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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Allen-Franks, Lecturer and Co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human Rights Law, Policy and Practice, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Robert Gauthier/Getty Images At first sight, the battle between a Manawatū fish-and-chip shop and a Louisiana-based chicken joint over the name “Popeye’s” reads like ... <a title="Popeyes battle shows how big businesses protect their trademarks – even when they have no plans to come to NZ" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/popeyes-battle-shows-how-big-businesses-protect-their-trademarks-even-when-they-have-no-plans-to-come-to-nz-229721/" aria-label="Read more about Popeyes battle shows how big businesses protect their trademarks – even when they have no plans to come to NZ">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology The topic of homophobia in sport has recently made headlines in Australia, with a series of homophobic incidents involving men’s AFL players. These homophobic incidents are usually well-reported in news media, but research has rarely explored the impact on ... <a title="Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/sports-are-supposed-to-be-for-all-but-new-research-reveals-just-how-few-lgbtqi-people-play-sport-229482/" aria-label="Read more about Sports are supposed to be for all – but new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ryan Storr, Research fellow, Swinburne University of Technology The topic of homophobia in sport has recently made headlines in Australia, with a series of homophobic incidents involving men’s AFL players. These homophobic incidents are usually well-reported in news media, but research has rarely explored the impact on ... <a title="‘Too difficult to work out’ – new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/too-difficult-to-work-out-new-research-reveals-just-how-few-lgbtqi-people-play-sport-229482/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Too difficult to work out’ – new research reveals just how few LGBTQI+ people play sport">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Marie Cumming-Potvin, Associate Professor/ Director of Research (School of Education), Murdoch University Shutterstock Despite social change, LGBTQI+ people still face discrimination at school and in the community. Language for diverse genders and sexualities is continually changing. LGBTQI+ allyship is part of this change. But what is ... <a title="What is allyship? A brief history, present and future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/what-is-allyship-a-brief-history-present-and-future-220668/" aria-label="Read more about What is allyship? A brief history, present and future">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakob Weis, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Tasmania Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC, Author provided The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the ... <a title="Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/floating-robots-reveal-just-how-much-airborne-dust-fertilises-the-southern-ocean-a-key-climate-shock-absorber-225793/" aria-label="Read more about Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years. ... <a title="Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/cancer-is-increasingly-survivable-but-it-shouldnt-depend-on-your-ability-to-wrangle-the-health-system-228774/" aria-label="Read more about Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mona Nikidehaghani, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong 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: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/choice-and-control-what-can-the-accc-do-to-stop-ndis-price-gouging-and-reduce-costs-228512/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University National Archives of Australia In 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alighted from a helicopter to announce a grand plan: Snowy Hydro 2.0. It would turn the famous hydroelectric scheme into a giant battery, ready to power the ... <a title="Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/stirring-films-made-the-snowy-scheme-a-nationbuilding-project-could-the-troubled-snowy-2-0-do-the-same-229365/" aria-label="Read more about Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession. This month is the first anniversary of the Judicial Commission of Victoria’s conduct guideline about judicial bullying. Yet, ... <a title="Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/like-being-slapped-or-kicked-judicial-bullying-is-a-problem-in-australian-courtrooms-229501/" aria-label="Read more about Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms">Read more</a>
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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>
