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February 15, 2019
Political Roundup: National’s deliberate “woke-provoking” ad by Dr Bryce Edwards Is the National Party’s latest online advert deliberately designed to provoke a backlash from liberal opponents? And is National trying to feed the fire of a growing culture war in New Zealand? It’s seems so, and the party’s desired result is being achieved. The taxpayer-funded ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s deliberate “woke-provoking” ad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-deliberate-woke-provoking-ad/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: National’s deliberate “woke-provoking” ad">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen McPhillips, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle All eyes will turn to Rome between 21-24 February, when senior church clerics across the world meet to discuss how to handle the widening sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. Until recently, this ... <a title="The Catholic Church is headed for another sex abuse scandal as #NunsToo speak up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/the-catholic-church-is-headed-for-another-sex-abuse-scandal-as-nunstoo-speak-up-111539/" aria-label="Read more about The Catholic Church is headed for another sex abuse scandal as #NunsToo speak up">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 2019 Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. The Beehive and Parliament Buildings.Today’s content China-NZ relations Laura Walters (Newsroom): Warnings to Chinese tourists spark further questions Katie Fitzgerald (Newshub): Chinese tourists backing out of trips ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-15-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 15 2019">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dempster, Director, Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research; Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW It’s 50 years since man first stepped on the Moon. Now the focus is on going back to our nearest orbiting neighbour – not to leave footprints, but to mine ... <a title="Australia: well placed to join the Moon mining race … or is it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/australia-well-placed-to-join-the-moon-mining-race-or-is-it-111746/" aria-label="Read more about Australia: well placed to join the Moon mining race … or is it?">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Green, Merck Serono Senior Lecturer in Reproductive Biology, University of Melbourne In prenatal ultrasounds or at delivery, many new parents look between their baby’s legs: the presence of a penis is taken as a strong sign that it’s a boy. For humans and other animals, development ... <a title="You need more than just testes to make a penis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/you-need-more-than-just-testes-to-make-a-penis-111625/" aria-label="Read more about You need more than just testes to make a penis">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Hayes, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, James Cook University The Uyghurs are Turkic-speaking Muslims from the Central Asian region. The largest population live in China’s autonomous Xinjiang region, in the country’s north-west. The Uyghurs are one of a number of persecuted Muslim minorities in ... <a title="Explainer: who are the Uyghurs and why is the Chinese government detaining them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/explainer-who-are-the-uyghurs-and-why-is-the-chinese-government-detaining-them-111843/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: who are the Uyghurs and why is the Chinese government detaining them?">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas T. Van Dam, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne How can we best help Australians who are at risk of developing a mental health disorder? A new recommendation to expand the Better Access initiative would open up government-subsidised psychological care to this effect. The ... <a title="For people at risk of mental illness, having access to treatment early can help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/for-people-at-risk-of-mental-illness-having-access-to-treatment-early-can-help-111429/" aria-label="Read more about For people at risk of mental illness, having access to treatment early can help">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miles Park, Senior Lecturer, Industrial Design, UNSW Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India The world produces 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) per year, according to a recent UN report, but only 20% is formally recycled. Much of the rest ends ... <a title="Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/electronic-waste-is-recycled-in-appalling-conditions-in-india-110363/" aria-label="Read more about Electronic waste is recycled in appalling conditions in India">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Markets require regulators. As Adam Smith, the champion of the invisible hand, notes in The Wealth of Nations, when individual interests are left unregulated they work to turn competitive markets into monopolies. But what happens when regulators meant to check individual ... <a title="Vital Signs: when watchdogs become pets – or the problem of ‘regulatory capture’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/vital-signs-when-watchdogs-become-pets-or-the-problem-of-regulatory-capture-111170/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: when watchdogs become pets – or the problem of ‘regulatory capture’">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Donna Lee Brien, Professor, Creative Industries, CQUniversity Australia When health care workers make news that news is usually bad. Either staff are protesting the lack of resources or patients and families are complaining about their standard of care. When nursing hits the headlines, the news is usually ... <a title="Friday essay: saints or monsters, pop culture’s limited view of nurses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/friday-essay-saints-or-monsters-pop-cultures-limited-view-of-nurses-107696/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: saints or monsters, pop culture’s limited view of nurses">Read more</a>
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February 15, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government, politically-speaking, is trying to do a loaves-and-fishes exercise with the Medevac legislation, over which the parliament defied the executive this week. It is attempting to inflate Labor’s support for a modest measure to facilitate medical transfers from ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/15/grattan-on-friday-what-does-reopening-christmas-island-actually-mean-and-why-do-it-111866/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: What does “reopening” Christmas Island actually mean and why do it?">Read more</a>
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February 14, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University The devastating Townsville floods have receded but the clean up is being complicated by the appearance of a serious bacterial infection known as melioidosis. One person has died from melioidosis and nine others have been ... <a title="Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/02/14/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-melioidosis-the-deadly-infection-that-can-spread-after-floods-111813/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what you need to know about melioidosis, the deadly infection that can spread after floods">Read more</a>
