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May 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra More than six in ten Australians – 63% – support a ban on new coal mines opening in Australia, according to the Lowy Institute’s Climate Poll 2021. A similar proportion would favour reducing Australian coal exports to other countries. “Australian ... <a title="Majority of Australians in favour of banning new coal mines: Lowy poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/26/majority-of-australians-in-favour-of-banning-new-coal-mines-lowy-poll-161513/" aria-label="Read more about Majority of Australians in favour of banning new coal mines: Lowy poll">Read more</a>
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May 26, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The report from John Kunkel, Scott Morrison’s chief of staff, on whether the Prime Minister’s office briefed against Brittany Higgins’ partner David Shiraz has been drafted with Jesuitical subtlety. Kunkel’s four-page report to the Prime Minister says, in essence, that ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison’s top staffer doesn’t find colleagues briefed against Higgins’ partner but reminds them of ‘standards’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/26/view-from-the-hill-morrisons-top-staffer-doesnt-find-colleagues-briefed-against-higgins-partner-but-reminds-them-of-standards-161512/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison’s top staffer doesn’t find colleagues briefed against Higgins’ partner but reminds them of ‘standards’">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Fiona Kelly, Professor, Law School, La Trobe University The Victorian government’s budget announcement to fund a public egg and sperm bank will be welcomed by couples and single women who need donors to conceive. The bank will proactively recruit local donors, store donated eggs, sperm and embryos, ... <a title="Victoria’s egg and sperm bank will reduce the risks of seeking donors online. Here’s why it’s needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/victorias-egg-and-sperm-bank-will-reduce-the-risks-of-seeking-donors-online-heres-why-its-needed-161414/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s egg and sperm bank will reduce the risks of seeking donors online. Here’s why it’s needed">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Burgin, Lecturer in Law, Swinburne University of Technology New South Wales Attorney-General Mark Speakman has announced a suite of reforms to consent law, following a two-and-a-half year review by the Law Reform Commission. The review was prompted by survivor-advocate Saxon Mullins, who endured two trials and ... <a title="NSW adopts affirmative consent in sexual assault laws. What does this mean?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/nsw-adopts-affirmative-consent-in-sexual-assault-laws-what-does-this-mean-161497/" aria-label="Read more about NSW adopts affirmative consent in sexual assault laws. What does this mean?">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasiya Byesyedina, PhD Candidate in the Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney Belarus’ authoritarian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has gone to extraordinary measures to cling to power in the face of the stiffest opposition to his rule in 26 ... <a title="With brazen dissident arrest, Belarus finds itself more isolated than ever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/with-brazen-dissident-arrest-belarus-finds-itself-more-isolated-than-ever-161498/" aria-label="Read more about With brazen dissident arrest, Belarus finds itself more isolated than ever">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angel Zhong, Senior Lecturer in Finance, RMIT University Queenie Tan is full of financial advice. Whether it is cheap date ideas, buying furniture, saving your first $100,000, doing your tax return or investing in Dogecoin, there is seemingly no topic the 24-year-old Sydney woman can’t confidently tackle. ... <a title="FinTok and ‘finfluencers’ are on the rise: 3 tips to assess if their advice has value" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/fintok-and-finfluencers-are-on-the-rise-3-tips-to-assess-if-their-advice-has-value-161406/" aria-label="Read more about FinTok and ‘finfluencers’ are on the rise: 3 tips to assess if their advice has value">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chelsea Watego, Principal Research Fellow, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit, The University of Queensland The SBS documentary series See What You Made Me Do aimed to spark a national conversation about criminalising coercive control. Instead it highlighted the stark power imbalances in conversations between Indigenous ... <a title="Carceral feminism and coercive control: when Indigenous women aren’t seen as ideal victims, witnesses or women" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/carceral-feminism-and-coercive-control-when-indigenous-women-arent-seen-as-ideal-victims-witnesses-or-women-161091/" aria-label="Read more about Carceral feminism and coercive control: when Indigenous women aren’t seen as ideal victims, witnesses or women">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University In 2007 Malcolm Turnbull turned off an industry’s life support without blinking. The industry made light bulbs, of the traditional kind — so energy-inefficient they lost most of it as heat. “A normal light bulb ... <a title="Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/going-electric-and-banning-new-petrol-powered-cars-could-be-australias-next-big-light-bulb-moment-161431/" aria-label="Read more about Going electric and banning new petrol-powered cars could be Australia’s next big light bulb moment">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Lesh, Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, The University of Melbourne The New South Wales government has released a discussion paper expressing its ambition to review and “modernise” the Heritage Act (1977). Announcing the review, Arts Minister Don Harwin said: “Too often we see once cherished ... <a title="War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/war-on-the-demolishers-probably-not-and-timing-of-nsw-heritage-review-is-curious-159525/" aria-label="Read more about War on the demolishers? Probably not, and timing of NSW heritage review is curious">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert White, Winthrop Professor of English, The University of Western Australia Review: John Bell, Some Achieve Greatness: Lessons on leadership from Shakespeare and one of his greatest admirers. With illustrations by Cathy Wilcox. Pantera Press, 2021. John Bell’s new book Some Achieve Greatness is but the latest ... <a title="Shakespeare’s rulers and generals are all flawed, but the books on his leadership lessons keep coming" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/shakespeares-rulers-and-generals-are-all-flawed-but-the-books-on-his-leadership-lessons-keep-coming-160270/" aria-label="Read more about Shakespeare’s rulers and generals are all flawed, but the books on his leadership lessons keep coming">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australia will shut its residential embassy in Afghanistan before its troops leave the country, amid concerns of an expected worsening security situation. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Foreign Minister Marise Payne said in a Tuesday statement the embassy building in ... <a title="Australian embassy in Afghanistan to close its doors as security situation worsens" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/australian-embassy-in-afghanistan-to-close-its-doors-as-security-situation-worsens-161499/" aria-label="Read more about Australian embassy in Afghanistan to close its doors as security situation worsens">Read more</a>
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May 25, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, School of History, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University New battlelines in Samoa’s ongoing political crisis were drawn this week. After an evening swearing-in ceremony on the lawn of parliament house, Samoa now has two governments claiming ... <a title="Samoan democracy hangs in the balance as a constitutional arm wrestle plays out — with the world watching" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/25/samoan-democracy-hangs-in-the-balance-as-a-constitutional-arm-wrestle-plays-out-with-the-world-watching-161490/" aria-label="Read more about Samoan democracy hangs in the balance as a constitutional arm wrestle plays out — with the world watching">Read more</a>
