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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here. When Josh Frydenberg was studying law at Monash University, he’d tell fellow students he wanted to ... <a title="He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/hes-the-treasurer-who-may-become-the-next-leader-of-the-liberal-party-so-how-high-can-josh-frydenberg-fly-181429/" aria-label="Read more about He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison and NSW treasurer and leading moderate Matt Kean are publicly at loggerheads over the future of the prime minister’s controversial captain’s pick for the seat of Warringah. Kean has declared Katherine Deves, who made offensive comments on social ... <a title="Morrison defends controversial Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/16/morrison-defends-controversial-warringah-candidate-as-push-to-oust-her-strengthens-181421/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison defends controversial Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra “Soft” voters who took part in focus groups in the Sydney seat of Wentworth this week were probably speaking for a vast number of Australians when they vented their disgruntlement with the two leaders who are fighting out this election. ... <a title="The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/16/the-wentworth-project-soft-voters-dislike-morrison-but-hesitate-about-albanese-181351/" aria-label="Read more about The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A week ago, Anthony Albanese appeared well placed as the election was about to be called. Now he has comprehensively blown the first campaign week. This isn’t to say he can’t recover. But it does raise big questions about his ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor and Albanese hoping for Easter resurrection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/grattan-on-friday-labor-and-albanese-hoping-for-easter-resurrection-181349/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor and Albanese hoping for Easter resurrection">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne shutterstock The official employment figures say the unemployment rate for March was 4.0%, exactly the same as a month earlier. But if you’re prepared to download the spreadsheet and work it out, you’ll find that expressed to two ... <a title="Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a ‘3’. How do we keep it there?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/technically-our-unemployment-rate-now-begins-with-a-3-how-do-we-keep-it-there-181242/" aria-label="Read more about Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a ‘3’. How do we keep it there?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University Shutterstock Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock. But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open possibility, and one that ... <a title="Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/time-might-not-exist-according-to-physicists-and-philosophers-but-thats-okay-181268/" aria-label="Read more about Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bean, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Federation University Australia Shutterstock In the past three months, more than 150 cases of salmonella food poisoning across Europe have been linked to Kinder chocolate products. Most of the cases have been in children under ten years old. Health officials have ... <a title="Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/surprise-there-might-be-salmonella-in-your-chocolate-180813/" aria-label="Read more about Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Intifar Chowdhury, Associate lecturer, Australian National University There have been suggestions Australia could see a “youthquake” at the upcoming May 21 election. Spurred on by their suffering during COVID and anger about economic inequality, environmental inaction and toxicity in federal parliament, young people may flock to the ... <a title="What will young Australians do with their vote – are we about to see a ‘youthquake’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/what-will-young-australians-do-with-their-vote-are-we-about-to-see-a-youthquake-180883/" aria-label="Read more about What will young Australians do with their vote – are we about to see a ‘youthquake’?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom van Laer, Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney The federal election campaign is underway and political advertising has really started to ramp up. But who is the target audience for each party’s ad, what are their key messages and how effective will they be? I ... <a title="Hope? Contempt? Reciprocity? How each political party’s election ads reveal their key messages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/hope-contempt-reciprocity-how-each-political-partys-election-ads-reveal-their-key-messages-176676/" aria-label="Read more about Hope? Contempt? Reciprocity? How each political party’s election ads reveal their key messages">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Kemish, Adjunct Professor, School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland This is part of a foreign policy election series looking at how Australia’s relations with the world have changed since the Morrison government came to power. You can read the first piece in ... <a title="How should the next Australian government handle the Pacific?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/how-should-the-next-australian-government-handle-the-pacific-178534/" aria-label="Read more about How should the next Australian government handle the Pacific?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olivia Johnston, Lecturer, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Many Australian schools still use “streaming”, where students are separated into classes based on ability. However, not all students see streaming as beneficial. My research, published in the journal Research Papers in Education, found streaming caused some students to feel ... <a title="‘Is this really fair?’ How high school students feel about being streamed into different classes based on ‘ability’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/is-this-really-fair-how-high-school-students-feel-about-being-streamed-into-different-classes-based-on-ability-180965/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Is this really fair?’ How high school students feel about being streamed into different classes based on ‘ability’">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anika Stobart, Associate, Grattan Institute So the federal election is on. Billboards are suddenly plastered with party slogans, campaign ads are all around us, and our social media feeds are flaring up with political spin. Political advertising is a major feature of Australian election campaigns. But sometimes ... <a title="Few restrictions, no spending limit, and almost no oversight: welcome to political advertising in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/few-restrictions-no-spending-limit-and-almost-no-oversight-welcome-to-political-advertising-in-australia-181248/" aria-label="Read more about Few restrictions, no spending limit, and almost no oversight: welcome to political advertising in Australia">Read more</a>
