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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Grattan Institute The Coalition’s carpark announcements before the 2019 election are among the best-known cases of pork-barrelling Shutterstock From sports rorts to regional slush funds and commuter carparks, it’s been one scandal after another in Australian politics in recent years. But what ... <a title="Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/pork-barrelling-is-unfair-and-wasteful-heres-a-plan-to-end-it-188898/" aria-label="Read more about Pork-barrelling is unfair and wasteful. Here’s a plan to end it">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mittul Vahanvati, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University When floods swept the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales earlier this year, scores of people ignored official advice and rescued neighbours and friends from floodwaters using their boats, kayaks and jet skis, while ... <a title="‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/tinnie-army-leads-to-nsw-flood-inquiry-call-to-train-community-members-as-first-responders-how-will-that-work-188900/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tinnie army’ leads to NSW flood inquiry call to train community members as first responders. How will that work?">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanne O’Mara, Associate Professor in Education, Deakin University Image by Victoria_Borodinova from Pixabay , CC BY My phone pings and it’s a message from my brother. Do we have an old white dress my niece could borrow for a Book Week costume for school? Book Week is ... <a title="Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/book-week-its-not-the-costume-that-matters-but-falling-in-love-with-reading-188748/" aria-label="Read more about Book Week: it’s not the costume that matters, but falling in love with reading">Read more</a>
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August 22, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorina L. Barker, Senior Lecturer, University of New England Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains images of deceased people. Amy Elwood, a Wangkumara/Adnyamathanha Elder and cultural repository of knowledge and grandmother to one of us (Lorina Barker), has inspired an array of ... <a title="An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/22/an-ode-to-my-grandmother-remaking-the-past-using-oral-histories-theatre-and-music-180575/" aria-label="Read more about An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music">Read more</a>
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August 21, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese flagged at the weekend he was open to calling an inquiry into the ramifications of Scott Morrison’s power grab, as Barnaby Joyce revealed he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison for overruling a Nationals minister. Albanese on Monday ... <a title="Barnaby Joyce says he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison over resources power grab" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/21/barnaby-joyce-says-he-feared-retribution-if-he-crossed-morrison-over-resources-power-grab-189112/" aria-label="Read more about Barnaby Joyce says he feared retribution if he crossed Morrison over resources power grab">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vita Pilkington, Research Assistant, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne With the recent sudden death of former rugby league coach and player Paul Green, conversations about the mental health of elite coaching staff are paramount. Our research in 2020, published in July this year, found more than ... <a title="More than 40% of elite sport coaches we surveyed suffered mental ill-health. They need our support, not stigma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/more-than-40-of-elite-sport-coaches-we-surveyed-suffered-mental-ill-health-they-need-our-support-not-stigma-188728/" aria-label="Read more about More than 40% of elite sport coaches we surveyed suffered mental ill-health. They need our support, not stigma">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing and Behavioural Business Lab Member, RMIT University Shutterstock With the world is experiencing inflation levels not seen since the 1980s, central banks are caught between warning of the dangers of an 1970s-style inflationary spiral, and contributing ... <a title="Inflationary psychology could make things worse, but for now it’s in check" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/inflationary-psychology-could-make-things-worse-but-for-now-its-in-check-188723/" aria-label="Read more about Inflationary psychology could make things worse, but for now it’s in check">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alice Gorman, Associate Professor in Archaeology and Space Studies, Flinders University NASA / JPL On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer ... <a title="After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/after-45-years-the-5-billion-year-legacy-of-the-voyager-2-interstellar-probe-is-just-beginning-188077/" aria-label="Read more about After 45 years, the 5-billion-year legacy of the Voyager 2 interstellar probe is just beginning">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics. They dissect the revelation Scott Morrison secretly had himself sworn into multiple ministries without the knowledge of his cabinet. Where ... <a title="VIDEO: Morrison, Hurley and all those ministries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/video-morrison-hurley-and-all-those-ministries-189044/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Morrison, Hurley and all those ministries">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nicole Lee, Professor at the National Drug Research Institute (Melbourne), Curtin University Mishal ibrahim/unsplash, CC BY-SA There’s some pretty bad advice out there for families impacted by alcohol and other drug use. Some of it not only doesn’t work but could actually make things worse. Most people ... <a title="From tough love to interventions, what works when a loved one is struggling with addiction?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/from-tough-love-to-interventions-what-works-when-a-loved-one-is-struggling-with-addiction-184138/" aria-label="Read more about From tough love to interventions, what works when a loved one is struggling with addiction?">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Goodall, Research Associate, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Under Cover/SA Films The Australian documentary Under Cover, premiering at the Melbourne International Film Festival, presents the voices and faces of older women’s housing insecurity. Many of us would have seen the figures: the number ... <a title="‘We’ve all done the right things’: in Under Cover, older women tell their stories of becoming homeless" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/weve-all-done-the-right-things-in-under-cover-older-women-tell-their-stories-of-becoming-homeless-188356/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We’ve all done the right things’: in Under Cover, older women tell their stories of becoming homeless">Read more</a>
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August 19, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University As bad as it is, Scott Morrison’s surreptitious circumvention of Australia’s parliamentary and Cabinet processes might have got worse. Had the former prime minister been re-elected, it is reasonable to assume he would have continued to mislead his ... <a title="Australian conservatism succumbs to the same radical tendency as like-minded parties abroad" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/08/19/australian-conservatism-succumbs-to-the-same-radical-tendency-as-like-minded-parties-abroad-188816/" aria-label="Read more about Australian conservatism succumbs to the same radical tendency as like-minded parties abroad">Read more</a>
