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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands. The first increase in the current round will add about A$65 a month to the cost of paying off ... <a title="Stand by for the oddly designed Stage 3 tax cut that will send middle earners backwards and give high earners thousands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/stand-by-for-the-oddly-designed-stage-3-tax-cut-that-will-send-middle-earners-backwards-and-give-high-earners-thousands-182751/" aria-label="Read more about Stand by for the oddly designed Stage 3 tax cut that will send middle earners backwards and give high earners thousands">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah R. Feldman, Research Fellow, Institute for Water Futures, Australian National University While there was plenty of heat in Sunday’s night’s debate between Labor and Coalition leaders, one issue was barely mentioned: climate change. This raises a large red flag for Australia’s young voters. In an election ... <a title="Young voters will inherit a hotter, more dangerous world – but their climate interests are being ignored this election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/young-voters-will-inherit-a-hotter-more-dangerous-world-but-their-climate-interests-are-being-ignored-this-election-182663/" aria-label="Read more about Young voters will inherit a hotter, more dangerous world – but their climate interests are being ignored this election">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gareth Edwards, Associate Professor, University of East Anglia Shutterstock At last year’s Glasgow climate conference, countries lined up to increase their ambition to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Even Australia brought a new target of net-zero emissions by 2050, and signed the final agreement which called for a ... <a title="Australia’s next government must start talking about a ‘just transition’ from coal. Here’s where to begin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/australias-next-government-must-start-talking-about-a-just-transition-from-coal-heres-where-to-begin-181707/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s next government must start talking about a ‘just transition’ from coal. Here’s where to begin">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rob Nicholls, Associate professor in regulation and governance, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published information from Facebook whistleblowers, alleging Facebook (which is owned by Meta) deliberately caused havoc in Australia last year to influence the News Media Bargaining Code before it was passed ... <a title="Stuff-up or conspiracy? Whistleblowers claim Facebook deliberately let important non-news pages go down in news blackout" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/stuff-up-or-conspiracy-whistleblowers-claim-facebook-deliberately-let-important-non-news-pages-go-down-in-news-blackout-182673/" aria-label="Read more about Stuff-up or conspiracy? Whistleblowers claim Facebook deliberately let important non-news pages go down in news blackout">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Murphy, Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History, Monash University Shutterstock Universities like to associate themselves with exceptional individuals through the awarding of honorary doctorates, but this practice has often attracted controversy, creating headaches for university administrators. Honorary doctorates highlight uncomfortable but important questions about the purpose of ... <a title="Why award honorary doctorates, and what do the choices say about our universities?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/why-award-honorary-doctorates-and-what-do-the-choices-say-about-our-universities-179300/" aria-label="Read more about Why award honorary doctorates, and what do the choices say about our universities?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne Achmad Ibrahim/AP/AAP We are into the final fortnight of the election campaign, and commentators have noted that climate change has been almost invisible. This is despite the latest IPCC report in April calling for urgent action ... <a title="Imagine it’s 2030 and Australia is a renewable energy superpower in Southeast Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/imagine-its-2030-and-australia-is-a-renewable-energy-superpower-in-southeast-asia-177646/" aria-label="Read more about Imagine it’s 2030 and Australia is a renewable energy superpower in Southeast Asia">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marcus Harmes, Professor in Pathways Education, University of Southern Queensland Netflix The BBC’s announcement that the Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa will play Doctor Who from 2023 is making global headlines. Even people who don’t watch the show have been taking to social media to comment about Gatwa’s ... <a title="60 years and 14 Doctors: how Doctor Who has changed with the times – and Ncuti Gatwa’s casting is the natural next step" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/60-years-and-14-doctors-how-doctor-who-has-changed-with-the-times-and-ncuti-gatwas-casting-is-the-natural-next-step-182677/" aria-label="Read more about 60 years and 14 Doctors: how Doctor Who has changed with the times – and Ncuti Gatwa’s casting is the natural next step">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Hall, Professor of Health Economics and Director, Centre for Health Economics Research and Evaluation, University of Technology Sydney During elections, we usually hear calls for the government and opposition to commit to increasing funding for hospitals. While states are responsible for running hospitals, the federal government ... <a title="Remind me, how are hospitals funded in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/remind-me-how-are-hospitals-funded-in-australia-177915/" aria-label="Read more about Remind me, how are hospitals funded in Australia?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement and five other small nationalist parties have agreed that they will only discuss the territory’s accession to full sovereignty in talks planned with France. The joint position was adopted at the weekend at the congress of the FLNKS and then a meeting ... <a title="FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/flnks-insists-on-full-sovereignty-for-kanaky-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about FLNKS insists on full sovereignty for Kanaky New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Chapman, Postdoctoral Fellow in Geology, University of New England Artwork by Katrina Kenny © 2022, Author provided Some 252 million years ago the world was going through a tumultuous period of rapid global warming. To understand what caused it, scientists have looked to one particular event ... <a title="How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world’s greatest climate catastrophe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/how-a-volcanic-bombardment-in-ancient-australia-led-to-the-worlds-greatest-climate-catastrophe-178037/" aria-label="Read more about How a volcanic bombardment in ancient Australia led to the world’s greatest climate catastrophe">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Walter, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Monash University In troubled times, people look for strong leaders – men and women who offer decisive action to address collective problems, and promise the capacity to deliver. They initially present as larger-than-life characters, and we’ve had our share of ... <a title="Times are tough, and may get tougher, so where can Australians find strong political leadership?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/times-are-tough-and-may-get-tougher-so-where-can-australians-find-strong-political-leadership-182326/" aria-label="Read more about Times are tough, and may get tougher, so where can Australians find strong political leadership?">Read more</a>
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May 10, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Treasure McGuire, Assistant Director of Pharmacy, Mater Health SEQ in conjoint appointment as Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Bond University and Associate Professor (Clinical), The University of Queensland Shutterstock Australia’s surge in COVID cases this year has seen many people looking for ways to protect themselves or boost ... <a title="Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from COVID?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/10/can-taking-vitamins-and-supplements-help-you-recover-from-covid-182220/" aria-label="Read more about Can taking vitamins and supplements help you recover from COVID?">Read more</a>
