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January 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Veal, Adjunct Professor, Business School, University of Technology Sydney When Microsoft gave its 2,300 employees in Japan five Fridays off in a row, it found productivity jumped 40%. When financial services company Perpetual Guardian in New Zealand trialled eight Fridays off in a row, its 240 ... <a title="A life of long weekends is alluring, but the shorter working day may be more practical" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/13/a-life-of-long-weekends-is-alluring-but-the-shorter-working-day-may-be-more-practical-127817/" aria-label="Read more about A life of long weekends is alluring, but the shorter working day may be more practical">Read more</a>
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January 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus O’Donnell, Associate Professor, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Teaching and Learning, Deakin University There’s a strange absence at the heart of the National Gallery of Victoria’s summer blockbuster: Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines, and it’s not just the ghosts of these two vibrant artists who died tragically young. ... <a title="Why did the NGV put Keith Haring back in the closet?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/13/why-did-the-ngv-put-keith-haring-back-in-the-closet-129443/" aria-label="Read more about Why did the NGV put Keith Haring back in the closet?">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Graham, Senior lecturer, Queensland University of Technology In the first week of 2020, hashtag #ArsonEmergency became the focal point of a new online narrative surrounding the bushfire crisis. The message: the cause is arson, not climate change. Police and bushfire services (and some journalists) have contradicted ... <a title="Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/bushfires-bots-and-arson-claims-australia-flung-in-the-global-disinformation-spotlight-129556/" aria-label="Read more about Bushfires, bots and arson claims: Australia flung in the global disinformation spotlight">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Dell, Associate Professor/Discipline Leader Accident Investigation and Forensics, CQUniversity Australia While there is much speculation about the cause of the Ukrainian airliner that crashed after take-off from Tehran’s airport this week, killing all 176 people on board, there is presently very little factual information to go ... <a title="What investigators should be looking for in the Iran plane crash: an expert explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/what-investigators-should-be-looking-for-in-the-iran-plane-crash-an-expert-explains-129689/" aria-label="Read more about What investigators should be looking for in the Iran plane crash: an expert explains">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bhiamie Williamson, Research Associate & PhD Candidate, Australian National University How do you support people forever attached to a landscape after an inferno tears through their homelands: decimating native food sources, burning through ancient scarred trees and destroying ancestral and totemic plants and animals? The fact is, ... <a title="Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/strength-from-perpetual-grief-how-aboriginal-people-experience-the-bushfire-crisis-129448/" aria-label="Read more about Strength from perpetual grief: how Aboriginal people experience the bushfire crisis">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Juan Pablo Guerschman, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO In recent days, many worrying bushfire maps have been circulating online, some appearing to suggest all of Australia is burning. You might have seen this example, decried by some as misleading, prompting this Instagram post by its creator: As he ... <a title="6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/6-things-to-ask-yourself-before-you-share-a-bushfire-map-on-social-media-129557/" aria-label="Read more about 6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Oliver, Research Leader in Respiratory cellular and molecular biology at the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research and Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney In previous years, Australians might have been exposed to bushfire smoke for a few days, or even a week. But this ... <a title="We know bushfire smoke affects our health, but the long-term consequences are hazy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/we-know-bushfire-smoke-affects-our-health-but-the-long-term-consequences-are-hazy-129451/" aria-label="Read more about We know bushfire smoke affects our health, but the long-term consequences are hazy">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Hudson, Researcher on sociomaterial transformations, social movements, Keele University As someone who has studied Australian climate policy and politics closely, this summer’s bushfire crisis have been both heartbreaking and bewildering. The grave warnings politicians ignored for so long have now come to pass. The fires may ... <a title="Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/watching-our-politicians-fumble-through-the-bushfire-crisis-im-overwhelmed-by-deja-vu-129338/" aria-label="Read more about Watching Australia’s politicians fumble through the bushfire crisis, I’m overwhelmed by déjà vu">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Salvatore Ferraro, PhD candidate, RMIT University Calls by the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims for Australian businesses to cut the hurdle rates of return they expect on new investments should be taken with a grain of salt. A hurdle rate is the ... <a title="High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/high-hurdle-rates-are-holding-back-businesses-but-perhaps-they-should-be-129435/" aria-label="Read more about High hurdle rates are holding back businesses, but perhaps they should be">Read more</a>
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January 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yves Rees, David Myers Research Fellow, La Trobe University Today marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the League of Nations — the intergovernmental organisation, headquartered in Geneva, that emerged from the ashes of the first world war. Although the League was branded a failure due ... <a title="The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/10/the-league-of-nations-was-formed-100-years-ago-today-meet-the-australian-women-who-lobbied-to-join-it-129185/" aria-label="Read more about The League of Nations was formed 100 years ago today. Meet the Australian women who lobbied to join it">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin T. Jones, Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia Bill Shorten promised a plebiscite on Australia becoming a republic if he won the 2019 federal election. That did not happen but it is interesting to imagine what the result of such a vote would have been. On the ... <a title="Prince Harry’s decision to ‘step back’ from the monarchy is a gift to republicans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/prince-harrys-decision-to-step-back-from-the-monarchy-is-a-gift-to-republicans-129624/" aria-label="Read more about Prince Harry’s decision to ‘step back’ from the monarchy is a gift to republicans">Read more</a>
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January 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Hutchison, Associate Professor and ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland With 26 fatalities, half a billion animals impacted and 10.7 million hectares of land burnt, Australia faces a record-breaking bushfire season. Yet, amid the despondency, moving stories have emerged of phenomenal fundraising conducted through social ... <a title="As fires rage, we must use social media for long-term change, not just short-term fundraising" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/01/09/as-fires-rage-we-must-use-social-media-for-long-term-change-not-just-short-term-fundraising-129446/" aria-label="Read more about As fires rage, we must use social media for long-term change, not just short-term fundraising">Read more</a>
