MIL-Evening Report: Colonial Australia was surprisingly concerned about Aboriginal deaths in custody
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristyn Harman, Senior Lecturer in History; Graduate Research Coordinator, School of Humanities; Course Coordinator, Diploma of History, University of Tasmania When the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody’s report was tabled in 1991, it was not the first official inquiry into this tragic phenomenon. The disproportionately […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: If there’s one thing Pacific nations don’t need, it’s yet another infrastructure investment bank
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Engel, Senior Lecturer, Politics and International Studies, University of Wollongong If Scott Morrison was looking for a way to prove Australia is a good neighbour to Pacific nations, he could hardly have chosen a worse option. Looking for a policy to combat both China and his […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Fresh urgency in mapping out ethics of brain organoid research
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Koplin, Resarch Fellow in Biomedical Ethics, Melbourne Law School and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, University of Melbourne Scientists have become increasingly adept at creating brain organoids – which are essentially miniature human brains grown in the laboratory from stem cells. Although brain organoid research might seem […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: An urgent rethink is needed on the idealised image of the ANZAC digger
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Effie Karageorgos, Academic Tutor, History and Academic Skills, University of Melbourne The 100th anniversary of the truce that ended the first world war has been marked. More than $1 billion is being spent on remembering the dead. Now is the time to become more honest – respectfully […]
Read More →MIL-Evening Report: Curious Kids: How do moths eat our clothes?
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andreas Zwick, Molecular Systematist, CSIRO Curious Kids is a series for children, where we ask experts to answer questions from kids. All questions are welcome: find out how to enter at the bottom. You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: A new debates commission is the electoral reform Canadians need
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Tamara A. Small, Associate Professor, University of Guelph Surprise! Electoral reform in Canada is happening after all. No, that’s not just public relations spin. Electoral reform remains a Liberal broken promise, and has received considerable ink. But the 2019 election will still be different. This October, the Liberals […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: We found grizzly, black and polar bears together for the first time
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Douglas Clark, Centennial Chair in Human Dimensions of Environment & Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan North America’s three bear species — black bears, grizzly bears and polar bears — don’t typically live in the same place. But in Wapusk National Park, on the west coast of Hudson Bay, in […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: We need to learn from the men who rape
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Lucia O’Sullivan, Professor of Psychology, University of New Brunswick Approximately five times more women than men are victims of sexual assault and young adults are at especially high risk. The impact on young people’s psychological and physical health can be devastating, especially given that this developmental period is […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Deeper listening will change your classroom
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Susan Lidster, Instructor in the School of Education, Thompson Rivers University I said, you said. Is conflict resolution about one side winning? It’s not. Usually, a good resolution involves identifying how parties have a concern for both self and others. Social psychologists Dean Pruitt and Jeffrey Z. Rubin […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: How to survive annoying relatives this holiday season
Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jamie Gruman, Professor of Organizational Behaviour, University of Guelph Social allergies are a lot like seasonal allergies. They’re annoying, exhausting and hard to avoid. They’re also especially common around the holidays. That’s because the holidays put you at a high risk of exposure. Swap the dander and flourishing […]
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