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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jan Gothard, Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University The government and the Greens have agreed to a review of the significant cost threshold. It is the backbone of Australia’s migration health requirement, which all applicants for Australian visas are required to meet. The threshold is used to refuse ... <a title="A migration review could close some disability discrimination loopholes – but not for people already waiting or refused visas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/a-migration-review-could-close-some-disability-discrimination-loopholes-but-not-for-people-already-waiting-or-refused-visas-215894/" aria-label="Read more about A migration review could close some disability discrimination loopholes – but not for people already waiting or refused visas">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Report by Radio New Zealand. Algerian democracy activist Ahmed Zaoui, a New Zealand citizen, has been charged with subversion by police in his homeland. Zaoui was arrested at gunpoint three weeks ago, after holding a political meeting at his home. He had released a statement on behalf of the Islamic Salvation Front calling for ... <a title="Ahmed Zaoui facing subversion charges in Algeria – Radio New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/ahmed-zaoui-facing-subversion-charges-in-algeria-radio-new-zealand/" aria-label="Read more about Ahmed Zaoui facing subversion charges in Algeria – Radio New Zealand">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yancey Orr, Associate Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Smith College Shutterstock It was always going to be a big ask for Australians to vote in favour of an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. There’s been much said about the challenges posed by the double majority requirement. In ... <a title="Indigenous voices can be heard without being constitutionally enshrined, just look at the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/indigenous-voices-can-be-heard-without-being-constitutionally-enshrined-just-look-at-the-us-215810/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous voices can be heard without being constitutionally enshrined, just look at the US">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Old, Associate Professor, Biology, Zoology, Animal Science, Western Sydney University Sonijya/Shutterstock Launched in 2015, WomSAT (Wombat Survey and Analysis Tool) is a citizen science project and website that allows “wombat warriors” to report sightings of wombats, their burrows, and even their cube-shaped poops. The project initially ... <a title="2 biggest threats to wombats revealed in new data gathered by citizen scientists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/2-biggest-threats-to-wombats-revealed-in-new-data-gathered-by-citizen-scientists-215713/" aria-label="Read more about 2 biggest threats to wombats revealed in new data gathered by citizen scientists">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Griffin, Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, The University of Queensland SewCreamStudio/Shutterstock Many tiny organisms including bacteria, fungi and viruses normally live on our bodies, and even inside us. These are called the microbiome. The large number of these organisms living in the gastrointestinal tract are ... <a title="Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/could-gut-fungi-be-linked-to-severe-covid-what-to-make-of-new-research-findings-216084/" aria-label="Read more about Could gut fungi be linked to severe COVID? What to make of new research findings">Read more</a>
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October 24, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Shutterstock You probably saw a multi-coloured climate map at least once in school. You might have pored over it, fascinated. Was Antarctica really a cold desert? And why was so ... <a title="Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here’s what climate change is doing to it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/24/remember-the-climate-map-from-your-school-atlas-heres-what-climate-change-is-doing-to-it-216171/" aria-label="Read more about Remember the climate map from your school atlas? Here’s what climate change is doing to it">Read more</a>
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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>
