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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caleb Goods, Senior Lecturer – Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia Uber Australia has struck a historic agreement with the Transport Workers’ Union – a statement of principles that re-regulate work in the Australian rideshare and food delivery industry. This is a ... <a title="What’s driving Uber’s historic agreement with the TWU on gig work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/whats-driving-ubers-historic-agreement-with-the-twu-on-gig-work-186044/" aria-label="Read more about What’s driving Uber’s historic agreement with the TWU on gig work">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Grogan, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, The Daffodil Centre, University of Sydney E-cigarettes and vape products are illegally imported into Australia. Some claim not to contain nicotine, but do. Simon Collins/Shutterstock ABC TV’s Four Corners this week reported how unlawful sale of e-cigarettes in Australia is out of ... <a title="How can we reverse the vaping crisis among young Australians? Enforce the rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/how-can-we-reverse-the-vaping-crisis-among-young-australians-enforce-the-rules-185867/" aria-label="Read more about How can we reverse the vaping crisis among young Australians? Enforce the rules">Read more</a>
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June 29, 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: Parliamentary ‘newbies’ inspect their workplace, with some complaints" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/word-from-the-hill-parliamentary-newbies-inspect-their-workplace-with-some-complaints-186041/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: Parliamentary ‘newbies’ inspect their workplace, with some complaints">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Shutterstock “Stagflation” is an ugly word for an ugly situation – the unpleasant combination of economic stagnation and inflation. The last time the world experienced it was the early 1970s, when oil-exporting countries ... <a title="1970s-style stagflation now playing on central bankers’ minds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/1970s-style-stagflation-now-playing-on-central-bankers-minds-185868/" aria-label="Read more about 1970s-style stagflation now playing on central bankers’ minds">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
OP-ED by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is an Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP). Older persons are highly visible across Asia and the Pacific: they work in agricultural fields producing our food supplies, peddle their wares as street vendors, drive tuk-tuks and ... <a title="OP-ED: Reimagining ageing: Older persons as agents of development" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/op-ed-reimagining-ageing-older-persons-as-agents-of-development/" aria-label="Read more about OP-ED: Reimagining ageing: Older persons as agents of development">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ismini Vasileiou, Associate Professor in Information Systems, De Montfort University Shutterstock Today marks 15 years since Apple released what’s arguably its flagship device: the iPhone. A decade and a half later, there are few products that have managed to reach a similar level of brand recognition. Announced ... <a title="The iPhone turns 15: a look at the past (and future) of one of the 21st century’s most influential devices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/the-iphone-turns-15-a-look-at-the-past-and-future-of-one-of-the-21st-centurys-most-influential-devices-183137/" aria-label="Read more about The iPhone turns 15: a look at the past (and future) of one of the 21st century’s most influential devices">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Phillimore, Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy, Curtin University Just before the Western Australian state election in March 2021, the then leader of the Liberal Party did an unusual thing. He conceded defeat – but then asked voters to stop premier Mark McGowan’s Labor ... <a title="Does Labor have ‘total control’ in Western Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/does-labor-have-total-control-in-western-australia-185873/" aria-label="Read more about Does Labor have ‘total control’ in Western Australia?">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Alan Robert Kerr, PhD Candidate for Palaeontology, Flinders University Illustration by Peter Schouten, Author provided Long ago, almost up until the end of the last ice age, a peculiar giant kangaroo roamed the mountainous rainforests of New Guinea. Now, research published by myself and colleagues suggests ... <a title="This giant kangaroo once roamed New Guinea – descended from an Australian ancestor that migrated millions of years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/this-giant-kangaroo-once-roamed-new-guinea-descended-from-an-australian-ancestor-that-migrated-millions-of-years-ago-185778/" aria-label="Read more about This giant kangaroo once roamed New Guinea – descended from an Australian ancestor that migrated millions of years ago">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Strangio, Professor of Politics, Monash University Renewal or decline? These are the competing narratives that now surround Daniel Andrews’ Victorian Labor government, with five senior ministers exiting cabinet as a preliminary to leaving parliament at November’s state election. The resignations of this quintet – deputy premier ... <a title="Is 5 senior ministers quitting Victoria’s Andrew’s government a sign of renewal – or decline?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/is-5-senior-ministers-quitting-victorias-andrews-government-a-sign-of-renewal-or-decline-185857/" aria-label="Read more about Is 5 senior ministers quitting Victoria’s Andrew’s government a sign of renewal – or decline?">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sukhmani Khorana, Senior Research Fellow, Western Sydney University Initial data from the 2021 census released this week shows Australia continues to become more culturally diverse. Almost half of us have at least one parent born overseas (48.2%), and almost a quarter of us (24.8%) speak a language ... <a title="Census data shows we’re more culturally diverse than ever. Our institutions must reflect this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/census-data-shows-were-more-culturally-diverse-than-ever-our-institutions-must-reflect-this-185575/" aria-label="Read more about Census data shows we’re more culturally diverse than ever. Our institutions must reflect this">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne Watson, Senior Lecturer in Disability and Inclusion, Deakin University Netflix The Netflix sci-fi horror series Stranger Things is vividly soaked in 1980s nostalgia, famously catapulting Kate Bush’s 1985 song Running up that Hill to the top of the music charts in 2022. In season four, series ... <a title="By naming ‘Pennhurst’, Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/by-naming-pennhurst-stranger-things-uses-disability-trauma-for-entertainment-dark-tourism-and-asylum-tours-do-too-185581/" aria-label="Read more about By naming ‘Pennhurst’, Stranger Things uses disability trauma for entertainment. Dark tourism and asylum tours do too">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jennifer Hamilton, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England Shutterstock A friend introduces their partner as “my current husband”. Another jokes about marriage as a life sentence. Everyone laughs, no one is surprised. The sentiments at the heart of these asides ... <a title="What is ‘heteropessimism’, and why do men and women suffer from it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/29/what-is-heteropessimism-and-why-do-men-and-women-suffer-from-it-182288/" aria-label="Read more about What is ‘heteropessimism’, and why do men and women suffer from it?">Read more</a>
