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September 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Gordon, Honorary Professor, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University Shutterstock Every five years the Productivity Commission is charged with examining everything that can be done to lift Australia’s productivity. Its first interim report in the current inquiry, issued well ahead of its final ... <a title="Memo to the Productivity Commission: fixing inequality is the key to productivity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/23/memo-to-the-productivity-commission-fixing-inequality-is-the-key-to-productivity-190245/" aria-label="Read more about Memo to the Productivity Commission: fixing inequality is the key to productivity">Read more</a>
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September 23, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carmen Jacques, Research Officer, Edith Cowan University Stan Around 11pm on October 12 2002, the first of three separate bombs detonated when a suicide bomber entered Paddy’s Bar in Kuta, Bali. Another bomb detonated shortly after outside the Sari nightclub, before a final explosion in front of ... <a title="Some survivors will find peace and healing in Bali 2002 – but others may find the series triggering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/23/some-survivors-will-find-peace-and-healing-in-bali-2002-but-others-may-find-the-series-triggering-189538/" aria-label="Read more about Some survivors will find peace and healing in Bali 2002 – but others may find the series triggering">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Jim Chalmers’ long term ambition is similar to that of most treasurers. He wants to be prime minister. More immediately, he aspires to be a reformer, which has become harder in today’s electorate, with its low tolerance for pain. Chalmers ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Can Jim Chalmers become a reforming treasurer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/grattan-on-friday-can-jim-chalmers-become-a-reforming-treasurer-191174/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Can Jim Chalmers become a reforming treasurer?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Getty Images A lot has changed since world leaders last met in person at the United Nations General Assembly: a global pandemic, a looming food crisis, economic stress, climate disasters – and, of course, the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ... <a title="Putin plays the annexation card, pushing the war in Ukraine into a dangerous new phase" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/putin-plays-the-annexation-card-pushing-the-war-in-ukraine-into-a-dangerous-new-phase-191165/" aria-label="Read more about Putin plays the annexation card, pushing the war in Ukraine into a dangerous new phase">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist), The Conversation AAP/Joel Carrett At the 2018 Victorian state election, Labor easily won a majority in the lower house of the Victorian parliament, but the upper house result was an anti-democratic shambles, as the Greens won just one of the 40 upper ... <a title="How Victorian Labor’s failure on upper house electoral reform undermines democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/how-victorian-labors-failure-on-upper-house-electoral-reform-undermines-democracy-190136/" aria-label="Read more about How Victorian Labor’s failure on upper house electoral reform undermines democracy">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Qamariya Nasrullah, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolutionary Morphology, Monash University Hossein Anv / Unsplash You only get 52 teeth in your lifetime: 20 baby teeth, followed by 32 adult teeth. It’s not like that for all animals. Some, like rodents, never replace their teeth. Others, like sharks, ... <a title="Why do humans grow two sets of teeth? These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/why-do-humans-grow-two-sets-of-teeth-these-marsupials-are-rewriting-the-story-of-dental-evolution-189796/" aria-label="Read more about Why do humans grow two sets of teeth? These marsupials are rewriting the story of dental evolution">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Klugman, Research Fellow, Institute for Health & Sport, member of the Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network, and Co-convenor of the Olympic Research Network, Victoria University Shutterstock/The Conversation “One more”. In two words, the great Noongar-Wajuk Australian Rules footballer Lance Franklin indicated he would play on ... <a title="As the 2022 AFLM season comes to a close, the game must ask itself some difficult questions – especially on racism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/as-the-2022-aflm-season-comes-to-a-close-the-game-must-ask-itself-some-difficult-questions-especially-on-racism-190847/" aria-label="Read more about As the 2022 AFLM season comes to a close, the game must ask itself some difficult questions – especially on racism">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evangeline Mantzioris, Program Director of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Accredited Practising Dietitian, University of South Australia Brooke Lark/Unsplash, CC BY-SA You may have heard about the longevity diet, and its promise of an extended life span – but what exactly is it and is it any different ... <a title="What’s this ‘longevity’ diet, and will it really make you live longer?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/whats-this-longevity-diet-and-will-it-really-make-you-live-longer-189140/" aria-label="Read more about What’s this ‘longevity’ diet, and will it really make you live longer?">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Blakers, Professor of Engineering, Australian National University Shutterstock You might feel despondent after reading news reports about countries doubling down on fossil fuels to cope with energy price spikes. Don’t. It’s a blip. While the Russian invasion of Ukraine has led to a temporary fossil fuel ... <a title="There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/theres-a-huge-surge-in-solar-production-under-way-and-australia-could-show-the-world-how-to-use-it-190241/" aria-label="Read more about There’s a huge surge in solar production under way – and Australia could show the world how to use it">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Waters-Lynch, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Organisational Design, RMIT University Shutterstock Michael and Karen moved from Melbourne to Castlemaine, about 130km northwest of Victoria’s capital, in mid-2020 – using, like tens of thousands of Australians, the shift to remote work to make a larger lifestyle change. ... <a title="‘We haven’t built it, and they’ve come’: the e-change pressures on Australia’s lifestyle towns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/we-havent-built-it-and-theyve-come-the-e-change-pressures-on-australias-lifestyle-towns-188228/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We haven’t built it, and they’ve come’: the e-change pressures on Australia’s lifestyle towns">Read more</a>
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September 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Damien O’Meara, PhD Candidate, Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Channel 5 Peppa Pig’s first same-sex couple, a pair of lesbian polar bears, were recently introduced after a petition to include a same-sex family received nearly 24,000 signatures. Children’s television has often been a place to ... <a title="Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/22/peppa-pig-has-introduced-a-pair-of-lesbian-polar-bears-but-aussie-kids-tv-has-been-leading-the-way-in-queer-representation-190648/" aria-label="Read more about Peppa Pig has introduced a pair of lesbian polar bears, but Aussie kids’ TV has been leading the way in queer representation">Read more</a>
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September 21, 2022
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards. Political Roundup: Time for the Auditor General to investigate Mahuta contracts Pressure is increasing on the Auditor General to undertake an inquiry into numerous contracts, appointments and grants awarded to members of Cabinet Minister Nanaia Mahuta’s family by various government departments she has had official responsibility for. Allegations and revelations ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Time for the Auditor General to investigate Mahuta contracts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/09/21/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-time-for-the-auditor-general-to-investigate-mahuta-contracts/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Time for the Auditor General to investigate Mahuta contracts">Read more</a>
