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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-alleged-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zachariah Wylde, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing. In recent decades, we’ve come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world’s leading age-related diseases, ... <a title="Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/can-ageing-really-be-treated-or-cured-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains-143255/" aria-label="Read more about Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Associate Professor, Accident Research Centre, Monash University COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria have had a marked effect on how and where we spend our time. For many people, home has become the workplace, and for most school-aged children, home is also the classroom. We compared Victorian ... <a title="Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/victorian-emergency-departments-during-covid-19-overall-presentations-down-but-assault-diy-injuries-up-144071/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney To fix inequality in Australian education, governments should fully fund all non-government primary schools, according to former former NSW Education Minister and now head of the UNSW Gonski Institute, Adrian Piccoli. In an opinion piece published in the ... <a title="Australian primary private schools should be fully funded by governments — but banned from charging fees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/australian-primary-private-schools-should-be-fully-funded-by-governments-but-banned-from-charging-fees-131753/" aria-label="Read more about Australian primary private schools should be fully funded by governments — but banned from charging fees">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University Over the weekend, Victorian Education Minister, James Merlino, announced the individual impact of COVID-19 will be taken into account for every Year 12 student in the state when calculating their VCE score and ATAR. Under usual circumstances, individual students ... <a title="Every Victorian Year 12 student will have COVID-19 factored into their grade — we should do it for all Australian students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/every-victorian-year-12-student-will-have-covid-19-factored-into-their-grade-we-should-do-it-for-all-australian-students-144192/" aria-label="Read more about Every Victorian Year 12 student will have COVID-19 factored into their grade — we should do it for all Australian students">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne The arrest this week of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong reveals the repressive reality of the city’s new made-in-China national security law. It also sends a sharp signal to the remaining independent media in ... <a title="‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/killing-the-chicken-to-scare-the-monkey-what-jimmy-lais-arrest-means-for-hong-kongs-independent-media-144206/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caroline Gargett, NHMRC Leadership Fellow and Head of Women’s Health Theme, The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Hudson Institute Endometriosis is a debilitating, chronic condition that affects 1 in 10 women worldwide. It occurs when tissue which has similar properties to the womb lining, ends ... <a title="1 in 10 women are affected by endometriosis. So why does it take so long to diagnose?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/1-in-10-women-are-affected-by-endometriosis-so-why-does-it-take-so-long-to-diagnose-141803/" aria-label="Read more about 1 in 10 women are affected by endometriosis. So why does it take so long to diagnose?">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meagan Tyler, Senior lecturer, RMIT University The COVID-19 crisis has thrown up an array of new habits and coping mechanisms. But the fetishisation, and even sexualisation, of prominent health officials is one of our more unexpected pandemic pastimes. Is this trend equality in action, or an extension ... <a title="Calling Brett Sutton a ‘CHOttie’ is not objectification – but it’s not feminism either" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/calling-brett-sutton-a-chottie-is-not-objectification-but-its-not-feminism-either-144134/" aria-label="Read more about Calling Brett Sutton a ‘CHOttie’ is not objectification – but it’s not feminism either">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Bradfield, Research Fellow in Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Technology Sydney As COVID-19 lockdowns were introduced, we all suddenly had to find new ways of doing things. Schooling shifted online, meetings moved to Zoom, workplaces brought in new measures and even social events have changed to minimise ... <a title="Slow to adjust to the pandemic’s ‘new normal’? Don’t worry, your brain’s just learning new skills" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/slow-to-adjust-to-the-pandemics-new-normal-dont-worry-your-brains-just-learning-new-skills-144198/" aria-label="Read more about Slow to adjust to the pandemic’s ‘new normal’? Don’t worry, your brain’s just learning new skills">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Media coverage of disasters follows a broadly similar trajectory, even though the disasters themselves might take very different forms. The COVID-19 crisis in Victoria is no exception. Although it is unfolding over a long time ... <a title="Tensions rise on coronavirus handling as the media take control of the accountability narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/tensions-rise-on-coronavirus-handling-as-the-media-take-control-of-the-accountability-narrative-144195/" aria-label="Read more about Tensions rise on coronavirus handling as the media take control of the accountability narrative">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Taylor, Lecturer, University of Sydney New South Wales planning authorities relied on flawed evidence when backing a highly controversial coal seam gas project that may endanger critical water supplies, farmland and threatened species, our analysis has found. Early next month, the Independent Planning Commission NSW (IPC) ... <a title="A contentious NSW gas project is weeks away from approval. Here are 3 reasons it should be rejected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/a-contentious-nsw-gas-project-is-weeks-away-from-approval-here-are-3-reasons-it-should-be-rejected-144201/" aria-label="Read more about A contentious NSW gas project is weeks away from approval. Here are 3 reasons it should be rejected">Read more</a>
