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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney Victoria Labadie/Shutterstock The government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these payments should be the highest priority ... <a title="The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-couldnt-include-every-good-idea-but-not-boosting-jobseeker-and-the-youth-allowance-were-obvious-misses-230094/" aria-label="Read more about The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne On one level, the 2024 federal budget brought few big surprises for universities. The two key measures were already announced leading up to May 14: the changes to HELP indexation and ... <a title="Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/funding-might-change-but-job-ready-graduates-stays-for-now-what-does-the-budget-fine-print-say-about-higher-education-230104/" aria-label="Read more about Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday handed down his third budget. It had a second successive surplus and sweeteners, including relief on energy bills, and tax breaks for development of green hydrogen and critical minerals processing. The opposition will back the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/politics-with-michelle-grattan-budget-fight-looms-on-future-made-in-australia-tax-breaks-230095/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute This year’s budget has “something for everyone”, with very little in the way of cuts and no new taxes. It’s a classic “good news” pre-election budget. Whether it is too good to be true hinges on whether ... <a title="The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-is-full-of-good-news-but-good-news-isnt-the-same-as-good-management-230110/" aria-label="Read more about The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Three people have now died in New Caledonia in the wake of pro-independence protests and escalating unrest. Charles Wea, a spokesperson for international relations in the New Caledonian territorial President’s office, confirmed the deaths to RNZ Pacific. The circumstances are unclear in the French territory’s third day of violence. France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said ... <a title="Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/three-dead-in-new-caledonia-amid-independence-electoral-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrest">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne The federal government is due to introduce legislation on Thursday to enable new caps on the number of international student places at educational institutions in Australia. These include universities, TAFEs and private colleges. ... <a title="Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/why-is-the-government-proposing-caps-on-international-students-and-how-did-we-get-here-230003/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Crazy Owl Productions/Shutterstock This year’s federal budget is making up for decades of lost time – both in our clean energy transition and in betting on new technological breakthroughs. The Future Made in Australia Act holds tantalising potential for building ... <a title="For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/for-a-future-made-in-australia-we-need-more-innovation-and-diverse-people-in-science-and-tech-229717/" aria-label="Read more about For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg Australians have more pet cats than ever before – more than 5 million in total. With the growing number, expectations on pet owners are shifting. Many cat owners are now voluntarily keeping their cats indoors or in secure ... <a title="Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/two-thirds-of-us-support-banning-pet-cats-from-roaming-a-ban-would-save-millions-of-native-animals-and-billions-of-dollars-229180/" aria-label="Read more about Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Tracey Leigh/State Theatre Company of South Australia Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tour de force. Actor and writer Hew Parham takes the audience through comic and heartfelt parallel stories about the trials and triumphs of ... <a title="Symphonie of the Bicycle: on the desire to be great, and the desire to live a life with great meaning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/symphonie-of-the-bicycle-on-the-desire-to-be-great-and-the-desire-to-live-a-life-with-great-meaning-228013/" aria-label="Read more about Symphonie of the Bicycle: on the desire to be great, and the desire to live a life with great meaning">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong BonNontawat/Shutterstock Why is blood red? – Asher, 6 years 11 months, New South Wales What a great question about something in our body, Asher. Blood is inside our body, but we see it on the outside when ... <a title="Curious Kids: why is blood red?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/curious-kids-why-is-blood-red-229121/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why is blood red?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Wilson Mountford, Associate Professor in History, Australian Catholic University State Library of Western Australia, call number: BA428/1 Around 90 years ago, two-thirds of Western Australian voters voted in favour of leaving the Commonwealth at a state referendum. This 1933 result – often seen as a protest ... <a title="‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/westralia-shall-be-free-how-western-australias-secessionists-stoked-british-fears-the-empire-was-at-risk-219222/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at risk">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The Gaza war has now entered its eighth month and a resolution to the conflict still seems far off. Israel claims to have killed 13,000 Hamas militants so far. If that figure is correct, ... <a title="Israel’s invasion of Rafah will not eliminate Hamas or end the war. So, what is Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/israels-invasion-of-rafah-will-not-eliminate-hamas-or-end-the-war-so-what-is-benjamin-netanyahus-plan-229995/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s invasion of Rafah will not eliminate Hamas or end the war. So, what is Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan?">Read more</a>
