MIL-Evening Report: Will the New Zealand gun law changes prevent future mass shootings?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia As she foreshadowed in the aftermath of the Christchurch massacre last Friday, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has just announced a ban in that country on specific military-style firearms. It will soon become an […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: NSW election: where do the parties stand on brumby culling?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University The future management of New South Wales’s national parks is one of the issues on the line in Saturday’s state election. Other states will be watching the outcome closely. Depending on who wins, the outcome for Kosciuszko National Park […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Confused about aged care in the home? These 10 charts explain how it works
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fron Jackson-Webb, Deputy Editor/Senior Health + Medicine Editor This week, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety hearings focused on aged care in the home. Most Australians want to stay in their homes for as long as possible as they advance in age. And the […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: PODCAST: Pell trial reporters, a judge and a media lawyer on why the suppression order debate is far from over
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Dodd, Director of the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne When Judge Peter Kidd sentenced Cardinal George Pell last week, it was broadcast live on radio and television. It was a stark contrast to the preceding trial, which was subject to a suppression order that […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: What Australia can learn from Victoria’s shocking biodiversity record
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Wescott, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Victoria is struggling with biodiversity conservation, according to a State of the Environment report tabled in parliament this week. While the scorecard is bleak – not one of the state’s key biodiversity indicators ranks […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: No better than roulette. How foreign exchange trading rips off mum and dad investors
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University In 2013 I wrote a piece on The Conversation arguing that foreign exchange trading should be much more tightly regulated. In particular, I said that retail (mum and dad) investors should only be allowed to trade foreign currencies in limited circumstances. Since […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Australia’s animal testing laws are a good start, but don’t go far enough
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Kotzmann, Lecturer in Law, Deakin University Your lipstick and foundation will be less likely to come at the expense of animal welfare, thanks to Commonwealth legislation that passed in recent weeks. The legislation, which will come into play on July 1, 2020, follows a commitment the […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Six images reveal how we ‘see’ data and capture invisible science
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Rassell, Nanoartist and creative-practice based researcher in Media, RMIT University As an experimental video-maker working at scales smaller than molecules, I surround myself in a variety of scientific visualisations. In reading popular media on scientific discoveries, I sometimes encounter claims that a particular scientific visualisation is, […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: From playground risks to college admissions: Failure helps build kids’ resilience
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Nicole Racine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Calgary With recent news of the college cheating scandal in which parents allegedly paid for their children to gain entrance to the most prestigious post-secondary institutions in the United States, increased attention has been placed on the extreme and even illegal […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: From playground risks to college admissions: Failure is good for your kids’ health
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Nicole Racine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Calgary With recent news of the college cheating scandal in which parents allegedly paid for their children to gain entrance to the most prestigious post-secondary institutions in the United States, increased attention has been placed on the extreme and even illegal […]
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