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December 18, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government has claimed it has delivered on its commitment to co-design an Indigenous Voice, but the parliamentary term will end without any such Voice being legislated or in place. This is despite the Minister for Indigenous Australians Ken ... <a title="There’ll be a lot more talk before we hear the Indigenous Voice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/18/therell-be-a-lot-more-talk-before-we-hear-the-indigenous-voice-173993/" aria-label="Read more about There’ll be a lot more talk before we hear the Indigenous Voice">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Lukas Coch/AAP Thursday’s Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook reminds us of some uncomfortable truths. In the short term, MYEFO forecasts the economy bouncing back, with deficits shrinking, unemployment falling, and growth rebounding. But that will largely play out in the next ... <a title="Vital Signs. No return to austerity as Team Frydenberg prevails over the budget hawks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/vital-signs-no-return-to-austerity-as-team-frydenberg-prevails-over-the-budget-hawks-173902/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs. No return to austerity as Team Frydenberg prevails over the budget hawks">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Sweden Re Covid19, Sweden remains the enigma country that almost nobody wants to talk about, because the Swedish scientists may have been correct all along (although the Swedish bureaucrats certainly had significant shortcomings in the early months of the pandemic). The first chart shows five waves of covid in Sweden. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-scandinavia-poland-and-australia/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Scandinavia, Poland and Australia">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In her last podcast for the year, Michelle Grattan speaks with Treasurer Josh Frydenberg about the mid-year budget update, his optimism about the economy, and the election. Although Scott Morrison has the option of a March poll, Frydenberg says he ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Frydenberg ‘thinking about the budget’ over Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/politics-with-michelle-grattan-josh-frydenberg-thinking-about-the-budget-over-christmas-173994/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Frydenberg ‘thinking about the budget’ over Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristen Lyons, Professor Environment and Development Sociology, The University of Queensland Universities are among the many institutions that sustain settler colonialism in Australia. The public university system was, and continues, to be part of the state’s investment in its own future. Universities emerged in Australia during the ... <a title="Amid global crisis, how can universities be regenerated to serve the common good?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/amid-global-crisis-how-can-universities-be-regenerated-to-serve-the-common-good-172495/" aria-label="Read more about Amid global crisis, how can universities be regenerated to serve the common good?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University Shutterstock With Christmas around the corner and COVID-19 case numbers rising, it’s important to keep getting tested when you have symptoms, have been exposed to the virus, or ... <a title="When is it OK to take a rapid antigen test for COVID rather than lining up for a PCR swab?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/when-is-it-ok-to-take-a-rapid-antigen-test-for-covid-rather-than-lining-up-for-a-pcr-swab-173487/" aria-label="Read more about When is it OK to take a rapid antigen test for COVID rather than lining up for a PCR swab?">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong Shutterstock In recent years, the Victoria and New South Wales governments have both unveiled strategies to move more freight across the country by rail and ease the increasing pressure of goods moving through the two largest container ports. The ... <a title="Instead of putting more massive trucks on our roads, we need to invest in our rail network" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/instead-of-putting-more-massive-trucks-on-our-roads-we-need-to-invest-in-our-rail-network-172491/" aria-label="Read more about Instead of putting more massive trucks on our roads, we need to invest in our rail network">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Patulny, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wollongong Shutterstock As we resume our social lives after strict COVID restrictions have lifted, many of us are finding it’s time to take stock of our friendships. Recent research I’ve been involved in found friendship networks were shrinking in ... <a title="Lost touch with friends during lockdown? Here’s how to reconnect (and let go of ‘toxic’ ones)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/lost-touch-with-friends-during-lockdown-heres-how-to-reconnect-and-let-go-of-toxic-ones-172853/" aria-label="Read more about Lost touch with friends during lockdown? Here’s how to reconnect (and let go of ‘toxic’ ones)">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peng Du, Associate Professor, University of Auckland Shutterstock/Andrey_Popov Our stomach is a wonderful organ that turns what we eat into the nutrients and energy we need to maintain our health. At first glance, it might appear as a simple extendable muscular bag, but it has many sophisticated ... <a title="The stomach moves to a rhythm of gentle contractions. Any change can be an early signal of gastric disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/the-stomach-moves-to-a-rhythm-of-gentle-contractions-any-change-can-be-an-early-signal-of-gastric-disease-173647/" aria-label="Read more about The stomach moves to a rhythm of gentle contractions. Any change can be an early signal of gastric disease">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ksenia Sawczak, Head, Research and Development, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney The acting minister for education and youth, Stuart Robert, wrote a letter last week to Australian Research Council (ARC) CEO Sue Thomas, listing four demands. These included changes to ARC funding models ... <a title="Latest government bid to dictate research directions builds on a decade of failure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/latest-government-bid-to-dictate-research-directions-builds-on-a-decade-of-failure-173834/" aria-label="Read more about Latest government bid to dictate research directions builds on a decade of failure">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
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 Parliament, parties, polling Richard Harman (Politik): Delta’s big victim; Jacinda Ardern and her ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-17-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 17 2021">Read more</a>
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December 17, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruno Alves Buzatto, Principal Biologist at Bennelongia Environmental Consultants, The University of Western Australia Paul E. Marek, Bruno A. Buzatto, William A. Shear, Jackson C. Means, Dennis G. Black, Mark S. Harvey, Juanita Rodriguez, Scientific Reports., Author provided Millipedes were the first land animals, and today we ... <a title="1 millipede, 1,306 legs: we just discovered the world’s leggiest animal hiding in Western Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/12/17/1-millipede-1-306-legs-we-just-discovered-the-worlds-leggiest-animal-hiding-in-western-australia-173753/" aria-label="Read more about 1 millipede, 1,306 legs: we just discovered the world’s leggiest animal hiding in Western Australia">Read more</a>
