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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lowe, Chair in Contemporary History, Deakin University The decision by several major retailers to stop stocking Australia Day merchandise has become the latest flashpoint in an ongoing debate over whether the nation should be celebrated on January 26. In response to this decision, Opposition Leader Peter ... <a title="Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/support-for-australia-day-celebration-on-january-26-drops-new-research-221612/" aria-label="Read more about Support for Australia Day celebration on January 26 drops: new research">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samara Hand, PhD Candidate, UNSW Sydney In Australia, more than a dozen independent, community-controlled First Nations schools were set up in the 1970s and ‘80s. These schools, some still in operation, offered culturally and linguistically relevant education to First Nations students reflecting Indigenous ways of knowing, being ... <a title="Community-controlled schools create better education outcomes for First Nations students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/community-controlled-schools-create-better-education-outcomes-for-first-nations-students-218594/" aria-label="Read more about Community-controlled schools create better education outcomes for First Nations students">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suman Majumdar, Associate Professor and Chief Health Officer – COVID and Health Emergencies, Burnet Institute Lightspring/Shutterstock Since it was detected in August 2023, the JN.1 variant of COVID has spread widely. It has become dominant in Australia and around the world, driving the biggest COVID wave seen ... <a title="The emergence of JN.1 is an evolutionary ‘step change’ in the COVID pandemic. Why is this significant?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/the-emergence-of-jn-1-is-an-evolutionary-step-change-in-the-covid-pandemic-why-is-this-significant-220285/" aria-label="Read more about The emergence of JN.1 is an evolutionary ‘step change’ in the COVID pandemic. Why is this significant?">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Noel D. Preece, Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Tolga Bat Hospital, CC BY-ND Flying foxes. Megabats. Fruit bats. Whatever name you choose, these fox-faced creatures are remarkable. Our four species help pollinate eucalyptus trees in eastern Australia, spread the seeds of rainforest trees, and make our ... <a title="Flying foxes pollinate forests and spread seeds. Here’s how we can make peace with our noisy neighbours" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/flying-foxes-pollinate-forests-and-spread-seeds-heres-how-we-can-make-peace-with-our-noisy-neighbours-215811/" aria-label="Read more about Flying foxes pollinate forests and spread seeds. Here’s how we can make peace with our noisy neighbours">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Garritt C. Van Dyk, Lecturer in History, University of Newcastle Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales Locally grown produce fills Australian shops, but almost all of these species were imported, as native as cane toads. Icons of Australian agriculture, like the Big Banana and Big ... <a title="The botanical imperialism of weeds and crops: how alien plant species on the First Fleet changed Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/the-botanical-imperialism-of-weeds-and-crops-how-alien-plant-species-on-the-first-fleet-changed-australia-220653/" aria-label="Read more about The botanical imperialism of weeds and crops: how alien plant species on the First Fleet changed Australia">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Labor government’s replacement of the Stage 3 tax cuts with its own new package has turned the March 2 Dunkley byelection into a referendum on tax. And that could become more difficult for the opposition than for Labor, despite ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Tax debate tricky for Dutton, despite issue of Albanese breaking his word" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/grattan-on-friday-tax-debate-tricky-for-dutton-despite-issue-of-albanese-breaking-his-word-221982/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Tax debate tricky for Dutton, despite issue of Albanese breaking his word">Read more</a>
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January 26, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Pioneers in melanoma treatment, professors Georgina Long and Richard Scolyer, are the joint 2024 Australians of the Year. The Sydney-based professors are the co-directors of Melanoma Institute Australia, and their partnership is credited with saving thousands of lives. Their work ... <a title="Melanoma treatment pioneers joint Australians Of The Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/26/melanoma-treatment-pioneers-joint-australians-of-the-year-221981/" aria-label="Read more about Melanoma treatment pioneers joint Australians Of The Year">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
By Don Wiseman, RNZ Pacific senior journalist Academic Andrew Anton Mako says the Papua New Guinea’s systemic dysfunction was plain to see in the rioting and looting throughout the country’s main cities two weeks ago. That rioting was sparked by a protest by police after unannounced deductions from their wages. It led to a riot ... <a title="Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/long-term-plan-needed-for-underlying-png-problems-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about Long term plan needed for underlying PNG problems, says academic">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Sherwood, Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Has Sydney felt more like Cairns lately? You’re not imagining it – millions of Australians up and down the east coast have sweltered through exceptionally high humidity in recent weeks. It’s due to normal weather ... <a title="Yes, it’s getting more humid in summer. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/yes-its-getting-more-humid-in-summer-heres-why-221748/" aria-label="Read more about Yes, it’s getting more humid in summer. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivia Evans, Indigenous Research Fellow, Australian National University There have been calls to change the date of Australia Day/Invasion Day since as far back as 1938. January 26 marks the day in 1788 when the First Fleet landed in Australia to establish the colony of New South ... <a title="The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/the-more-you-know-people-with-better-understanding-of-australias-colonial-history-more-likely-to-support-moving-australia-day-220288/" aria-label="Read more about The more you know: people with better understanding of Australia’s colonial history more likely to support moving Australia Day">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hamilton, Visiting Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND As debate over the Stage 3 tax cuts has raged, I’ve encountered two common defences of the package as it was, before Anthony Albanese rejigged ... <a title="The 2 main arguments against redesigning the Stage 3 tax cuts are wrong: here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/the-2-main-arguments-against-redesigning-the-stage-3-tax-cuts-are-wrong-heres-why-221975/" aria-label="Read more about The 2 main arguments against redesigning the Stage 3 tax cuts are wrong: here’s why">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2024
Asia Pacific Report A leading West Papuan advocate has welcomed this week’s launch of the Brussels Declaration in the European Parliament, calling on MPs to sign it. “The Declaration is an important document, echoing the existing calls for a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights visit to West Papua made by the Pacific Islands Forum ... <a title="Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/01/25/wenda-calls-on-euro-politicians-to-sign-brussels-declaration-on-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Wenda calls on Euro politicians to sign Brussels Declaration on West Papua">Read more</a>
