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November 8, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The messages for next time from Labor’s 2019 election post-mortem are clear. Have a better strategy. Have a stronger narrative, fewer policies, greater emphasis on economic growth. Have a better leader. Obvious. Incontestable. Just, as a package, devilishly hard to ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor’s post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/08/grattan-on-friday-labors-post-mortem-leaves-the-hard-work-still-to-be-done-126596/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor’s post-mortem leaves the hard work still to be done">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute In the past, when you needed chemotherapy or intravenous (in-the-vein) treatments such as antibiotics or hydration, you needed to be admitted to hospital. These days, it’s possible to have such treatments in the comfort of your home, with nursing or ... <a title="Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/private-health-insurers-should-start-paying-for-hospital-type-care-at-home-126345/" aria-label="Read more about Private health insurers should start paying for hospital-type care at home">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University A directive ordering Queensland Health staff to avoid upgrades to the state’s hospital electronic medical record system during parliamentary sitting weeks was recently reversed. After the email containing the directive was leaked, the state’s health minister Steven Miles revoked ... <a title="Queensland Health’s history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/queensland-healths-history-of-software-mishaps-is-proof-of-how-hard-e-health-can-be-126272/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland Health’s history of software mishaps is proof of how hard e-health can be">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lin Crase, Professor of Economics and Head of School, University of South Australia There are two basic components to the Morrison government’s latest A$1 billion package response to the drought affecting large parts eastern Australia. One part involves extra subsidies to farmers and farm-related business. The other ... <a title="Australia’s drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/australias-drought-relief-package-hits-the-political-spot-but-misses-the-bigger-point-126583/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s drought relief package hits the political spot but misses the bigger point">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bonny Cassidy, Lecturer in Creative Writing, RMIT University Why do we tell stories, and how are they crafted? In this series, we unpick the work of the writer on both page and screen. From Patrick White’s Voss to Tim Winton’s Breath, white, male Australian novelists have reproduced ... <a title="Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/woke-to-the-past-shaun-prescotts-the-town-moves-beyond-colonialism-and-then-its-protagonist-112867/" aria-label="Read more about Woke to the past, Shaun Prescott’s The Town moves beyond colonialism and then its protagonist">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The long-awaited ALP campaign review says Labor lost “because of a weak strategy that could not adapt to the change in Liberal leadership, a cluttered policy agenda that looked risky and an unpopular leader”. “No one of these shortcomings was ... <a title="Labor’s election post-mortem warns against ‘becoming a grievance-based organisation’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/labors-election-post-mortem-warns-against-becoming-a-grievance-based-organisation-126592/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s election post-mortem warns against ‘becoming a grievance-based organisation’">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aurora Elmes, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology Margaret was depressed, jobless, broke and behind on her rent when the single mother of two heard about Vanguard Laundry Services, in Toowoomba, Queensland. “I was desperate for work, any work,” she recalls. She started working at the laundry ... <a title="This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/this-laundry-is-changing-the-vicious-cycle-of-unemployment-and-mental-illness-117965/" aria-label="Read more about This laundry is changing the vicious cycle of unemployment and mental illness">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Coghlan, Research fellow, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne Set in a dystopian 2019, the sci-fi classic Blade Runner explores how artificial humans could impact our humanity. Harrison Ford’s character experiences powerful emotional and moral effects as he goes about hunting “replicants”. Now, ... <a title="Abusing a robot won’t hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/abusing-a-robot-wont-hurt-it-but-it-could-make-you-a-crueller-person-126187/" aria-label="Read more about Abusing a robot won’t hurt it, but it could make you a crueller person">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor in International History, Flinders University Thirty years after protesters pulled down the Berlin Wall, the city has knitted itself back together. It has emerged not only as the new capital of reunified Germany (during the split, West Germany’s capital was Bonn), but also ... <a title="Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/thirty-years-after-the-berlin-wall-came-down-germany-is-still-working-to-meet-east-with-west-126185/" aria-label="Read more about Thirty years after the Berlin Wall came down, Germany is still working to meet east with west">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Flood, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology Men who adhere to rigid, sexist stereotypes of how to be a man are more likely to use and tolerate violence against women. On the other hand, men with more flexible, gender-equitable ideas about manhood are more likely to ... <a title="Forceful and dominant: men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/forceful-and-dominant-men-with-sexist-ideas-of-masculinity-are-more-likely-to-abuse-women-125873/" aria-label="Read more about Forceful and dominant: men with sexist ideas of masculinity are more likely to abuse women">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brad Ridout, Research Fellow; Registered Psychologist; Deputy Chair, Cyberpsychology Research Group, University of Sydney In the past decade, smartphones have gone from being a status item to an indispensable part of our everyday lives. And we spend a lot of time on them, around four hours a ... <a title="How to deal with smartphone stress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/how-to-deal-with-smartphone-stress-116426/" aria-label="Read more about How to deal with smartphone stress">Read more</a>
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November 7, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Hibbert, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according to new research that offers a glimpse of what may happen under our current climate change trajectory. Our paper, published today in ... <a title="Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/11/07/scientists-looked-at-sea-levels-125-000-years-in-the-past-the-results-are-terrifying-126017/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists looked at sea levels 125,000 years in the past. The results are terrifying">Read more</a>
