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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ashwin Swaminathan, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University My glorious two and a half year run of negative COVID tests came to a shuddering halt last week, after receiving a text confirming I was among the pandemic’s latest catch. My case adds to the rising slope of the ... <a title="How soon can I get COVID again? Experts now say 28 days – but you can protect yourself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/how-soon-can-i-get-covid-again-experts-now-say-28-days-but-you-can-protect-yourself-185491/" aria-label="Read more about How soon can I get COVID again? Experts now say 28 days – but you can protect yourself">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Selwyn Jones, Research Fellow, Monash University Richard Selwyn Jones, Author provided Alarming stories from Antarctica are now more frequent than ever; the ice surface is melting, floating ice shelves are collapsing and glaciers are flowing faster into the ocean. Antarctica will be the largest source of ... <a title="We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/we-studied-how-the-antarctic-ice-sheet-advanced-and-retreated-over-10-000-years-it-holds-warnings-for-the-future-185505/" aria-label="Read more about We studied how the Antarctic ice sheet advanced and retreated over 10,000 years. It holds warnings for the future">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah O’ Shea, Professor and Director, National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education, Curtin University Shutterstock The proportion of Australian university students from under-represented backgrounds has “barely moved” in more than a decade, federal Education Minister Jason Clare noted last week. About 15% of undergraduates came ... <a title="$1.5bn has gone into getting disadvantaged students into uni for very small gains. So what more can be done?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/1-5bn-has-gone-into-getting-disadvantaged-students-into-uni-for-very-small-gains-so-what-more-can-be-done-186630/" aria-label="Read more about $1.5bn has gone into getting disadvantaged students into uni for very small gains. So what more can be done?">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers has confirmed Australia will follow Aotearoa New Zealand’s example and put wellbeing at the centre of the national budget. So what is a wellbeing budget? To understand that requires a short explanation of how Australia ... <a title="Australia is getting a wellbeing budget: what we can – and can’t – learn from New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/australia-is-getting-a-wellbeing-budget-what-we-can-and-cant-learn-from-new-zealand-186725/" aria-label="Read more about Australia is getting a wellbeing budget: what we can – and can’t – learn from New Zealand">Read more</a>
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July 13, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael P. Cameron, Associate Professor in Economics, University of Waikato Getty Images New Zealand’s unemployment rate hit a low of 3.2% in the fourth quarter of 2021 and again in the first quarter of this year. That’s the lowest the rate has been since at least 1986, ... <a title="NZ has reached ‘full employment’ – but not all workers will benefit from a tighter labour market" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/13/nz-has-reached-full-employment-but-not-all-workers-will-benefit-from-a-tighter-labour-market-186717/" aria-label="Read more about NZ has reached ‘full employment’ – but not all workers will benefit from a tighter labour market">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan As well as her interviews with politicians and experts, Politics with Michelle Grattan includes “Word from The Hill”, where she discusses the news with members of The Conversation politics team. Politics editor Amanda Dunn and Michelle discuss the ... <a title="Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/word-from-the-hill-pandemic-fatigue-takes-its-toll-of-mandates-and-even-the-expert-health-advice-186832/" aria-label="Read more about Word from The Hill: ‘Pandemic fatigue’ takes its toll of mandates and even the expert health advice">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Shutterstock Earlier today, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese gave his first major climate change speech, touting Australia’s future as a renewable superpower and promising Labor’s ambitious new renewable target would “unlock $52 billion of private sector investment.” This follows ... <a title="Labor’s renewable target is much more ambitious than it seems. We need the best bang-for-buck policy responses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/labors-renewable-target-is-much-more-ambitious-than-it-seems-we-need-the-best-bang-for-buck-policy-responses-186302/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s renewable target is much more ambitious than it seems. We need the best bang-for-buck policy responses">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Harriette Richards, Lecturer, Fashion Enterprise, RMIT University Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Last Friday, actor Florence Pugh attended the Fall/Winter 2022 Valentino couture show in Rome. She wore a frothy pink gown that, being sheer, exposed her breasts. Posting photos of herself on Instagram looking radiant at the ... <a title="‘Why are you so scared of breasts?’: how Florence Pugh’s sheer Valentino gown provoked a discussion about misogyny and women’s bodies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/why-are-you-so-scared-of-breasts-how-florence-pughs-sheer-valentino-gown-provoked-a-discussion-about-misogyny-and-womens-bodies-186746/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Why are you so scared of breasts?’: how Florence Pugh’s sheer Valentino gown provoked a discussion about misogyny and women’s bodies">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Ward, Chair of Veterinary Public Health and Food Safety, University of Sydney Shutterstock Foot and mouth disease – usually referred to by its acronym FMD – is the most feared livestock disease in the world. It can cripple the livestock sector, cause immense animal suffering, destroy ... <a title="What is foot and mouth disease? Why farmers fear ‘apocalyptic bonfires of burning carcasses’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/what-is-foot-and-mouth-disease-why-farmers-fear-apocalyptic-bonfires-of-burning-carcasses-186741/" aria-label="Read more about What is foot and mouth disease? Why farmers fear ‘apocalyptic bonfires of burning carcasses’">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland James Caan, right, with Al Pacino in The Godfather. Paramount Pictures via AP James Caan, who died last week at 82, was one of those actors who wouldn’t attract mass audiences to a movie just ... <a title="James Caan was rarely a star. But he was a remarkable actor’s actor who could hold his own among the greats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/james-caan-was-rarely-a-star-but-he-was-a-remarkable-actors-actor-who-could-hold-his-own-among-the-greats-186635/" aria-label="Read more about James Caan was rarely a star. But he was a remarkable actor’s actor who could hold his own among the greats">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Spencer Zifcak, Allan Myers Chair of Law/Professor of Law, Australian Catholic University Last week Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus put an end to Canberra lawyer Bernard Collaery’s criminal prosecution. Collaery was prosecuted in 2018 and was facing five charges, including allegedly conspiring with his client, “Witness K”, to disclose ... <a title="The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/the-unconscionable-prosecution-of-bernard-collaery-was-an-assault-on-the-values-australia-holds-dear-186560/" aria-label="Read more about The unconscionable prosecution of Bernard Collaery was an assault on the values Australia holds dear">Read more</a>
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July 12, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angelique Nairn, Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology ©Marvel Studios 2022. All Rights Reserved When it was first revealed that Natalie Portman was to become the “female Thor” in Marvel’s latest superhero instalment, Thor: Love and Thunder, fans were quick to condemn the decision ... <a title="For the love of Thor! Why it’s so hard for Marvel to get its female superheroes right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/07/12/for-the-love-of-thor-why-its-so-hard-for-marvel-to-get-its-female-superheroes-right-186639/" aria-label="Read more about For the love of Thor! Why it’s so hard for Marvel to get its female superheroes right">Read more</a>
