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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Gleeson, Associate Professor of Law, Macquarie University Shutterstock Since the change of government at the May federal election, the fate of the contentious religious discrimination legislation remains unclear. There is bipartisan consensus that Commonwealth legislation should protect individuals of different faiths from discrimination in the workplace ... <a title="Australians reject discrimination that is based on religious belief: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/australians-reject-discrimination-that-is-based-on-religious-belief-new-research-186751/" aria-label="Read more about Australians reject discrimination that is based on religious belief: new research">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
OP-ED by Turkish Foreign Minister, Mr Mevlüt Cavusoglu. On the evening of July 15, 2016, the “Fethullahist Terrorist Organization” (FETO) launched a bloody coup attempt against the people and the government of my country. Their aim was to establish a radical, fundamentalist regime, loyal only to their ringleader Fetullah Gülen. As FETO affiliated army units ... <a title="OP-ED: Terrorism has no nationality, ethnicity nor religion. FETO threatens humanity as a whole – Turkish Foreign Minister" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/op-ed-terrorism-has-no-nationality-ethnicity-nor-religion-feto-threatens-humanity-as-a-whole-turkish-foreign-minister/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Terrorism has no nationality, ethnicity nor religion. FETO threatens humanity as a whole – Turkish Foreign Minister">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Feehan, Research Officer – Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University Shutterstock COVID cases are surging across Australia. The rise of the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-variants of Omicron, and the rapid increase in COVID hospitalisations, has prompted policymakers to expand fourth dose vaccine eligibility. If you’re aged ... <a title="When can I get my next COVID booster or fourth dose? What if I’ve recently had COVID? Can I get my flu shot at the same time?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/when-can-i-get-my-next-covid-booster-or-fourth-dose-what-if-ive-recently-had-covid-can-i-get-my-flu-shot-at-the-same-time-186830/" aria-label="Read more about When can I get my next COVID booster or fourth dose? What if I’ve recently had COVID? Can I get my flu shot at the same time?">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Macintosh, Professor and Director of Research, ANU Law School, Australian National University Shutterstock The federal government has launched an independent review of Australia’s central climate policy, the Emissions Reduction Fund, after we and others raised serious concerns about its integrity. The review will examine, among other ... <a title="Australia’s central climate policy pays people to grow trees that already existed. Taxpayers – and the environment – deserve better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/australias-central-climate-policy-pays-people-to-grow-trees-that-already-existed-taxpayers-and-the-environment-deserve-better-186900/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s central climate policy pays people to grow trees that already existed. Taxpayers – and the environment – deserve better">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Halsey, Professor, School of Education, Flinders University Shutterstock Students in regional, rural and remote Australia have been behind their urban counterparts on almost every recognised measure of successful schooling for decades. This is unacceptable and has to change. To achieve this change, it will be vital ... <a title="Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/dont-expect-schools-to-do-all-the-heavy-lifting-to-close-the-education-divide-between-the-big-cities-and-the-rest-of-australia-186586/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t expect schools to do all the heavy lifting to close the education divide between the big cities and the rest of Australia">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alicia (Lucy) Cameron, Senior Research Consultant, Data61 Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic has had an enormous impact on the global economy, with the total cost likely to exceed US$12.5 trillion dollars according to International Monetary Fund estimates. At the same time, the crisis has accelerated huge changes in ... <a title="6 ways governments drive innovation – and how they can help post-pandemic resilience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/6-ways-governments-drive-innovation-and-how-they-can-help-post-pandemic-resilience-186910/" aria-label="Read more about 6 ways governments drive innovation – and how they can help post-pandemic resilience">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ying Ian Chen, Director, ARC Research Hub for Safe and Reliable Energy, Deakin University Shutterstock In 2016, experts writing in Nature listed seven breakthroughs in how we process chemicals that could change the world for the better. We believe we’ve just ticked one of those off the ... <a title="Breakthrough in gas separation and storage could fast-track shift to green hydrogen and significantly cut global energy use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/breakthrough-in-gas-separation-and-storage-could-fast-track-shift-to-green-hydrogen-and-significantly-cut-global-energy-use-186644/" aria-label="Read more about Breakthrough in gas separation and storage could fast-track shift to green hydrogen and significantly cut global energy use">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
By Rusiate Baleilevuka in Suva A Fiji women’s advocacy group has condemned their government for remaining silent over the human rights violations in West Papua amid the Pacific Islands Forum being hosted by Prime Minister Voreqe Bainmarama this week. Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre (FWCC) coordinator Shamima Ali with other staff members and activists made the ... <a title="Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/fiji-women-condemn-bainimarama-governments-silence-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji women condemn Bainimarama government’s ‘silence’ on West Papua">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
RNZ Pacific The Pacific Islands Forum has launched a new longterm strategy to address present and future challenges faced by Pacific peoples. The “2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent” was endorsed by regional heads of governments as the curtains fell on the 51st Forum Leaders’ summit in Suva. “As Pacific leaders, our vision is ... <a title="Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/pacific-islands-forum-launches-new-2050-strategic-blueprint/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific Islands Forum launches new 2050 strategic blueprint">Read more</a>
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July 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese received his fourth COVID jab this week. A commendable example to the community, now that eligibility for the “winter shot” has been widened. Well, commendable up to a point. Noticeably, neither Albanese nor the health worker wielding the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese needs to step up (and mask up) to help create a new mindset to meet the COVID crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/15/grattan-on-friday-albanese-needs-to-step-up-and-mask-up-to-help-create-a-new-mindset-to-meet-the-covid-crisis-187023/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese needs to step up (and mask up) to help create a new mindset to meet the COVID crisis">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niro Kandasamy, Lecturer in History, University of Sydney Sri Lanka is in the grip of an economic, political and humanitarian crisis. In a remarkable display of anger on Saturday, thousands of protesters disregarded government curfews, rampant military and police presence to storm the presidential palace and the ... <a title="Sri Lanka’s crisis is not just about the economy, but a long history of discrimination against minority groups" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/sri-lankas-crisis-is-not-just-about-the-economy-but-a-long-history-of-discrimination-against-minority-groups-186747/" aria-label="Read more about Sri Lanka’s crisis is not just about the economy, but a long history of discrimination against minority groups">Read more</a>
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July 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock It’s not an academic way to start an article about Australia’s latest jobs numbers, but all I can think is “wow”. The official unemployment rate in June fell to 3.5%. It’s almost 50 years – August 1974, ... <a title="3.5% unemployment: Australia’s jobless rate at its lowest since 1974" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/14/3-5-unemployment-australias-jobless-rate-at-its-lowest-since-1974-186917/" aria-label="Read more about 3.5% unemployment: Australia’s jobless rate at its lowest since 1974">Read more</a>
