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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock The Daily Telegraph and Herald Sun carried an exclusive story on Sunday headed “Half a million extra on welfare”. It was subheaded: NDIS blowing the budget. The story said the number of Australians on welfare ... <a title="Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/half-a-million-more-australians-on-welfare-not-unless-you-double-count-227342/" aria-label="Read more about Half a million more Australians on welfare? Not unless you double-count">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorinda Cramer, Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies, Deakin University How do you describe the feel of wool against your skin? For some that feel is snuggly soft. Others remember a prickly sensation. But would you call wool “healthy”, “comfortable” or “pure”? This is how wool was ... <a title="Foy & Gibson’s 8,100,000 miles of yarn: how Australians were sold ‘fashionable’ (and ‘healthy’) wool 100 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/foy-and-gibsons-8-100-000-miles-of-yarn-how-australians-were-sold-fashionable-and-healthy-wool-100-years-ago-212602/" aria-label="Read more about Foy & Gibson’s 8,100,000 miles of yarn: how Australians were sold ‘fashionable’ (and ‘healthy’) wool 100 years ago">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney Shutterstock 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: are whitegoods disability supports? Here’s what proposed NDIS reforms say" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/choice-and-control-are-whitegoods-disability-supports-heres-what-proposed-ndis-reforms-say-227502/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: are whitegoods disability supports? Here’s what proposed NDIS reforms say">Read more</a>
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April 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Prieto-Rodriguez, Professor, University of Newcastle Karolina Grabowska/Pexels, CC BY It is very common in Australian schools to “stream” students for subjects such as English, science and maths. This means students are grouped into different classes based on their previous academic attainment, or in some cases, just ... <a title="It’s common to ‘stream’ maths classes. But grouping students by ability can lead to ‘massive disadvantage’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/12/its-common-to-stream-maths-classes-but-grouping-students-by-ability-can-lead-to-massive-disadvantage-226723/" aria-label="Read more about It’s common to ‘stream’ maths classes. But grouping students by ability can lead to ‘massive disadvantage’">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Commentators used to complain the Albanese government was being too cautious. That charge can’t easily be levelled now. Take two totally different issues on which the government in recent days has defined itself by its robust stances. One is the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Albanese government can’t be accused of excessive caution any longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/grattan-on-friday-albanese-government-cant-be-accused-of-excessive-caution-any-longer-227674/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Albanese government can’t be accused of excessive caution any longer">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The death of Australian Zomi Frankcom and other World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza in an Israeli strike has led to yet more intense and critical scrutiny over how Israel is prosecuting the war against Hamas. This week Foreign ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Burns on being a Jewish MP during a terrible conflict" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/politics-with-michelle-grattan-josh-burns-on-being-a-jewish-mp-during-a-terrible-conflict-227673/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Burns on being a Jewish MP during a terrible conflict">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Harrington, Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies, University of Canterbury Maslow Entertainment The ’70s-throwback found-footage horror comedy, Late Night with the Devil, joins a long list of recent Australian horror success stories. Framed as a tabloid-style retrospective, the film invites us to watch the newly ... <a title="Late Night with the Devil is a sly, gleefully horrifying Aussie hit that invites you to be hypnotised" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/late-night-with-the-devil-is-a-sly-gleefully-horrifying-aussie-hit-that-invites-you-to-be-hypnotised-227226/" aria-label="Read more about Late Night with the Devil is a sly, gleefully horrifying Aussie hit that invites you to be hypnotised">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Mark, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Faculty (Japan Campus), Temple University Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s state visit to the White House has already resulted in one of the most ambitious boosts to the United States-Japan alliance. This alliance is now at the core of American strategy ... <a title="Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/once-enemies-japan-and-us-strengthen-their-alliance-and-it-goes-beyond-aukus-227663/" aria-label="Read more about Once enemies, Japan and US strengthen their alliance – and it goes beyond AUKUS">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Karner, PhD Candidate, International Studies, RMIT University The Israeli army used a new artificial intelligence (AI) system to generate lists of tens of thousands of human targets for potential airstrikes in Gaza, according to a report published last week. The report comes from the nonprofit outlet ... <a title="Israel accused of using AI to target thousands in Gaza, as killer algorithms outpace international law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/israel-accused-of-using-ai-to-target-thousands-in-gaza-as-killer-algorithms-outpace-international-law-227453/" aria-label="Read more about Israel accused of using AI to target thousands in Gaza, as killer algorithms outpace international law">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Fitzsimons, Adjunct Professor in Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Protected areas have been the cornerstone of efforts to conserve nature for more than a century. Most countries have some form of protected areas, national parks being the best-known examples. A key element of protected areas is that ... <a title="Why an intention to conserve an area for only 25 years should not count for Australia’s target of protecting 30% of land" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/why-an-intention-to-conserve-an-area-for-only-25-years-should-not-count-for-australias-target-of-protecting-30-of-land-227558/" aria-label="Read more about Why an intention to conserve an area for only 25 years should not count for Australia’s target of protecting 30% of land">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Lin, Professor, University of Sydney Planter Studio/Shutterstock This week’s ABC Four Corners episode Pain Factory highlighted that our health system is failing Australians with chronic pain. Patients are receiving costly, ineffective and risky care instead of effective, low-risk treatments for chronic pain. The challenge is considering ... <a title="Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/surgery-wont-fix-my-chronic-back-pain-so-what-will-227450/" aria-label="Read more about Surgery won’t fix my chronic back pain, so what will?">Read more</a>
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April 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cathy Sherry, Professor in Law, Macquarie University Shutterstock Nothing excites law students like the idea of a free house. Or alternatively, enrages them. It depends on their politics. As a result, academics condemned to teaching property law find it hard to resist the “doctrine of adverse possession”. ... <a title="If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/04/11/if-you-squat-in-a-vacant-property-does-the-law-give-you-the-house-for-free-well-sort-of-227556/" aria-label="Read more about If you squat in a vacant property, does the law give you the house for free? Well, sort of">Read more</a>
