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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marion Terrill, Transport and Cities Program Director, Grattan Institute “Restraint” – that’s what Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed as the watchword of Tuesday’s federal budget. Perhaps the claim can be made in general, but when it comes to transport infrastructure, the budget is remarkable not for how different ... <a title="Budget restraint? When it comes to transport projects, it’s hard to find" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/budget-restraint-when-it-comes-to-transport-projects-its-hard-to-find-192848/" aria-label="Read more about Budget restraint? When it comes to transport projects, it’s hard to find">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne The first Labor federal budget has come down, but the arts are almost nowhere to be seen. According to Arts Minister Tony Burke, the government is waiting for its new ... <a title="This was supposed to be a ‘wellbeing budget’ – so why does it feel like the arts have been overlooked?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/this-was-supposed-to-be-a-wellbeing-budget-so-why-does-it-feel-like-the-arts-have-been-overlooked-193304/" aria-label="Read more about This was supposed to be a ‘wellbeing budget’ – so why does it feel like the arts have been overlooked?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Neal, Senior research fellow in the Department of Economics, UNSW Sydney Joel Carrett/AAP Treasurer Jim Chalmers last night delivered a budget he declared was “solid, sensible and suitable to the times”. But what does a sensible budget look like in a world that is fast running ... <a title="Labor’s ‘sensible’ budget leaves Australians short-changed on climate action. Here’s where it went wrong" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/labors-sensible-budget-leaves-australians-short-changed-on-climate-action-heres-where-it-went-wrong-193215/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s ‘sensible’ budget leaves Australians short-changed on climate action. Here’s where it went wrong">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marlene Longbottom, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong Shutterstock Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people and mentions domestic violence and murder. This week’s Four Corners special How Many More? provided a much-needed investigation into the rates of First Nations ... <a title="Four Corners’ ‘How many more?’ reveals the nation’s crisis of Indigenous women missing and murdered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/four-corners-how-many-more-reveals-the-nations-crisis-of-indigenous-women-missing-and-murdered-193216/" aria-label="Read more about Four Corners’ ‘How many more?’ reveals the nation’s crisis of Indigenous women missing and murdered">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Honorary Fellow, Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne Mick Tsikas/AAP On budget night in 2014, the Abbott government cut nearly $8 billion from Australia’s international development program, the largest-ever aid cuts. Programs in South-East Asia were cut by 30%. For a government obsessed with ... <a title="Steadying foreign aid budget signals the government takes development seriously" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/steadying-foreign-aid-budget-signals-the-government-takes-development-seriously-193088/" aria-label="Read more about Steadying foreign aid budget signals the government takes development seriously">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Usha Manchanda Rodrigues, Professor, Deakin University Shutterstock News reporting on sexual and domestic violence ignores the multiple inequities faced by victims from culturally diverse backgrounds, and First Nations peoples. A content analysis of stories published in three prominent Australian media found only a handful of stories mentioned ... <a title="Media ignore women’s diverse backgrounds when reporting on family violence: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/media-ignore-womens-diverse-backgrounds-when-reporting-on-family-violence-new-research-192853/" aria-label="Read more about Media ignore women’s diverse backgrounds when reporting on family violence: new research">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne Shutterstock Labor’s first health budget in almost a decade has few surprises – and that is a good thing. The budget foreshadows additional annual health and aged ... <a title="What does the budget mean for Medicare, medicines, aged care and First Nations health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/what-does-the-budget-mean-for-medicare-medicines-aged-care-and-first-nations-health-192842/" aria-label="Read more about What does the budget mean for Medicare, medicines, aged care and First Nations health?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barry King, Professor of Communications, Auckland University of Technology The Ngakau Toa theatre company at the Globe to Globe international Shakespeare theatre festival in London, 2012. Getty Images Whether you viewed it as a fresh front in the culture wars or merely a tempest in a teacup, ... <a title="Much ado about Shakespeare – why it’s time for a New Zealand national theatre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/much-ado-about-shakespeare-why-its-time-for-a-new-zealand-national-theatre-193214/" aria-label="Read more about Much ado about Shakespeare – why it’s time for a New Zealand national theatre">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olav Muurlink, Associate Professor, Social Innovation, CQUniversity Australia Shutterstock Thousands of young people roaming the streets at night in scary costumes, knocking on strangers’ doors and threatening pranks if their demands for treats are not met. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, there’s the frightening ... <a title="The most horrifying part of Halloween is the useless piles of waste it creates. Why not do it differently?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/the-most-horrifying-part-of-halloween-is-the-useless-piles-of-waste-it-creates-why-not-do-it-differently-192836/" aria-label="Read more about The most horrifying part of Halloween is the useless piles of waste it creates. Why not do it differently?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Pope, ARC DECRA Fellow, The University of Queensland University of Queensland In searching for planets and studying their stars, I’ve had the privilege to use some of the world’s great telescopes. However, our team has recently turned to an even larger system to study the cosmos: ... <a title="Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of unexplained ‘radiation storms’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/radioactive-traces-in-tree-rings-reveal-earths-history-of-unexplained-radiation-storms-193080/" aria-label="Read more about Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of unexplained ‘radiation storms’">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deep Jyoti Bhuyan, Research Fellow in Healthy Ageing, Western Sydney University Photo by Alesia Kozik/Pixabay, CC BY Many of us are familiar with probiotics, such as certain yogurts and fermented foods, full of “good” bacteria that can keep the gut healthy. You might even have heard of ... <a title="What are postbiotics and how can they improve our gut health?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/what-are-postbiotics-and-how-can-they-improve-our-gut-health-190348/" aria-label="Read more about What are postbiotics and how can they improve our gut health?">Read more</a>
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October 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra Jones, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Impact, Australian Catholic University Screenshot / Tiktok.com A quick look at some TikTok stats shows more than 38,000 posts under the hashtag #Autism, with more than 200 million views. The hashtag #ActuallyAutistic (which is used in the autism community to highlight content ... <a title="TikTok is teaching the world about autism – but is it empowering autistic people or pigeonholing them?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/26/tiktok-is-teaching-the-world-about-autism-but-is-it-empowering-autistic-people-or-pigeonholing-them-192093/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok is teaching the world about autism – but is it empowering autistic people or pigeonholing them?">Read more</a>
