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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Hayward, Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, RMIT University Taras Vyshnya/Shutterstock The Victorian government this week gave the state’s local councils a gargantuan task: solve the housing crisis by accelerating new housing. Each council now has a target for new housing to reach by 2051. By that ... <a title="Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/plucking-numbers-from-the-air-victorias-big-build-for-housing-relies-on-impossible-targets-232712/" aria-label="Read more about Plucking numbers from the air: Victoria’s big build for housing relies on impossible targets">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Neikirk, Program Convenor, Criminology, University of Newcastle A French jury of matrons in 1771. British Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-SA It’s hard to imagine now, but for almost 1,000 years, pregnant women in England could avoid the death penalty just by virtue of ... <a title="Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped our legal history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australias-first-civilian-jury-was-entirely-female-heres-how-juries-of-matrons-shaped-our-legal-history-229283/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s first civilian jury was entirely female. Here’s how ‘juries of matrons’ shaped our legal history">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
By Mong Palatino of Global Voices The situation has remained tense in the French Pacific territory of Kanaky New Caledonia more than a month after protests and riots erupted in response to the passage of a bill in France’s National Assembly that would have diluted the voting power of the Indigenous Kanak population. Nine people ... <a title="Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/kanaky-new-caledonia-unrest-everything-is-negotiable-except-independence/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaky New Caledonia unrest: ‘Everything is negotiable, except independence’">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Fernandez, Senior lecturer and researcher in chiropractic, CQUniversity Australia Dmitry Naumov/Shutterstock Chiropractors in Australia will not be able to perform spinal manipulation on children under the age of two once more, following health concerns from doctors and politicians. But what is the spinal treatment at the ... <a title="Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s what the evidence actually says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/chiropractors-have-been-banned-again-from-manipulating-babies-spines-heres-what-the-evidence-actually-says-232721/" aria-label="Read more about Chiropractors have been banned again from manipulating babies’ spines. Here’s what the evidence actually says">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ty Christopher, Director Energy Futures Network, University of Wollongong ShutterDesigner, Shutterstock On the weekend, an area 20km off the Illawarra coast south of Sydney became Australia’s fourth offshore wind energy zone. It’s the most controversial zone to date, with consultation attracting a record 14,211 submissions – of ... <a title="Australia needs large-scale energy production – here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australia-needs-large-scale-energy-production-here-are-3-reasons-why-offshore-wind-is-a-good-fit-232899/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs large-scale energy production – here are 3 reasons why offshore wind is a good fit">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Triggs, Visiting research fellow, Australian National University MarekVelechovsky/Shutterstock Workers who were made redundant in coal-fired power plants between 2010 and 2020 saw their incomes plummet by 69% in the year after they lost their jobs. This was the staggering finding of research by Dan Andrews, Elyse ... <a title="Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/australian-coal-mine-and-power-station-workers-prospects-look-bleak-unless-we-start-offering-more-targeted-support-232908/" aria-label="Read more about Australian coal mine and power station workers’ prospects look bleak – unless we start offering more targeted support">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeffrey McNeill, Honorary Research Associate, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Getty Images The government’s Fast-track Approvals Bill has been widely criticised for potentially handing too much power to three cabinet ministers, and raising the risk of conflicts of interest and political interference in environmental ... <a title="Resource management is always political – the Fast-track Approvals Bill is just honest about it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/resource-management-is-always-political-the-fast-track-approvals-bill-is-just-honest-about-it-232256/" aria-label="Read more about Resource management is always political – the Fast-track Approvals Bill is just honest about it">Read more</a>
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June 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brianna Le Busque, Lecturer in Environmental Science, University of South Australia Netflix Another year, another movie with a shark in the leading role. The new French thriller film Under Paris is currently ranked second in Australia’s Top 10 list and has broken records as one of Netflix’s ... <a title="A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these animals?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/21/a-huge-shark-terrorises-people-in-new-french-hit-under-paris-when-will-we-stop-villainising-these-animals-232156/" aria-label="Read more about A huge shark terrorises people in new French hit Under Paris. When will we stop villainising these animals?">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geochronology, Curtin University Lukas Gojda / Shutterstock Our planet was born around 4.5 billion years ago. To understand this mind-bendingly long history, we need to study rocks and the minerals they are made of. The oldest rocks in Australia, which are some of ... <a title="A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earth’s primordial crust near Perth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/a-groundbreaking-discovery-how-we-found-remnants-of-earths-primordial-crust-near-perth-231828/" aria-label="Read more about A groundbreaking discovery: how we found remnants of Earth’s primordial crust near Perth">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist As New Caledonia passes the one-month mark since violent and deadly clashes erupted on last month, there has been no clear path put forward by Paris as far as the Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) is concerned. Yesterday, eight people — including the leader of the Field ... <a title="‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/we-cannot-have-peace-without-independence-says-kanak-govt-official/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We cannot have peace without independence,’ says Kanak govt official">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra No one doubts Peter Dutton has a huge task to sell his radical nuclear plan, with many experts throwing buckets of cold water over it. But on Thursday the opposition leader received some welcome backing. Ziggy Switkowski, who headed John ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton is seated aloft the nuclear tiger, hoping not to get eaten" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/grattan-on-friday-peter-dutton-is-seated-aloft-the-nuclear-tiger-hoping-not-to-get-eaten-232910/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Peter Dutton is seated aloft the nuclear tiger, hoping not to get eaten">Read more</a>
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June 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jordana Hunter, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute The Victorian Auditor-General has just released an audit of Victoria’s A$1.2 billion tutoring program designed to help struggling students post-COVID. The report found the program “did not significantly improve students’ learning compared to similar non-tutored students” in 2023. Late ... <a title="Victoria’s $1.2 billion school tutoring program has not ‘significantly improved’ learning. How could it work better?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/20/victorias-1-2-billion-school-tutoring-program-has-not-significantly-improved-learning-how-could-it-work-better-232832/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s $1.2 billion school tutoring program has not ‘significantly improved’ learning. How could it work better?">Read more</a>
