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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra New Education Minister Jason Clare is travelling the country taking soundings in the education sector. This, he says, is “the best way to get across this big, vast portfolio that stretches from the education of our youngest children right through ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jason Clare on Australia’s education challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jason-clare-on-australias-education-challenges-186473/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jason Clare on Australia’s education challenges">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock Australia is facing serious labour and skills shortages both now and in the longer term. The immediate priority is to help employers fill current vacancies. In the longer term, the government needs to ensure its investments ... <a title="Migration offers an urgent fix for the skills we need right now, but education and training will set us up for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/migration-offers-an-urgent-fix-for-the-skills-we-need-right-now-but-education-and-training-will-set-us-up-for-the-future-186374/" aria-label="Read more about Migration offers an urgent fix for the skills we need right now, but education and training will set us up for the future">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Turnbull, Postdoctoral Research Associate, UNSW Sydney John Turnbull, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. On the surface, it looks like any other bay ... <a title="Photos from the field: diving with Tasmania’s rare and elusive red handfish, your new favourite animal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/photos-from-the-field-diving-with-tasmanias-rare-and-elusive-red-handfish-your-new-favourite-animal-180962/" aria-label="Read more about Photos from the field: diving with Tasmania’s rare and elusive red handfish, your new favourite animal">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sallie Cowan, Senior Research Fellow and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist, La Trobe University Netball is one of the biggest team sports in Australia with more than 1.2 million men, women and children playing each week, underpinned by a nationwide footprint of more than 4,000 community clubs. Across the world ... <a title="Is netball actually bad for knees and ankles? What does the research say?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/is-netball-actually-bad-for-knees-and-ankles-what-does-the-research-say-183619/" aria-label="Read more about Is netball actually bad for knees and ankles? What does the research say?">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Associate Dean (Learning & Teaching) Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology Shutterstock Australian consumers and businesses lost more than A$2 billion to scams in 2021, according to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s (ACCC) annual Targeting Scams report released ... <a title="Australians lost $2b to fraud in 2021. This figure should sound alarm bells for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/australians-lost-2b-to-fraud-in-2021-this-figure-should-sound-alarm-bells-for-the-future-186459/" aria-label="Read more about Australians lost $2b to fraud in 2021. This figure should sound alarm bells for the future">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Andrews, Professor Indigenous Research & Convenor of Aboriginal Studies, La Trobe University There are now almost one million Indigenous people in Australia, according to the 2021 Census. The estimated Indigenous population of 983,300 people in August 2021 has increased from 798,000 in 2016. This translates into ... <a title="What it means to identify as Indigenous in Australia, and how this might have contributed to the increase in the census" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/what-it-means-to-identify-as-indigenous-in-australia-and-how-this-might-have-contributed-to-the-increase-in-the-census-185954/" aria-label="Read more about What it means to identify as Indigenous in Australia, and how this might have contributed to the increase in the census">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James C. Murphy, Lecturer & Tutor (Teaching Intensive) in Politics and Public Policy, The University of Melbourne Federal infrastructure policy has been rife with controversy for years: from the sports rorts scandal and dubious commuter car parks to overpriced land for the second Sydney airport. So notorious ... <a title="Can a new department head get the politics out of infrastructure? (And is that a good idea anyway?)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/can-a-new-department-head-get-the-politics-out-of-infrastructure-and-is-that-a-good-idea-anyway-185876/" aria-label="Read more about Can a new department head get the politics out of infrastructure? (And is that a good idea anyway?)">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Ong ViforJ, ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University On the surface, the latest census tells us home ownership has changed little over the past five years. Between the 2016 census and this census in 2021, the share of Australians owning their homes remained ... <a title="More rented, more mortgaged, less owned: what the census tells us about housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/more-rented-more-mortgaged-less-owned-what-the-census-tells-us-about-housing-185893/" aria-label="Read more about More rented, more mortgaged, less owned: what the census tells us about housing">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Tuffley, Senior Lecturer in Applied Ethics & CyberSecurity, Griffith University amrothman from Pixabay, CC BY-SA When English statesman Sir Francis Bacon famously said “knowledge is power”, he could hardly have foreseen the rise of ubiquitous social media some 500 years later. Yet social media platforms are ... <a title="Concerns over TikTok feeding user data to Beijing are back – and there’s good evidence to support them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/concerns-over-tiktok-feeding-user-data-to-beijing-are-back-and-theres-good-evidence-to-support-them-186211/" aria-label="Read more about Concerns over TikTok feeding user data to Beijing are back – and there’s good evidence to support them">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, EG Whitlam Research Fellow, Whitlam Institute within Western Sydney University, and Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame Australia Shutterstock Nobody spoke to Donna* or her sister in the lead up to the family court decision that ordered the children to spend time alone with their ... <a title="‘Quite irreparable damage’: child family violence survivors on how court silenced and retraumatised them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/quite-irreparable-damage-child-family-violence-survivors-on-how-court-silenced-and-retraumatised-them-185198/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Quite irreparable damage’: child family violence survivors on how court silenced and retraumatised them">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sophie Yates, Research Fellow, UNSW Sydney People with disability are over-represented in prison and some are criminalised because of behaviours related to their disability. But they are unlikely to have their disability recognised or adjusted for, and the connection between the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and ... <a title="Incarcerated people with disability don’t get the support they need – that makes them more likely to reoffend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/incarcerated-people-with-disability-dont-get-the-support-they-need-that-makes-them-more-likely-to-reoffend-185395/" aria-label="Read more about Incarcerated people with disability don’t get the support they need – that makes them more likely to reoffend">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Southall, Lecturer in Inclusive Education and Trauma, La Trobe University Shutterstock Teachers are burning out and leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers. Classrooms and workloads are challenging, made worse by staff shortages, and teachers are stressed. Student welfare needs to be prioritised, but the educators supporting ... <a title="‘We are not in this alone’: stressed teachers find hope in peer-support model used by frontline health workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/06/we-are-not-in-this-alone-stressed-teachers-find-hope-in-peer-support-model-used-by-frontline-health-workers-185683/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are not in this alone’: stressed teachers find hope in peer-support model used by frontline health workers">Read more</a>
