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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor emerita, University of Sydney Australians will go to the polls on October 14 to vote in a referendum on an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice. We have not voted in a federal referendum since 1999. So what do you need to know? How ... <a title="Australians will vote in a referendum on October 14. What do you need to know?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/australians-will-vote-in-a-referendum-on-october-14-what-do-you-need-to-know-195352/" aria-label="Read more about Australians will vote in a referendum on October 14. What do you need to know?">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Wellings, Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University The fact that altering the Australian constitution requires a vote by the Australian people means that Voice referendum will become a vote about Australian nationhood. This also means that the underlying question of the referendum is ... <a title="Why the ‘yes’ campaign should embrace the politics of nationhood" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/why-the-yes-campaign-should-embrace-the-politics-of-nationhood-212006/" aria-label="Read more about Why the ‘yes’ campaign should embrace the politics of nationhood">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Beaumont, Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today announced that the referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament will be held on October 14. To succeed, a constitutional referendum requires ... <a title="As referendum set for October 14, ‘yes’ is behind and the poll trends are unfavourable" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/as-referendum-set-for-october-14-yes-is-behind-and-the-poll-trends-are-unfavourable-212005/" aria-label="Read more about As referendum set for October 14, ‘yes’ is behind and the poll trends are unfavourable">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Carson, Professor of Political Communication, Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy, La Trobe University Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has confirmed the Voice to Parliament referendum will take place on Saturday October 14. This is a critical moment in the referendum’s outcome. The “yes” and “no” campaigns ... <a title="Voice referendum: is the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ camp winning on social media, advertising spend and in the polls?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/voice-referendum-is-the-yes-or-no-camp-winning-on-social-media-advertising-spend-and-in-the-polls-208956/" aria-label="Read more about Voice referendum: is the ‘yes’ or ‘no’ camp winning on social media, advertising spend and in the polls?">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland A group of crossbench parliamentarians have revived the idea of increasing the rate of the goods and services tax from 10% or removing exemptions on food, education and health purchases. The group, which includes Allegra Spender and ... <a title="We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/we-can-talk-about-a-higher-rate-of-gst-in-australia-but-it-will-never-happen-212380/" aria-label="Read more about We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wanning Sun, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, University of Technology Sydney Australian media have significantly increased their reporting on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese-Australian communities in the past few years. But how fair is that coverage? The Lowy Institute asked 2,000 Australians exactly ... <a title="More work to do: how Chinese-Australians perceive coverage of themselves and China in Australian media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/more-work-to-do-how-chinese-australians-perceive-coverage-of-themselves-and-china-in-australian-media-211432/" aria-label="Read more about More work to do: how Chinese-Australians perceive coverage of themselves and China in Australian media">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Evgenii Krestianinov, PhD candidate, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University Steve Jurvetson / Wikimedia, CC BY-SA In May 2020, some unusual rocks containing distinctive greenish crystals were found in the Erg Chech sand sea, a dune-filled region of the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria. On ... <a title="Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/sahara-space-rock-4-5-billion-years-old-upends-assumptions-about-the-early-solar-system-212255/" aria-label="Read more about Sahara space rock 4.5 billion years old upends assumptions about the early Solar System">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW Sydney Australian Electoral Commission In the coming weeks, Australians will be asked to vote “yes” or “no” to the constitutional amendment to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through establishing a body known as the Voice. Anticipating the referendum, ... <a title="How do the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ cases stack up? Constitutional law experts take a look" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/how-do-the-yes-and-no-cases-stack-up-constitutional-law-experts-take-a-look-212364/" aria-label="Read more about How do the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ cases stack up? Constitutional law experts take a look">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute A national review of primary care workforce regulations is investigating ways to increase Australians’ access to quality health care. The review is considering how health-care workers can use more of their skills and training, to work to ... <a title="Pharmacists should be able to work with GPs to prescribe medicines for long-term conditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/pharmacists-should-be-able-to-work-with-gps-to-prescribe-medicines-for-long-term-conditions-212359/" aria-label="Read more about Pharmacists should be able to work with GPs to prescribe medicines for long-term conditions">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Beasy, Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania Tima Miroshnichenko/Pexels Climate change education is increasingly seen as an essential part of schooling. The main international test of 15-year-olds’ progress (which Australia participates in) has just announced the next round of testing will include environmental knowledge ... <a title="‘I tend to be very gentle’: how teachers are navigating climate change in the classroom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/i-tend-to-be-very-gentle-how-teachers-are-navigating-climate-change-in-the-classroom-212370/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I tend to be very gentle’: how teachers are navigating climate change in the classroom">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Andrews, Visiting Fellow and Director – Micro heterogeneity and Macroeconomic Performance program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Shutterstock Australia has long had far less competition in consumer markets than the US. New research from the e61 Institute finds that in all but one ... <a title="Flying under the radar: Australia’s silent and growing competition crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/flying-under-the-radar-australias-silent-and-growing-competition-crisis-212116/" aria-label="Read more about Flying under the radar: Australia’s silent and growing competition crisis">Read more</a>
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August 30, 2023
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Mason, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Shutterstock For employers wanting to recruit Indigenous workers, two key factors stand in their way: geography combined with lack of job diversity, and a mismatch between educational qualifications and job opportunities. We’ve charted this mismatch with the Indigenous Jobs Map, using ... <a title="To boost Indigenous employment, we need to map job opportunities to skills and qualifications. Our new project does just that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2023/08/30/to-boost-indigenous-employment-we-need-to-map-job-opportunities-to-skills-and-qualifications-our-new-project-does-just-that-212440/" aria-label="Read more about To boost Indigenous employment, we need to map job opportunities to skills and qualifications. Our new project does just that">Read more</a>
