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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alastair Blanshard, Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History Deputy Head of School, The University of Queensland Comedy often succeeds where tragedy fails. Fangirls, the pop musical which premiered on Thursday night in Brisbane, is not the first drama to explore our fascination with the wild, ... <a title="New musical has enough warmth, witty lines and catchy tunes to win its own fangirls" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/new-musical-has-enough-warmth-witty-lines-and-catchy-tunes-to-win-its-own-fangirls-123355/" aria-label="Read more about New musical has enough warmth, witty lines and catchy tunes to win its own fangirls">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Dwyer, Deputy Head, School of Medicine, Deakin University Autosomal-dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common genetic kidney disorder, and the fourth most common cause of kidney failure in Australian adults. It affects about one in 1,000 Australians. In people with ADPKD, a mutation in ... <a title="Polycystic kidney disease, the most common genetic kidney disorder you’ve probably never heard of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/polycystic-kidney-disease-the-most-common-genetic-kidney-disorder-youve-probably-never-heard-of-121441/" aria-label="Read more about Polycystic kidney disease, the most common genetic kidney disorder you’ve probably never heard of">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benedict Sheehy, Associate professor, University of Canberra British health-care conglomerate Bupa runs more nursing homes in Australia than anyone else. We now know its record in meeting basic standards of care is also worse than any other provider. This is more than a now familiar story of ... <a title="Bupa’s nursing home scandal is more evidence of a deep crisis in regulation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/bupas-nursing-home-scandal-is-more-evidence-of-a-deep-crisis-in-regulation-123442/" aria-label="Read more about Bupa’s nursing home scandal is more evidence of a deep crisis in regulation">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Breakey, Senior Research Fellow, Moral philosophy, Institute for Ethics, Governance & Law, Law Futures Centre, Griffith University Argument is everywhere. From the kitchen table to the boardroom to the highest echelons of power, we all use argument to persuade, investigate new ideas, and make collective decisions. ... <a title="Actually, it’s okay to disagree. Here are 5 ways we can argue better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/actually-its-okay-to-disagree-here-are-5-ways-we-can-argue-better-121178/" aria-label="Read more about Actually, it’s okay to disagree. Here are 5 ways we can argue better">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tomer Ventura, Senior Lecturer, School of Science and Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast The creation of all-male or all-female groups of animals, known as monosex populations, has become a potentially useful approach in aquaculture and livestock rearing. Researchers and those in the produce industries are interested ... <a title="Breeding single-sex animal populations could help prevent disease and poverty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/breeding-single-sex-animal-populations-could-help-prevent-disease-and-poverty-123270/" aria-label="Read more about Breeding single-sex animal populations could help prevent disease and poverty">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Holmes, Director, Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University Predictably, both major political parties are resisting calls this week for a parliamentary conscience vote to declare a climate emergency in Australia. The resistance is unsurprising because both the Coalition and Labor are still captive to the ... <a title="Why declaring a national climate emergency would neither be realistic or effective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/why-declaring-a-national-climate-emergency-would-neither-be-realistic-or-effective-123371/" aria-label="Read more about Why declaring a national climate emergency would neither be realistic or effective">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Shi, Lecturer, Graduate School of Business and Law, RMIT University If the Religious Discrimination Bill passes into law, women may find it harder to get an abortion. That’s because health practitioners with an objection to performing the procedure on religious grounds may have stronger legal protection ... <a title="Women may find it tougher to get an abortion if the religious discrimination bill becomes law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/women-may-find-it-tougher-to-get-an-abortion-if-the-religious-discrimination-bill-becomes-law-123089/" aria-label="Read more about Women may find it tougher to get an abortion if the religious discrimination bill becomes law">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Looking at the state of policy on energy and climate change in Australia, it’s tempting to give in to despair. At the national level, following the abandonment of the National Energy Guarantee last year, we have no ... <a title="Nuclear power should be allowed in Australia – but only with a carbon price" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/nuclear-power-should-be-allowed-in-australia-but-only-with-a-carbon-price-123170/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear power should be allowed in Australia – but only with a carbon price">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jihyun Lee, Associate Professor of Educational Assessment and Measurement at the School of Education, UNSW Australia’s education system takes almost one in ten of all international students from countries that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). That’s according to thes latest Education ... <a title="Australia should try to keep more international students who are trained in our universities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/australia-should-try-to-keep-more-international-students-who-are-trained-in-our-universities-123350/" aria-label="Read more about Australia should try to keep more international students who are trained in our universities">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fleur Palmer, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology Public submissions opened this week for a major overhaul of the waterfront and centre of New Zealand’s biggest city, Auckland (Tāmaki Makaurau). The Auckland Council’s upgrade plans highlight the importance of local Māori communities as a key part of ... <a title="If Auckland’s plan to include Māori histories in city centre upgrade is genuine, it must act on inequalities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/if-aucklands-plan-to-include-maori-histories-in-city-centre-upgrade-is-genuine-it-must-act-on-inequalities-120407/" aria-label="Read more about If Auckland’s plan to include Māori histories in city centre upgrade is genuine, it must act on inequalities">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW If you’ve seen the movie The Big Short you will remember Christian Bale’s quirky character Michael Burry – the manager of the Scion Capital hedge fund who realises the US mortgage-backed security market is a massive bubble. He goes on to ... <a title="Vital Signs: All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/vital-signs-all-this-overinflated-talk-about-an-index-fund-bubble-is-very-passive-aggressive-123441/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: All this overinflated talk about an index-fund bubble is very passive-aggressive">Read more</a>
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September 13, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius Sepehri, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, Religion and History of Philosophy, University of Sydney Weaving through the rooms of my Brisbane childhood home, carried on the languid, humid, sub-tropical air, was the sound of an Iranian tenor singing 800-year old Persian poems of love. I was in ... <a title="Friday essay: why traditional Persian music should be known to the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/09/13/friday-essay-why-traditional-persian-music-should-be-known-to-the-world-121240/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: why traditional Persian music should be known to the world">Read more</a>
