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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wesley Morgan, Research Fellow, Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University The current visit to Australia by China’s Premier Li Qiang may have taken the heat out of recent tensions between the two nations. But Australia remains embroiled with China in a tussle for influence in the Pacific – ... <a title="Peter Dutton’s plan to cut the 2030 climate target would be an own goal for Australia’s Pacific ambitions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/peter-duttons-plan-to-cut-the-2030-climate-target-would-be-an-own-goal-for-australias-pacific-ambitions-232699/" aria-label="Read more about Peter Dutton’s plan to cut the 2030 climate target would be an own goal for Australia’s Pacific ambitions">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Minson, Lecturer and Bachelor of Early Childhood Education (Birth to Five Years) (Accelerated) Course Coordinator, Australian Catholic University There is a new push to make early education and care more affordable for Australian families. The Productivity Commission is due to hand a major report to the ... <a title="Early childhood educators are not ‘babysitters’. What do their jobs really involve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/early-childhood-educators-are-not-babysitters-what-do-their-jobs-really-involve-228107/" aria-label="Read more about Early childhood educators are not ‘babysitters’. What do their jobs really involve?">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shawna Mastro Campbell, Assistant Professor Clinical Psychology, Bond University Disney Inside Out 2 invites us back into the mind of Riley, now a 13-year-old ice-hockey enthusiast on the cusp of high school – and puberty. Literally overnight, her brain goes through a large-scale demolition and construction that ... <a title="Emotions don’t decide who you are: how to talk to your child about the new emotions in Inside Out 2" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/emotions-dont-decide-who-you-are-how-to-talk-to-your-child-about-the-new-emotions-in-inside-out-2-231921/" aria-label="Read more about Emotions don’t decide who you are: how to talk to your child about the new emotions in Inside Out 2">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Hitchcock, PhD Candidate in Management, Auckland University of Technology Getty Images Announcing her government’s plan to disestablish the Equal Pay Taskforce in May, Minister for the Public Service Nicola Willis argued the “process for settling pay equity claims has now matured” enough that the taskforce was ... <a title="Pay transparency would help close NZ’s gender gap – why is progress so slow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/pay-transparency-would-help-close-nzs-gender-gap-why-is-progress-so-slow-232150/" aria-label="Read more about Pay transparency would help close NZ’s gender gap – why is progress so slow?">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel Filippelli, Professor of Earth Sciences and Executive Director, Environmental Resilience Institute, Indiana University A lot of lead from gasoline, house paint and industrial emissions has ended up in soil, and it poses serious health risks. Jamie Grill, Tetra Images via Getty Images As spring phases into ... <a title="EPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/19/epa-has-lowered-the-screening-level-for-lead-in-soil-heres-what-that-could-mean-for-households-across-the-us-224609/" aria-label="Read more about EPA has lowered the screening level for lead in soil – here’s what that could mean for households across the US">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University There’s something curious about the proposed merger between Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare. Chemist Warehouse has about 550 retail pharmacies. Sigma has another 400. Yet the law limits owners to just a handful of pharmacies ... <a title="The Chemist Warehouse deal is a sideshow: pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/the-chemist-warehouse-deal-is-a-sideshow-pharmacies-are-ripe-for-bigger-disruption-232586/" aria-label="Read more about The Chemist Warehouse deal is a sideshow: pharmacies are ripe for bigger disruption">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nilupama Wijewardena, Lecturer, College of Business and Law, RMIT University fizkes/Shutterstock When asked to describe an ideal organisational leader, many people might be inclined to use quite serious adjectives such as solemn, determined or results-oriented. Yet one trait is not only often overlooked, but also essential for ... <a title="Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/humour-can-make-you-a-better-workplace-leader-if-you-use-it-properly-heres-how-232158/" aria-label="Read more about Humour can make you a better workplace leader, if you use it properly – here’s how">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Penny Olsen, Honorary Professor in Ecology and Evolution, Australian National University Neil Tavener Birds have been known to seek out pungent chemicals for various reasons. Some consume fermented fruits with gusto and suffer the ill effects. Others expose themselves to ants, but only the stinky kind. These ... <a title="High fliers: pleasure-seeking parrots are using aromatic plants, stinky ants and alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/high-fliers-pleasure-seeking-parrots-are-using-aromatic-plants-stinky-ants-and-alcohol-231068/" aria-label="Read more about High fliers: pleasure-seeking parrots are using aromatic plants, stinky ants and alcohol">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Doug Drury, Professor/Head of Aviation, CQUniversity Australia Vaalaa / Shutterstock Late last night, Virgin Australia flight VA 148 set out from Queenstown in New Zealand bound for Melbourne. Not long after takeoff, the right engine of the Boeing 737-800 jet started emitting loud bangs, followed by flames. ... <a title="Bird strike: what happens when a plane collides with a bird?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/bird-strike-what-happens-when-a-plane-collides-with-a-bird-232702/" aria-label="Read more about Bird strike: what happens when a plane collides with a bird?">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Albanese government has formally expressed its displeasure to the Chinese embassy over Chinese officials trying to impede camera shots of journalist Cheng Lei during Premier Li Qiang’s visit to Canberra this week. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the ABC ... <a title="Albanese government raises ‘concern’ over treatment of journalist Cheng Lei with Chinese embassy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/albanese-government-raises-concern-over-treatment-of-journalist-cheng-lei-with-chinese-embassy-232711/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese government raises ‘concern’ over treatment of journalist Cheng Lei with Chinese embassy">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Williamson, Senior Tutor in English, University of Canterbury Jodie Comer in The End We Start From. Signature Entertainment Writing over 30 years ago, feminist film scholar E. Ann Kaplan famously described mothers in cinema as “an absent presence” – background figures that might facilitate the narrative ... <a title="Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/mothers-have-long-been-absent-from-dystopian-stories-maternal-cli-fi-is-changing-the-narrative-232475/" aria-label="Read more about Mothers have long been absent from dystopian stories. ‘Maternal cli-fi’ is changing the narrative">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2024
Kia Ora Gaza An international lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), Diana Buttu, says it is a myth that the siege on Gaza began in 2006/2007. She has explained in a Gaza Freedom Flotilla video released on YouTube that Israel’s control and closure on Gaza started decades earlier. The Israeli militarily ... <a title="Buttu debunks Israeli ‘myths’ about Gaza siege – ‘vital to break it’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/06/18/buttu-debunks-israeli-myths-about-gaza-siege-vital-to-break-it/" aria-label="Read more about Buttu debunks Israeli ‘myths’ about Gaza siege – ‘vital to break it’">Read more</a>
