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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Milte, Matthew Flinders Senior Research Fellow, Flinders University The final report from the aged care royal commission this week was damning. Speaking of a system in crisis, it calls for an urgent overhaul. The Morrison government has been facing difficult questions regarding which of the 148 ... <a title="50% of Australians are prepared to pay more tax to improve aged care workers’ pay, survey shows" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/50-of-australians-are-prepared-to-pay-more-tax-to-improve-aged-care-workers-pay-survey-shows-156299/" aria-label="Read more about 50% of Australians are prepared to pay more tax to improve aged care workers’ pay, survey shows">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David John Eldridge, Professor of Dryland Ecology, UNSW After 200 years of European farming practices, Australian soils are in bad shape – depleted of nutrients and organic matter, including carbon. This is bad news for both soil health and efforts to address global warming. The native Australian ... <a title="Dig this: a tiny echidna moves 8 trailer-loads of soil a year, helping tackle climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/dig-this-a-tiny-echidna-moves-8-trailer-loads-of-soil-a-year-helping-tackle-climate-change-155947/" aria-label="Read more about Dig this: a tiny echidna moves 8 trailer-loads of soil a year, helping tackle climate change">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Vaill, PhD Candidate Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology Students are heading off to universities around Australia, whether for the first time or as returning students, with expectations of a year of learning, making friends and enjoyable socialising. For some students this will not be ... <a title="Half of our unis don’t have bullying policies for students. This is what they need to protect them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/half-of-our-unis-dont-have-bullying-policies-for-students-this-is-what-they-need-to-protect-them-156108/" aria-label="Read more about Half of our unis don’t have bullying policies for students. This is what they need to protect them">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jan Thomas, Vice-Chancellor, Massey University As first-year students flooded onto campuses around the country this week, gripped with uncertainty and curiosity about their new lives, I too returned to university to learn. For the first time since what feels like forever, but in reality was 1997 when ... <a title="Honouring Te Tiriti means ‘getting into the stream together’ — so this vice-chancellor has become a student again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/honouring-te-tiriti-means-getting-into-the-stream-together-so-this-vice-chancellor-has-become-a-student-again-156198/" aria-label="Read more about Honouring Te Tiriti means ‘getting into the stream together’ — so this vice-chancellor has become a student again">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW After years of repeatedly missing its inflation target through too timid monetary policy, in the past week the Reserve Bank has decided to get tough. Not only did it hold its closely watched cash rate target steady at 0.10% at Tuesday’s ... <a title="Vital Signs: In the battle over interest rates, it’d be unwise to bet against the RBA" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/vital-signs-in-the-battle-over-interest-rates-itd-be-unwise-to-bet-against-the-rba-156410/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: In the battle over interest rates, it’d be unwise to bet against the RBA">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McNeil, Distinguished Professor of Design History, UTS, University of Technology Sydney It’s Sydney Lesbian and Gay Mardi Gras festival time. LGBTQI people are enjoying what some call “gay or lesbian Christmas”. It’s not quite the same in the era of COVID, but a contained version of ... <a title="Friday essay: hidden in plain sight — Australian queer men and women before gay liberation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/friday-essay-hidden-in-plain-sight-australian-queer-men-and-women-before-gay-liberation-155964/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: hidden in plain sight — Australian queer men and women before gay liberation">Read more</a>
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March 5, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has a near obsession with control. But suddenly – in the course of only weeks – he has found himself presiding over a government in a shambles, where he is reacting rather than driving. All the mayhem flows ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison can’t get circuit breaker while Porter remains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/05/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-cant-get-circuit-breaker-while-porter-remains-156517/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison can’t get circuit breaker while Porter remains">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia A great deal has been written and said in the last few days about the next steps in the historic claim of rape against Attorney-General Christian Porter. There are mounting calls for an independent ... <a title="Where do we go from here with the allegations about Christian Porter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/where-do-we-go-from-here-with-the-allegations-about-christian-porter-156497/" aria-label="Read more about Where do we go from here with the allegations about Christian Porter?">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carola Garcia de Vinuesa, Professor and Co-Director, Centre for Personalised Immunology, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence, Australian National University Some 90 prominent scientists, including Nobel laureates and other leading Australian and international researchers, today called for convicted child murderer Kathleen Folbigg to be pardoned and released from ... <a title="Kathleen Folbigg’s children likely died of natural causes, not murder. Here’s the evidence my team found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/kathleen-folbiggs-children-likely-died-of-natural-causes-not-murder-heres-the-evidence-my-team-found-156487/" aria-label="Read more about Kathleen Folbigg’s children likely died of natural causes, not murder. Here’s the evidence my team found">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Royal Commission into Aged Care has now delivered its final report, and its findings are an indictment of the inadequacies of the present system. The report calls for a refocus within the aged care system, placing the people receiving ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Patricia Sparrow on the Royal Commission into Aged Care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/politics-with-michelle-grattan-patricia-sparrow-on-the-royal-commission-into-aged-care-156501/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Patricia Sparrow on the Royal Commission into Aged Care">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Iliadis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Deakin University The continuing media coverage of rape and sexual assault allegations faced by current and former political figures has put many sexual abuse survivors at risk of being traumatised all over again. Widespread media attention features near-constant social media updates ... <a title="This week’s news has put sexual assault survivors at risk of ‘secondary trauma’. Here’s how it happens, and how to cope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/this-weeks-news-has-put-sexual-assault-survivors-at-risk-of-secondary-trauma-heres-how-it-happens-and-how-to-cope-156482/" aria-label="Read more about This week’s news has put sexual assault survivors at risk of ‘secondary trauma’. Here’s how it happens, and how to cope">Read more</a>
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March 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Annabelle Lukin, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Macquarie University The word “sophistry” – defined as “the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving” – comes from Ancient Greek. For more than 2,500 years, politicians have understood language is a tool, even a weapon, ... <a title="Can Scott Morrison’s rhetorical style cut through the rising tide of anger?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/03/04/can-scott-morrisons-rhetorical-style-cut-through-the-rising-tide-of-anger-156220/" aria-label="Read more about Can Scott Morrison’s rhetorical style cut through the rising tide of anger?">Read more</a>
