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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
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Shutterstock The upsurge in inflation has revived old debates about what causes it. Until recently, it has been an article of faith among both businesses and union leaders that inflation is “cost-push”, meaning it is caused by ... <a title="Inflation is being amplified by firms with market power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/inflation-is-being-amplified-by-firms-with-market-power-187418/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation is being amplified by firms with market power">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra Inflation jumped from 5.1% to a new long-term high of 6.1% in the June quarter, a rate matched only by short-lived jump caused by the introduction of the goods and services tax, and ... <a title="Australia’s Economy – Inflation hasn’t been higher for 32 years. What now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/inflation-hasnt-been-higher-for-32-years-what-now-187452/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s Economy – Inflation hasn’t been higher for 32 years. What now?">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Lucas Coch/AAP Earlier today, the federal government introduced its hotly awaited climate change bill to parliament. Despite the attention and controversy it’s attracted, the proposed legislation – as it stands – would be almost entirely symbolic. Labor ... <a title="Labor has introduced its controversial climate bill to parliament. Here’s how to give it real teeth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/labor-has-introduced-its-controversial-climate-bill-to-parliament-heres-how-to-give-it-real-teeth-187762/" aria-label="Read more about Labor has introduced its controversial climate bill to parliament. Here’s how to give it real teeth">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Freya Shearer, Research Fellow, Epidemic Decision Support, The University of Melbourne During the pandemic we have all become familiar with a lot of epidemiological concepts. One that was introduced to us early in 2020 is the “basic reproductive number”, or R0. This tells us about the intrinsic ... <a title="New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/new-covid-variants-may-be-more-transmissible-but-that-doesnt-mean-the-r0-or-basic-reproduction-number-has-increased-186826/" aria-label="Read more about New COVID variants may be more transmissible but that doesn’t mean the R0 – or basic reproduction number – has increased">Read more</a>
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July 27, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide Shutterstock Does your cat kick litter all over the floor? What does this mean and how can you stop it? Despite being skilled predators, cats are also mesopredators, meaning they are both predators and ... <a title="Why does my cat kick litter all over the place? 4 tips from cat experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/27/why-does-my-cat-kick-litter-all-over-the-place-4-tips-from-cat-experts-186928/" aria-label="Read more about Why does my cat kick litter all over the place? 4 tips from cat experts">Read more</a>
