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August 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Dan Peled/AAP This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here. To those old enough, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Jobs and Skills Summit brings back memories ... <a title="What can unions and the Albanese government offer each other at the jobs summit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/what-can-unions-and-the-albanese-government-offer-each-other-at-the-jobs-summit-188535/" aria-label="Read more about What can unions and the Albanese government offer each other at the jobs summit?">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Swerissen, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University Unsplash/Georg Arthur Plueger Next week’s job summit will need to address the massive staff shortages in aged care. Estimates suggest 35,000 additional aged care workers per year are needed to fill growing aged care skill shortages. These problems will only ... <a title="Overseas recruitment won’t solve Australia’s aged care worker crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/overseas-recruitment-wont-solve-australias-aged-care-worker-crisis-189126/" aria-label="Read more about Overseas recruitment won’t solve Australia’s aged care worker crisis">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Diesendorf, Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock Energy consumption – whether its heating your home, driving, oil refining or liquefying natural gas – is responsible for around 82% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Unless Australia reduces its energy consumption, my recent study finds it’ll be almost ... <a title="It’ll be impossible to replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050, unless we cut our energy consumption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/itll-be-impossible-to-replace-fossil-fuels-with-renewables-by-2050-unless-we-cut-our-energy-consumption-189131/" aria-label="Read more about It’ll be impossible to replace fossil fuels with renewables by 2050, unless we cut our energy consumption">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Keating, Visiting Fellow, College of Business & Economics, Australian National University Shutterstock This article is part of The Conversation’s series looking at Labor’s jobs summit. Read the other articles in the series here. Treasury’s issues paper for the jobs summit says fair pay and job security ... <a title="Many jobs summit ideas for lifting wages don’t make sense – upskilling does" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/many-jobs-summit-ideas-for-lifting-wages-dont-make-sense-upskilling-does-189114/" aria-label="Read more about Many jobs summit ideas for lifting wages don’t make sense – upskilling does">Read more</a>
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August 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chari Larsson, Senior Lecturer of art history, Griffith University Justene Williams, Australia b.1970. The Vertigoats 2021. Mixed media. Installed dimensions variable. Purchased 2021 with funds from the Contemporary Patrons through the QAGOMA Foundation. Collection: QAGOMA. Photograph: Natasha Harth, QAGOMA Review: Embodied Knowledge: Queensland Contemporary Art, Queensland Art ... <a title="QAGOMA’s Embodied Knowledge is an energetic and inclusive celebration of contemporary Queensland art" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/25/qagomas-embodied-knowledge-is-an-energetic-and-inclusive-celebration-of-contemporary-queensland-art-188722/" aria-label="Read more about QAGOMA’s Embodied Knowledge is an energetic and inclusive celebration of contemporary Queensland art">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Sutton, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Technology Sydney Shutterstock Aged care homes struggling to meet staffing needs are increasingly relying on externally contracted care workers to make up shortfalls. However, our new study, shows homes that rely more heavily on externally contracted care staff provide ... <a title="Complaints, missing persons, assaults – contracting outside workers in aged care increases problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/complaints-missing-persons-assaults-contracting-outside-workers-in-aged-care-increases-problems-188745/" aria-label="Read more about Complaints, missing persons, assaults – contracting outside workers in aged care increases problems">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaelen Nicole Myers, PhD Candidate, James Cook University Mangrove whipray Wikimedia Commons Am I not pretty enough? This article is part of The Conversation’s series introducing you to unloved Australian animals that need our help. Have you ever done the “stingray shuffle”? If you live by the ... <a title="‘I will miss them if they are gone’: stingrays are underrated sharks we don’t know enough about" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/i-will-miss-them-if-they-are-gone-stingrays-are-underrated-sharks-we-dont-know-enough-about-186214/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I will miss them if they are gone’: stingrays are underrated sharks we don’t know enough about">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kelly E Matthews, Associate Professor, Higher Education, Institute of Teaching and Learning Innovation, The University of Queensland Brooke Cagle/Unsplash Each year tens of thousands of higher education students complete the Student Experience Survey. It’s seen as a litmus test of student engagement, satisfaction and educational quality. But ... <a title="5 problems with the Student Experience Survey’s attempt to understand what’s going on in higher education post-COVID" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/5-problems-with-the-student-experience-surveys-attempt-to-understand-whats-going-on-in-higher-education-post-covid-185483/" aria-label="Read more about 5 problems with the Student Experience Survey’s attempt to understand what’s going on in higher education post-COVID">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Kirkland, Professor of Geology, Curtin University Triff/Shutterstock “To see a world in a grain of sand”, the opening sentence of the poem by William Blake, is an oft-used phrase that also captures some of what geologists do. We observe the composition of mineral grains, smaller than ... <a title="Scientists have traced Earth’s path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/scientists-have-traced-earths-path-through-the-galaxy-via-tiny-crystals-found-in-the-crust-188158/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists have traced Earth’s path through the galaxy via tiny crystals found in the crust">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arosha Weerakoon, Lecturer, General Dentist & PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland nhia moua/unsplash, CC BY-SA Most of us can’t smell our own breath. If someone bravely informs you your breath smells, believe them, and do something about it. Or if you are worried you have bad ... <a title="Why does my breath smell bad, and what can I do about it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/why-does-my-breath-smell-bad-and-what-can-i-do-about-it-184560/" aria-label="Read more about Why does my breath smell bad, and what can I do about it?">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Lachlan Murdoch, far left, with his father Rupert and brother James in 2014 Dan Steinberg/AP/AAP There is no better example of how Australia’s defamation laws enable the rich and powerful to intimidate their critics ... <a title="Murdoch v Crikey highlights how Australia’s defamation laws protect the rich and powerful" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/murdoch-v-crikey-highlights-how-australias-defamation-laws-protect-the-rich-and-powerful-189228/" aria-label="Read more about Murdoch v Crikey highlights how Australia’s defamation laws protect the rich and powerful">Read more</a>
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August 24, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Plum, Senior Research Fellow in Applied Labour Economics, Auckland University of Technology GettyImages The birth of a child is a positive milestone in most parents’ lives. And with the new responsibilities come behavioural changes, particularly for first-time parents. Such a turning point can have long-term or ... <a title="Having a son improves the lives of young dads with a criminal history. New research suggests cultural explanations" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/24/having-a-son-improves-the-lives-of-young-dads-with-a-criminal-history-new-research-suggests-cultural-explanations-187252/" aria-label="Read more about Having a son improves the lives of young dads with a criminal history. New research suggests cultural explanations">Read more</a>
