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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney Who decides who is to be prime minister? When Malcom Turnbull was challenged by Peter Dutton in August 2018 for the leadership of the Liberal Party, and ultimately the prime ministership, Turnbull apparently asserted that the governor-general would ... <a title="If Dutton had defeated Turnbull, could the governor-general have stopped him becoming prime minister?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/if-dutton-had-defeated-turnbull-could-the-governor-general-have-stopped-him-becoming-prime-minister-119524/" aria-label="Read more about If Dutton had defeated Turnbull, could the governor-general have stopped him becoming prime minister?">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bates Gill, Professor of Asia-Pacific Security Studies, Macquarie University As China solidifies its new status as superpower, we’re launching a series looking at what this means for the world – how China maintains its power, how it wields its power and how its power might be threatened. ... <a title="Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but there are new threats to his ‘Chinese dream’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/xi-jinpings-grip-on-power-is-absolute-but-there-are-new-threats-to-his-chinese-dream-118921/" aria-label="Read more about Xi Jinping’s grip on power is absolute, but there are new threats to his ‘Chinese dream’">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Libby Sander, Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bond Business School, Bond University Australia is in the bottom third of OECD countries when it comes to working long hours, with 13% of us clocking up 50 hours or more a week in paid work. These long hours are ... <a title="Go home on time! Working long hours increases your chance of having a stroke" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/go-home-on-time-working-long-hours-increases-your-chance-of-having-a-stroke-119388/" aria-label="Read more about Go home on time! Working long hours increases your chance of having a stroke">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Bears, wolves, lions and other top predators have a long history of conflict with people – they can threaten our safety and kill livestock. In our ... <a title="Academia can help humans and large carnivores coexist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/academia-can-help-humans-and-large-carnivores-coexist-115467/" aria-label="Read more about Academia can help humans and large carnivores coexist">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Levinson, Professor of Transport, University of Sydney Accessibility – the ease of reaching valued opportunities such as jobs, workers and shops – is the whole reason cities exist. There is no reason to locate anywhere but to be near things, far from things, or to possess ... <a title="Access across Australia: mapping 30-minute cities, how do our capitals compare?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/access-across-australia-mapping-30-minute-cities-how-do-our-capitals-compare-117498/" aria-label="Read more about Access across Australia: mapping 30-minute cities, how do our capitals compare?">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics confirms household wealth has fallen, on the back of falling house prices, in the past year. But it’s not all bad news. There are signs of hope in the portents ... <a title="Australian household wealth has taken its biggest dive since the GFC, but things are looking up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/australian-household-wealth-has-taken-its-biggest-dive-since-the-gfc-but-things-are-looking-up-119001/" aria-label="Read more about Australian household wealth has taken its biggest dive since the GFC, but things are looking up">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Ahead of this weekend’s G20 meeting in Osaka, Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison gave a speech that was pretty accurate in framing the problem facing his nation as trade tensions between the United States and China rise. Read more: Trade war ... <a title="Vital Signs: having a bob each way on US and China is Australia’s own super power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/vital-signs-having-a-bob-each-way-on-us-and-china-is-australias-own-super-power-119510/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: having a bob each way on US and China is Australia’s own super power">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University In the 19th century, a range of thinkers attempted to pinpoint exactly what it was that made a woman beautiful. Newly popular women’s magazines began to promote ideas about the right behaviours, attitudes, and daily routines required to ... <a title="Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today’s attitudes to women’s beauty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/friday-essay-how-19th-century-ideas-influenced-todays-attitudes-to-womens-beauty-111529/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how 19th century ideas influenced today’s attitudes to women’s beauty">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison is riding high after his “miracle” win, but that will be just a memory come the next election due in early 2022. It’s what he does from now on that will determine whether the Coalition can secure a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Folau affair shows Morrison heading into religious freedom morass" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/28/grattan-on-friday-folau-affair-shows-morrison-heading-into-religious-freedom-morass-119468/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Folau affair shows Morrison heading into religious freedom morass">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Malcolm Turnbull has accused Attorney-General Christian Porter of providing advice to him that was constitutional “nonsense”, as the divisive events around the former prime minister’s removal are revisited. Turnbull launched his acerbic Twitter attack following reports that the day before ... <a title="Turnbull slams Porter for “nonsense” advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/27/turnbull-slams-porter-for-nonsense-advice-119549/" aria-label="Read more about Turnbull slams Porter for “nonsense” advice">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ernest Foo, Associate Professor, Griffith University Cryptocurrencies have become a global phenomenon in the past few years. Now Facebook is launching it’s own cryptocurrency, in association with Visa, MasterCard, Uber and others. The stated aim of Libra is to “enable a simple global currency and financial infrastructure ... <a title="The lowdown on Libra: what consumers need to know about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/27/the-lowdown-on-libra-what-consumers-need-to-know-about-facebooks-new-cryptocurrency-119391/" aria-label="Read more about The lowdown on Libra: what consumers need to know about Facebook’s new cryptocurrency">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Selgelid, Director, Centre for Human Bioethics; Director, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Bioethics, Monash University Medical experiments involving intentionally infecting people with bacteria, viruses, and parasites are surprisingly common. And they are becoming more common worldwide, particularly in developing countries. The ultimate aim of these ... <a title="Infecting healthy people in vaccine research can be ethical and necessary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/06/27/infecting-healthy-people-in-vaccine-research-can-be-ethical-and-necessary-116263/" aria-label="Read more about Infecting healthy people in vaccine research can be ethical and necessary">Read more</a>
