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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dorina Pojani, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Queensland With the nation feeling the pressures of a housing crisis, some believe the Australian government needs to ease housing demand by limiting international migration. To others, this sentiment comes across as xenophobic. They dismiss it outright, ... <a title="Think curbing overseas migration will end the housing crisis? It won’t – and we can’t afford to do it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/think-curbing-overseas-migration-will-end-the-housing-crisis-it-wont-and-we-cant-afford-to-do-it-211120/" aria-label="Read more about Think curbing overseas migration will end the housing crisis? It won’t – and we can’t afford to do it">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Whitehouse, Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia Professor Bruce Bonyhady is often described as the architect of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and is co-chair of the panel reviewing it. He spoke last week about the sustainability challenges faced ... <a title="20% of children have developmental delay. What does this mean for them, their families and the NDIS?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/20-of-children-have-developmental-delay-what-does-this-mean-for-them-their-families-and-the-ndis-212097/" aria-label="Read more about 20% of children have developmental delay. What does this mean for them, their families and the NDIS?">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
New Zealand Politics Daily is a collation of the most prominent issues being discussed in New Zealand. It is edited by Dr Bryce Edwards of The Democracy Project. NZ Politics Daily: 28 August 2023 ELECTION, WORKING WITH NZ FIRST Jo Moir (Newsroom): Chris Hipkins unleashes as he prepares for dogfight Luke Malpass (Post): Chris Hipkins to Winston Peters: ... <a title="Newsletter: August 28 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/newsletter-august-28-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: August 28 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Agnew, Senior Lecturer of Economics, University of Canterbury Even as an economics student at university, I remember heading into town on a Friday night knowing what I needed to pay the bills before I could spend on socialising. But despite having the financial literacy to know ... <a title="Financial education has its limits – if we want New Zealanders to be better with money, we need to start at home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/financial-education-has-its-limits-if-we-want-new-zealanders-to-be-better-with-money-we-need-to-start-at-home-212098/" aria-label="Read more about Financial education has its limits – if we want New Zealanders to be better with money, we need to start at home">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock The more people take up private health insurance, the less pressure on the public hospital system, including shorter waiting lists for surgery. That’s one of the key messages we’ve been hearing from government and the private ... <a title="Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/does-private-health-insurance-cut-public-hospital-waiting-lists-we-found-it-barely-makes-a-dent-211680/" aria-label="Read more about Does private health insurance cut public hospital waiting lists? We found it barely makes a dent">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University KLC/Ewan Noakes, CC BY-ND Even though it’s still winter, the fire season has already started in Australia’s arid centre. About half of the Tjoritja West MacDonnell National Park west of Alice Springs has burnt this year. The ... <a title="Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/indigenous-rangers-are-burning-the-desert-the-right-way-to-stop-the-wrong-kind-of-intense-fires-from-raging-211900/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous rangers are burning the desert the right way – to stop the wrong kind of intense fires from raging">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucas Walsh, Professor and Director of the Centre for Youth Policy and Education Practice, Monash University Shutterstock As we pass the half way mark in term 3, many students in Year 12 will be thinking more and more about their future. Universities and TAFEs are having open ... <a title="‘So many things to consider’: how to help school leavers decide what to do next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/so-many-things-to-consider-how-to-help-school-leavers-decide-what-to-do-next-211189/" aria-label="Read more about ‘So many things to consider’: how to help school leavers decide what to do next">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janneke Blijlevens, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University These shoes are perfect, made for me! I have to get them! But really, I should be paying off my car loan instead. I can’t justify this purchase. Or can I …? We all know this feeling, this tension ... <a title="#GirlMaths: a seemingly innocent and fun way to justify expenses that can have serious financial consequences" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/girlmaths-a-seemingly-innocent-and-fun-way-to-justify-expenses-that-can-have-serious-financial-consequences-211903/" aria-label="Read more about #GirlMaths: a seemingly innocent and fun way to justify expenses that can have serious financial consequences">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Phiddian, Professor of English, Flinders University After seven decades as a visual satirist provoking Australia as it is and might be, Bruce Petty passed away at 93 on April 6 this year. His career as a political cartoonist started with a trip to London in the ... <a title="How cartoonist Bruce Petty documented the Vietnam War – and how his great satire keeps finding its moment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/how-cartoonist-bruce-petty-documented-the-vietnam-war-and-how-his-great-satire-keeps-finding-its-moment-208952/" aria-label="Read more about How cartoonist Bruce Petty documented the Vietnam War – and how his great satire keeps finding its moment">Read more</a>
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August 28, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The United Liberation Movement for West Papua has responded cautiously over the Melanesian Spearhead Group’s surprise denial of full membership at its leaders summit last week, welcoming the communique while calling for urgent action over Indonesia’s grave human rights violations. In a statement released today by President Benny Wenda after the second ... <a title="Wenda calls on MSG for urgent action to back pledge over human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/28/wenda-calls-on-msg-for-urgent-action-to-back-pledge-over-human-rights/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda calls on MSG for urgent action to back pledge over human rights">Read more</a>
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August 27, 2023
Asia Pacific Report A West Papuan leader has condemned the Melanesian Spearhead Group for abandoning the West Papuan cause in favour of a “corrupt alliance” with Indonesia. Jeffrey P Bomanak, chairman of the Free Papua Organisation (OPM), declared last week’s MSG Leaders’ Summit ruling on West Papua a “betrayal” of the Papuan people and called ... <a title="OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense of West Papuan justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/27/opm-accuses-melanesian-group-of-taking-jakartas-blood-money-at-expense-of-west-papuan-justice/" aria-label="Read more about OPM accuses Melanesian group of taking Jakarta’s ‘blood money’ at expense of West Papuan justice">Read more</a>
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August 26, 2023
The battle to stop the destruction in Australia of critical koala habitats in state forests in Northern NSW has escalated in recent weeks. Wendy Bacon reports on the campaign from daring lock-ons and vigils in the depth of forests to rallies, parliament and courts in Sydney which has led to a halt to logging in ... <a title="Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/26/australian-fight-to-protect-koala-habitats-in-northern-nsw-heats-up/" aria-label="Read more about Australian fight to protect koala habitats in northern NSW heats up">Read more</a>
