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January 26, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa French, Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University Author provided. On the Australia Day weekend in 1952, a group of die-hard film buffs put on a film festival. They had selected the leafy hills of Olinda in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges for the event. ... <a title="Makeshift screens, censored films and ASIO: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/26/makeshift-screens-censored-films-and-asio-how-the-melbourne-international-film-festival-began-70-years-ago-175440/" aria-label="Read more about Makeshift screens, censored films and ASIO: how the Melbourne International Film Festival began 70 years ago">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Dylan Alcott, wheelchair tennis star and leading advocate for people with a disability, is the 2022 Australian of the Year. With 23 quad wheelchair Grand Slam titles, including singles and doubles, Alcott, from Melbourne, last year became the first man, ... <a title="Tennis champ Dylan Alcott is 2022 Australian of the Year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/tennis-champ-dylan-alcott-is-2022-australian-of-the-year-175657/" aria-label="Read more about Tennis champ Dylan Alcott is 2022 Australian of the Year">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Carlson, Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University Shutterstock Today we woke to the news the Australian government has negotiated with the designer of the Aboriginal flag Harold Thomas, and copyright for the flag will be transferred to the ... <a title="Don’t say the Aboriginal flag was ‘freed’ – it belongs to us, not the Commonwealth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/dont-say-the-aboriginal-flag-was-freed-it-belongs-to-us-not-the-commonwealth-175623/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t say the Aboriginal flag was ‘freed’ – it belongs to us, not the Commonwealth">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By A J Brown, Professor of Public Policy & Law, Centre for Governance & Public Policy, Griffith University In a worrying sign, Australia has plummeted in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index – the world’s most widely cited ranking of how clean or corrupt every country’s public sector ... <a title="Australia and Norway were once tied in global anti-corruption rankings. Now, we’re heading in opposite directions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/australia-and-norway-were-once-tied-in-global-anti-corruption-rankings-now-were-heading-in-opposite-directions-174966/" aria-label="Read more about Australia and Norway were once tied in global anti-corruption rankings. Now, we’re heading in opposite directions">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society and NATSEM, University of Canberra Shutterstock Australia’s Consumer Price Index rose 1.3% in the three months to December, bringing inflation for the full 2021 year to 3.5%. This is above the Reserve Bank of Australia’s medium-term ... <a title="Inflation hits 3.5%, but one high number won’t budge the Reserve Bank on interest rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/inflation-hits-3-5-but-one-high-number-wont-budge-the-reserve-bank-on-interest-rates-175045/" aria-label="Read more about Inflation hits 3.5%, but one high number won’t budge the Reserve Bank on interest rates">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jatin Kala, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA felllow, Murdoch University Shutterstock Perth smashed its previous heatwave records last week, after sweltering through six days in a row over 40℃ – and 11 days over 40℃ this summer so far. On top of that, Perth has suffered widespread ... <a title="What drove Perth’s record-smashing heatwave – and why it’s a taste of things to come" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/what-drove-perths-record-smashing-heatwave-and-why-its-a-taste-of-things-to-come-175516/" aria-label="Read more about What drove Perth’s record-smashing heatwave – and why it’s a taste of things to come">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Cooper, Associate Professor of Law, University of Waikato Lynn Grieveson – Newsroom via Getty Images As New Zealand’s government prepares to deal with a looming Omicron outbreak, this won’t be the only major issue it will have to tackle this year. 2022 will be important ... <a title="COVID will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/covid-will-dominate-but-new-zealand-will-also-have-to-face-the-triple-planetary-crisis-this-year-175044/" aria-label="Read more about COVID will dominate, but New Zealand will also have to face the ‘triple planetary crisis’ this year">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karl Glazebrook, Director & Distinguished Professor, Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology Artist’s conception NASA Since its launch on Christmas day, astronomers have eagerly followed the complex deployment and unfurling of NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope – the largest to ever take to the ... <a title="NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here’s what happens next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/nasas-james-webb-space-telescope-has-reached-its-destination-1-5-million-km-from-earth-heres-what-happens-next-175327/" aria-label="Read more about NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has reached its destination, 1.5 million km from Earth. Here’s what happens next">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lowe, Chair in Contemporary History, Deakin University Dean Lewins/AAP The issue of when or whether to celebrate Australia Day seems to have become stuck in a loop of fierce debate without resolution. There are those who want to mark January 26 as the start of modern ... <a title="60% of Australians want to keep Australia Day on January 26, but those under 35 disagree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/60-of-australians-want-to-keep-australia-day-on-january-26-but-those-under-35-disagree-175503/" aria-label="Read more about 60% of Australians want to keep Australia Day on January 26, but those under 35 disagree">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanja Dreher, Associate Professor, UNSW First Nations people generally refer to January 26 as the beginning of invasion and subsequent dispossession of Country. It marks the start of much violence and 234 years of resistance. Every year, as “Australia Day” nears, there is a sense of foreboding ... <a title="For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First Nations media platforms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/for-an-indigenous-perspective-on-australia-day-heres-a-quick-guide-to-first-nations-media-platforms-174704/" aria-label="Read more about For an Indigenous perspective on ‘Australia Day’, here’s a quick guide to First Nations media platforms">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Burnett, Research Officer, Garvan Institute; Senior Lecturer, UNSW., Garvan Institute In November last year, Australians began to feel a wave of optimism that COVID would no longer define their everyday existence. Soaring vaccination rates provided some measure of confidence the threat from COVID was beginning to ... <a title="Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There’s one key problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/will-an-omicron-specific-vaccine-help-control-covid-theres-one-key-problem-175137/" aria-label="Read more about Will an Omicron-specific vaccine help control COVID? There’s one key problem">Read more</a>
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January 25, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Teagan Goolmeer, PhD Candidate, The University of Melbourne Nicolas Rakotopare/Karajarri Traditional Lands Association Indigenous people across Australia place tremendous cultural and customary value on many species and ecological communities. The very presence of a plant or animal species can trigger an Indigenous person to recall and share ... <a title="Ancient knowledge is lost when a species disappears. It’s time to let Indigenous people care for their country, their way" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/01/25/ancient-knowledge-is-lost-when-a-species-disappears-its-time-to-let-indigenous-people-care-for-their-country-their-way-172760/" aria-label="Read more about Ancient knowledge is lost when a species disappears. It’s time to let Indigenous people care for their country, their way">Read more</a>
