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December 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW The latest Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) results are bad news for Australian students, parents, employers and policymakers. Pretty much everyone. Australian 15-year-olds are now below the OECD average in mathematics, and our results in reading and science have fallen ... <a title="Vital Signs: Australia’s slipping student scores will lead to greater income inequality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/vital-signs-australias-slipping-student-scores-will-lead-to-greater-income-inequality-128301/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Australia’s slipping student scores will lead to greater income inequality">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Clode, Senior Research Fellow in Creative Writing, Flinders University It is only mid-November but we have to walk early to avoid the heat. A northerly wind picks up clouds of dust and pollen, sending dirty billows across the paddocks. The long limbs of the gum trees ... <a title="Friday essay: living with fire and facing our fears" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/friday-essay-living-with-fire-and-facing-our-fears-128093/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: living with fire and facing our fears">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison said it with a straight face, and repetition for emphasis. “I’m very pleased, very pleased, with the performance of all of my ministers,” he declared on Thursday. This ringing if unconvincing universal endorsement came as the unfortunate Angus ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Angus Taylor’s troubles go international, in brawl with Naomi Wolf" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/06/grattan-on-friday-angus-taylors-troubles-go-international-in-brawl-with-naomi-wolf-128402/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Angus Taylor’s troubles go international, in brawl with Naomi Wolf">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Tomnay, Assoc. Professor / Director of Centre for Excellence in Rural Sexual Health, University of Melbourne Around one in six Australian women have had an abortion by their mid-30s. These women come from all age groups and demographics: some are mothers already, while others are child-free; ... <a title="Early medical abortion is legal across Australia but rural women often don’t have access to it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/early-medical-abortion-is-legal-across-australia-but-rural-women-often-dont-have-access-to-it-125300/" aria-label="Read more about Early medical abortion is legal across Australia but rural women often don’t have access to it">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roslyn Petelin, Course coordinator, The University of Queensland Reports this week about the demise of the Apostrophe Protection Society may have been greatly exaggerated. The Apostrophe Protection Society was set up in 2001 in the UK by retired journalist John Richards with the aim of “preserving the ... <a title="All hail apostrophes – the heavy lifters who ‘point a sentence in the right direction’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/all-hail-apostrophes-the-heavy-lifters-who-point-a-sentence-in-the-right-direction-128218/" aria-label="Read more about All hail apostrophes – the heavy lifters who ‘point a sentence in the right direction’">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Pearse, Lecturer, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney Federal Labor this week commemorated a dubious anniversary – a decade of climate policy failure. And it pointed the finger of blame squarely at the Greens. Labor claimed that had the Greens not voted against its Carbon ... <a title="It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/its-the-10-year-anniversary-of-our-climate-policy-abyss-but-dont-blame-the-greens-128239/" aria-label="Read more about It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has announced a dramatic overhaul of the federal public service, cutting the number of departments and creating several new mega ones, while removing five secretaries. The departments will be reduced from 18 to 14. But Morrison said there ... <a title="Morrison cuts a swathe through the public service, with five departmental heads gone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/morrison-cuts-a-swathe-through-the-public-service-with-five-departmental-heads-gone-128306/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison cuts a swathe through the public service, with five departmental heads gone">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Szymek Drobniak, DECRA Fellow, UNSW Ageing is an inevitability for all living organisms, and although we still don’t know exactly why our bodies gradually grow ever more decrepit, we are starting to grasp how it happens. Our new research, published in Ecology Letters, pinpoints factors that influence ... <a title="Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/tick-tock-how-stress-speeds-up-your-chromosomes-ageing-clock-127728/" aria-label="Read more about Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Khan, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University The Department of Home Affairs has begun taking steps to outsource its visa processing to private service providers. This move has sparked an important national debate on transparency, accountability and profiteering in the immigration system. The proposed changes will involve ... <a title="The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/the-government-wants-to-privatise-visa-processing-who-will-be-held-accountable-when-something-goes-wrong-127618/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong?">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University In October 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand. The world looked longingly at a young and inspiring female leader who had unexpectedly catapulted the Labour Party into office. Ardern ... <a title="Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/left-leaning-australians-may-look-to-new-zealand-with-envy-but-ardern-still-has-much-work-to-do-128227/" aria-label="Read more about Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara James, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. Dystopian narratives abound. Black Mirror projects the negative consequences of social media, while artificial intelligence turns rogue in The 100 ... <a title="To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/to-stop-a-tech-apocalypse-we-need-ethics-and-the-arts-128235/" aria-label="Read more about To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Kathleen Liddicoat, Lecturer, Architectural Design, Swinburne University of Technology Welcome to the next article in our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. Today, we look at how good design affects mental health and well-being, particularly in ... <a title="Aquariums, meerkats and gaming screens: how hospital design supports children, young people and their families" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/aquariums-meerkats-and-gaming-screens-how-hospital-design-supports-children-young-people-and-their-families-122198/" aria-label="Read more about Aquariums, meerkats and gaming screens: how hospital design supports children, young people and their families">Read more</a>
