #MeToo, which has spread to Australia where a range of luminaries ... <a title="Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/backlash-and-gender-fatigue-why-progress-on-gender-equality-has-slowed-112706/" aria-label="Read more about Backlash and gender fatigue. Why progress on gender equality has slowed">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Griffith Law School, Griffith 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 ... <a title="Next government must find Australia’s place in a turbulent and rapidly changing world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/next-government-must-find-australias-place-in-a-turbulent-and-rapidly-changing-world-110794/" aria-label="Read more about Next government must find Australia’s place in a turbulent and rapidly changing world">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Peterson, Associate Professor, Flinders University Review: A Man of Good Hope, Adelaide Festival In a world where so many are escaping brutality, war, persecution, and loss of land, is it possible to tell the story of just one displaced person, and in so doing, tell the ... <a title="A Man of Good Hope is no tale of triumph over adversity, but it is the story of many" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/a-man-of-good-hope-is-no-tale-of-triumph-over-adversity-but-it-is-the-story-of-many-113105/" aria-label="Read more about A Man of Good Hope is no tale of triumph over adversity, but it is the story of many">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Vogl, Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney This week the Greens announced their refugee policy. It includes allowing private citizens to sponsor refugees as part of its plan to increase Australia’s humanitarian intake by 10,000. In December, Labor also announced plans to increase the existing community sponsored ... <a title="Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/community-members-should-be-able-to-sponsor-refugees-for-the-right-reasons-not-to-save-the-government-money-112230/" aria-label="Read more about Community members should be able to sponsor refugees for the right reasons, not to save the government money">Read more</a>
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March 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Duygu Yengin, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Adelaide International Women’s Day is a good time ask two critical questions about economics: do we have enough women in it, and does it matter? Women are less likley to take it up than they used to be. Twenty ... <a title="Why women in economics have little to celebrate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/03/08/why-women-in-economics-have-little-to-celebrate-112859/" aria-label="Read more about Why women in economics have little to celebrate">Read more</a>
