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October 17, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A blueprint developed by federal and state governments to counter violence against women and children includes the ambitious goal of eliminating gender-based violence within one generation. But a proposed standalone plan for dealing with violence against Indigenous women, which is ... <a title="Blueprint to tackle violence against women unveiled but detailed Indigenous plan still to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/17/blueprint-to-tackle-violence-against-women-unveiled-but-detailed-indigenous-plan-still-to-come-192578/" aria-label="Read more about Blueprint to tackle violence against women unveiled but detailed Indigenous plan still to come">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Parkinson, Associate, Grattan Institute Christina @wocintechchat.com/ Unsplash School education in Australia needs a circuit-breaker. Student performance continues to stagnate and teachers report excessive workloads and alarming rates of stress. Our new report from the Grattan Institute, Ending the Lesson Lottery: How to Improve Curriculum Planning, looks ... <a title="‘I feel guilty about not being good enough’: why all Australian schools need teaching material banks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/16/i-feel-guilty-about-not-being-good-enough-why-all-australian-schools-need-teaching-material-banks-192399/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I feel guilty about not being good enough’: why all Australian schools need teaching material banks">Read more</a>
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October 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mel Taylor, Associate Professor, Macquarie University The floods ravaging Victoria have destroyed hundreds of homes and left at least one person dead. Some rivers are not expected to peak until Monday and more wet weather may leave towns battling floodwaters again in the coming weeks. We’ve been ... <a title="‘Would you like lunch? Can I clean out the chook house?’: what flood survivors actually need after disaster strikes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/16/would-you-like-lunch-can-i-clean-out-the-chook-house-what-flood-survivors-actually-need-after-disaster-strikes-192577/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Would you like lunch? Can I clean out the chook house?’: what flood survivors actually need after disaster strikes">Read more</a>
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October 15, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra unknown Government-funded paid parental leave will be extended, and more pressure placed on fathers to share caring for babies, under an initiative to be unveiled by Anthony Albanese on Saturday. Parental leave will be lengthened by six weeks, phased in, ... <a title="Paid parental leave extended to 26 weeks by 2026, with pressure on dads to share more early caring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/15/paid-parental-leave-extended-to-26-weeks-by-2026-with-pressure-on-dads-to-share-more-early-caring-192506/" aria-label="Read more about Paid parental leave extended to 26 weeks by 2026, with pressure on dads to share more early caring">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lindsay A. Pearce, Research Associate, Curtin University From October 16 to 27, United Nations will pay a special visit to look at some of the hidden corners of Australian society. A UN torture prevention subcommittee will be making unannounced visits to various places of detention. These could ... <a title="Why is a UN torture prevention committee visiting Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/why-is-a-un-torture-prevention-committee-visiting-australia-192169/" aria-label="Read more about Why is a UN torture prevention committee visiting Australia?">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tuthill, Astrophysicist, University of Sydney NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JPL / Caltech In July, a puzzling new image of a distant extreme star system surrounded by surreal concentric geometric rungs had even astronomers scratching their heads. The picture, which looks like a ... <a title="Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/alien-megastructures-cosmic-thumbprint-whats-behind-a-james-webb-telescope-photo-that-had-even-astronomers-stumped-192249/" aria-label="Read more about Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nasim Salehi, Senior Lecturer and Course Coordinator, Southern Cross University AAP/EPA/Stringer The “Women, Life, Freedom” movement that has taken hold in Iran in recent weeks is not new. Young Iranian women have been involved in small but consistent evolutionary actions during the entire 44 years of the ... <a title="Not ‘powerless victims’: how young Iranian women have long led a quiet revolution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/not-powerless-victims-how-young-iranian-women-have-long-led-a-quiet-revolution-192188/" aria-label="Read more about Not ‘powerless victims’: how young Iranian women have long led a quiet revolution">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Mannell, Research Fellow in Digital Childhoods, Deakin University Channel Ten This week, Todd Sampson’s documentary Mirror Mirror: Love & Hate screened on Channel Ten. The documentary focuses on harms that occur through social media and online platforms. It raises important points about the need for awareness ... <a title="Todd Sampson’s ‘Mirror Mirror’ raises the alarm on our lives online – but not all its claims are supported by evidence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/todd-sampsons-mirror-mirror-raises-the-alarm-on-our-lives-online-but-not-all-its-claims-are-supported-by-evidence-192395/" aria-label="Read more about Todd Sampson’s ‘Mirror Mirror’ raises the alarm on our lives online – but not all its claims are supported by evidence">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney The northern Murray-Darling Basin produces 93% of Australia’s cotton. Cotton is one of Australia’s biggest agricultural industries – worth about A$2 billion each year – and a steady supply of water is crucial ... <a title="Cotton on: one of Australia’s most lucrative farming industries is in the firing line as climate change worsens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/cotton-on-one-of-australias-most-lucrative-farming-industries-is-in-the-firing-line-as-climate-change-worsens-191864/" aria-label="Read more about Cotton on: one of Australia’s most lucrative farming industries is in the firing line as climate change worsens">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Joy Godden, VIce-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Centre for People, Place and Planet, Edith Cowan University Shutterstock All around us, climate change is worsening existing disadvantage. In Australia, we need only look to low-income households hit harder by rising energy and fuel prices, and flood responses in northern ... <a title="Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/climate-change-hits-some-of-us-much-harder-than-others-but-affected-groups-are-fighting-back-176805/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change hits some of us much harder than others – but affected groups are fighting back">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew M. Baker, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology Life on Earth is undergoing a period of mass extinction – the sixth in history, and the first caused by humans. As species disappear at an alarming rate, we have learned that we ... <a title="Australia has hundreds of mammal species. We want to find them all – before they’re gone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/australia-has-hundreds-of-mammal-species-we-want-to-find-them-all-before-theyre-gone-185495/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has hundreds of mammal species. We want to find them all – before they’re gone">Read more</a>
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October 14, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney The federal Labor government has promised to craft a national housing and homelessness plan and to fund new social housing, returning Canberra to a field it all but abandoned for ... <a title="The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/10/14/the-market-has-failed-to-give-australians-affordable-housing-so-dont-expect-it-to-solve-the-crisis-192177/" aria-label="Read more about The market has failed to give Australians affordable housing, so don’t expect it to solve the crisis">Read more</a>
