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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Bennett, Disability Program Director, Grattan Institute Shutterstock/Benjamin Crone 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: the NDIS was designed to give participants choice, but mandatory registration could threaten this" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/choice-and-control-the-ndis-was-designed-to-give-participants-choice-but-mandatory-registration-could-threaten-this-224505/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: the NDIS was designed to give participants choice, but mandatory registration could threaten this">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexa Scarlata, Research Fellow, Media & Communications, RMIT University Do you find yourself endlessly scrolling through streaming channels, wondering what to watch among the hundreds (or thousands) of options? Do you worry about spending more money on yet another subscription just to watch the latest show everyone ... <a title="Is a 24-hour Home and Away channel the answer to subscription fatigue?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/is-a-24-hour-home-and-away-channel-the-answer-to-subscription-fatigue-226738/" aria-label="Read more about Is a 24-hour Home and Away channel the answer to subscription fatigue?">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen Laura Sterup, Postgraduate in Marine Biology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Wikimedia Commons/Luca Davenport-Thomas, CC BY-SA In the early 20th century, canaries were used as early warning systems in coal mines to alert miners to rising levels of carbon monoxide. A small unremarkable ... <a title="Light pollution affects coastal ecosystems too – this underwater ‘canary’ is warning of the impacts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/light-pollution-affects-coastal-ecosystems-too-this-underwater-canary-is-warning-of-the-impacts-226599/" aria-label="Read more about Light pollution affects coastal ecosystems too – this underwater ‘canary’ is warning of the impacts">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University So weighed down have Americans become by student debt, and so potent a political issue has it become in the US, that President Biden plans to waive interest or write off money owing by 30 ... <a title="Biden is cancelling millions of student debts – here’s what to expect from Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/biden-is-cancelling-millions-of-student-debts-heres-what-to-expect-from-albanese-227919/" aria-label="Read more about Biden is cancelling millions of student debts – here’s what to expect from Albanese">Read more</a>
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April 17, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Two major critical minerals projects in Queensland and South Australia are to receive hundreds of millions of dollars in federal government loans as part of the Albanese government’s new Future Made in Australia policy. New loans worth $400 million will ... <a title="Critical minerals receive multi-million dollar support under Future Made in Australia policy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/17/critical-minerals-receive-multi-million-dollar-support-under-future-made-in-australia-policy-228015/" aria-label="Read more about Critical minerals receive multi-million dollar support under Future Made in Australia policy">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam James Loch, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide Water is one of Australia’s most valuable commodities. Rights to take water from our nation’s largest river system, the Murray-Darling Basin, are worth almost A$100 billion. These rights can be bought and sold or leased, with trade exceeding A$2 ... <a title="Water theft laws and penalties in the Murray-Darling Basin are a dog’s breakfast. Here’s how we can fix them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/water-theft-laws-and-penalties-in-the-murray-darling-basin-are-a-dogs-breakfast-heres-how-we-can-fix-them-227862/" aria-label="Read more about Water theft laws and penalties in the Murray-Darling Basin are a dog’s breakfast. Here’s how we can fix them">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elizabeth Westrupp, Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University In the space of three days, there have been two devastating knife attacks in Sydney. Your child may have seen these on the news or social media. Or they might be hearing about it from friends or at school. ... <a title="After a second knife attack in Sydney, how can parents talk to their kids and help them feel safe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/after-a-second-knife-attack-in-sydney-how-can-parents-talk-to-their-kids-and-help-them-feel-safe-228005/" aria-label="Read more about After a second knife attack in Sydney, how can parents talk to their kids and help them feel safe?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Just days after the deadly Westfield Bondi attacks, a second knife attack in Sydney has generated widespread shock and grief. This time, a 16-year-old entered an Assyrian church and rushed forward ... <a title="Why is the Sydney church stabbing an act of terrorism, but the Bondi tragedy isn’t?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/why-is-the-sydney-church-stabbing-an-act-of-terrorism-but-the-bondi-tragedy-isnt-227997/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the Sydney church stabbing an act of terrorism, but the Bondi tragedy isn’t?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Olaf Meynecke, Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University A juvenile hammerhead at Burleigh Beach, watched by snorkellers Olaf Meynecke, CC BY-NC-ND For the second year in a row, over 100 hammerheads have gathered at one of Australia’s busiest beaches, Burleigh ... <a title="Masses of scalloped hammerheads have returned to one of Australia’s busiest beaches. But we don’t need to panic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/masses-of-scalloped-hammerheads-have-returned-to-one-of-australias-busiest-beaches-but-we-dont-need-to-panic-227219/" aria-label="Read more about Masses of scalloped hammerheads have returned to one of Australia’s busiest beaches. But we don’t need to panic">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne Network Ten and Lisa Wilkinson’s victory in the defamation action brought against them by Bruce Lehrmann is the second big win inside a year for the Australian media using the defence of truth. However, ... <a title="How the Lehrmann v Channel 10 defamation case shone an unflattering light on commercial news gathering" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/how-the-lehrmann-v-channel-10-defamation-case-shone-an-unflattering-light-on-commercial-news-gathering-227568/" aria-label="Read more about How the Lehrmann v Channel 10 defamation case shone an unflattering light on commercial news gathering">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland Zamrznuti tonovi/Shutterstock The Australian government is currently considering a bill to implement the next stage of reforms to vaping regulation. At present, vaping products that don’t contain nicotine can be ... <a title="Pharmacists should be able to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/pharmacists-should-be-able-to-dispense-nicotine-vapes-without-a-prescription-heres-why-227560/" aria-label="Read more about Pharmacists should be able to dispense nicotine vapes without a prescription. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Keagan Brewer, Macquarie University Research Fellow, Macquarie University Yale University Library The Voynich manuscript has long puzzled and fascinated historians and the public. This late-medieval document is covered in illustrations of stars and planets, plants, zodiac symbols, naked women, and blue and green fluids. But the text ... <a title="For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery. Now we think it’s partly about sex" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/16/for-600-years-the-voynich-manuscript-has-remained-a-mystery-now-we-think-its-partly-about-sex-227157/" aria-label="Read more about For 600 years the Voynich manuscript has remained a mystery. Now we think it’s partly about sex">Read more</a>
