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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rod Tyers, Winthrop Professor of Economics, The University of Western Australia Felix Mittermeier/Pexels, CC BY-SA If tensions between the Western world and China and Russia led to a split into two separate financial and trading systems, Australia would be among the countries most hurt. We ran the ... <a title="Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/australia-would-be-among-the-biggest-economic-losers-from-a-new-cold-war-179102/" aria-label="Read more about Australia would be among the biggest economic losers from a new cold war">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Young, Lecturer, Deakin University shutterstock When Allen & Unwin requested a sequel to J.R.R. Tolkien’s first novel The Hobbit (1937), they could not have known that it would be one of the best publishing decisions of the century, if not all time. The Lord of the ... <a title="How Tolkien and Lord of the Rings inspired the commercial and artistic success of the fantasy fiction genre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/how-tolkien-and-lord-of-the-rings-inspired-the-commercial-and-artistic-success-of-the-fantasy-fiction-genre-170958/" aria-label="Read more about How Tolkien and Lord of the Rings inspired the commercial and artistic success of the fantasy fiction genre">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor has clung to its 53-47% two-party lead in the latest Newspoll, but Anthony Albanese’s ratings have taken a knock after his error-prone first week of the campaign. While Labor would win on this vote, with a uniform swing, both ... <a title="View from the Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/view-from-the-hill-labor-holds-53-47-lead-but-albanese-takes-a-hit-in-newspoll-181443/" aria-label="Read more about View from the Hill: Labor holds 53-47% lead but Albanese takes a hit in Newspoll">Read more</a>
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April 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This is the first in a two-part series on the major parties’ Treasury spokespeople. You can read Carol Johnson’s profile of Jim Chalmers here. When Josh Frydenberg was studying law at Monash University, he’d tell fellow students he wanted to ... <a title="He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/19/hes-the-treasurer-who-may-become-the-next-leader-of-the-liberal-party-so-how-high-can-josh-frydenberg-fly-181429/" aria-label="Read more about He’s the treasurer who may become the next leader of the Liberal Party. So how high can Josh Frydenberg fly?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison and NSW treasurer and leading moderate Matt Kean are publicly at loggerheads over the future of the prime minister’s controversial captain’s pick for the seat of Warringah. Kean has declared Katherine Deves, who made offensive comments on social ... <a title="Morrison defends controversial Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/16/morrison-defends-controversial-warringah-candidate-as-push-to-oust-her-strengthens-181421/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison defends controversial Warringah candidate as push to oust her strengthens">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra “Soft” voters who took part in focus groups in the Sydney seat of Wentworth this week were probably speaking for a vast number of Australians when they vented their disgruntlement with the two leaders who are fighting out this election. ... <a title="The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/16/the-wentworth-project-soft-voters-dislike-morrison-but-hesitate-about-albanese-181351/" aria-label="Read more about The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A week ago, Anthony Albanese appeared well placed as the election was about to be called. Now he has comprehensively blown the first campaign week. This isn’t to say he can’t recover. But it does raise big questions about his ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor and Albanese hoping for Easter resurrection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/grattan-on-friday-labor-and-albanese-hoping-for-easter-resurrection-181349/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor and Albanese hoping for Easter resurrection">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, The University of Melbourne shutterstock The official employment figures say the unemployment rate for March was 4.0%, exactly the same as a month earlier. But if you’re prepared to download the spreadsheet and work it out, you’ll find that expressed to two ... <a title="Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a ‘3’. How do we keep it there?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/technically-our-unemployment-rate-now-begins-with-a-3-how-do-we-keep-it-there-181242/" aria-label="Read more about Technically our unemployment rate now begins with a ‘3’. How do we keep it there?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Baron, Associate professor, Australian Catholic University Shutterstock Does time exist? The answer to this question may seem obvious: of course it does! Just look at a calendar or a clock. But developments in physics suggest the non-existence of time is an open possibility, and one that ... <a title="Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/time-might-not-exist-according-to-physicists-and-philosophers-but-thats-okay-181268/" aria-label="Read more about Time might not exist, according to physicists and philosophers – but that’s okay">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Bean, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Federation University Australia Shutterstock In the past three months, more than 150 cases of salmonella food poisoning across Europe have been linked to Kinder chocolate products. Most of the cases have been in children under ten years old. Health officials have ... <a title="Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/surprise-there-might-be-salmonella-in-your-chocolate-180813/" aria-label="Read more about Surprise! There might be salmonella in your chocolate">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Intifar Chowdhury, Associate lecturer, Australian National University There have been suggestions Australia could see a “youthquake” at the upcoming May 21 election. Spurred on by their suffering during COVID and anger about economic inequality, environmental inaction and toxicity in federal parliament, young people may flock to the ... <a title="What will young Australians do with their vote – are we about to see a ‘youthquake’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/what-will-young-australians-do-with-their-vote-are-we-about-to-see-a-youthquake-180883/" aria-label="Read more about What will young Australians do with their vote – are we about to see a ‘youthquake’?">Read more</a>
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April 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom van Laer, Associate Professor of Narratology, University of Sydney The federal election campaign is underway and political advertising has really started to ramp up. But who is the target audience for each party’s ad, what are their key messages and how effective will they be? I ... <a title="Hope? Contempt? Reciprocity? How each political party’s election ads reveal their key messages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/14/hope-contempt-reciprocity-how-each-political-partys-election-ads-reveal-their-key-messages-176676/" aria-label="Read more about Hope? Contempt? Reciprocity? How each political party’s election ads reveal their key messages">Read more</a>
