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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne Annie Spratt/Unsplash, CC BY-SA A major higher education review is considering putting a levy on international student fees in Australia. The idea is universities would pay some of the fees they ... <a title="What would a levy on international student fees mean for Australian universities?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/what-would-a-levy-on-international-student-fees-mean-for-australian-universities-215794/" aria-label="Read more about What would a levy on international student fees mean for Australian universities?">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Spiropoulos, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock What’s the easiest way to improve a company’s social and environmental performance? The unfortunate answer, from our analysis of Australian public companies, is to change the way you measure it. In particular, by changing what you said last ... <a title="How Australian companies can fudge their numbers to show social and environmental progress" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/how-australian-companies-can-fudge-their-numbers-to-show-social-and-environmental-progress-212442/" aria-label="Read more about How Australian companies can fudge their numbers to show social and environmental progress">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Shutterstock The High Court of Australia’s decision to invalidate Victoria’s electric vehicle tax has been widely noted as a major judgement in the history of federal-state taxation powers. In 2021, Victoria introduced a ... <a title="The High Court decision on electric vehicles will make charging for road use very difficult" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/the-high-court-decision-on-electric-vehicles-will-make-charging-for-road-use-very-difficult-216107/" aria-label="Read more about The High Court decision on electric vehicles will make charging for road use very difficult">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Featherstone, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University Mapping the Digital Gap Co-researcher Guruwuy Ganambarr using her mobile phone to connect to wifi in Gäṉgaṉ homeland, East Arnhem Land, NT. Daniel Featherstone, CC BY-NC-SA There are more than 1,500 remote First Nations communities and homelands around Australia, and ... <a title="‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/digital-inclusion-and-closing-the-gap-how-first-nations-leadership-is-key-to-getting-remote-communities-online-216085/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University Not counting periodic cross-border skirmishes, Israel has fought three major wars against Hamas since withdrawing its forces from Gaza in 2005 – in 2008, 2014 and 2021. Each involved limited ground incursions, with Israeli ... <a title="Even if Israel can completely eliminate Hamas, does it have a long-term plan for Gaza?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/even-if-israel-can-completely-eliminate-hamas-does-it-have-a-long-term-plan-for-gaza-216161/" aria-label="Read more about Even if Israel can completely eliminate Hamas, does it have a long-term plan for Gaza?">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Tswains, Shutterstock In the 1980s a single humpback whale in the Gulf of Maine developed the “lobtail feeding method”. This unique hunting method of slapping the water’s surface appears to drive fish into dense schools, making it ... <a title="From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/from-meerkat-school-to-whale-tail-slapping-and-oyster-smashing-how-clever-predators-shape-their-world-214213/" aria-label="Read more about From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra National Archives of Australia, CC BY-SA Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives ... <a title="As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/as-treasurer-bill-hayden-set-labor-on-the-path-to-economic-rationalism-216150/" aria-label="Read more about As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carmel Hobbs, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Warning: this article includes graphic descriptions of violence. Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these young people will have escaped family violence and then been ... <a title="Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/kids-escaping-family-violence-can-be-vulnerable-to-intimate-partner-abuse-we-must-break-the-vicious-cycle-212537/" aria-label="Read more about Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Barratt, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Farion_O/Shutterstock Many of the harms people experience from using illegal drugs are a result of unregulated supply. Drugs may be contaminated, or completely substituted with something unexpected. They may ... <a title="Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/novel-drugs-are-leading-to-rising-overdose-deaths-in-victoria-drug-checking-services-could-help-215791/" aria-label="Read more about Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Woessner, Lecturer in Clinical Exercise and Research Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Victoria University Shutterstock Sport is supposed to be a safe place for kids to learn and play. Too often, however, sporting clubs can be places where children are abused psychologically, ... <a title="Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/many-australian-kids-abused-in-sport-wont-ever-speak-up-its-time-we-break-the-silence-215884/" aria-label="Read more about Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zhen Zheng, Associate Professor, STEM | Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University gpointstudio/Shutterstock Around 5-10% of people in Australia experience symptoms for more than three months after a COVID infection, termed long COVID. So far, more than 200 different symptoms have been recorded, ranging from shortness of ... <a title="From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/from-diagnosis-to-services-and-support-how-australias-long-covid-response-is-falling-short-215056/" aria-label="Read more about From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition. In August, Victoria’s Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny made a decision that could set a difficult precedent for Australia’s ... <a title="How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/how-to-beat-rollout-rage-the-environment-versus-climate-battle-dividing-regional-australia-213863/" aria-label="Read more about How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia">Read more</a>
