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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giuliana Murfet, Casual Academic, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock Not getting enough sleep is a common affliction in the modern age. If you don’t always get as many hours of shut-eye as you’d like, perhaps you were concerned by news of a recent study ... <a title="Could not getting enough sleep increase your risk of type 2 diabetes?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/could-not-getting-enough-sleep-increase-your-risk-of-type-2-diabetes-225179/" aria-label="Read more about Could not getting enough sleep increase your risk of type 2 diabetes?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara Dehm, Senior lecturer, international migration and refugee law, University of Technology Sydney Starting today, the High Court will hear a case to decide if the government’s indefinite detention of a bisexual Iranian man is lawful, partly because he is unwilling to voluntarily assist with the government’s ... <a title="The High Court is hearing another high-stakes immigration case. Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/the-high-court-is-hearing-another-high-stakes-immigration-case-can-people-be-forced-to-assist-in-their-own-deportation-228000/" aria-label="Read more about The High Court is hearing another high-stakes immigration case. Can people be forced to assist in their own deportation?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Cairney, Head of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has proposed a new strategy to bolster the financial health of Olympic sports, ranging from minor sports such as table tennis to dominant codes such as basketball and swimming. ... <a title="Why Australia’s Olympic funding changes might widen the gap between rich and poor sports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/why-australias-olympic-funding-changes-might-widen-the-gap-between-rich-and-poor-sports-227366/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australia’s Olympic funding changes might widen the gap between rich and poor sports">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Evans, Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne Indigenous businesses generate about A$16 billion a year in revenue and employ more than 116,000 people – almost as many as the massive Coles retail group. But the contribution of these businesses to the Australian economy has long been ... <a title="Indigenous businesses are worth billions but we don’t know enough about them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/indigenous-businesses-are-worth-billions-but-we-dont-know-enough-about-them-227677/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous businesses are worth billions but we don’t know enough about them">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Myles Thomas The announced closure of Television New Zealand’s last primetime current affairs programme seems to be the final nail in the coffin for New Zealand’s television credibility. Coming a day after the announcement of the closure of Newshub, it shows that Kiwis have the worst television and video media in the Western ... <a title="Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst TV in the Western world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/myles-thomas-newshub-tvnz-job-cuts-we-now-have-the-worst-tv-in-the-western-world/" aria-label="Read more about Myles Thomas: Newshub, TVNZ job cuts: We now have the worst TV in the Western world">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Pinder, Associate Professor, Finance , The University of Melbourne During yesterday’s senate inquiry into supermarket pricing, Greens senator Nick McKim threatened to hold outgoing Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci in contempt for refusing to directly answer questions about the company’s profitability. McKim repeatedly asked Banducci for ... <a title="Woolworths chief Brad Banducci couldn’t give senators his company’s ‘return on equity’. What exactly is this figure, and what can it tell us about a company’s profit?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/woolworths-chief-brad-banducci-couldnt-give-senators-his-companys-return-on-equity-what-exactly-is-this-figure-and-what-can-it-tell-us-about-a-companys-profit-228021/" aria-label="Read more about Woolworths chief Brad Banducci couldn’t give senators his company’s ‘return on equity’. What exactly is this figure, and what can it tell us about a company’s profit?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
By Koroi Hawkins, RNZ Pacific editor in Honiara Polls have opened today in Solomon Islands. “Today is polling day. Polling Station opens at 7 am and closes at 4 pm. Be at the correct polling station and be in the voting line before 4 pm,” a text message from the Solomon Islands Electoral Commission alerting ... <a title="Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/let-the-games-begin-coalition-negotiations-underway-in-honiara/" aria-label="Read more about Let the games begin – coalition negotiations underway in Honiara">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute Shutterstock/Benjamin Crone Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has been tabled. In ... <a title="Choice and control: the NDIS was designed to give participants choice, but mandatory registration could threaten this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/choice-and-control-the-ndis-was-designed-to-give-participants-choice-but-mandatory-registration-could-threaten-this-224505/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: the NDIS was designed to give participants choice, but mandatory registration could threaten this">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexa Scarlata, Research Fellow, Media & Communications, RMIT University Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through streaming channels, wondering what to watch among the hundreds (or thousands) of options? Do you worry about spending more money on yet another subscription just to watch the latest show everyone ... <a title="Is a 24-hour Home and Away channel the answer to subscription fatigue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/is-a-24-hour-home-and-away-channel-the-answer-to-subscription-fatigue-226738/" aria-label="Read more about Is a 24-hour Home and Away channel the answer to subscription fatigue?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Laura Sterup, Postgraduate in Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Wikimedia Commons/Luca Davenport-Thomas, CC BY-SA In the early 20th century, canaries were used as early warning systems in coal mines to alert miners to rising levels of carbon monoxide. A small unremarkable ... <a title="Light pollution affects coastal ecosystems too – this underwater ‘canary’ is warning of the impacts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/light-pollution-affects-coastal-ecosystems-too-this-underwater-canary-is-warning-of-the-impacts-226599/" aria-label="Read more about Light pollution affects coastal ecosystems too – this underwater ‘canary’ is warning of the impacts">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University So weighed down have Americans become by student debt, and so potent a political issue has it become in the US, that President Biden plans to waive interest or write off money owing by 30 ... <a title="Biden is cancelling millions of student debts – here’s what to expect from Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/biden-is-cancelling-millions-of-student-debts-heres-what-to-expect-from-albanese-227919/" aria-label="Read more about Biden is cancelling millions of student debts – here’s what to expect from Albanese">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Two major critical minerals projects in Queensland and South Australia are to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government loans as part of the Albanese government’s new Future Made in Australia policy. New loans worth $400 million will ... <a title="Critical minerals receive multi-million dollar support under Future Made in Australia policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/critical-minerals-receive-multi-million-dollar-support-under-future-made-in-australia-policy-228015/" aria-label="Read more about Critical minerals receive multi-million dollar support under Future Made in Australia policy">Read more</a>
