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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock The funding of Australia’s aged care is fast reaching a critical point. As our recent report shows, the costs of providing high-quality services will likely escalate to A$40 billion by 2026 as the first baby boomers ... <a title="Money’s tight for young people. Adding a Medicare-style levy to everyone’s tax bill is the wrong way to increase aged-care funding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/moneys-tight-for-young-people-adding-a-medicare-style-levy-to-everyones-tax-bill-is-the-wrong-way-to-increase-aged-care-funding-210963/" aria-label="Read more about Money’s tight for young people. Adding a Medicare-style levy to everyone’s tax bill is the wrong way to increase aged-care funding">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Emslie, Senior Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science The Great Barrier Reef is not dead. Nor is it in good health. The truth is complex. To understand what’s going on takes more than a headline. For the last 37 years, our organisation has monitored the ... <a title="Is the Great Barrier Reef reviving – or dying? Here’s what’s happening beyond the headlines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/is-the-great-barrier-reef-reviving-or-dying-heres-whats-happening-beyond-the-headlines-210558/" aria-label="Read more about Is the Great Barrier Reef reviving – or dying? Here’s what’s happening beyond the headlines">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Cornell, PhD Candidate, UNSW Beach Safety Research Group, School of Population Health, UNSW Sydney A rip current flows straight out to sea. Rob Brander Danger lurks in the surf beaches of Australia in the form of rip currents or rips. These narrow, fast-flowing, seaward channels of ... <a title="‘Your first emotion is panic’: rips cause many beach drownings, but we can learn from the survivors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/your-first-emotion-is-panic-rips-cause-many-beach-drownings-but-we-can-learn-from-the-survivors-210982/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Your first emotion is panic’: rips cause many beach drownings, but we can learn from the survivors">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Coate, Senior Lecturer in Economics, RMIT University Shutterstock Concerns about power imbalances and toxic working environments in the film and TV industries long pre-date the emergence of #metoo as a global rallying cry against sexual assault and harassment on set. Well-intentioned policymakers have made many attempts ... <a title="Film camera departments operate on a system of who you know, so what happens when you’re not a member of the in-group?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/film-camera-departments-operate-on-a-system-of-who-you-know-so-what-happens-when-youre-not-a-member-of-the-in-group-209786/" aria-label="Read more about Film camera departments operate on a system of who you know, so what happens when you’re not a member of the in-group?">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Asia Pacific Report The leader of the Free Papua Movement (OPM) has called for the establishment of a “United Indigenous Nations” for global justice and an end to Indonesia’s ‘malignant’ colonisation of West Papua. Today — August 9 — is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, as declared at the inaugural UN Working ... <a title="OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/opm-leader-calls-for-world-indigenous-un-end-to-papuan-colonisation/" aria-label="Read more about OPM leader calls for ‘world indigenous UN’ – end to Papuan colonisation">Read more</a>
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August 9, 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 Mick Tsikas/AAP A national Essential poll, conducted August 2–6 from a sample of 1,150, gave “no” to the Indigenous Voice to parliament a 47–43 lead, reversing a ... <a title="‘No’ to the Voice takes lead in Essential poll; huge swing to Libs at WA state byelection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/no-to-the-voice-takes-lead-in-essential-poll-huge-swing-to-libs-at-wa-state-byelection-210685/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No’ to the Voice takes lead in Essential poll; huge swing to Libs at WA state byelection">Read more</a>
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August 9, 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. Today’s content ELECTION, PARLIAMENT Peter Stahel (Guardian): Most say New Zealand is on the wrong track – can it avoid a drift to populism? Charlotte Graham=McLay (Guardian): Guardian Essential poll ... <a title="Newsletter: August 9 2023 – Items of interest and importance today" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/newsletter-august-9-2023-items-of-interest-and-importance-today/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: August 9 2023 – Items of interest and importance today">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, and Deputy Director, Allens Hub for Technology, Law & Innovation, UNSW Sydney Worldcoin Millions of people worldwide are lining up to stare into a silver sphere about the size of a bowling ball so their irises can be ... <a title="Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/worldcoin-is-scanning-eyeballs-to-build-a-global-id-and-finance-system-governments-are-not-impressed-210980/" aria-label="Read more about Worldcoin is scanning eyeballs to build a global ID and finance system. Governments are not impressed">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Dawes, Research Fellow in Medico-Legal History, Australian National University Shutterstock Losing weight conveniently, cheaply, safely. That’s been the holy grail of weight-loss ever since 19th century English undertaker and weight-loss celebrity William Banting’s 1863 Letter on Corpulence spruiked his “miraculous” method of slimming down. Since then, ... <a title="Ozempic is in the spotlight but it’s just the latest in a long and strange history of weight-loss drugs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/ozempic-is-in-the-spotlight-but-its-just-the-latest-in-a-long-and-strange-history-of-weight-loss-drugs-209324/" aria-label="Read more about Ozempic is in the spotlight but it’s just the latest in a long and strange history of weight-loss drugs">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neale, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Protesters rallied at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday, railing against Darwin’s controversial Middle Arm venture which critics say would benefit the gas industry. The project has been thrust into the headlines of late. Northern Territory Chief Minister Natasha Fyles ... <a title="Darwin’s ‘sustainable’ Middle Arm project reveals Australia’s huge climate policy gamble" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/darwins-sustainable-middle-arm-project-reveals-australias-huge-climate-policy-gamble-206000/" aria-label="Read more about Darwin’s ‘sustainable’ Middle Arm project reveals Australia’s huge climate policy gamble">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gavin Moodie, Adjunct Professor, Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education, OISE, University of Toronto Shutterstock One of the headline ideas floated by the Universities Accord interim report is a second national university. This would be on top of the existing Australian National University in Canberra. The ... <a title="A national university for regional Australia isn’t necessarily a smart idea. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/a-national-university-for-regional-australia-isnt-necessarily-a-smart-idea-heres-why-210909/" aria-label="Read more about A national university for regional Australia isn’t necessarily a smart idea. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edith Jennifer Hill, Associate Lecturer, Flinders University TikTok The one constant the internet offers us is a continual rotation of trends. Months ago, the trend was people exhibiting “main character energy”. People were imagining themselves as main characters in their own life show: they were the ones ... <a title="People are pretending to be ‘NPCs’ on TikTok and it’s not just weird, it’s also lucrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/09/people-are-pretending-to-be-npcs-on-tiktok-and-its-not-just-weird-its-also-lucrative-210795/" aria-label="Read more about People are pretending to be ‘NPCs’ on TikTok and it’s not just weird, it’s also lucrative">Read more</a>
