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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Frew, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Southern Queensland Getty Under your feet lies the most biodiverse habitat on Earth. The soil on which we walk supports the majority of life on the planet. Without the life in it, it wouldn’t be soil. Unfortunately, Australia’s ... <a title="Soil abounds with life – and supports all life above it. But Australian soils need urgent repair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/soil-abounds-with-life-and-supports-all-life-above-it-but-australian-soils-need-urgent-repair-187280/" aria-label="Read more about Soil abounds with life – and supports all life above it. But Australian soils need urgent repair">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University Ethel Spowers, School is out, 1936, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976 Review: Spowers & Syme, Geelong Gallery. In their pioneering coloured linocut prints, Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) and Eveline Syme (1888-1961) captured the flux and excitement of ... <a title="How pioneering Australian linocut artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme captured an exciting era of change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/how-pioneering-australian-linocut-artists-ethel-spowers-and-eveline-syme-captured-an-exciting-era-of-change-185597/" aria-label="Read more about How pioneering Australian linocut artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme captured an exciting era of change">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Headwinds buffeting the economy – notably high inflation and a global slowdown – have led to a significant downgrade of Australia’s economic growth forecasts, compared with the pre-election estimates. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tell parliament on Thursday that estimated growth ... <a title="Chalmers’s economic statement to say inflation and global slowdown will slash Australia’s growth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/chalmerss-economic-statement-to-say-inflation-and-global-slowdown-will-slash-australias-growth-187798/" aria-label="Read more about Chalmers’s economic statement to say inflation and global slowdown will slash Australia’s growth">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby After 36 hours of unrest, fear and anxiety, Port Moresby city woke up yesterday morning to a quiet start under the watchful eyes of the police and military personnel as tensions slowly faded. Kicking off to a slow start, shops and business houses opened their doors to the public ... <a title="Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/port-moresby-back-to-normal-after-36-hours-of-election-tension/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to the resting place of Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) leader Francis Ona. It was the first time President Toroama had visited Guava in 25 years after the 1997 Roreinang coup that ... <a title="Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/bougainvilles-toroama-visits-onas-rebel-village-25-years-after-civil-war/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home. The general manager for the office of the Taupulega (council of elders) of the atoll of Nukunonu, Asi Pasilio, said borders had been shut for more than two years with the country ... <a title="Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/tokelau-keen-to-get-its-people-stuck-abroad-back-home-again/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
RNZ News Opposition National Party leader Christopher Luxon says there are more important issues facing Aotearoa New Zealand than the controversy over a party social media post while he was holidaying in Hawai’i. He has admitted he was holidaying in Hawai’i last week despite his social media posts suggesting he was visiting provincial New Zealand. ... <a title="NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in Hawai’i, says Luxon" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/nz-has-bigger-problems-than-a-social-media-post-while-in-hawaii-says-luxon/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has bigger problems than a social media post while in Hawai’i, says Luxon">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Shutterstock The upsurge in inflation has revived old debates about what causes it. Until recently, it has been an article of faith among both businesses and union leaders that inflation is “cost-push”, meaning it is caused by ... <a title="Inflation is being amplified by firms with market power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/inflation-is-being-amplified-by-firms-with-market-power-187418/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is being amplified by firms with market power">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Inflation jumped from 5.1% to a new long-term high of 6.1% in the June quarter, a rate matched only by short-lived jump caused by the introduction of the goods and services tax, and ... <a title="Australia’s Economy – Inflation hasn’t been higher for 32 years. What now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/inflation-hasnt-been-higher-for-32-years-what-now-187452/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Economy – Inflation hasn’t been higher for 32 years. What now?">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Lucas Coch/AAP Earlier today, the federal government introduced its hotly awaited climate change bill to parliament. Despite the attention and controversy it’s attracted, the proposed legislation – as it stands – would be almost entirely symbolic. Labor ... <a title="Labor has introduced its controversial climate bill to parliament. Here’s how to give it real teeth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/labor-has-introduced-its-controversial-climate-bill-to-parliament-heres-how-to-give-it-real-teeth-187762/" aria-label="Read more about Labor has introduced its controversial climate bill to parliament. Here’s how to give it real teeth">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freya Shearer, Research Fellow, Epidemic Decision Support, The University of Melbourne During the pandemic we have all become familiar with a lot of epidemiological concepts. One that was introduced to us early in 2020 is the “basic reproductive number”, or R0. This tells us about the intrinsic ... <a title="New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/new-covid-variants-may-be-more-transmissible-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-r0-or-basic-reproduction-number-has-increased-186826/" aria-label="Read more about New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock Does your cat kick litter all over the floor? What does this mean and how can you stop it? Despite being skilled predators, cats are also mesopredators, meaning they are both predators and ... <a title="Why does my cat kick litter all over the place? 4 tips from cat experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/why-does-my-cat-kick-litter-all-over-the-place-4-tips-from-cat-experts-186928/" aria-label="Read more about Why does my cat kick litter all over the place? 4 tips from cat experts">Read more</a>
