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August 9, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Denis Muller, The University of Melbourne ABC chair Kim Williams has attracted considerable attention with his criticism of the broadcaster’s online news choices. Williams has taken issue with what he sees as the ABC prioritising lifestyle stories over hard news. In the process, he has raised an important issue of principle. Is it ... <a title="Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/09/kim-williams-is-right-to-criticise-how-the-abc-covers-news-but-he-needs-to-fix-it/" aria-label="Read more about Kim Williams is right to criticise how the ABC covers news, but he needs to fix it">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government might be likened to the harried house-husband struggling with untidy rooms, dog hairs on the carpet, and piles of clothes in or waiting for the washing machine. All this, with a property inspection looming that threatens a ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese government has a lot of housework ahead of voters’ property inspection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/grattan-on-friday-albanese-government-has-a-lot-of-housework-ahead-of-voters-property-inspection-236334/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese government has a lot of housework ahead of voters’ property inspection">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer, School of Business, Western Sydney University Africa Voice/Shutterstock Olympian Tom Daley is the most decorated diver in Britain’s history. He is also an avid knitter. At the Paris 2024 Olympics Daley added a fifth medal to his collection – and caught the world’s ... <a title="Knitting helps Tom Daley switch off. Its mental health benefits are not just for Olympians" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/knitting-helps-tom-daley-switch-off-its-mental-health-benefits-are-not-just-for-olympians-236051/" aria-label="Read more about Knitting helps Tom Daley switch off. Its mental health benefits are not just for Olympians">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Buchanan, Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney From December the typical early childhood educator and carer will get a pay rise of at least $103 per week. By the following December, it will be more, taking the total ... <a title="Giving early childhood educators an extra 15% is good policy, and even better politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/giving-early-childhood-educators-an-extra-15-is-good-policy-and-even-better-politics-236336/" aria-label="Read more about Giving early childhood educators an extra 15% is good policy, and even better politics">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist France is “checking” whether a high-level mission to New Caledonia will be possible prior to or after the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders’ Summit in Tonga at the end of the month. Forum leaders have written to French President Emmanuel Macron requesting to send a Forum Ministerial Committee to Nouméa ... <a title="France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders request" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/france-decides-who-enters-new-caledonia-french-diplomat-on-pacific-leaders-request/" aria-label="Read more about France ‘decides who enters’ New Caledonia: French diplomat on Pacific leaders request">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sanderson, Dean of Research and Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University In his landmark ruling against Google earlier this week, United States district judge Amit Mehta said the tech giant has built “the industry’s highest quality search engine”. Judge Mehta made clear this was partly because ... <a title="A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/a-us-judge-just-called-google-the-highest-quality-search-engine-but-how-do-we-determine-quality-236308/" aria-label="Read more about A US judge just called Google the ‘highest quality search engine’. But how do we determine ‘quality’?">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University For decades, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company, Woodside, has eyed off a prize: the largest known unconventional gas fields in the nation. But there’s a problem. The enormous Brecknock, Calliance and Torosa gas fields are hundreds of ... <a title="Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/huge-gas-fields-under-a-coral-reef-will-a-rejection-on-environmental-grounds-stop-woodsides-browse-project-236145/" aria-label="Read more about Huge gas fields – under a coral reef. Will a rejection on environmental grounds stop Woodside’s Browse project?">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milad Haghani, Senior Lecturer of Urban Mobility, Public Safety & Disaster Risk, UNSW Sydney Taylor Swift’s Eras’ Tour concerts in Vienna, scheduled for August 8–10, have been cancelled due to a foiled terrorist plot. The events were expected to draw around 65,000 attendees each night. Two suspects ... <a title="The cancellation of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows is the latest incident in a long history of concert terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/the-cancellation-of-taylor-swifts-eras-tour-shows-is-the-latest-incident-in-a-long-history-of-concert-terrorism-236392/" aria-label="Read more about The cancellation of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour shows is the latest incident in a long history of concert terrorism">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Fuller, Charles Perkins Centre Research Program Leader, University of Sydney Kelly Sikkema/Unsplash If you’re a parent, you’ll be well-acquainted with one of the more hotly debated parenting topics: screen time and kids. On the one hand, screen time helps kids learn, develop creativity and supports social ... <a title="We’re told to limit kids’ screen time. But how does it actually affect their health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/were-told-to-limit-kids-screen-time-but-how-does-it-actually-affect-their-health-235322/" aria-label="Read more about We’re told to limit kids’ screen time. But how does it actually affect their health?">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong A classic image of the Olympics and Paralympics is an athlete at the end of a race struggling for breath, their heart obviously racing. But at the other end of the scale are athletes such as archers ... <a title="From maxing out to slowing down, how much do heart rates vary across sports?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/from-maxing-out-to-slowing-down-how-much-do-heart-rates-vary-across-sports-235594/" aria-label="Read more about From maxing out to slowing down, how much do heart rates vary across sports?">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Parsell, Professor, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Florida Community Loan Fund/Flickr, CC BY-NC Australia needs to provide permanent supportive housing for many reasons. The most compelling reason is simple: it permanently ends homelessness for our most marginalised citizens. Permanent supportive housing combines affordable ... <a title="Australia needs permanent supportive housing to end homelessness – and it will pay for itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/australia-needs-permanent-supportive-housing-to-end-homelessness-and-it-will-pay-for-itself-235411/" aria-label="Read more about Australia needs permanent supportive housing to end homelessness – and it will pay for itself">Read more</a>
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August 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Sinclair, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia Community glass artwork by Shark Bay Arts Council members of restored seagrass meadow on display at the Wirriya Jalyanu (seagrass) Festival. Elizabeth Sinclair/UWA Please be advised that the following article ... <a title="Healthy Country, healthy people: how shared knowledge is helping to restore a World Heritage area" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/08/healthy-country-healthy-people-how-shared-knowledge-is-helping-to-restore-a-world-heritage-area-235776/" aria-label="Read more about Healthy Country, healthy people: how shared knowledge is helping to restore a World Heritage area">Read more</a>
