CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University The much-awaited NSW coroner’s report into music festival deaths was released today. In the report, Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame recommends pill testing, a ban on sniffer dogs and a reduction in the number of ... <a title="When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/when-the-coroner-looked-at-how-to-cut-drug-deaths-at-music-festivals-the-evidence-won-but-what-happens-next-126669/" aria-label="Read more about When the coroner looked at how to cut drug deaths at music festivals, the evidence won. But what happens next?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Moscova, Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, UNSW New research reported in the media says the clitoris plays an important role in fertility and reproduction, making it more than an organ that exists purely for sexual pleasure. But some media headlines were misleading, including: The truth about the ... <a title="Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/oh-oh-oh-the-clitoris-certainly-gives-pleasure-but-does-it-also-help-women-conceive-126593/" aria-label="Read more about Oh, oh, oh! The clitoris certainly gives pleasure. But does it also help women conceive?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel Howard, Doctoral Candidate, University of South Australia This week, the royal commission into disability heard horrifying stories of children’s experiences in the education system. It is no wonder children with disabilities are over-represented among the tens of thousands of Australians who leave school before finishing year ... <a title="Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for ‘difficult’ students?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/are-flexible-learning-options-giving-schools-a-convenient-way-out-of-taking-responsibility-for-difficult-students-125876/" aria-label="Read more about Are flexible learning options giving schools a convenient way out of taking responsibility for ‘difficult’ students?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In its quarterly statement on monetary policy, released today, the Reserve Bank of Australia declared its preparedness to “ease monetary policy further if needed”. This suggests the bank still thinks monetary policy – in this case lowering interest rates to stimulate ... <a title="Vital Signs: does monetary policy work any more?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/vital-signs-does-monetary-policy-work-any-more-126579/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: does monetary policy work any more?">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Lord, Zero Carbon Researcher, University of Melbourne Australia could create tens of thousands of new jobs and generate many billions of dollars in export revenues if it turned more to manufacturing metals rather than exporting ore to other countries. That’s a finding of our report, From ... <a title="Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/want-more-jobs-in-australia-cut-our-ore-exports-and-make-more-metals-at-home-124592/" aria-label="Read more about Want more jobs in Australia? Cut our ore exports and make more metals at home">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Sydney Cinema has always been a medium in crisis. After the so-called golden age of Hollywood came television: why go to the movies when you can sit in the comfort of your home, watching recycled movies in letterbox ... <a title="Pass the popcorn – Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/pass-the-popcorn-scorsese-cinema-boycott-will-shape-the-future-of-movies-126598/" aria-label="Read more about Pass the popcorn – Scorsese cinema boycott will shape the future of movies">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato This week, Māori in the Taranaki region remembered the “day of plunder” – the 1881 government invasion of Parihaka, the small settlement that had come to symbolise peaceful resistance to the confiscation of Māori land. It was one of ... <a title="How NZ’s colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/how-nzs-colonial-government-misused-laws-to-crush-non-violent-dissent-at-parihaka-126495/" aria-label="Read more about How NZ’s colonial government misused laws to crush non-violent dissent at Parihaka">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The media have been itching for a report that blamed Labor’s defeat on a dud leader. But the Review of Labor’s 2019 Federal Election Campaign, chaired by former Rudd and Gillard government ... <a title="Nuance and nostalgia: Labor’s election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/nuance-and-nostalgia-labors-election-review-provides-useful-insights-and-inevitable-harking-back-to-hawke-126584/" aria-label="Read more about Nuance and nostalgia: Labor’s election review provides useful insights and inevitable harking back to Hawke">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Rathus, Senior Lecturer in Law, Griffith University One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s unfounded claim women that lie about domestic abuse to deny fathers access to their children is what’s driving the latest parliamentary inquiry into the family law system. But this isn’t a new idea. Hanson’s ... <a title="‘Parental alienation’: the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/parental-alienation-the-debunked-theory-that-women-lie-about-violence-is-still-used-in-court-125823/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Parental alienation’: the debunked theory that women lie about violence is still used in court">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lin Fritschi, Professor of Epidemiology, Curtin University The National Dust Disease Taskforce is preparing to read submissions next week on how best to handle the resurgence of the fatal lung disease silicosis. This can develop after breathing in silica dust when cutting artificial stone — also known ... <a title="Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here’s why a ban’s the only answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/engineered-stone-benchtops-are-killing-our-tradies-heres-why-a-bans-the-only-answer-126489/" aria-label="Read more about Engineered stone benchtops are killing our tradies. Here’s why a ban’s the only answer">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Altman, Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University Land titling in Australia has undergone a revolutionary shift over the past four decades. The return of diverse forms of title to Indigenous Australians has produced some semblance of land justice. About half ... <a title="Remote Indigenous Australia’s ecological economies give us something to build on" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/remote-indigenous-australias-ecological-economies-give-us-something-to-build-on-123917/" aria-label="Read more about Remote Indigenous Australia’s ecological economies give us something to build on">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Monteath, Flinders University Even the sound of a bayonet could be frightening. The audible whetting of blades in the enemy’s trenches could puncture a night’s rest with premonitions of steely death. The sight of gleaming blades, too, turned the stomach of many a soldier. For all ... <a title="Friday essay: a short, sharp history of the bayonet" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/friday-essay-a-short-sharp-history-of-the-bayonet-126010/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: a short, sharp history of the bayonet">Read more</a>
