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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Hargreaves, Senior Learning Advisor, University of Southern Queensland On April 8 1974, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam announced to parliament the nation’s new national anthem: Advance Australia Fair. Australia was growing up. We could stop saving “our gracious Queen” and rejoice in being “young” and “girt”. Finding ... <a title="50 years on, Advance Australia Fair no longer reflects the values of many. What could replace it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/50-years-on-advance-australia-fair-no-longer-reflects-the-values-of-many-what-could-replace-it-226737/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years on, Advance Australia Fair no longer reflects the values of many. What could replace it?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Hughes, Honorary Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Physics & UQ College, The University of Queensland Buradaki / Shutterstock If you’ve ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path that brings it much ... <a title="Earth, the Sun and a bike wheel: why your high-school textbook was wrong about the shape of Earth’s orbit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/earth-the-sun-and-a-bike-wheel-why-your-high-school-textbook-was-wrong-about-the-shape-of-earths-orbit-225200/" aria-label="Read more about Earth, the Sun and a bike wheel: why your high-school textbook was wrong about the shape of Earth’s orbit">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Divna Haslam, Senior Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology ABC A special episode of the hit kids show Bluey will premiere on April 14. The episode will run for 28 minutes, which is four times the usual length of a Bluey episode. My kids are excited. In ... <a title="A bumper Bluey episode is about to hit screens. 5 ways to get the most out of watching the show with your kids" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/a-bumper-bluey-episode-is-about-to-hit-screens-5-ways-to-get-the-most-out-of-watching-the-show-with-your-kids-224638/" aria-label="Read more about A bumper Bluey episode is about to hit screens. 5 ways to get the most out of watching the show with your kids">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerrie Sadiq, Professor of Taxation, QUT Business School, and ARC Future Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Australia talks a big game on global tax avoidance. It has prepared draft legislation it says will make sure all companies with global revenue of at least A$1.2 billion, whether headquartered ... <a title="Why is Australia helping to block a move to tax multinational corporations properly?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/why-is-australia-helping-to-block-a-move-to-tax-multinational-corporations-properly-219305/" aria-label="Read more about Why is Australia helping to block a move to tax multinational corporations properly?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Waghorn, Lecturer, School of Education, RMIT University While much attention has been drawn to the detrimental impact of violent video games on children’s developing brains, there has been relatively little discussion regarding the negative effects of news and current affair programs children are exposed to. When ... <a title="Kids and ‘bad’ news: how can parents safely introduce their children to news and current affairs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/kids-and-bad-news-how-can-parents-safely-introduce-their-children-to-news-and-current-affairs-226609/" aria-label="Read more about Kids and ‘bad’ news: how can parents safely introduce their children to news and current affairs?">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The food and grocery code of conduct should be made mandatory to help rectify the heavy imbalance between suppliers and supermarkets, an inquiry by former Labor minister Craig Emerson has recommended. Emerson says in his interim report, released Monday, that ... <a title="Inquiry into supermarkets says make voluntary code of conduct mandatory but don’t bring in divestiture power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/inquiry-into-supermarkets-says-make-voluntary-code-of-conduct-mandatory-but-dont-bring-in-divestiture-power-227327/" aria-label="Read more about Inquiry into supermarkets says make voluntary code of conduct mandatory but don’t bring in divestiture power">Read more</a>
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April 8, 2024
The New Zealand government is bringing in immediate changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa, which it says will help protect migrants from exploitation and address unsustainable net migration. In 2023, a near-record 173,000 non-New Zealand citizens migrated to the country. The changes to the work visa scheme include introducing an English language requirement for ... <a title="NZ immigration work visa changes to target ‘unsustainable’ migration" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/08/nz-immigration-work-visa-changes-to-target-unsustainable-migration/" aria-label="Read more about NZ immigration work visa changes to target ‘unsustainable’ migration">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne At the March 23 Tasmanian state election, the Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats, Labor ten, the Greens five, the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) ... <a title="Liberals will have difficulty forming government after final Tasmanian results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/liberals-will-have-difficulty-forming-government-after-final-tasmanian-results-226906/" aria-label="Read more about Liberals will have difficulty forming government after final Tasmanian results">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
PNG Post-Courier Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister James Marape has authorised a joint military and police operation in a decisive move to curb the escalating problem of illegal mining in the Porgera Valley. This action comes in response to the recent surge of unauthorised miners invading the Special Mining Lease (SML) area, posing significant risks ... <a title="PNG’s Marape orders military-police operation in Porgera over illegal mining" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/pngs-marape-orders-military-police-operation-in-porgera-over-illegal-mining/" aria-label="Read more about PNG’s Marape orders military-police operation in Porgera over illegal mining">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
Asia Pacific Report Nour Odeh, a Palestinian political analyst, has told Al Jazeera’s Inside Story that the US is more likely to move in the “right direction” when it comes to Israel if it feels pressure from its allies, reports Al Jazeera. “The more Washington feels pressure from its friends, that its policy on Israel ... <a title="More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/more-pressure-from-us-allies-could-see-change-to-untenable-policy-on-gaza-says-analyst/" aria-label="Read more about More pressure from US allies could see change to ‘untenable policy’ on Gaza, says analyst">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
The first votes of the 2024 Solomon Islands joint elections have been cast in Honiara on Friday. The Solomon Islands Electoral Commission (SIEC) said pre-polling has been facilitated for police officers and electoral officials who will be working during polling day on April 17. The pre-polling for working officials was held from 7am to 4pm ... <a title="Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/solomon-islands-election-2024-polling-day-workers-cast-early-votes/" aria-label="Read more about Solomon Islands election 2024: Polling day workers cast early votes">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne At the March 23 Tasmanian state election, the Liberals won 14 of the 35 lower house seats, Labor ten, the Greens five, the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) ... <a title="Difficult for Liberals to form government after final Tasmanian results" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/07/difficult-for-liberals-to-form-government-after-final-tasmanian-results-226906/" aria-label="Read more about Difficult for Liberals to form government after final Tasmanian results">Read more</a>
