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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra National Archives of Australia, CC BY-SA Former Labor leader and governor-general Bill Hayden, whose death was announced on Saturday, is rightly being remembered for introducing Australia’s first universal healthcare scheme Medibank, which lives ... <a title="As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/as-treasurer-bill-hayden-set-labor-on-the-path-to-economic-rationalism-216150/" aria-label="Read more about As treasurer, Bill Hayden set Labor on the path to economic rationalism">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Carmel Hobbs, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Tasmania Shutterstock Warning: this article includes graphic descriptions of violence. Nearly 13,000 Australian children aged 10 to 17 sought help alone from specialist homeless services last year. Many of these young people will have escaped family violence and then been ... <a title="Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/kids-escaping-family-violence-can-be-vulnerable-to-intimate-partner-abuse-we-must-break-the-vicious-cycle-212537/" aria-label="Read more about Kids escaping family violence can be vulnerable to intimate partner abuse. We must break the vicious cycle">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Barratt, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social Equity Research Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Farion_O/Shutterstock Many of the harms people experience from using illegal drugs are a result of unregulated supply. Drugs may be contaminated, or completely substituted with something unexpected. They may ... <a title="Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/novel-drugs-are-leading-to-rising-overdose-deaths-in-victoria-drug-checking-services-could-help-215791/" aria-label="Read more about Novel drugs are leading to rising overdose deaths in Victoria – drug checking services could help">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary Woessner, Lecturer in Clinical Exercise and Research Fellow, Institute for Health and Sport (iHeS), Victoria University, Victoria University Shutterstock Sport is supposed to be a safe place for kids to learn and play. Too often, however, sporting clubs can be places where children are abused psychologically, ... <a title="Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/many-australian-kids-abused-in-sport-wont-ever-speak-up-its-time-we-break-the-silence-215884/" aria-label="Read more about Many Australian kids abused in sport won’t ever speak up. It’s time we break the silence">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zhen Zheng, Associate Professor, STEM | Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University gpointstudio/Shutterstock Around 5-10% of people in Australia experience symptoms for more than three months after a COVID infection, termed long COVID. So far, more than 200 different symptoms have been recorded, ranging from shortness of ... <a title="From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/from-diagnosis-to-services-and-support-how-australias-long-covid-response-is-falling-short-215056/" aria-label="Read more about From diagnosis to services and support: how Australia’s long COVID response is falling short">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University This article is part of a series by The Conversation, Getting to Zero, examining Australia’s energy transition. In August, Victoria’s Planning Minister Sonya Kilkenny made a decision that could set a difficult precedent for Australia’s ... <a title="How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/how-to-beat-rollout-rage-the-environment-versus-climate-battle-dividing-regional-australia-213863/" aria-label="Read more about How to beat ‘rollout rage’: the environment-versus-climate battle dividing regional Australia">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mohan Yellishetty, Co-Founder, Critical Minerals Consortium, and Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University Shutterstock Newly announced closures of Glencore’s copper and zinc mines in Mt Isa will add to a huge number of former mines in Australia. A 2020 study by Monash University’s Resources Trinity ... <a title="Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/cleaning-up-australias-80-000-disused-mines-is-a-huge-job-but-the-payoffs-can-outweigh-the-costs-215447/" aria-label="Read more about Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Notley, Associate Professor in Digital Media, Western Sydney University Katerina Holmes/Pexels, CC BY-SA Adults might assume young people are not engaged in current affairs. But our survey reveals most Australian children and teenagers have a significant interest in the news. There has, however, been a drop ... <a title="Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/young-australians-increasingly-get-news-from-social-media-but-many-dont-understand-algorithms-215427/" aria-label="Read more about Young Australians increasingly get news from social media, but many don’t understand algorithms">Read more</a>
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October 23, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Andrews, Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University When Australia’s dirtiest coal-fired power plant, Hazelwood in Victoria, closed in 2017, Australian authorities were blind to the collateral damage. Closing a plant that accounted for ... <a title="Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/23/heres-what-happens-to-workers-when-coal-fired-power-plants-close-it-isnt-good-215434/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what happens to workers when coal-fired power plants close. It isn’t good">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
RNZ MEDIAWATCH: By Colin Peacock, RNZ Mediawatch presenter Major media organisations all over the world are copping criticism for the way they’re reporting what’s happening in Gaza and Israel. Mediawatch has asked BBC news boss Jonathan Munro how they’re handling it — even when it’s coming from the UK’s own government. “Palestinian health officials in Gaza ... <a title="Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/mediawatch-media-in-the-middle-of-gaza-claims-and-counterclaims/" aria-label="Read more about Mediawatch: Media in the middle of Gaza claims and counterclaims">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The defrost in China-Australia relations started cautiously after the change of federal government last year. It then sped up, with developments culminating in the formal announcement at the weekend of the date for the much-anticipated visit by Anthony Albanese. The ... <a title="View from The Hill: China-Australia relations head back to room temperature, with Albanese’s November visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/view-from-the-hill-china-australia-relations-head-back-to-room-temperature-with-albaneses-november-visit-216151/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: China-Australia relations head back to room temperature, with Albanese’s November visit">Read more</a>
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October 22, 2023
About 5000 pro-Palestinian supporters gathered in Auckland’s Aotea Square and marched down Queen Street today calling for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid in the War on Gaza. A co-organiser, Ming Al-Ansan, said: “We want our voices heard. Palestinian lives matter, so if we don’t do this then the media is not going to notice us.” ... <a title="Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/22/janfrie-wakim-time-to-take-action-over-the-gaza-bloodshed-hope-isnt-enough/" aria-label="Read more about Janfrie Wakim: Time to take action over the Gaza bloodshed – hope isn’t enough">Read more</a>
