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December 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Peterie, Research Fellow, University of Sydney After a week of non-stop headlines, the government’s preventative detention legislation is being debated in the lower house, just in time for the end of the sitting year. It’s likely to pass on Thursday. The new laws will allow former ... <a title="What is the government’s preventative detention bill? Here’s how the laws will work and what they mean for Australia’s detention system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/07/what-is-the-governments-preventative-detention-bill-heres-how-the-laws-will-work-and-what-they-mean-for-australias-detention-system-219226/" aria-label="Read more about What is the government’s preventative detention bill? Here’s how the laws will work and what they mean for Australia’s detention system">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has promised extra funding for health and to extend its top-up of the GST, in exchange for the states undertaking more of the heavy lifting on disability to help curb the National Disability Insurance Scheme’s cost blowout. ... <a title="States agree to do more heavy lifting on disability, in exchange for extra health and GST funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/states-agree-to-do-more-heavy-lifting-on-disability-in-exchange-for-extra-health-and-gst-funding-219321/" aria-label="Read more about States agree to do more heavy lifting on disability, in exchange for extra health and GST funding">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leena Adel, PhD Candidate, Political Science and International Relations, Curtin University In recent days, three Israeli-linked commercial vessels were targeted by ballistic missiles and drones launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, marking a clear escalation in maritime attacks in the critical Bab el Mandab strait between the Red ... <a title="Why Yemen’s Houthis are getting involved in the Israel-Hamas war and how it could disrupt global shipping" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/why-yemens-houthis-are-getting-involved-in-the-israel-hamas-war-and-how-it-could-disrupt-global-shipping-219220/" aria-label="Read more about Why Yemen’s Houthis are getting involved in the Israel-Hamas war and how it could disrupt global shipping">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra Shutterstock The national accounts released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics show economic growth slid to a measly 0.2% in the last quarter. That’s well down from a low 0.4% in the June quarter. Of course, economic growth is ... <a title="The 7 charts that show Australians struggling as saving falls to near zero" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/the-7-charts-that-show-australians-struggling-as-saving-falls-to-near-zero-218924/" aria-label="Read more about The 7 charts that show Australians struggling as saving falls to near zero">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick O’Connor, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide Shutterstock Australians woke up this morning to discover they had a nature repair market, after the legislation passed late last night. Except it won’t be called a market, after amendments by the Greens, and it won’t include biodiversity offsets. Many ... <a title="Can the government’s new market mechanism help save nature? Yes – if we get the devil out of the detail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/can-the-governments-new-market-mechanism-help-save-nature-yes-if-we-get-the-devil-out-of-the-detail-218713/" aria-label="Read more about Can the government’s new market mechanism help save nature? Yes – if we get the devil out of the detail">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lily Hospers, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Shutterstock Australia is braced for a hot, dry summer. El Nino is back, and this year it will occur alongside an Indian Ocean dipole, a climate pattern which will further amplify this hot and dry effect. Hot weather can place ... <a title="It’s extremely hot and I’m feeling weak and dizzy. Could I have heat stroke?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/its-extremely-hot-and-im-feeling-weak-and-dizzy-could-i-have-heat-stroke-215084/" aria-label="Read more about It’s extremely hot and I’m feeling weak and dizzy. Could I have heat stroke?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. I. Brown, Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder in the Western Australian desert. CSIRO Supermassive black holes reside in some of the biggest galaxies in the universe. They tend to be billions of times more massive that our Sun, ... <a title="Astronomers finally caught radio waves from 40 large galaxies in the nearby universe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/astronomers-finally-caught-radio-waves-from-40-large-galaxies-in-the-nearby-universe-219205/" aria-label="Read more about Astronomers finally caught radio waves from 40 large galaxies in the nearby universe">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Baker, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland It was scarcely mentioned during the election campaign, but we will undoubtedly be hearing more about “social investment”. As the National Party’s election platform stated, it will be the “organising framework” for funding and delivering social services. ... <a title="The government hopes private investors will fund social services – the evidence isn’t so optimistic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/the-government-hopes-private-investors-will-fund-social-services-the-evidence-isnt-so-optimistic-218512/" aria-label="Read more about The government hopes private investors will fund social services – the evidence isn’t so optimistic">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Collins, Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle Shutterstock Why do some farts smell and some don’t, and some feel hot? – Kian, age 6, from Maleny in Queensland Hi Kian, thanks for your interesting questions! Let’s start with the smell. Whether or not ... <a title="Curious Kids: why do some farts smell and some don’t? And why do some farts feel hot?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/curious-kids-why-do-some-farts-smell-and-some-dont-and-why-do-some-farts-feel-hot-215064/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why do some farts smell and some don’t? And why do some farts feel hot?">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University Kane Skennar/Binge The inner workings of magazines, television stations and newspapers have been rich fodder for film and television for decades. From All the President’s Men (1976) to Frontline (1994–7), Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011) and The Newsreader ... <a title="Asher Keddie is outstanding in Strife – but the show gives us an uneven look at girlboss feminism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/asher-keddie-is-outstanding-in-strife-but-the-show-gives-us-an-uneven-look-at-girlboss-feminism-217364/" aria-label="Read more about Asher Keddie is outstanding in Strife – but the show gives us an uneven look at girlboss feminism">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne A federal Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted November 29 to December 3 from a sample of 1,605, gave Labor 35% of the primary vote (steady since ... <a title="Labor down but still has large lead in federal Resolve poll; it’s close in Queensland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/labor-down-but-still-has-large-lead-in-federal-resolve-poll-its-close-in-queensland-219012/" aria-label="Read more about Labor down but still has large lead in federal Resolve poll; it’s close in Queensland">Read more</a>
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December 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ivan Smirnov, Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock We’re now sadly used to seeing toxic exchanges play out on social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and TikTok. But Wikipedia is a reference work. How heated can people get over an encyclopedia? Our research, published ... <a title="Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are fleeing online abuse. Here’s what that could mean for the internet (and you)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/12/06/wikipedias-volunteer-editors-are-fleeing-online-abuse-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-the-internet-and-you-218517/" aria-label="Read more about Wikipedia’s volunteer editors are fleeing online abuse. Here’s what that could mean for the internet (and you)">Read more</a>
