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November 15, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Vasantkumar, Lecturer in Anthropology, Macquarie University Shutterstock A simple software upgrade went wrong. Across the country economic life ground to a halt. Groceries were abandoned at supermarket checkouts. Commerce was paralysed as the nation waited for its payment system to be brought back on line. The ... <a title="Cash may no longer be king, but the Optus debacle shows it is still necessary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/15/cash-may-no-longer-be-king-but-the-optus-debacle-shows-it-is-still-necessary-217520/" aria-label="Read more about Cash may no longer be king, but the Optus debacle shows it is still necessary">Read more</a>
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November 15, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tashi Dema, PhD Candidate in Language and Politics, University of New England Shutterstock Dechen, 40, grew up in Thimphu, the capital city of Bhutan. Her native language was Mangdip, also known as Nyenkha, as her parents are originally from central Bhutan. She went to schools in the ... <a title="How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan’s unwritten local languages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/15/how-social-media-is-breathing-new-life-into-bhutans-unwritten-local-languages-210280/" aria-label="Read more about How social media is breathing new life into Bhutan’s unwritten local languages">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The Albanese government is about to have to make a really important decision. It’s going to have to decide what’s more important: supporting Australians who are financially under water, or keeping an election promise. And ... <a title="We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/we-could-make-most-australians-richer-and-still-save-billions-its-not-too-late-to-fix-the-stage-3-tax-cuts-217560/" aria-label="Read more about We could make most Australians richer and still save billions – it’s not too late to fix the Stage 3 tax cuts">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Christopher Luxon and Nicola Willis have a bottom-line policy of delivering “tax relief” to New Zealand’s “squeezed middle”. Their modest policy is to increase the first three income tax thresholds by 11.5%, representing compensation for about two years of inflation-driven tax increases. (Labour’s policy, by contrast, was to take advantage of ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Christopher Luxon is tone deaf and slightly innumerate on tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/keith-rankin-analysis-christopher-luxon-is-tone-deaf-and-slightly-innumerate-on-tax/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Christopher Luxon is tone deaf and slightly innumerate on tax">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Kokhanchikov/Shutterstock Dual outbreaks of gastro and COVID on the Grand Princess cruise ship that docked in Adelaide on Monday have now been declared over by the doctor on board. A spokesperson for Princess Cruises, ... <a title="From COVID to gastro, why are cruise ships such hotbeds of infection?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/from-covid-to-gastro-why-are-cruise-ships-such-hotbeds-of-infection-217534/" aria-label="Read more about From COVID to gastro, why are cruise ships such hotbeds of infection?">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Ellis, Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Newcastle, University of Newcastle The New South Wales Special Commission of Inquiry into LGBTIQ hate crimes has held its final public sitting in Sydney today. The special commission investigated unsolved suspected hate crime deaths of LGBTIQ people ... <a title="Shining a light on injustice: how an inquiry fought for LGBTIQ recognition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/shining-a-light-on-injustice-how-an-inquiry-fought-for-lgbtiq-recognition-217537/" aria-label="Read more about Shining a light on injustice: how an inquiry fought for LGBTIQ recognition">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anya Schiffrin, Senior Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Shutterstock In a time of war and populism, the world needs quality information and credible news outlets. Local news is a part of this healthy ecology. But news publishers have struggled to find ways ... <a title="Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/why-google-and-meta-owe-news-publishers-much-more-than-you-think-and-billions-more-than-theyd-like-to-admit-216818/" aria-label="Read more about Why Google and Meta owe news publishers much more than you think – and billions more than they’d like to admit">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University More than five weeks into Israel’s war with Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not outlined his future vision for Gaza. He has said many times the war will continue until Hamas is eradicated. ... <a title="As calls grow louder for a Gaza ceasefire, Netanyahu is providing few clues about his strategy or post-war plans" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/as-calls-grow-louder-for-a-gaza-ceasefire-netanyahu-is-providing-few-clues-about-his-strategy-or-post-war-plans-217653/" aria-label="Read more about As calls grow louder for a Gaza ceasefire, Netanyahu is providing few clues about his strategy or post-war plans">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark A Gregory, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, RMIT University Around 4.05am on Wednesday November 8 2023, Optus suffered a nationwide network outage lasting well into the evening, more than 12 hours later. Now, Optus has released some information on what happened, stating “we now know what ... <a title="Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/optus-has-revealed-the-cause-of-the-major-outage-could-it-happen-again-217564/" aria-label="Read more about Optus has revealed the cause of the major outage. Could it happen again?">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hutchinson, PhD Candidate, Australian National University On November 1, Pakistan began a nationwide operation to deport over 1.7 million Afghans it says are living in the country illegally. There are now an estimated 10,000 people returning to Afghanistan each day. Pakistan has indicated the deportations are ... <a title="Why Western countries share the blame for the plight of 1.7 million Afghans being deported from Pakistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/why-western-countries-share-the-blame-for-the-plight-of-1-7-million-afghans-being-deported-from-pakistan-217532/" aria-label="Read more about Why Western countries share the blame for the plight of 1.7 million Afghans being deported from Pakistan">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stacey Pizzino, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland When armed conflict breaks out, we first focus on the people affected. But the suffering from war doesn’t stop when the fighting does. War trashes the environment. Artillery strikes, rockets and landmines release pollutants, wipe out forests and can ... <a title="Conflict pollution, washed-up landmines and military emissions – here’s how war trashes the environment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/conflict-pollution-washed-up-landmines-and-military-emissions-heres-how-war-trashes-the-environment-216987/" aria-label="Read more about Conflict pollution, washed-up landmines and military emissions – here’s how war trashes the environment">Read more</a>
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November 14, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Shah, Senior Lecturer in Education, University of Auckland In October alone, more children were reported to have died in Gaza than the total number of children killed annually in all other conflicts since 2019. The awful statistic led to United Nations Secretary General António Guterres calling ... <a title="‘We remain afraid of the future’ – how Palestinian children’s optimism was fading even before this crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/11/14/we-remain-afraid-of-the-future-how-palestinian-childrens-optimism-was-fading-even-before-this-crisis-217535/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We remain afraid of the future’ – how Palestinian children’s optimism was fading even before this crisis">Read more</a>
