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May 6, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A new Commonwealth Prac Payment will provide students with $319.50 a week when they are on clinical and professional placements. The payment will be means tested and start from July 1 next year, which will be after the next election. ... <a title="Students on social work, nursing and teaching placements to get weekly $319.50 means tested Prac Payment from July next year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/06/students-on-social-work-nursing-and-teaching-placements-to-get-weekly-319-50-means-tested-prac-payment-from-july-next-year-229356/" aria-label="Read more about Students on social work, nursing and teaching placements to get weekly $319.50 means tested Prac Payment from July next year">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2024
Asia Pacific Report About 500 people honoured Palestinian journalists in the heart of the New Zealand city of Auckland today for their brave coverage of Israel’s War on Gaza, now in its seventh month with almost 35,000 people killed, mostly women and children. Marking the annual May 3 World Press Freedom Day “plus two”, the ... <a title="Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/auckland-palestine-rally-honours-gaza-journalists-for-freedom-award/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland Palestine rally honours Gaza journalists for freedom award">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2024
RNZ News A group of academic staff at New Zealand’s largest university have expressed concern at the administration’s move to block a protest encampment that was planned to take place on campus calling for support for the rights of Palestinians. This week, the University of Auckland warned that while it supported the right of students ... <a title="Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/auckland-academics-call-out-university-stance-over-pro-palestine-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Auckland academics call out university stance over pro-Palestine protest">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University Every year on June 1, student debt in Australia is indexed to inflation. In 2023, high inflation pushed the indexation rate to 7.1%, the highest since 1990. This year, if there is no policy ... <a title="The good news is the government plans to cancel $3 billion in student debt. The bad news is indexation will still be high" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/the-good-news-is-the-government-plans-to-cancel-3-billion-in-student-debt-the-bad-news-is-indexation-will-still-be-high-229284/" aria-label="Read more about The good news is the government plans to cancel $3 billion in student debt. The bad news is indexation will still be high">Read more</a>
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May 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Changes in the May 14 budget will cut the student debt of more than three million people, wiping more than $3 billion from what people owe. The government will cap the HELP indexation rate to be the lower of either ... <a title="Albanese government to wipe $3 billion in student debt, benefitting three million people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/05/albanese-government-to-wipe-3-billion-in-student-debt-benefitting-three-million-people-229285/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government to wipe $3 billion in student debt, benefitting three million people">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
Asia Pacific Report The prosecutor’s office at the International Criminal Court (ICC) has appealed for an end to what it calls intimidation of its staff, saying such threats could constitute an offence against the “administration of justice” by the world’s permanent war crimes court. The Hague-based office of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan said in a ... <a title="ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/icc-demands-end-to-threats-against-court-amid-gaza-war-probe/" aria-label="Read more about ICC demands end to threats against court amid Gaza war probe">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A women’s union in New Caledonia has staged a sit-in protest this week to support senior Kanak indigenous journalist Thérèse Waia, who works for public broadcaster Nouvelle-Calédonie la Première, after a smear attack by critics. The peaceful demonstration was held on Nouméa’s Place des Cocotiers to ... <a title="New Caledonia’s women sit-in to support smeared Kanak journalist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/new-caledonias-women-sit-in-to-support-smeared-kanak-journalist/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia’s women sit-in to support smeared Kanak journalist">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
By Stephen Wright and Stefan Armbruster of BenarNews Fiji’s ranking in a global press freedom index has jumped into the top tier of countries with free or mostly free media after its government last year repealed a draconian law that threatened journalists with prison for doing their jobs. Fiji’s improvement in the annual Reporters Without ... <a title="Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/fijis-media-freedom-ranking-jumps-papua-new-guineas-plummets/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji’s media freedom ranking jumps, Papua New Guinea’s plummets">Read more</a>
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May 4, 2024
Council members voted 21 to 4 in favour of Ahluwalia returning to the Laucala campus following a much-awaited meeting in Vanuatu this week. It comes as USP and its two unions — the Association of the University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) and the Administration and Support Staff Union (USPSU) — remain locked in ... <a title="USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/04/usp-council-votes-to-bring-controversial-vc-back-to-fiji/" aria-label="Read more about USP Council votes to bring controversial VC back to Fiji">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicola Henry, Professor & Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre, RMIT University Shutterstock Following an emergency meeting of the National Cabinet this week, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced a raft of measures to tackle the problem of gender-based violence. Among these is ... <a title="Figures like Andrew Tate may help spread misogyny. But they’re amplifying – not causing – the problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/03/figures-like-andrew-tate-may-help-spread-misogyny-but-theyre-amplifying-not-causing-the-problem-229128/" aria-label="Read more about Figures like Andrew Tate may help spread misogyny. But they’re amplifying – not causing – the problem">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Hall, Lecturer, Media & Cultural Studies, Edith Cowan University A longstanding feud between TikTok and Universal Music Group seems to have finally reached an end, with both parties signing a deal that will see Universal-backed music returned to the social media platform. Universal first removed its ... <a title="Universal’s music is returning to TikTok, ending a spat that hurt fans more than anyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/03/universals-music-is-returning-to-tiktok-ending-a-spat-that-hurt-fans-more-than-anyone-223324/" aria-label="Read more about Universal’s music is returning to TikTok, ending a spat that hurt fans more than anyone">Read more</a>
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May 3, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Siobhan O’Dean, Postdoctoral Research Associate, The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, University of Sydney After several highly publicised alleged murders of women in Australia, the Albanese government this week pledged more than A$925 million over five years to address men’s violence towards ... <a title="To tackle gendered violence, we also need to look at drugs, trauma and mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/03/to-tackle-gendered-violence-we-also-need-to-look-at-drugs-trauma-and-mental-health-229182/" aria-label="Read more about To tackle gendered violence, we also need to look at drugs, trauma and mental health">Read more</a>
