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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jakob Weis, Postdoctoral research associate, University of Tasmania Dust storm blowing off the Australian east coast over the South Pacific. Jeff Schmaltz/NASA GSFC, Author provided The Southern Ocean, a region critical to Earth’s climate, hosts vast blooms of microscopic ocean plants known as phytoplankton. They form the ... <a title="Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/floating-robots-reveal-just-how-much-airborne-dust-fertilises-the-southern-ocean-a-key-climate-shock-absorber-225793/" aria-label="Read more about Floating robots reveal just how much airborne dust fertilises the Southern Ocean – a key climate ‘shock absorber’">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years. ... <a title="Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/cancer-is-increasingly-survivable-but-it-shouldnt-depend-on-your-ability-to-wrangle-the-health-system-228774/" aria-label="Read more about Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mona Nikidehaghani, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has been tabled. In ... <a title="Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/choice-and-control-what-can-the-accc-do-to-stop-ndis-price-gouging-and-reduce-costs-228512/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University National Archives of Australia In 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alighted from a helicopter to announce a grand plan: Snowy Hydro 2.0. It would turn the famous hydroelectric scheme into a giant battery, ready to power the ... <a title="Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/stirring-films-made-the-snowy-scheme-a-nationbuilding-project-could-the-troubled-snowy-2-0-do-the-same-229365/" aria-label="Read more about Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession. This month is the first anniversary of the Judicial Commission of Victoria’s conduct guideline about judicial bullying. Yet, ... <a title="Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/like-being-slapped-or-kicked-judicial-bullying-is-a-problem-in-australian-courtrooms-229501/" aria-label="Read more about Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney Victoria Labadie/Shutterstock The government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these payments should be the highest priority ... <a title="The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-couldnt-include-every-good-idea-but-not-boosting-jobseeker-and-the-youth-allowance-were-obvious-misses-230094/" aria-label="Read more about The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne On one level, the 2024 federal budget brought few big surprises for universities. The two key measures were already announced leading up to May 14: the changes to HELP indexation and ... <a title="Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/funding-might-change-but-job-ready-graduates-stays-for-now-what-does-the-budget-fine-print-say-about-higher-education-230104/" aria-label="Read more about Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday handed down his third budget. It had a second successive surplus and sweeteners, including relief on energy bills, and tax breaks for development of green hydrogen and critical minerals processing. The opposition will back the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/politics-with-michelle-grattan-budget-fight-looms-on-future-made-in-australia-tax-breaks-230095/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute This year’s budget has “something for everyone”, with very little in the way of cuts and no new taxes. It’s a classic “good news” pre-election budget. Whether it is too good to be true hinges on whether ... <a title="The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-is-full-of-good-news-but-good-news-isnt-the-same-as-good-management-230110/" aria-label="Read more about The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne The federal government is due to introduce legislation on Thursday to enable new caps on the number of international student places at educational institutions in Australia. These include universities, TAFEs and private colleges. ... <a title="Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/why-is-the-government-proposing-caps-on-international-students-and-how-did-we-get-here-230003/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Crazy Owl Productions/Shutterstock This year’s federal budget is making up for decades of lost time – both in our clean energy transition and in betting on new technological breakthroughs. The Future Made in Australia Act holds tantalising potential for building ... <a title="For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/for-a-future-made-in-australia-we-need-more-innovation-and-diverse-people-in-science-and-tech-229717/" aria-label="Read more about For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg Australians have more pet cats than ever before – more than 5 million in total. With the growing number, expectations on pet owners are shifting. Many cat owners are now voluntarily keeping their cats indoors or in secure ... <a title="Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/two-thirds-of-us-support-banning-pet-cats-from-roaming-a-ban-would-save-millions-of-native-animals-and-billions-of-dollars-229180/" aria-label="Read more about Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars">Read more</a>
