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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scott Hollier, Adjunct Senior Lecturer – Science and Mathematics, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock When people hear the term “accessibility” in the context of disability, most will see images of ramps, automatic doors, elevators, or tactile paving (textured ground which helps vision impaired people navigate public spaces). These ... <a title="Digital inequality: why can I enter your building – but your website shows me the door?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/digital-inequality-why-can-i-enter-your-building-but-your-website-shows-me-the-door-182432/" aria-label="Read more about Digital inequality: why can I enter your building – but your website shows me the door?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Williams, Associate Professor, Griffith University, Griffith University Mick Tsikas/AAP In the first week of the campaign, we journeyed around the country with six politics experts to examine the key seats and issues affecting different parts of the Australia. What has happened since? Which seats do you ... <a title="State of the states: six politics experts take us around Australia in the final week of the campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/state-of-the-states-six-politics-experts-take-us-around-australia-in-the-final-week-of-the-campaign-183099/" aria-label="Read more about State of the states: six politics experts take us around Australia in the final week of the campaign">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Markus A. Höllerer, Professor in Organization and Management, UNSW Sydney Australia has recently experienced multiple natural and man-made disasters, creating overlapping crises, often disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations. The situation is here to stay, and, worryingly, likely to worsen. But what are we doing to prepare? The federal ... <a title="In a year of endless floods, why isn’t disaster governance front and centre in the election campaign?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/in-a-year-of-endless-floods-why-isnt-disaster-governance-front-and-centre-in-the-election-campaign-183026/" aria-label="Read more about In a year of endless floods, why isn’t disaster governance front and centre in the election campaign?">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University Shutterstock So, you’re starting to feel unwell. Your throat hurts, your head aches, you feel tired and you’ve developed a cough. You’ve recently had COVID but as we now know, it’s possible to be reinfected. But ... <a title="Got COVID again? Your symptoms may be milder, but this won’t always be the case" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/got-covid-again-your-symptoms-may-be-milder-but-this-wont-always-be-the-case-182154/" aria-label="Read more about Got COVID again? Your symptoms may be milder, but this won’t always be the case">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Baddeley, Associate Dean Research/Professor in Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney Getty If a week is a long time in politics, three years is an eternity. Since the 2019 election, Australia has endured devastating megafires and unprecedented floods. Meanwhile, news of extreme weather such ... <a title="Almost 90% of us now believe climate change is a problem – across all political persuasions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/almost-90-of-us-now-believe-climate-change-is-a-problem-across-all-political-persuasions-183038/" aria-label="Read more about Almost 90% of us now believe climate change is a problem – across all political persuasions">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Dempsey, Senior lecturer, University of Canterbury Shutterstock Energy is the double-edged sword at the root of the climate crisis. Cheap energy has improved lives and underpinned massive economic growth. But because most of it comes from burning hydrocarbon fuels, we’re now left with a legacy of ... <a title="How NZ could become a world leader in decarbonisation using forestry and geothermal technology" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/how-nz-could-become-a-world-leader-in-decarbonisation-using-forestry-and-geothermal-technology-182760/" aria-label="Read more about How NZ could become a world leader in decarbonisation using forestry and geothermal technology">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock At their first televised debate four weeks ago, Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese were asked by an audience member how each would help his kids afford to buy their ... <a title="Super for housing or the government as a co-owner: how Liberal and Labor home-buyer schemes compare" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/super-for-housing-or-the-government-as-a-co-owner-how-liberal-and-labor-home-buyer-schemes-compare-183113/" aria-label="Read more about Super for housing or the government as a co-owner: how Liberal and Labor home-buyer schemes compare">Read more</a>
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May 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Hocking, Emeritus Professor, Monash University Gough Whitlam delivering the 1972 election policy speech at the Blacktown Civic Centre in Sydney, 1972. National Archives of Australia via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA As we enter the final week of the election campaign with its scrappy debates and breathlessly ... <a title="‘The relation between politics and culture is clear and real’: how Gough Whitlam centred artists in his 1972 campaign" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/17/the-relation-between-politics-and-culture-is-clear-and-real-how-gough-whitlam-centred-artists-in-his-1972-campaign-181243/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The relation between politics and culture is clear and real’: how Gough Whitlam centred artists in his 1972 campaign">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Striking New Zealand health workers have picketed around the country, saying they are fed up with being underpaid and undervalued. About 10,000 allied health staff who work at district health boards have walked off the job for 24 hours, with rolling demonstrations. They are health workers who are ... <a title="‘We’re not paid fairly for the work we do’, say striking NZ health workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/were-not-paid-fairly-for-the-work-we-do-say-striking-nz-health-workers/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’re not paid fairly for the work we do’, say striking NZ health workers">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
SPECIAL REPORT: By Kalinga Seneviratne When Australians go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new government, the vast continent which was stolen from the indigenous people in 1788 and annexed to the British crown may have its “independent day” — not one that would declare itself a republic, but a day when independent ... <a title="Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/australias-independent-day-looms-as-voters-reel-from-a-gutful-of-politics/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s ‘independent day’ looms as voters reel from a ‘gutful’ of politics">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
RNZ Pacific French Polynesia’s Amuitahiraa Party has registered its three candidates for the French National Assembly elections next month — just hours before the nomination deadline. The three are Pascale Haiti, Jonathan Tariha’a and Sylviane Terooatea. Haiti, a former member of the French Polynesian Assembly, is the partner of party founder and leader Gaston Flosse, ... <a title="Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/flosses-amuitahiraa-party-names-candidates-for-french-elections/" aria-label="Read more about Flosse’s Amuitahiraa party names candidates for French elections">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2022
By Mara Cepeda in Manila Philippine Vice-President Leni Robredo will not allow the massive, volunteer-led movement she inspired in the 2022 presidential elections to just fade away following her loss to the late dictator’s son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. Facing tens of thousands of her supporters during her thanksgiving event at the Ateneo de Manila ... <a title="After election defeat, Robredo to lead ‘biggest volunteer movement in Philippine history’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/16/after-election-defeat-robredo-to-lead-biggest-volunteer-movement-in-philippine-history/" aria-label="Read more about After election defeat, Robredo to lead ‘biggest volunteer movement in Philippine history’">Read more</a>
