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July 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will propose draft wording to insert into the constitution an Indigenous “Voice” to parliament when he addresses the Garma Festival in Arnhem Land on Saturday. The Prime Minister is also releasing a draft of the question that would ... <a title="Albanese releases draft wording for Indigenous ‘Voice to parliament’ referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/30/albanese-releases-draft-wording-for-indigenous-voice-to-parliament-referendum-187933/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese releases draft wording for Indigenous ‘Voice to parliament’ referendum">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gina Louise Hawkes, Research associate, University of Wollongong AAP/Steven Saphore This week, seven NRL players boycotted a potentially crucial season game over their club’s introduction of a “pride” jersey celebrating inclusivity and the LGBTQIA+ community. Six of these players are of Pacific Island heritage. There has been ... <a title="The Manly pride jersey furore is not as simple as a choice between inclusivity and homophobia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/the-manly-pride-jersey-furore-is-not-as-simple-as-a-choice-between-inclusivity-and-homophobia-187859/" aria-label="Read more about The Manly pride jersey furore is not as simple as a choice between inclusivity and homophobia">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luc Doucet, Research Fellow at the Earth Dynamics Research Group, member of TIGeR, Curtin University Lucapa Diamond Company/EPA Usually when goods are flawed, we expect their value to drop, but it’s the exact opposite for diamonds. Ironically, it is imperfections that impart colour to diamonds – and ... <a title="Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe. What gives diamonds their colour?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/perfectly-imperfect-the-discovery-of-the-second-largest-pink-diamond-has-left-the-world-in-awe-what-gives-diamonds-their-colour-187852/" aria-label="Read more about Perfectly imperfect: the discovery of the second-largest pink diamond has left the world in awe. What gives diamonds their colour?">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Simpson, Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia The military junta’s execution of four pro-democracy activists earlier this week has again shone a spotlight on the appalling judgement and brutality of the junta leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, and his top generals. Since the ... <a title="As Myanmar suffers, the military junta is desperate, isolated and running out of options" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/as-myanmar-suffers-the-military-junta-is-desperate-isolated-and-running-out-of-options-187697/" aria-label="Read more about As Myanmar suffers, the military junta is desperate, isolated and running out of options">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra AAP/Mick Tsikas University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan discusses the week in politics with University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher. This week saw parliament meet for the first time since the election. Michelle and Caroline talk about Treasurer ... <a title="VIDEO: the state of the economy, the Indigenous ‘Voice’ and whether the first parliamentary week saw better standards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/video-the-state-of-the-economy-the-indigenous-voice-and-whether-the-first-parliamentary-week-saw-better-standards-187916/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: the state of the economy, the Indigenous ‘Voice’ and whether the first parliamentary week saw better standards">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Casey, Program Coordinator: Bachelor of Communication, University of the Sunshine Coast As Neighbours ended after 37 years, viewers were treated to a smorgasbord of familiar favourites from Erinsborough’s back catalogue. For decades there were always two characters, though, who remained just a little more embedded in ... <a title="All roads led back to Ramsay Street for a cul-de-sac of memory and nostalgia: a fitting Neighbours finale" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/all-roads-led-back-to-ramsay-street-for-a-cul-de-sac-of-memory-and-nostalgia-a-fitting-neighbours-finale-187774/" aria-label="Read more about All roads led back to Ramsay Street for a cul-de-sac of memory and nostalgia: a fitting Neighbours finale">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miriama Young, Associate Director of Research, Senior Lecturer in Music, The University of Melbourne Chamber Made/Pia Johnson Review: My Self in That Moment, directed by Tamara Saulwick for Chamber Made In his visionary essay published almost a century ago, Walter Benjamin argued that something of the aura ... <a title="With My Self in That Moment, Chamber Made gives us a dystopian view of our lost soul in the digital age" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/with-my-self-in-that-moment-chamber-made-gives-us-a-dystopian-view-of-our-lost-soul-in-the-digital-age-187180/" aria-label="Read more about With My Self in That Moment, Chamber Made gives us a dystopian view of our lost soul in the digital age">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Respiratory Virus Hospitalisations in Counties-Manukau, as reported by Stuff The chart above splits the patients in Middlemore Hospital into the different categories of Severe Acute Respiratory Illness. The vast majority are what in the past we have called ‘common colds’. There is no indication that any of these ‘colds’ are due ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – One Sari Sari Night" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/keith-rankin-analysis-one-sari-sari-night/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – One Sari Sari Night">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joo-Cheong Tham, Professor, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Before the pandemic, working from home was a luxury. Then it became a necessity. Since lockdowns have eased it has become a contested space between what employers and workers want. Now unions – including the Financial ... <a title="Few Australians have the right to work from home, even after COVID. Here’s how that could change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/few-australians-have-the-right-to-work-from-home-even-after-covid-heres-how-that-could-change-187696/" aria-label="Read more about Few Australians have the right to work from home, even after COVID. Here’s how that could change">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Greening the Greyfields, Author provided Our ageing cities are badly in need of regeneration. Many established residential areas, the “greyfields”, are becoming physically, technologically and environmentally obsolete. They are typically located in low-density, car-dependent middle suburbs developed in the mid ... <a title="Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more liveable, net-zero cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/greening-the-greyfields-how-to-renew-our-suburbs-for-more-liveable-net-zero-cities-187261/" aria-label="Read more about Greening the greyfields: how to renew our suburbs for more liveable, net-zero cities">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherie Russell, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Unsplash/Rod Long, CC BY Humans have an evolutionary preference for sweetness. Sweet foods, like fruit and honey, were an important energy source for our ancestors. However, in the modern world, sweetened foods are readily available, very cheap and advertised extensively. Now, ... <a title="Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/food-and-drinks-are-getting-sweeter-even-if-its-not-all-sugar-its-bad-for-our-health-187605/" aria-label="Read more about Food and drinks are getting sweeter. Even if it’s not all sugar, it’s bad for our health">Read more</a>
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July 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Welch, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland Getty Images New Zealand has likely passed the peak of the most recent COVID-19 wave, thanks to strong hybrid immunity in the community and with the number of hospitalisations at the lower end of what was originally expected. The seven-day ... <a title="New Zealand’s latest COVID wave is levelling off, with fewer people in hospital than feared" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/29/new-zealands-latest-covid-wave-is-levelling-off-with-fewer-people-in-hospital-than-feared-187773/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand’s latest COVID wave is levelling off, with fewer people in hospital than feared">Read more</a>