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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roger Dargaville, Senior lecturer & Deputy Director Monash Energy Institute, Monash University If you aren’t a long term energy policy news junkie, you’d be forgiven for thinking today’s crisis arrived fairly suddenly. Indeed, Liberal leader Peter Dutton is framing it as a recent catastrophe, saying it was ... <a title="5 policy decisions from recent history that led to today’s energy crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/5-policy-decisions-from-recent-history-that-led-to-todays-energy-crisis-185207/" aria-label="Read more about 5 policy decisions from recent history that led to today’s energy crisis">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danny C Price, Senior research fellow, Curtin University “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” – Carl Sagan (Cosmos, 1980) This phrase is the standard that astronomers will be applying to a curious signal captured with China’s “Sky Eye” telescope that might be a transmission from alien technology. An ... <a title="Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/did-a-giant-radio-telescope-in-china-just-discover-aliens-not-so-fast-185165/" aria-label="Read more about Did a giant radio telescope in China just discover aliens? Not so FAST…">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brady Robards, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University Shutterstock What you say and do on social media can affect your employment; it can prevent you from getting hired, stall career progression and may even get you fired. Is this fair – or an invasion of privacy? Our ... <a title="Who really gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/who-really-gets-fired-over-social-media-posts-we-studied-hundreds-of-cases-to-find-out-182424/" aria-label="Read more about Who really gets fired over social media posts? We studied hundreds of cases to find out">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Castan, Associate Professor, Law Faculty, Monash University Last week the Victorian government demonstrated its commitment to build an equal relationship with First Peoples. A new bill has been tabled in the Victorian parliament to advance the Victorian treaty processes. In 2018, legislation was enacted that required ... <a title="A new Treaty Authority between First Peoples and the Victorian government is a vital step towards a treaty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/a-new-treaty-authority-between-first-peoples-and-the-victorian-government-is-a-vital-step-towards-a-treaty-184739/" aria-label="Read more about A new Treaty Authority between First Peoples and the Victorian government is a vital step towards a treaty">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Bartos, Professor of Economics, University of Canberra The election of a record number of independents to the House of Representatives will undoubtedly increase pressure on parliament to change how it operates. Already the newly elected independent member for Goldstein, Zoe Daniel, has called for more resources ... <a title="The teal independents want to hold government to account. That starts with high-quality information" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/the-teal-independents-want-to-hold-government-to-account-that-starts-with-high-quality-information-184559/" aria-label="Read more about The teal independents want to hold government to account. That starts with high-quality information">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pamela McCalman, PhD Candidate and Midwife, La Trobe University shutterstock While Australia is one of the safest places in the world to give birth, First Nations women are three times more likely to die in childbirth than other Australian women (17.5 vs 5.5 per 100,000 women from ... <a title="First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/first-nations-mothers-are-more-likely-to-die-during-childbirth-more-first-nations-midwives-could-close-this-gap-182935/" aria-label="Read more about First Nations mothers are more likely to die during childbirth. More First Nations midwives could close this gap">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Murray Goot, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University Addressing the first meeting of Labor’s new caucus, Anthony Albanese held out the prospect of “back-to-back premierships”. But a second-term in government isn’t a given, he implied – it is something Labor will have to earn. ... <a title="Governments usually win a second term. But could the new Labor government be an exception?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/governments-usually-win-a-second-term-but-could-the-new-labor-government-be-an-exception-184845/" aria-label="Read more about Governments usually win a second term. But could the new Labor government be an exception?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tin Fei Sim, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Medical School, Curtin University CDC/Unsplash With Australians learning to live with COVID and resuming international travel, cases of influenza are steadily rising. Getting a flu shot reduces your chance of catching the flu caused by four flu virus strains covered by ... <a title="Which flu shot should I choose? And what are cell-based and ‘adjuvanted’ vaccines?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/which-flu-shot-should-i-choose-and-what-are-cell-based-and-adjuvanted-vaccines-184325/" aria-label="Read more about Which flu shot should I choose? And what are cell-based and ‘adjuvanted’ vaccines?">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra McEwan, Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia Tonia Kraakman/Unsplash, CC BY An e-petition against greyhound racing to the Tasmanian parliament reached a record number of signatures last week, with 13,519 people demanding the state government end public funding of the industry. The previous record in Tasmania was 11,699 ... <a title="Greyhound racing: despite waning public support, governments are spending big to keep the industry running" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/greyhound-racing-despite-waning-public-support-governments-are-spending-big-to-keep-the-industry-running-184849/" aria-label="Read more about Greyhound racing: despite waning public support, governments are spending big to keep the industry running">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Mitchell, Associate Professor Health and Societal Outcomes, Macquarie University Shutterstock NAPLAN scores can tell us about a child’s learning, but can they also help us to support learners who have had a serious injury or a long-term chronic illness like asthma or epilepsy? Children who spend ... <a title="Time in hospital sets back tens of thousands of children’s learning each year, but targeted support can help them catch up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/time-in-hospital-sets-back-tens-of-thousands-of-childrens-learning-each-year-but-targeted-support-can-help-them-catch-up-184313/" aria-label="Read more about Time in hospital sets back tens of thousands of children’s learning each year, but targeted support can help them catch up">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Lycett, NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development, Deakin University Since 2001 our research group has asked 2,000 Australians every year how they’re doing. Are they satisfied with their standard of living, their relationships, purpose in life, community connectedness, safety, health and ... <a title="5 charts on Australian well-being, and the surprising effects of the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/5-charts-on-australian-well-being-and-the-surprising-effects-of-the-pandemic-183537/" aria-label="Read more about 5 charts on Australian well-being, and the surprising effects of the pandemic">Read more</a>
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June 16, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony O’Donnell, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, School of Law, La Trobe University Shutterstock When Labor leader Anthony Albanese couldn’t quote Australia’s unemployment rate in the first week of the election campaign, many said it didn’t matter: the Australian Bureau of Statistics figure was “meaningless”; “fudged”; “manipulated”; and didn’t ... <a title="How we invented ‘unemployment’ – and why we’re outgrowing it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/06/16/how-we-invented-unemployment-and-why-were-outgrowing-it-183545/" aria-label="Read more about How we invented ‘unemployment’ – and why we’re outgrowing it">Read more</a>
