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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock In the wake of the PwC scandal, there is renewed interest in the work of outside agencies within Australian government. Earlier this year, an audit showed almost A$21 billion was spent on external labour hire in the Australian ... <a title="How reliance on consultancy firms like PwC undermines the capacity of governments" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/how-reliance-on-consultancy-firms-like-pwc-undermines-the-capacity-of-governments-207020/" aria-label="Read more about How reliance on consultancy firms like PwC undermines the capacity of governments">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Jefferson-Buchanan, Lecturer in Human Movement Studies (Health and PE) and Creative Arts, Charles Sturt University Shutterstock Like many celebrities and entrepreneurs, 45-year-old US tech billionaire Bryan Johnson is trying to reverse the ageing process. Spending an average of US$2 million a year on an anti-ageing regimen, ... <a title="No, you can’t reverse ageing by injecting ‘young blood’ and fasting. But that doesn’t stop people trying" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/no-you-cant-reverse-ageing-by-injecting-young-blood-and-fasting-but-that-doesnt-stop-people-trying-207038/" aria-label="Read more about No, you can’t reverse ageing by injecting ‘young blood’ and fasting. But that doesn’t stop people trying">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heloise Gibb, Professor, La Trobe University The predatory beetle eurylychnus blagravei Nick Porch, Author provided The Black Summer megafires engulfing south-eastern Australia in 2019–2020 were so intense they burned habitats rarely exposed to fire, such as southern warm temperate rainforest. These rainforests range from East Gippsland in ... <a title="More than 60 billion leaf litter invertebrates died in the Black Summer fires. Here’s what that did to ecosystems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/more-than-60-billion-leaf-litter-invertebrates-died-in-the-black-summer-fires-heres-what-that-did-to-ecosystems-207032/" aria-label="Read more about More than 60 billion leaf litter invertebrates died in the Black Summer fires. Here’s what that did to ecosystems">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Selinske, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University Shutterstock When we were asked to survey people in Melbourne about their relationship with nature, little did we know our findings would reinforce a well-known cultural divide between those living north and south of the Yarra River. Residents of neighbourhoods ... <a title="The vast majority of Melburnians want more nature in their city, despite a puzzling north-south divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/the-vast-majority-of-melburnians-want-more-nature-in-their-city-despite-a-puzzling-north-south-divide-206938/" aria-label="Read more about The vast majority of Melburnians want more nature in their city, despite a puzzling north-south divide">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel Howard, Research associate, Flinders University Ksenia Chernaya/Pexels A significant proportion of young Australians still do not finish high school. According to data released by the Productivity Commission on Tuesday, about one in five students leave before they reach Year 12. In 2022, about 79% of students ... <a title="20% of Australian students don’t finish high school: non-mainstream schools have a lot to teach us about helping kids stay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/20-of-australian-students-dont-finish-high-school-non-mainstream-schools-have-a-lot-to-teach-us-about-helping-kids-stay-207021/" aria-label="Read more about 20% of Australian students don’t finish high school: non-mainstream schools have a lot to teach us about helping kids stay">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Beale, Senior Project Officer, Australian Industrial Transformation Institute, Flinders University Minerals Council of Australia On Monday, eight of Australia’s largest employer groups launched a campaign against the government’s Same Job, Same Pay Bill, saying it was “unfair”. The television ads and website say the proposed law ... <a title="Business is trying to scare us about ‘same job, same pay’. But the proposal isn’t scary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/business-is-trying-to-scare-us-about-same-job-same-pay-but-the-proposal-isnt-scary-207113/" aria-label="Read more about Business is trying to scare us about ‘same job, same pay’. But the proposal isn’t scary">Read more</a>
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June 8, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Edith Jennifer Hill, Associate lecturer, Flinders University Shutterstock In a recently viral TikTok series, creator Ali Tate Cutler spends time with her terminally ill grandma who has made the choice to end her life through euthanasia. While sharing start-of-life stories – such as ultrasound pictures or childhood ... <a title="‘The hardest and most beautiful conversation I’ve ever had’: how end-of-life storytelling on TikTok helps us process death" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/08/the-hardest-and-most-beautiful-conversation-ive-ever-had-how-end-of-life-storytelling-on-tiktok-helps-us-process-death-206999/" aria-label="Read more about ‘The hardest and most beautiful conversation I’ve ever had’: how end-of-life storytelling on TikTok helps us process death">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra BagzhanSadvakassov/Upsplash, CC BY-SA The latest national accounts tell us Australia’s economy grew by just 0.2% in the three months to March. It’s the weakest growth since the economy shrank during the COVID lockdowns, ... <a title="Going down: the 6 graphs that show Australia’s economic growth shrinking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/going-down-the-6-graphs-that-show-australias-economic-growth-shrinking-206068/" aria-label="Read more about Going down: the 6 graphs that show Australia’s economic growth shrinking">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Professional golf – and increasingly world sport – is caught in a sand trap. Not the familiar hazard between fairway and green, but the Middle Eastern desert producing enormous quantities of fossil ... <a title="How Saudi Arabia came to be at the centre of a global golf merger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/how-saudi-arabia-came-to-be-at-the-centre-of-a-global-golf-merger-207203/" aria-label="Read more about How Saudi Arabia came to be at the centre of a global golf merger">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Jakubowicz, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Technology Sydney Fifty years after the Whitlam government released its landmark report on multiculturalism in Australia, the Albanese government has launched a major review of its policies to ensure they are serving multicultural communities in the best ways. But ... <a title="A major review of the government’s multicultural policies is under way – what is it seeking to achieve?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/a-major-review-of-the-governments-multicultural-policies-is-under-way-what-is-it-seeking-to-achieve-206983/" aria-label="Read more about A major review of the government’s multicultural policies is under way – what is it seeking to achieve?">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karen Fisher, Associate Professor, University of Auckland Greg Nunes, Author provided The rapidly declining health of New Zealand’s marine environment raises serious questions about how we care for and manage the oceans. A recent stocktake of our marine environment identifies several cumulative pressures. These include ocean acidification, ... <a title="Our oceans are in deep trouble – a ‘mountains to sea’ approach could make a real difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/our-oceans-are-in-deep-trouble-a-mountains-to-sea-approach-could-make-a-real-difference-207116/" aria-label="Read more about Our oceans are in deep trouble – a ‘mountains to sea’ approach could make a real difference">Read more</a>
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June 7, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Bean, Research Fellow, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland Hans de Bull, Alchemical Hand Bell of Rudolf II, ca. 1600 Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, CC BY-NC-SA Scholars are baffled by a mysterious object from Emperor Rudolf II’s collection: a hand bell, made ... <a title="Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the ‘Alchemical Hand Bell’ hold?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/06/07/seven-metals-ringed-with-four-magical-inscriptions-what-other-secrets-does-the-alchemical-hand-bell-hold-204367/" aria-label="Read more about Seven metals, ringed with four magical inscriptions: what other secrets does the ‘Alchemical Hand Bell’ hold?">Read more</a>
