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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Opposition leader Anthony Albanese has made comprehensive reform of aged care the centrepiece of his budget reply delivered on Thursday night. His “plan to fix the crisis in aged care” is costed at $2.5 billion over four years. But this ... <a title="Anthony Albanese offers $2.5 billion plan to ‘fix crisis in aged care’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/anthony-albanese-offers-2-5-billion-plan-to-fix-crisis-in-aged-care-180419/" aria-label="Read more about Anthony Albanese offers $2.5 billion plan to ‘fix crisis in aged care’">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The tax offset for low and middle income earners (LMITO) will not be extended beyond this financial year, so does this amount to a tax increase for these people? Treasurer Josh Frydenberg tells the podcast the offset was a “temporary ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Frydenberg is optimistic about wage growth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/politics-with-michelle-grattan-josh-frydenberg-is-optimistic-about-wage-growth-180414/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Frydenberg is optimistic about wage growth">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Kendall, PhD Candidate in Law, The University of Queensland Shutterstock This week, the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security released its much anticipated report on national security threats affecting the higher education and research sector. The 171-page report found the sector is a target for ... <a title="Universities must act to prevent espionage and foreign interference, but our national laws still threaten academic freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/universities-must-act-to-prevent-espionage-and-foreign-interference-but-our-national-laws-still-threaten-academic-freedom-180319/" aria-label="Read more about Universities must act to prevent espionage and foreign interference, but our national laws still threaten academic freedom">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University Getty Images As Treasurer Josh Frydenberg handed down the federal government’s pre-election budget on Tuesday night, I watched in anticipation to see what it would hold for Aboriginal and Torres Strait ... <a title="Does the pre-election budget address ways to realistically ‘close the gap’ for Indigenous people?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/does-the-pre-election-budget-address-ways-to-realistically-close-the-gap-for-indigenous-people-180312/" aria-label="Read more about Does the pre-election budget address ways to realistically ‘close the gap’ for Indigenous people?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monica Barratt, Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, Social and Global Studies Centre and Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT University Shutterstock You might have seen online or heard about “binaural beats”, which have been described as “digital drugs”. Listening to binaural beats has been claimed to help with ... <a title="What are ‘binaural beats’ and do they affect our brain?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/what-are-binaural-beats-and-do-they-affect-our-brain-180235/" aria-label="Read more about What are ‘binaural beats’ and do they affect our brain?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yuting Zhang, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Earlier access to free or cheaper medicines is on the cards, after a federal budget announcement made earlier this week. Improved access to subsided prescription drugs through the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or PBS will benefit Australians ... <a title="What is the PBS safety net and is it really the best way to cut the cost of medicines?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/what-is-the-pbs-safety-net-and-is-it-really-the-best-way-to-cut-the-cost-of-medicines-180315/" aria-label="Read more about What is the PBS safety net and is it really the best way to cut the cost of medicines?">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharlene Leroy-Dyer, Associate Director (PRME) Indigenous Engagement, The University of Queensland Getty Images Readers please be advised this article contains references to sexual assault. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students are more likely to be sexually harassed in a university context than any other students. This is ... <a title="The Gap will never close if Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students don’t feel safe on university campuses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/the-gap-will-never-close-if-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-students-dont-feel-safe-on-university-campuses-180234/" aria-label="Read more about The Gap will never close if Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students don’t feel safe on university campuses">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Guy Morrow, Senior Lecturer in Arts & Cultural Management, The University of Melbourne Jean Wimmerlin on Unsplash While one more A$20 million round of the Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand (RISE) Fund was announced as part of the 2022-23 budget to support reactivating the arts and ... <a title="Why arts and culture appear to be the big losers in this budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/why-arts-and-culture-appear-to-be-the-big-losers-in-this-budget-180127/" aria-label="Read more about Why arts and culture appear to be the big losers in this budget">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stewart Lockie, Director, The Cairns Institute, James Cook University This years’s budget has offered up “unprecedented” funding for regional Australia, according to the Morrison government’s budget sell. The headline figure is A$21 billion and is widely assumed to be part of the deal Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce ... <a title="The budget hands out $21 billion for ‘regional Australia’, but a quarter of it is going to a single project in Queensland" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/the-budget-hands-out-21-billion-for-regional-australia-but-a-quarter-of-it-is-going-to-a-single-project-in-queensland-180400/" aria-label="Read more about The budget hands out $21 billion for ‘regional Australia’, but a quarter of it is going to a single project in Queensland">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Tai, Senior Research Fellow, Deakin University Shutterstock Swinburne University recently announced it will remove grades from core aspects of its design degree. Instead it will focus on learning design processes and feedback throughout the semester. The “ungrading” movement, led by author Jesse Stommel, is gaining momentum ... <a title="Grading students may be as easy as ABC, but evidence shows better ways to improve learning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/grading-students-may-be-as-easy-as-abc-but-evidence-shows-better-ways-to-improve-learning-179650/" aria-label="Read more about Grading students may be as easy as ABC, but evidence shows better ways to improve learning">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicolas Flament, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong Earth’s interior 80 million years ago with hot structures in yellow to red (darker is shallower) and cold structures in blue (darker is deeper). Ömer Bodur/Nature Deep in the Earth beneath us lie two blobs the size of continents. One ... <a title="Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/volcanoes-diamonds-and-blobs-a-billion-year-history-of-earths-interior-shows-its-more-mobile-than-we-thought-179673/" aria-label="Read more about Volcanoes, diamonds, and blobs: a billion-year history of Earth’s interior shows it’s more mobile than we thought">Read more</a>
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March 31, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Hill, Associate Professor Political Economy and Deputy Director, The Gender Equality in Working Life Research Initiative, University of Sydney Shutterstock Among the many budget papers is the Women’s Budget Statement, a booklet outlining what the federal government is doing for Australian women. This includes A$2.1 billion ... <a title="Is the budget good for women? The paid parental leave change takes us backwards and childcare costs were ignored" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/03/31/is-the-budget-good-for-women-the-paid-parental-leave-change-takes-us-backwards-and-childcare-costs-were-ignored-179766/" aria-label="Read more about Is the budget good for women? The paid parental leave change takes us backwards and childcare costs were ignored">Read more</a>
