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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nina Lansbury Hall, Lecturer, Environmental Health Unit, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland Many people in Australia do not have access to safe drinking water. It’s particularly difficult in Indigenous communities because they are small, remote and challenged by additional issues to secure essential power ... <a title="Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/getting-clean-drinking-water-into-remote-indigenous-communities-means-overcoming-city-thinking-106701/" aria-label="Read more about Getting clean drinking water into remote Indigenous communities means overcoming city thinking">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marion Terrill, Transport Program Director, Grattan Institute The most magical time of the year is upon Victorians: election season. The (taxpayer-funded) gifts promised by the major parties far exceed anything Santa could bring. And the multi-billion-dollar toys on everybody’s wish list? Trains, tracks and roads. There’s nothing ... <a title="How much will voters pay for an early Christmas? Eight charts that explain Victoria’s transport election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/how-much-will-voters-pay-for-an-early-christmas-eight-charts-that-explain-victorias-transport-election-106782/" aria-label="Read more about How much will voters pay for an early Christmas? Eight charts that explain Victoria’s transport election">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Today, as part of the UNSW Grand Challenge on Inequality, we release a study entitled A Climate Dividend for Australians that offers a practical solution to the twin problems of climate change and energy affordability. It’s a ... <a title="Fresh thinking: the carbon tax that would leave households better off" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/fresh-thinking-the-carbon-tax-that-would-leave-households-better-off-107177/" aria-label="Read more about Fresh thinking: the carbon tax that would leave households better off">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Lloyd, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne Victoria’s Labor government stole a march on the rest of the country last month becoming the first (and only) state government to sign a memorandum of understanding with China under China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Belt and Road is ... <a title="Why we should worry about Victoria’s China memorandum of understanding" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/why-we-should-worry-about-victorias-china-memorandum-of-understanding-107135/" aria-label="Read more about Why we should worry about Victoria’s China memorandum of understanding">Read more</a>
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November 21, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Pezzutto, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, Australian National University With pirated and amateur pornography widely available online, porn no longer provides a steady income for many working in the adult industry. During my research interviewing transgender porn stars in Las Vegas, the overwhelming majority of those interviewed ... <a title="Why adult video stars rely on camming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/21/why-adult-video-stars-rely-on-camming-104758/" aria-label="Read more about Why adult video stars rely on camming">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vijaya Sundararajan, Professor and Head of Department, Public Health, La Trobe University With health care spending accounting for 30% of the Victorian budget, or A$20 billion, health is a major policy area for the Victorian election on Saturday. While the Commonwealth pays for general practice, private specialists, ... <a title="Victoria votes: your guide to the 2018 election health promises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/victoria-votes-your-guide-to-the-2018-election-health-promises-106698/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria votes: your guide to the 2018 election health promises">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
PNG security forces protesting in Waigani over unpaid APEC security allowances. Image: Loop PNG By RNZ Pacific Hundreds of Papua New Guinea police have descended on Parliament Haus in the Port Moresby suburb of Waigani demanding payments they say they are owed for providing security at last weekend’s APEC leaders summit. RNZ Pacific’s correspondent in ... <a title="Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/hundreds-of-protesting-png-police-move-in-on-parliament-over-pay/" aria-label="Read more about Hundreds of protesting PNG police move in on Parliament over pay">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
NZ Foreign Minister Winston Peters announces a K22 million (NZ$10 million) aid project to help polio vaccination for Papua New Guineans at the St John Ambulance Operations Centre in Port Moresby. Video: EMTV News Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk A former prime minister has accused Papua New Guinea’s current leader Peter O’Neill of exposing the country ... <a title="Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/former-pm-sir-mekere-blasts-lavish-staging-and-ridicule-of-apec/" aria-label="Read more about Former PM Sir Mekere blasts ‘lavish staging’ and ‘ridicule’ of APEC">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne This week’s Fairfax Ipsos poll, conducted November 14-17 from a sample of 1,200, gave Labor just a 52-48 lead, a three-point gain for the Coalition since October. Primary votes were 37% Coalition (up two), 34% ... <a title="Poll wrap: Labor’s worst polls since Turnbull; chaos likely in Victorian upper house" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/poll-wrap-labors-worst-polls-since-turnbull-chaos-likely-in-victorian-upper-house-107176/" aria-label="Read more about Poll wrap: Labor’s worst polls since Turnbull; chaos likely in Victorian upper house">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pratichi Chatterjee, PhD Student, Urban Geography, University of Sydney After years of strong housing market growth, Sydney’s property market is slowing. Despite this, housing stress remains a reality for many Sydneysiders, with rents remaining largely untouched. Public housing is a lifeline for those who can’t afford to ... <a title="We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/we-still-live-here-public-housing-tenants-fight-for-their-place-in-the-city-107188/" aria-label="Read more about We still live here: public housing tenants fight for their place in the city">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
SODELPA’s Lynda Tabuya … “breath of fresh air” in Fiji politics. Image: Wikimedia Commons By Koroi Tadulala in Suva The role of women in every segment of society is vital and this is slowly been reflected through more women contesting political spaces in Fiji. This year recorded the highest number of women contesting the country’s ... <a title="Fiji women have confidence that their gender in politics will hear their voices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/fiji-women-have-confidence-that-their-gender-in-politics-will-hear-their-voices/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji women have confidence that their gender in politics will hear their voices">Read more</a>
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November 20, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominic O’Sullivan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Charles Sturt University Former coup leader Josaia Voreqe “Frank” Bainimarama has won re-election in Fiji. But he did so in a country where press freedom is severely limited, and authoritarian rule is used to curb dissent – even from the ... <a title="Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the church" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/11/20/bainimarama-wins-again-in-fiji-helped-by-muzzling-the-media-unions-and-the-church-107192/" aria-label="Read more about Bainimarama wins again in Fiji, helped by muzzling the media, unions and the church">Read more</a>
