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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Newly-elected senator David Pocock has already made history by becoming the first independent to hold a senate seat for the ACT. On the progressive side of politics, Pocock is in a potentially powerful position, with the government needing the support ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent senator and former Wallabies captain David Pocock on Pride jersey boycott" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/politics-with-michelle-grattan-independent-senator-and-former-wallabies-captain-david-pocock-on-pride-jersey-boycott-187797/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent senator and former Wallabies captain David Pocock on Pride jersey boycott">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freya Saich, Lead Policy Officer, Burnet Institute Shutterstock While most medical attention has been on COVID, work has been underway to eliminate another viral disease, hepatitis C. In Australia, approximately 120,000 people have hepatitis C. It’s mostly spread through injecting drugs using unsterile equipment. Left untreated, hepatitis ... <a title="Direct-acting antivirals can cure hepatitis C and prisons are now leading efforts to eliminate the virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/direct-acting-antivirals-can-cure-hepatitis-c-and-prisons-are-now-leading-efforts-to-eliminate-the-virus-182854/" aria-label="Read more about Direct-acting antivirals can cure hepatitis C and prisons are now leading efforts to eliminate the virus">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Goodall, Emeritus Professor, Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University This week’s announcement that Stan Grant will be permanent host of the ABC’s Q&A follows widespread speculation about the future of the program. On some estimates, ratings have fallen by more than 50% from a ... <a title="Can Q&A lead us out of the opinion wars it’s helped to fuel?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/can-qanda-lead-us-out-of-the-opinion-wars-its-helped-to-fuel-187699/" aria-label="Read more about Can Q&A lead us out of the opinion wars it’s helped to fuel?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University When Bill Clinton’s campaign manager, James Carville, scrawled, “the economy, stupid” on a sign in 1992, he merely wanted the campaign volunteers to stick to their presidential candidate’s talking points. After Clinton became president, Carville’s axiom – by ... <a title="Chalmers’ challenge: why the treasurer’s words on the economy carry so much weight" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/chalmers-challenge-why-the-treasurers-words-on-the-economy-carry-so-much-weight-187618/" aria-label="Read more about Chalmers’ challenge: why the treasurer’s words on the economy carry so much weight">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute Australia’s elimination strategy during the first two years of the COVID pandemic was one of the most effective in the world. Through a combination of early border closures, widespread testing and meticulous contact tracing, localised lockdowns and mask mandates, ... <a title="Australia’s response to COVID in the first 2 years was one of the best in the world. Why do we rank so poorly now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/australias-response-to-covid-in-the-first-2-years-was-one-of-the-best-in-the-world-why-do-we-rank-so-poorly-now-187606/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s response to COVID in the first 2 years was one of the best in the world. Why do we rank so poorly now?">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Norman Duke, Professor of Mangrove Ecology, James Cook University Norman Duke, Author provided Environmental scientists see flora, fauna and phenomena the rest of us rarely do. In this series, we’ve invited them to share their unique photos from the field. In the summer of 2015-2016, some 40 ... <a title="Climate change killed 40 million Australian mangroves in 2015. Here’s why they’ll probably never grow back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/climate-change-killed-40-million-australian-mangroves-in-2015-heres-why-theyll-probably-never-grow-back-166971/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change killed 40 million Australian mangroves in 2015. Here’s why they’ll probably never grow back">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Frew, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Southern Queensland Getty Under your feet lies the most biodiverse habitat on Earth. The soil on which we walk supports the majority of life on the planet. Without the life in it, it wouldn’t be soil. Unfortunately, Australia’s ... <a title="Soil abounds with life – and supports all life above it. But Australian soils need urgent repair" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/soil-abounds-with-life-and-supports-all-life-above-it-but-australian-soils-need-urgent-repair-187280/" aria-label="Read more about Soil abounds with life – and supports all life above it. But Australian soils need urgent repair">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Shiels, Lecturer – School of Art, RMIT University Ethel Spowers, School is out, 1936, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased 1976 Review: Spowers & Syme, Geelong Gallery. In their pioneering coloured linocut prints, Ethel Spowers (1890-1947) and Eveline Syme (1888-1961) captured the flux and excitement of ... <a title="How pioneering Australian linocut artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme captured an exciting era of change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/how-pioneering-australian-linocut-artists-ethel-spowers-and-eveline-syme-captured-an-exciting-era-of-change-185597/" aria-label="Read more about How pioneering Australian linocut artists Ethel Spowers and Eveline Syme captured an exciting era of change">Read more</a>
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July 28, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Headwinds buffeting the economy – notably high inflation and a global slowdown – have led to a significant downgrade of Australia’s economic growth forecasts, compared with the pre-election estimates. Treasurer Jim Chalmers will tell parliament on Thursday that estimated growth ... <a title="Chalmers’s economic statement to say inflation and global slowdown will slash Australia’s growth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/28/chalmerss-economic-statement-to-say-inflation-and-global-slowdown-will-slash-australias-growth-187798/" aria-label="Read more about Chalmers’s economic statement to say inflation and global slowdown will slash Australia’s growth">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Claudia Tally in Port Moresby After 36 hours of unrest, fear and anxiety, Port Moresby city woke up yesterday morning to a quiet start under the watchful eyes of the police and military personnel as tensions slowly faded. Kicking off to a slow start, shops and business houses opened their doors to the public ... <a title="Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/port-moresby-back-to-normal-after-36-hours-of-election-tension/" aria-label="Read more about Port Moresby back to normal after 36 hours of election tension">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
The National Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to the resting place of Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA) leader Francis Ona. It was the first time President Toroama had visited Guava in 25 years after the 1997 Roreinang coup that ... <a title="Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/bougainvilles-toroama-visits-onas-rebel-village-25-years-after-civil-war/" aria-label="Read more about Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Plans are underway to help Tokelauans stuck abroad, mostly in New Zealand and Samoa, to return home. The general manager for the office of the Taupulega (council of elders) of the atoll of Nukunonu, Asi Pasilio, said borders had been shut for more than two years with the country ... <a title="Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/tokelau-keen-to-get-its-people-stuck-abroad-back-home-again/" aria-label="Read more about Tokelau keen to get its people stuck abroad back home again">Read more</a>
