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March 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kimberley Baxter, Research Fellow, Centre for Childhood Nutrition Research, Queensland University of Technology Nicoleta Ionescu/Shutterstock Feeding babies and toddlers can be challenging at the best of times. But when families can’t afford enough food, let alone the recommended range of different coloured vegetables, or iron-rich meats, it’s ... <a title="Feeding young kids on a budget? Parents say the mental load is crushing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/21/feeding-young-kids-on-a-budget-parents-say-the-mental-load-is-crushing-225350/" aria-label="Read more about Feeding young kids on a budget? Parents say the mental load is crushing">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leonora Risse, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Canberra Jacob Lund/Shutterstock The Australian government wants to make sure its contracts – worth almost A$75 billion annually – don’t just deliver taxpayers value for money, but also promote gender equity. Under proposed procurement policy changes announced earlier this ... <a title="Companies vying for government contracts could soon have to meet gender targets. Will we finally see real progress?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/21/companies-vying-for-government-contracts-could-soon-have-to-meet-gender-targets-will-we-finally-see-real-progress-226018/" aria-label="Read more about Companies vying for government contracts could soon have to meet gender targets. Will we finally see real progress?">Read more</a>
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March 21, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Peterson, Adjunct Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology Jada Narkle photographed by T.J. Garvie. Between COVID, increasing production and transport costs, and changing audience tastes, the country’s largest arts festivals have had to rebadge themselves. Festivals in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have all undergone major ... <a title="Adelaide Festival 2024: a moving marriage of local and international works – with Indigenous voices front and centre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/21/adelaide-festival-2024-a-moving-marriage-of-local-and-international-works-with-indigenous-voices-front-and-centre-226004/" aria-label="Read more about Adelaide Festival 2024: a moving marriage of local and international works – with Indigenous voices front and centre">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Wendy Bacon in Sydney Twenty-four weeks of city marches and a five-week vigil outside the Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s electoral office in Marrickville have taken pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war on Gaza to an unprecedented level. In a new development, hundreds of protesters joined in a street theatre performance outside Albanese’s electorate office on ... <a title="Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/hundreds-stage-sydney-die-in-to-protest-massacres-in-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds stage Sydney ‘die-in’ to protest massacres in Gaza">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Perkiss, Associate professor in accounting, University of Wollongong Australians enjoy chocolate, consuming on average the equivalent of 32 kilograms a year, but there is growing interest in its origins and how it’s made. They want to know their product is sustainably made by companies that only ... <a title="Each Easter we spend about $62 a head on chocolates, but the cost of buying unsustainable products can be far greater" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/each-easter-we-spend-about-62-a-head-on-chocolates-but-the-cost-of-buying-unsustainable-products-can-be-far-greater-225784/" aria-label="Read more about Each Easter we spend about $62 a head on chocolates, but the cost of buying unsustainable products can be far greater">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Imaged Provided by Lesley Seebeck The United States House of Representatives has passed a bill to force TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, to either sell TikTok to a non-Chinese company or face a ban in the US. While the measure won’t come ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Cyber expert Lesley Seebeck on TikTok’s future in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/politics-with-michelle-grattan-cyber-expert-lesley-seebeck-on-tiktoks-future-in-australia-226222/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Cyber expert Lesley Seebeck on TikTok’s future in Australia">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University The main cost of an electric vehicle (EV) is its battery. The high cost of energy-dense batteries has meant EVs have long been more expensive than their fossil fuel equivalents. But this could change faster than we thought. The world’s ... <a title="A battery price war is kicking off that could soon make electric cars cheaper. Here’s how" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/a-battery-price-war-is-kicking-off-that-could-soon-make-electric-cars-cheaper-heres-how-225165/" aria-label="Read more about A battery price war is kicking off that could soon make electric cars cheaper. Here’s how">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marten Risius, Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, The University of Queensland Bumble Dee/Shutterstock Australia’s eSafety commissioner has sent legal notices to Google, Meta, Telegram, WhatsApp, Reddit and X (formerly Twitter) asking them to show what they’re doing to protect Australians from online extremism. The six companies ... <a title="Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/terrorist-content-lurks-all-over-the-internet-regulating-only-6-major-platforms-wont-be-nearly-enough-226219/" aria-label="Read more about Terrorist content lurks all over the internet – regulating only 6 major platforms won’t be nearly enough">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor emerita, University of Sydney The government will be on tenterhooks again next month when the High Court of Australia hears another case that could lead to the release of a further cohort of people currently in immigration detention. Given the ongoing political fallout of ... <a title="The government is fighting a new High Court case on immigration detainees. What’s it about and what’s at stake?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/the-government-is-fighting-a-new-high-court-case-on-immigration-detainees-whats-it-about-and-whats-at-stake-226120/" aria-label="Read more about The government is fighting a new High Court case on immigration detainees. What’s it about and what’s at stake?">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Foreign Minister Penny Wong delivered a forthright message to her Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, at the Australia-China Foreign and Strategic Dialogue in Canberra on Wednesday. “I told the foreign minister Australians were shocked at the sentence imposed on Dr Yang ... <a title="Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declines to front media after talks with Penny Wong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/chinese-foreign-minister-wang-yi-declines-to-front-media-after-talks-with-penny-wong-226221/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi declines to front media after talks with Penny Wong">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
By Paul Gregoire in Sydney One year since Prime Minister Anthony Albanese went to San Diego to unveil the AUKUS deal the news came that the first of three second-hand Virginia class nuclear-powered submarines supposed to arrive in 2032 may not happen. Former coalition prime minister Scott Morrison announced AUKUS in September 2021 and Albanese ... <a title="Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/nuclear-submarines-may-never-appear-but-aukus-is-already-in-place/" aria-label="Read more about Nuclear submarines may never appear, but AUKUS is already in place">Read more</a>
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March 20, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University On March 21, the federal government will release the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report on ensuring religious schools cannot discriminate against LGBTQIA+ students and staff. But the political debate is already well under way – and has been going ... <a title="Why are religious discrimination laws back in the news? And where did they come from in the first place?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/20/why-are-religious-discrimination-laws-back-in-the-news-and-where-did-they-come-from-in-the-first-place-226220/" aria-label="Read more about Why are religious discrimination laws back in the news? And where did they come from in the first place?">Read more</a>
