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May 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University Very few people saw the Coalition’s win coming. If it was, as opposition leader Bill Shorten contended, “a referendum on wages” then it follows that Australians were content with sluggish wage growth and didn’t want a more substantial pay ... <a title="Where to now for unions and ‘change the rules’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/23/where-to-now-for-unions-and-change-the-rules-117583/" aria-label="Read more about Where to now for unions and ‘change the rules’?">Read more</a>
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May 23, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland Prime Minister Scott Morrison began his victory speech on Saturday with the words, “I have always believed in miracles”. This was no mere hyperbole. Morrison appeared to be declaring his belief that God ... <a title="Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison’s politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/23/five-aspects-of-pentecostalism-that-shed-light-on-scott-morrisons-politics-117511/" aria-label="Read more about Five aspects of Pentecostalism that shed light on Scott Morrison’s politics">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has pulled out of Labor’s leadership race, increasing the pressure for an uncontested run for Anthony Albanese, which would prevent an extended limbo period for the party. But finance spokesman Jim Chalmers, Albanese’s only potential challenger, ... <a title="Wind in Albanese’s sails as Chalmers weighs options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/wind-in-albaneses-sails-as-chalmers-weighs-options-117621/" aria-label="Read more about Wind in Albanese’s sails as Chalmers weighs options">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University After months of “start” and “stop” Adani campaigning, the coalmine is poised to go ahead following the surprise success of the Coalition government at the federal election. So is anything ... <a title="With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani’s way?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/with-the-lnp-returned-to-power-is-there-anything-left-in-adanis-way-117506/" aria-label="Read more about With the LNP returned to power, is there anything left in Adani’s way?">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul McGorrery, PhD Candidate in Criminal Law, Deakin University Sentences for most sex offences are getting harsher in Victoria, according to new data released on Wednesday by the Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council. The data are for all cases sentenced in the County Court for certain sex offences ... <a title="New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/new-data-shows-sex-offenders-in-victoria-are-going-to-prison-for-longer-116957/" aria-label="Read more about New data shows sex offenders in Victoria are going to prison for longer">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Tiernan, Professor of Politics. Dean (Engagement) Griffith Business School, Griffith University “What the hell is wrong with Queensland?” Such comments are at the polite end of social media responses from progressive voters in other parts of Australia who were disappointed by the Coalition’s “miracle” win on ... <a title="Queensland to all those #Quexiteers: don’t judge, try to understand us" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/queensland-to-all-those-quexiteers-dont-judge-try-to-understand-us-117502/" aria-label="Read more about Queensland to all those #Quexiteers: don’t judge, try to understand us">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Cummings, Lecturer in Singing, University of Wollongong Classical music has traditionally not been a welcoming environment for women composers. Opera Australia’s 2019 season, for instance, features just one work by a female composer, Elena Kats-Chernin. At a recent New Opera Workshop, held in Brisbane in April, ... <a title="In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/in-a-notoriously-sexist-art-form-australian-women-composers-are-making-their-voices-heard-108991/" aria-label="Read more about In a notoriously sexist art form, Australian women composers are making their voices heard">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Baxter, Researcher/PhD Candidate, criminology and human trafficking, Flinders University Born in rural Thailand, Watcharaporn Nantahkhum gave birth to her first child at the age of 17. Her father killed himself when she was young, to absolve the family of debt. Her mother later ran into debt, ... <a title="Sex trafficking’s tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/sex-traffickings-tragic-paradox-when-victims-become-perpetrators-115706/" aria-label="Read more about Sex trafficking’s tragic paradox: when victims become perpetrators">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keiran Hardy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University On Tuesday, the gunman in the Christchurch mosque shootings was charged with committing a terrorist act. The new charge came more than two months after the massacre. The gunman, who the author and The Conversation have chosen ... <a title="Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it’s important" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/charging-the-christchurch-mosque-attacker-with-terrorism-could-be-risky-but-its-important-117513/" aria-label="Read more about Charging the Christchurch mosque attacker with terrorism could be risky – but it’s important">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney Australia’s lowest ever Reserve Bank cash rate – 1.5% – is about to be consigned to history. On Tuesday Governor Philip Lowe made it clear that he plans to cut it in two weeks time. The money market cash ... <a title="Cutting interest rates is just the start. It’s about to become much, much easier to borrow" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/cutting-interest-rates-is-just-the-start-its-about-to-become-much-much-easier-to-borrow-117500/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting interest rates is just the start. It’s about to become much, much easier to borrow">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Carey, Senior Lecturer in Earth Sciences, University of Tasmania Predicting when a volcano will next blow is tricky business, but lessons we learned from one of Hawaii’s recent eruptions may help. Kīlauea, on the Big Island of Hawai’i, is probably the best understood volcano on Earth. ... <a title="The ‘pulse’ of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/the-pulse-of-a-volcano-can-be-used-to-help-predict-its-next-eruption-117005/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘pulse’ of a volcano can be used to help predict its next eruption">Read more</a>
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May 22, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Two big media-related issues have emerged from the federal election: how opinion polls are reported and the polarisation of the main newspaper groups. Opinion polls have been part of Australia’s political landscape for ... <a title="Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/22/outrage-polls-and-bias-2019-federal-election-showed-australian-media-need-better-regulation-117401/" aria-label="Read more about Outrage, polls and bias: 2019 federal election showed Australian media need better regulation">Read more</a>
