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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney This week, teachers in New South Wales learned they were going to get a “helping hand” preparing lessons from the start of term 4. The state’s education minister Sarah Mitchell announced teachers will be given curriculum lesson plans, ... <a title="‘This is like banging our heads against the wall’: why a move to outsource lesson planning has NSW teachers hopping mad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/this-is-like-banging-our-heads-against-the-wall-why-a-move-to-outsource-lesson-planning-has-nsw-teachers-hopping-mad-188081/" aria-label="Read more about ‘This is like banging our heads against the wall’: why a move to outsource lesson planning has NSW teachers hopping mad">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lucinda O’Brien, Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Cigno is exactly the sort of business the Australian Securities and Investments Commission had in mind when it asked for stronger powers to ban the sale of harmful financial products. Cigno offers short-term loans (commonly called payday loans) ... <a title="How ‘bad credit’ lender Cigno has dodged ASIC’s grasp" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/how-bad-credit-lender-cigno-has-dodged-asics-grasp-187887/" aria-label="Read more about How ‘bad credit’ lender Cigno has dodged ASIC’s grasp">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Thomasson, Lecturer in Theatre, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images After two years of pandemic programming, with performers and audiences moved into virtual online venues, the Edinburgh International Festival celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with the best possible birthday present – ... <a title="Cancelled culture comes back: the Edinburgh Festival turns 75, alive and well after two years of pandemic disruption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/cancelled-culture-comes-back-the-edinburgh-festival-turns-75-alive-and-well-after-two-years-of-pandemic-disruption-187519/" aria-label="Read more about Cancelled culture comes back: the Edinburgh Festival turns 75, alive and well after two years of pandemic disruption">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation. While not actually necessary for the implementation ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/05/grattan-on-friday-government-win-on-climate-legislation-leaves-opposition-looking-like-a-stranded-asset-188231/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps not since the marriage equality vote has the passage of a bill in the House of Representatives carried such a combination of substantive and symbolic import as the Albanese government’s climate legislation. While not actually necessary for the implementation ... <a title="Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/government-win-on-climate-legislation-leaves-opposition-looking-like-a-stranded-asset-188231/" aria-label="Read more about Government win on climate legislation leaves opposition looking like a stranded asset">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney Caroline Brehman/EPA/AAP Health Minister Mark Butler today announced Australia had secured 450,000 doses of a third-generation monkeypox vaccine, 22,000 of which will arrive later this week. There are now ... <a title="Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/australia-secures-450-000-new-monkeypox-vaccines-what-are-they-and-who-can-have-them-187691/" aria-label="Read more about Australia secures 450,000 new monkeypox vaccines. What are they and who can have them?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. These three charts show pandemic and post-pandemic excess deaths by age group. I highlight South Korea in light of this RNZ piece of ‘journalism’. For Omicron-related deaths, look for the period from February to May 2022. I include Italy and New Zealand for comparison; Italy and South Korea were – in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-is-south-korea-the-country-to-follow/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Is South Korea the Country to Follow?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute The Albanese government has accepted the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s recommendation to “initiate the first step” to trigger the controversial Australian Domestic Gas Security Mechanism to avert a supply crisis in eastern Australia. What the competition watchdog hasn’t recommended ... <a title="Avoiding a gas shortage is one thing, but what’s needed is action on prices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/avoiding-a-gas-shortage-is-one-thing-but-whats-needed-is-action-on-prices-187980/" aria-label="Read more about Avoiding a gas shortage is one thing, but what’s needed is action on prices">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Schmidt, Professor of Chemistry, UNSW Sydney Yoann Boyer / Unsplash Is there a “fourth phase of water”? From time to time you might see people talking up the health benefits of so-called hexagonal water, or structured water, or exclusion-zone (EZ) water. A few weeks ago Kourtney ... <a title="Don’t fall for the snake oil claims of ‘structured water’. A chemist explains why it’s nonsense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/dont-fall-for-the-snake-oil-claims-of-structured-water-a-chemist-explains-why-its-nonsense-188159/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t fall for the snake oil claims of ‘structured water’. A chemist explains why it’s nonsense">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryle Rigney, Director, Indigenous Nations Collaborative Futures Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has announced the wording of the referendum question to enable a constitutionally enshrined Indigenous Voice to Parliament. It would seem Albanese has made a solid ... <a title="Establishing a Voice to Parliament could be an opportunity for Indigenous Nation Building. Here’s what that means" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/establishing-a-voice-to-parliament-could-be-an-opportunity-for-indigenous-nation-building-heres-what-that-means-187534/" aria-label="Read more about Establishing a Voice to Parliament could be an opportunity for Indigenous Nation Building. Here’s what that means">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong It’s 14 years since former NSW rail chief Len Harper described the rail link between Australia’s two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, as “inadequate for current and future needs”. And it’s 31 years since former Prime Minister Gough Whitlam ... <a title="More than ever, it’s time to upgrade the Sydney–Melbourne railway" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/more-than-ever-its-time-to-upgrade-the-sydney-melbourne-railway-187169/" aria-label="Read more about More than ever, it’s time to upgrade the Sydney–Melbourne railway">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katinka van de Ven, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Rural Criminology, HASSE, University of New England & Visiting Fellow, Drug Policy Modelling Program, SPRC, University of New South Wales, University of New England Shutterstock There’s a long history and growing evidence base that the use of performance enhancing ... <a title="Is it ethical to allow soldiers to take performance enhancing drugs such as steroids?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/04/is-it-ethical-to-allow-soldiers-to-take-performance-enhancing-drugs-such-as-steroids-180947/" aria-label="Read more about Is it ethical to allow soldiers to take performance enhancing drugs such as steroids?">Read more</a>
