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May 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Harris, Senior Lecturer in Geography, The University of Queensland Flinders Beach has been growing since the 1950s Kevin Welsh, Author provided In a warmer world, rising sea levels could render many coastlines, beaches, and reef islands uninhabitable, or destroy them altogether. The 1.09℃ Earth has warmed ... <a title="Why some beaches, including in Queensland, are getting bigger despite rising sea levels" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/02/why-some-beaches-including-in-queensland-are-getting-bigger-despite-rising-sea-levels-180964/" aria-label="Read more about Why some beaches, including in Queensland, are getting bigger despite rising sea levels">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hail, Adjunct Associate Professor, Torrens University Australia Japan Ministry of Finance/Shutterstock. The Reserve Bank’s cash rate is in the news, and in an unwelcome way for the first time in 11 years. After a decade in which Australia’s central bank has only moved its cash rate ... <a title="Central banks hunt in packs. Here’s why ours ought to be wary about lifting the cash rate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/02/central-banks-hunt-in-packs-heres-why-ours-ought-to-be-wary-about-lifting-the-cash-rate-181465/" aria-label="Read more about Central banks hunt in packs. Here’s why ours ought to be wary about lifting the cash rate">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Portolan, PhD student, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Mateus Campos Felipe/Unsplash The term “high-maintenance” is part of everyday speech, and usually refers to a woman who places a high value on her personal image, wants or needs. Often uttered within the context of ... <a title="‘High maintenance’ is a red flag on dating apps. Women are still expected to shrink themselves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/02/high-maintenance-is-a-red-flag-on-dating-apps-women-are-still-expected-to-shrink-themselves-180113/" aria-label="Read more about ‘High maintenance’ is a red flag on dating apps. Women are still expected to shrink themselves">Read more</a>
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May 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Labor’s confidence will be boosted by two polls showing it holding a strong lead, as Anthony Albanese carried off a well-orchestrated party launch in Perth on Sunday. Newspoll, published in Monday’s Australian, has Labor ahead on a two-party basis by ... <a title="View from The Hill: Labor strongly ahead in Newspoll and Resolve, as election race enters final half" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/02/view-from-the-hill-labor-strongly-ahead-in-newspoll-and-resolve-as-election-race-enters-final-half-182282/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Labor strongly ahead in Newspoll and Resolve, as election race enters final half">Read more</a>
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May 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese has pledged a Labor government would make gender pay equity an objective of the Fair Work Act and strengthen the Fair Work Commission’s powers to order pay rises for workers in low paid industries dominated by women. The ... <a title="Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/05/01/albanese-pledges-to-make-gender-pay-equity-a-fair-work-act-objective-182281/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese pledges to make gender pay equity a Fair Work Act objective">Read more</a>
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April 30, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Allegra Spender/Facebook; Dave Sharma/Facebook At the campaign’s halfway point in the highly contested seat of Wentworth, ‘teal’ candidate Allegra Spender has shifted – but polarised – soft voters’ views about her. Fewer of these voters have changed their opinion of ... <a title="The Wentworth Project: Allegra Spender’s profile rises, but polarises" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/30/the-wentworth-project-allegra-spenders-profile-rises-but-polarises-182275/" aria-label="Read more about The Wentworth Project: Allegra Spender’s profile rises, but polarises">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Clark, Deputy Engagement Editor, The Conversation Is there any such thing as the so-called “ethnic vote” in a country as multicultural as Australia? Do different cultural groups favour one side of politics over another? For instance, in Victoria’s most marginal seat of Chisholm, will the Hong ... <a title="Below the Line: Will different cultural groups favour one side of politics this federal election? – podcast" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/below-the-line-will-different-cultural-groups-favour-one-side-of-politics-this-federal-election-podcast-182236/" aria-label="Read more about Below the Line: Will different cultural groups favour one side of politics this federal election? – podcast">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Scarlett Howard, Lecturer, Monash University Shutterstock “Two, four, six, eight; bog in, don’t wait”. As children, we learn numbers can either be even or odd. And there are many ways to categorise numbers as even or odd. We may memorise the rule that numbers ending in 1, ... <a title="Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/honeybees-join-humans-as-the-only-known-animals-that-can-tell-the-difference-between-odd-and-even-numbers-181040/" aria-label="Read more about Honeybees join humans as the only known animals that can tell the difference between odd and even numbers">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Jensen, Associate professor, Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis, University of Canberra, University of Canberra Shutterstock Disinformation and foreign interference constitute a grave threat to Western democracies, particularly during elections. Both the 2016 US election and the 2019 UK election were targeted by Russian disinformation campaigns. ... <a title="Here’s how disinformation could disrupt the Australian election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/heres-how-disinformation-could-disrupt-the-australian-election-177629/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s how disinformation could disrupt the Australian election">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Mick Tsikas/AAP Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week claimed Labor was planning a “sneaky carbon tax” should it win power, and Nationals senator Matt Canavan declared the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 was “dead”. We can expect both ... <a title="No, Mr Morrison – the safeguard mechanism is not a ‘sneaky carbon tax’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/no-mr-morrison-the-safeguard-mechanism-is-not-a-sneaky-carbon-tax-182054/" aria-label="Read more about No, Mr Morrison – the safeguard mechanism is not a ‘sneaky carbon tax’">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer in Economics, Monash University The Conversation Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party continues to make waves in the federal election campaign, most recently with advertisements on massive billboards pledging a “maximum 3% interest rate on all home loans for five years”. But does this promise ... <a title="Clive Palmer’s promise to cap mortgage rates at 3% would make it much harder to get a home loan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/clive-palmers-promise-to-cap-mortgage-rates-at-3-would-make-it-much-harder-to-get-a-home-loan-182058/" aria-label="Read more about Clive Palmer’s promise to cap mortgage rates at 3% would make it much harder to get a home loan">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah J MacLean, Associate professor, La Trobe University Shutterstock Bingo, with its familiar rules, novelty number calls (“legs 11”, “two ducks swimming”) and social setting, has long had a reputation as harmless and friendly. Also called “housie”, bingo is a game in which players mark numbers on ... <a title="Bingo seems like harmless fun – but higher stakes and new technology are making it more dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/04/29/bingo-seems-like-harmless-fun-but-higher-stakes-and-new-technology-are-making-it-more-dangerous-180678/" aria-label="Read more about Bingo seems like harmless fun – but higher stakes and new technology are making it more dangerous">Read more</a>
