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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Baker, Associate Professor in Human Geography, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Getty Images The appointment of former Labour finance minister Grant Robertson as vice-chancellor is a first for Otago University, which has never had a non-academic in the role. But it’s not hard to see ... <a title="Grant Robertson is swapping cabinet for academia – but should ex-politicians lead universities?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/grant-robertson-is-swapping-cabinet-for-academia-but-should-ex-politicians-lead-universities-227549/" aria-label="Read more about Grant Robertson is swapping cabinet for academia – but should ex-politicians lead universities?">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
PNG Post-Courier The Australian High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, John Feakes, has become the first foreign diplomat to visit the “valley of tears” in Wapenamanda, Enga, province. Feakes braved fears of tribal warfare when he visited Australian government-funded projects at a tribal fighting zone on Wednesday. The battlefields of Middle Lai, where more than ... <a title="Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/enga-isnt-that-bad-says-australian-diplomat-on-troubled-area-visit/" aria-label="Read more about Enga ‘isn’t that bad’, says Australian diplomat on troubled area visit">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew King, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, The University of Melbourne Australia’s weather bureau copped harsh criticism after El Niño failed to deliver a much-vaunted dry summer in eastern Australia. Parts of northern Queensland in the path of Tropical Cyclone Jasper had a record wet December and ... <a title="Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/despite-what-you-might-hear-weather-prediction-is-getting-better-not-worse-225904/" aria-label="Read more about Despite what you might hear, weather prediction is getting better, not worse">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun carried an exclusive story on Sunday headed “Half a million extra on welfare”. It was subheaded: NDIS blowing the budget. The story said the number of Australians on welfare ... <a title="Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/half-a-million-more-australians-on-welfare-not-unless-you-double-count-227342/" aria-label="Read more about Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorinda Cramer, Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University How do you describe the feel of wool against your skin? For some that feel is snuggly soft. Others remember a prickly sensation. But would you call wool “healthy”, “comfortable” or “pure”? This is how wool was ... <a title="Foy & Gibson’s 8,100,000 miles of yarn: how Australians were sold ‘fashionable’ (and ‘healthy’) wool 100 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/foy-and-gibsons-8-100-000-miles-of-yarn-how-australians-were-sold-fashionable-and-healthy-wool-100-years-ago-212602/" aria-label="Read more about Foy & Gibson’s 8,100,000 miles of yarn: how Australians were sold ‘fashionable’ (and ‘healthy’) wool 100 years ago">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has been tabled. In ... <a title="Choice and control: are whitegoods disability supports? Here’s what proposed NDIS reforms say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/choice-and-control-are-whitegoods-disability-supports-heres-what-proposed-ndis-reforms-say-227502/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: are whitegoods disability supports? Here’s what proposed NDIS reforms say">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Professor, University of Newcastle Karolina Grabowska/Pexels, CC BY It is very common in Australian schools to “stream” students for subjects such as English, science and maths. This means students are grouped into different classes based on their previous academic attainment, or in some cases, just ... <a title="It’s common to ‘stream’ maths classes. But grouping students by ability can lead to ‘massive disadvantage’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/its-common-to-stream-maths-classes-but-grouping-students-by-ability-can-lead-to-massive-disadvantage-226723/" aria-label="Read more about It’s common to ‘stream’ maths classes. But grouping students by ability can lead to ‘massive disadvantage’">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Commentators used to complain the Albanese government was being too cautious. That charge can’t easily be levelled now. Take two totally different issues on which the government in recent days has defined itself by its robust stances. One is the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese government can’t be accused of excessive caution any longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/grattan-on-friday-albanese-government-cant-be-accused-of-excessive-caution-any-longer-227674/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese government can’t be accused of excessive caution any longer">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
By Eleisha Foon, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Pacific nations and smaller states are being urged to unite to avoid being caught in the crossfire of a possible nuclear conflict between China and the US. On the cusp of a new missile age in the Indo-Pacific, a nuclear policy specialist suggests countries at the centre of ... <a title="Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/pacific-states-could-help-help-prevent-nuclear-war-says-advocate/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific states could help ‘help prevent’ nuclear war, says advocate">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The death of Australian Zomi Frankcom and other World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza in an Israeli strike has led to yet more intense and critical scrutiny over how Israel is prosecuting the war against Hamas. This week Foreign ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Burns on being a Jewish MP during a terrible conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-josh-burns-on-being-a-jewish-mp-during-a-terrible-conflict-227673/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Burns on being a Jewish MP during a terrible conflict">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury Maslow Entertainment The ’70s-throwback found-footage horror comedy, Late Night with the Devil, joins a long list of recent Australian horror success stories. Framed as a tabloid-style retrospective, the film invites us to watch the newly ... <a title="Late Night with the Devil is a sly, gleefully horrifying Aussie hit that invites you to be hypnotised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/late-night-with-the-devil-is-a-sly-gleefully-horrifying-aussie-hit-that-invites-you-to-be-hypnotised-227226/" aria-label="Read more about Late Night with the Devil is a sly, gleefully horrifying Aussie hit that invites you to be hypnotised">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Mark, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s state visit to the White House has already resulted in one of the most ambitious boosts to the United States-Japan alliance. This alliance is now at the core of American strategy ... <a title="Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/once-enemies-japan-and-us-strengthen-their-alliance-and-it-goes-beyond-aukus-227663/" aria-label="Read more about Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS">Read more</a>
