CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
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>
CoveragePost
July 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael David Barbezat, Research fellow, Australian Catholic University Netflix From Kate Bush to Russian villainy, Season Four of Stranger Things revives many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. Some of these blasts from the past provide welcome nostalgia. Others are like unwanted ghosts that will ... <a title="‘Satanic worship, sodomy and even murder’: how Stranger Things revived the American satanic panic of the 80s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/satanic-worship-sodomy-and-even-murder-how-stranger-things-revived-the-american-satanic-panic-of-the-80s-186292/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Satanic worship, sodomy and even murder’: how Stranger Things revived the American satanic panic of the 80s">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 5, 2022
RNZ Pacific Voting in the Papua New Guinea general election begins today. Voters will elect 118 members of Parliament, including governors of the 22 provinces, from the 3600-plus candidates nominated. There are 6000 polling teams in the 22 provinces. There have also been reports that polling in the capital, Port Moresby has been delayed. #BREAKING: ... <a title="Papua New Guinea voters head to the polls to choose from 3600 candidates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/papua-new-guinea-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-choose-from-3600-candidates/" aria-label="Read more about Papua New Guinea voters head to the polls to choose from 3600 candidates">Read more</a>
CoveragePost
July 5, 2022
By Miriam Zarriga in Port Moresby A man was held by Papua New Guinean security personnel in Hela Province on Saturday after he was found to have in his possession K1.56 million (about NZ$715,000) in cash carried in a suitcase. The man, who police identified as a local, allegedly told security personnel that the money ... <a title="PNG security detain man with K1.56m in suitcase as elections begin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/05/png-security-detain-man-with-k1-56m-in-suitcase-as-elections-begin/" aria-label="Read more about PNG security detain man with K1.56m in suitcase as elections begin">Read more</a>
