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August 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marnee Shay, Associate Professor, Principal Research Fellow School of Education, The University of Queensland The recent Closing the Gap report had some promising news for education, with a 25% increase in Aboriginal children enrolled in childcare over the past seven years. But other report figures show there ... <a title="Aboriginal children as young as 5 are getting suspended from school. We can’t ‘close the gap’ if this is happening" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/aboriginal-children-as-young-as-5-are-getting-suspended-from-school-we-cant-close-the-gap-if-this-is-happening-235889/" aria-label="Read more about Aboriginal children as young as 5 are getting suspended from school. We can’t ‘close the gap’ if this is happening">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hilary A Smith, Honorary Research Fellow (Linguistics), Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy – also known as “phonics” or the “science of reading” – to teach children how to ... <a title="Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/bilingualism-under-threat-structured-literacy-will-make-it-harder-for-children-to-hold-on-to-their-mother-tongue-236140/" aria-label="Read more about Bilingualism under threat: structured literacy will make it harder for children to hold on to their mother tongue">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Gaunson, Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University Stan/Matchbox Pictures The new Stan Original Australian crime series, Critical Incident, joins a long and impressive list of local crime dramas from streaming platforms, including Scrublands (2023) and Binge’s recent release High Country. This time, the camera zooms ... <a title="Critical Incident: new series set in Western Sydney examines the role of policing in diverse communities – with mixed results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/critical-incident-new-series-set-in-western-sydney-examines-the-role-of-policing-in-diverse-communities-with-mixed-results-234686/" aria-label="Read more about Critical Incident: new series set in Western Sydney examines the role of policing in diverse communities – with mixed results">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor Vanuatu is leaning on Aotearoa’s medicinal cannabis production expertise in an effort to prop up its own market. While the Melanesian nation has topped the Happy Planet Index list twice, as the happiest place in the world, it remains one of the most climate vulnerable states in the ... <a title="Vanuatu leader in NZ talks marijuana, seasonal workers and cyclones" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/12/vanuatu-leader-in-nz-talks-marijuana-seasonal-workers-and-cyclones/" aria-label="Read more about Vanuatu leader in NZ talks marijuana, seasonal workers and cyclones">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Astrid R.N. Haas, Adjunct professor, University of Toronto Land prices across many African cities are soaring. This is because land is a city’s key asset. As urbanisation progresses, demand for land will rise, and therefore so will land prices, because the supply of land in cities is ... <a title="Raising revenue from land: what African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/11/raising-revenue-from-land-what-african-cities-might-learn-from-hong-kongs-unique-land-lease-system-235327/" aria-label="Read more about Raising revenue from land: what African cities might learn from Hong Kong’s unique land-lease system">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist in Suva The high-level Pacific mission to New Caledonia will be a three person-led delegation and it is still expected to happen prior to the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders (PIF) Meeting in Tonga on August 26, says PIF chair Mark Brown. Brown, who is also the Cook Islands Prime ... <a title="Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/11/brown-rabuka-and-manele-to-lead-pacific-mission-to-new-caledonia/" aria-label="Read more about Brown, Rabuka and Manele to lead Pacific mission to New Caledonia">Read more</a>
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August 10, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Professor of Urban Policy and Planning, Hunter College Workers on a trolley at 5 p.m. in Baltimore, April 1943. Marjory Collins/Library of Congress, CC BY-ND Since the 1940s, there has been a broad shift away from public transit across the U.S., and service has ... <a title="A packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/10/a-packed-baltimore-trolley-illustrates-the-ups-and-downs-of-us-public-transit-234627/" aria-label="Read more about A packed Baltimore trolley illustrates the ups and downs of US public transit">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Victor Mambor in Jayapura and Pizaro Gozali Idrus in Jakarta Indonesian human rights groups have called for an independent investigation into the death of a New Zealand helicopter pilot in a remote part of Papua province earlier this week. The pilot, identified as Glen Malcolm Conning, was reportedly killed by an armed group shortly ... <a title="Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/indonesian-human-rights-groups-seek-independent-probe-of-nz-pilots-death-in-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesian human rights groups seek independent probe of NZ pilot’s death in Papua">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific presenter/Bulletin editor France has approved a high-level Pacific “fact-finding mission” to New Caledonia to gather information from all sides involved in the ongoing crisis. “We are welcoming a mission of the troika for a fact-finding mission in New Caledonia before the [Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting],” the French Ambassador to ... <a title="Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says diplomat" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/macron-gives-pacific-mission-to-kanaky-new-caledonia-green-light-says-diplomat/" aria-label="Read more about Macron gives Pacific mission to Kanaky New Caledonia green light, says diplomat">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
By Mick Hall A leading peace campaigner is calling Aotearoa New Zealand’s decision to stay away from a peace event in Nagasaki paying tribute to victims of the Japanese city’s 1945 nuclear bombing “outrageous”. Former trade union leader Robert Reid said New Zealand could have acted as a strong independent Pacific voice by attending today’s ... <a title="Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/advocate-slams-nz-snub-of-nagasaki-peace-tribute-as-outrageous/" aria-label="Read more about Advocate slams NZ snub of Nagasaki peace tribute as ‘outrageous’">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government next week will introduce legislation to force the appointment of an administrator into the recalcitrant CFMEU, after the union tried a delaying tactic to drag out court action. Workplace Relations Minister Murray Watt announced on Friday the ... <a title="Albanese government will introduce legislation next week to force an administrator into the CFMEU" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/albanese-government-will-introduce-legislation-next-week-to-force-an-administrator-into-the-cfmeu-236493/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government will introduce legislation next week to force an administrator into the CFMEU">Read more</a>
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August 9, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elisa Hill-Yardin, Professor and Head, Gut-Brain Axis Laboratory, RMIT University Oporty786/Shutterstock A study out recently has prompted much media attention about the role of plastics in developing autism. In particular, the study focused on exposure to a component of hard plastics – bisphenol A, or BPA – ... <a title="Do plastics cause autism? Here’s what the latest study really says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/do-plastics-cause-autism-heres-what-the-latest-study-really-says-236401/" aria-label="Read more about Do plastics cause autism? Here’s what the latest study really says">Read more</a>
