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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In this series, we unpack what the commission’s 222 recommendations could mean for a more inclusive Australia. The federal government last week ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens Jordon Steele-John on the disability royal commission and Bill Shorten’s NDIS reforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/politics-with-michelle-grattan-greens-jordon-steele-john-on-the-disability-royal-commission-and-bill-shortens-ndis-reforms-215072/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens Jordon Steele-John on the disability royal commission and Bill Shorten’s NDIS reforms">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Francesco Paolucci, Professor of Health Economics, University of Bologna, University of Newcastle Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio The federal government has, for a long time, encouraged Australians to get private health insurance, in an attempt to reduce the financial burden on the public health system. To make private health insurance ... <a title="People with private health insurance save the government $550 a year, on average" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/people-with-private-health-insurance-save-the-government-550-a-year-on-average-212787/" aria-label="Read more about People with private health insurance save the government $550 a year, on average">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Openshaw, Lecturer in School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University Shutterstock A special UN working group this week tabled its first-ever report on the experiences of people of African descent in Australia to the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. The report documents what people ... <a title="‘No safe space in society’: new UN report reveals the extent of systemic racism faced by people of African descent in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/no-safe-space-in-society-new-un-report-reveals-the-extent-of-systemic-racism-faced-by-people-of-african-descent-in-australia-213365/" aria-label="Read more about ‘No safe space in society’: new UN report reveals the extent of systemic racism faced by people of African descent in Australia">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Stern, Professor of Data Science, Bond University Shutterstock In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six. It’s quite ... <a title="Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/is-there-really-a-1-in-6-chance-of-human-extinction-this-century-215054/" aria-label="Read more about Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abby Foster, Allied Health Research Advisor, Monash Health; Adjunct senior lecturer, La Trobe University; Adjunct research fellow, School of Primary & Allied Health Care, Monash University Chansom Pantip/Shutterstock The Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability has shared its final report. In ... <a title="For people with communication disability, complaining about their treatment isn’t so simple" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/for-people-with-communication-disability-complaining-about-their-treatment-isnt-so-simple-214717/" aria-label="Read more about For people with communication disability, complaining about their treatment isn’t so simple">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Shutterstock When we think of extinction, we think of individual species. But nature doesn’t operate like that. Entire communities and even whole ecosystems are now so compromised they could be lost entirely. Australia now ... <a title="It’s not just Victoria’s iconic mountain ash trees at risk – it’s every species in their community" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/its-not-just-victorias-iconic-mountain-ash-trees-at-risk-its-every-species-in-their-community-214582/" aria-label="Read more about It’s not just Victoria’s iconic mountain ash trees at risk – it’s every species in their community">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In defending a Federal Court case brought by opponents of her decisions to approve two export coal mines, Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek is relying in part on what critics call the “drug dealer’s defence”. It’s reasoning that ... <a title="Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/why-the-drug-dealers-defence-doesnt-work-for-exporting-coal-its-actually-economics-101-214588/" aria-label="Read more about Why the ‘drug dealers defence’ doesn’t work for exporting coal. It’s actually Economics 101">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Spoonley, Distinguished Professor, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Massey University The concerns of various pundits and politicians earlier this year that New Zealand might struggle to attract immigrants turned out to be premature. In fact, the country’s population has been boosted to the extent it ... <a title="Record immigration will put pressure on NZ’s population, infrastructure and productivity – where’s the election debate?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/06/record-immigration-will-put-pressure-on-nzs-population-infrastructure-and-productivity-wheres-the-election-debate-214952/" aria-label="Read more about Record immigration will put pressure on NZ’s population, infrastructure and productivity – where’s the election debate?">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
ANALYSIS: By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific French desk correspondent After 10 years of non-attendance, France turned up to this week’s French Polynesia sitting of the UN Special Committee on Decolonisation (C-24) — but the French delegate did not deliver the message that pro-independence French Polynesian groups wanted to hear. French Polynesia was re-inscribed to the ... <a title="France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/france-ends-10-year-un-empty-chair-decolonisation-snub-over-polynesia/" aria-label="Read more about France ends 10-year UN ’empty chair’ decolonisation snub over Polynesia">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, UNSW Law & Justice, UNSW Sydney, UNSW Sydney Immigration Minister Andrew Giles today announced significant changes aimed at restoring the integrity of Australia’s refugee protection system. The key focus is on reducing the significant ... <a title="Why the government’s plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/why-the-governments-plan-to-overhaul-the-asylum-system-is-a-smart-use-of-resources-and-might-just-work-215061/" aria-label="Read more about Why the government’s plan to overhaul the asylum system is a smart use of resources – and might just work">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ritesh Chugh, Associate Professor – Information and Communications Technology, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock In the world of lithium-ion batteries, smartphones take centre stage. Yet they’ve also sparked an ongoing debate: does prolonged (or overnight) charging wreak havoc on your battery? A number of factors determine a phone battery’s ... <a title="Should you charge your phone overnight? Will ‘overcharging’ make it explode? Common battery myths debunked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/should-you-charge-your-phone-overnight-will-overcharging-make-it-explode-common-battery-myths-debunked-214956/" aria-label="Read more about Should you charge your phone overnight? Will ‘overcharging’ make it explode? Common battery myths debunked">Read more</a>
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October 5, 2023
Analysis by Keith Rankin. The above chart looks rather noisy, and so it should. Life and death are messy, and subject to random variations. But this chart, for females, and those that follow, are important charts. It’s worth looking through the ‘random noise’. These charts suggest that the cliché ‘we are all living longer’ is ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/10/05/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-mortality-increases-in-new-zealand-by-generation-and-sex/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Mortality Increases in New Zealand, by Generation and Sex">Read more</a>
