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February 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Hudson, Sessional Instructor, Victoria University, and Doctor of Education candidate, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock As students across Australia return to onsite learning, the possibility of Omicron disrupting schools remains high. Commonwealth Chief Medical Officer Paul Kelly has warned transmission of the virus will increase with ... <a title="Return-to-school plans overlook chronic teacher shortages outside the big cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/09/return-to-school-plans-overlook-chronic-teacher-shortages-outside-the-big-cities-176250/" aria-label="Read more about Return-to-school plans overlook chronic teacher shortages outside the big cities">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Stanford, Economist and Director, Centre for Future Work, Australia Institute; Honorary Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney Shutterstock With the official unemployment rate now 4.2% – the lowest since 2008 – Prime Minister Scott Morrison has predicted a rate “with a 3 in front of ... <a title="Why there’s no magic jobless rate to increase Australians’ wages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/09/why-theres-no-magic-jobless-rate-to-increase-australians-wages-176538/" aria-label="Read more about Why there’s no magic jobless rate to increase Australians’ wages">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Graham, Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney Shutterstock Having floated the prospect of introducing rent controls just last week, it seems the government has already ditched the proposal. In tentatively raising the idea, Associate Minister for Housing Poto Williams pointed out the need for policy solutions ... <a title="Why the NZ government is right to rule out rent controls as a housing crisis solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/09/why-the-nz-government-is-right-to-rule-out-rent-controls-as-a-housing-crisis-solution-176460/" aria-label="Read more about Why the NZ government is right to rule out rent controls as a housing crisis solution">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan now includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. This week they discuss the imbroglio over Scott Morrison’s ... <a title="Word from The Hill: On Scott Morrison’s battle for Religious Discrimination Bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/word-from-the-hill-on-scott-morrisons-battle-for-religious-discrimination-bill-176700/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: On Scott Morrison’s battle for Religious Discrimination Bill">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has said “sorry” to Brittany Higgins during a parliamentary acknowledgement of victims of bullying, harassment and sexual assaults in the parliamentary workplace. “I am sorry to Ms Higgins for the terrible things that took place here,” he told ... <a title="Scott Morrison says ‘sorry’ to Brittany Higgins for ‘terrible things’ that happened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/scott-morrison-says-sorry-to-brittany-higgins-for-terrible-things-that-happened-176686/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison says ‘sorry’ to Brittany Higgins for ‘terrible things’ that happened">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University shutterstock Sometimes the best things you can do are invisible. Such as fighting cholera by ensuring drinking water wasn’t contaminated by sewage, as happened in London in the 1840s. Or setting up an emissions trading ... <a title="An investment in clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID – it would help us concentrate, with lasting benefits" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/an-investment-in-clean-indoor-air-would-do-more-than-help-us-fight-covid-it-would-help-us-concentrate-with-lasting-benefits-176547/" aria-label="Read more about An investment in clean indoor air would do more than help us fight COVID – it would help us concentrate, with lasting benefits">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Wake, Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University ABC Chair Ita Buttrose is “delighted” and Managing Director David Anderson says he now has “certainty” for planning. However, the Morrison government’s pre-election announcement it would restore the ABC’s budget to 2018 levels doesn’t come close to making up for ... <a title="The ABC’s budget hasn’t been restored – it’s still facing $1.2 billion in accumulated losses over a decade" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/the-abcs-budget-hasnt-been-restored-its-still-facing-1-2-billion-in-accumulated-losses-over-a-decade-176532/" aria-label="Read more about The ABC’s budget hasn’t been restored – it’s still facing $1.2 billion in accumulated losses over a decade">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maartje Sevenster, Research Scientist Climate Smart Agriculture, CSIRO Shutterstock The need to feed a rising global population means agriculture is one of the most difficult sectors to decarbonise. This is especially true for growing grains – think wheat, barley, legumes and canola. Australia is the third largest ... <a title="How Australia can boost the production of grains, while lowering its carbon footprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/how-australia-can-boost-the-production-of-grains-while-lowering-its-carbon-footprint-176366/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia can boost the production of grains, while lowering its carbon footprint">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University Shutterstock The recent case of a Christian school in Queensland asking parents to sign a contract, stating, among other things, homosexuality is immoral and their children will only identify as their birth gender, sparked a furore across the country. ... <a title="‘I’m not going to waste my time on prayers’: how secular teachers navigate working in religious schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/im-not-going-to-waste-my-time-on-prayers-how-secular-teachers-navigate-working-in-religious-schools-176534/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I’m not going to waste my time on prayers’: how secular teachers navigate working in religious schools">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Davina Jackson, Honorary Academic, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Kent State Library NSW Between the first and second world wars, Australia’s high-end architecture was strongly influenced by exotic scenery from Hollywood’s rapidly accelerating movie industry. Southern California’s style of seductive glamour and decadent hedonism – ... <a title="The seductive glamour and decadent hedonism of Hollywood influences on Australian architecture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/the-seductive-glamour-and-decadent-hedonism-of-hollywood-influences-on-australian-architecture-175624/" aria-label="Read more about The seductive glamour and decadent hedonism of Hollywood influences on Australian architecture">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. You can sign up to NZ Politics Daily as well as New Zealand Political Roundup columns for free here. Today’s content Newshub-Reid Research poll Jenna Lynch (Newshub): Newshub-Reid Research poll: National back in 30s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 8 2022" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-8-2022/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 8 2022">Read more</a>
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February 8, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rhonda Garad, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow in Knowledge Translation, Monash University Unsplash, CC BY For Mary*, being told she’d entered menopause much earlier than expected was a shock … It was sort of like I’d gone from 39 […] instead of turning 40, I’d almost turned ... <a title="‘It changed who I felt I was.’ Women tell of devastation at early menopause diagnosis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/02/08/it-changed-who-i-felt-i-was-women-tell-of-devastation-at-early-menopause-diagnosis-176015/" aria-label="Read more about ‘It changed who I felt I was.’ Women tell of devastation at early menopause diagnosis">Read more</a>
