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July 5, 2022
RNZ Pacific The president of New Caledonia’s Southern Province Sonia Backès has been given a post in France’s reshuffled and enlarged 42-member government. The prime minister Elisabeth Borne appointed her as the secretary of citizenship within the interior ministry, which has integrated the overseas ministry. The reshuffle means that the position of overseas minister has ... <a title="New Caledonia’s Backes joins French government in citizenship post" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/new-caledonias-backes-joins-french-government-in-citizenship-post/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s Backes joins French government in citizenship post">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University Shutterstock There was no suprise in the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia lifting interest rates at its July meeting. The only question was by how much. Would it be a “regular” increase of 25 basis points? Or a ... <a title="Rates rise to 1.35% – and there’s no stopping now the RBA’s on a mission to whip inflation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/rates-rise-to-1-35-and-theres-no-stopping-now-the-rbas-on-a-mission-to-whip-inflation-186212/" aria-label="Read more about Rates rise to 1.35% – and there’s no stopping now the RBA’s on a mission to whip inflation">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. Michelle and Peter Browne from the Politics + Society team ... <a title="Word from The Hill: People’s pockets hit again, with rate rise and floods set to boost veggie prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/word-from-the-hill-peoples-pockets-hit-again-with-rate-rise-and-floods-set-to-boost-veggie-prices-186387/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: People’s pockets hit again, with rate rise and floods set to boost veggie prices">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Smith, Professor of English, University of Sydney Sydney Theatre Company/Prudence Upton Review: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, directed by Jessica Arthur for the Sydney Theatre Company “You know when it’s the autumn of 1827, and you’re sitting in a church, having the wrong sort of existential ... <a title="With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/with-the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-the-sydney-theatre-company-gives-us-a-bronte-adaptation-for-our-moment-186298/" aria-label="Read more about With The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the Sydney Theatre Company gives us a Brontë adaptation for our moment">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Lim, Associate Professor in Linguistics, Curtin University Of the world’s 7,000 languages, it is estimated 50% to 90% will no longer be spoken in the next 50 to 100 years. The majority under threat are languages spoken by Indigenous peoples around the world: one is lost ... <a title="We are on the brink of losing Indigenous languages in Australia – could schools save them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/we-are-on-the-brink-of-losing-indigenous-languages-in-australia-could-schools-save-them-184736/" aria-label="Read more about We are on the brink of losing Indigenous languages in Australia – could schools save them?">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Beard, Associate professor, University of Sydney Shutterstock An unvaccinated toddler from the far north coast of New South Wales is in intensive care after catching respiratory diphtheria (diphtheria of the throat). A six-year-old close family contact is also infected. These are the first cases of respiratory ... <a title="Diphtheria is back in Australia, here’s why – and how vaccines can prevent its spread" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/diphtheria-is-back-in-australia-heres-why-and-how-vaccines-can-prevent-its-spread-186348/" aria-label="Read more about Diphtheria is back in Australia, here’s why – and how vaccines can prevent its spread">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University For the fourth time in 18 months, floodwaters have inundated homes and businesses in Western Sydney’s Hawkesbury-Nepean Valley. Recent torrential rain is obviously the immediate cause. But poor decisions by successive New South Wales governments ... <a title="‘Patently ridiculous’: state government failures have exacerbated Sydney’s flood disaster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/patently-ridiculous-state-government-failures-have-exacerbated-sydneys-flood-disaster-186304/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Patently ridiculous’: state government failures have exacerbated Sydney’s flood disaster">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist), The Conversation The US Supreme Court’s annual term usually finishes at the end of June, so late June is when the most important decisions are likely to be announced. On June 23, the Court struck down a New York state law that ... <a title="How the US Supreme Court has become right-wing, and do recent decisions give Democrats hope at the midterms?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/how-the-us-supreme-court-has-become-right-wing-and-do-recent-decisions-give-democrats-hope-at-the-midterms-186281/" aria-label="Read more about How the US Supreme Court has become right-wing, and do recent decisions give Democrats hope at the midterms?">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Murray Goot, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University What does “the average Australian” look like? After every census, this is one of the questions people like to see answered. Average on one measure or on several? If the latter, would “average Australians” number in ... <a title="The ABS’s notion of the average Australian makes little sense. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/the-abss-notion-of-the-average-australian-makes-little-sense-heres-why-186296/" aria-label="Read more about The ABS’s notion of the average Australian makes little sense. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Niro Kandasamy, Lecturer in History, University of Sydney When Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe conceded ten days ago that the Sri Lankan economy has “completely collapsed”, his words would have come as no surprise to the island’s 22 million people. With the country enduring its worst ... <a title="Sri Lanka scrambles for aid – but Australia still seems preoccupied by boats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/sri-lanka-scrambles-for-aid-but-australia-still-seems-preoccupied-by-boats-186293/" aria-label="Read more about Sri Lanka scrambles for aid – but Australia still seems preoccupied by boats">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia Shutterstock Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave in the coming weeks, as BA.4 and BA.5 become the dominant COVID strains. BA.4 and BA.5 are more infectious than previous COVID variants and subvariants, and are ... <a title="Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave. Here’s what to expect from BA.4 and BA.5" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/australia-is-heading-for-its-third-omicron-wave-heres-what-to-expect-from-ba-4-and-ba-5-185598/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is heading for its third Omicron wave. Here’s what to expect from BA.4 and BA.5">Read more</a>
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July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Shutterstock, CC BY-SA Uber Australia’s historic agreement with the Transport Workers’ Union, on the need to regulate the gig economy, is the first step in fundamental reform of gig work. It suggests the direction the Albanese government will ... <a title="How Australia’s gig workers may remain contractors under Labor’s reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/how-australias-gig-workers-may-remain-contractors-under-labors-reforms-186197/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s gig workers may remain contractors under Labor’s reforms">Read more</a>
