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December 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute Karolina Grabowska/Pexels Australians are getting older, sicker, and harder to treat. This isn’t news to GPs, who say they are overwhelmed with demand and frustrated with a rigid system that doesn’t support them. To improve general practice, ... <a title="How do you fix general practice? More GPs won’t be enough. Here’s what to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/05/how-do-you-fix-general-practice-more-gps-wont-be-enough-heres-what-to-do-195447/" aria-label="Read more about How do you fix general practice? More GPs won’t be enough. Here’s what to do">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Wainwright, System lead – Sustainable Corporates, Monash University Shutterstock About half of Australia’s biggest listed companies have plans to reach net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, our new analysis has found. We assessed the climate change commitments of 187 companies out of 200 listed on the Australian Stock ... <a title="Half of Australia’s biggest companies have net-zero emissions plans, but climate action may come too late" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/05/half-of-australias-biggest-companies-have-net-zero-emissions-plans-but-climate-action-may-come-too-late-195727/" aria-label="Read more about Half of Australia’s biggest companies have net-zero emissions plans, but climate action may come too late">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne Dan Peled/AAP An increasing number of Australian children are going to private high schools, new research shows. The latest Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Annual Statistical Report has found an increasing number of students going ... <a title="Australian private high school enrolments have jumped 70% since 2012" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/05/australian-private-high-school-enrolments-have-jumped-70-since-2012-195714/" aria-label="Read more about Australian private high school enrolments have jumped 70% since 2012">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Wooden, Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND The shift to working from home is unlikely to reverse. Data from the HILDA (Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia) Survey released on Monday show the proportion of Australians working “most hours” from ... <a title="HILDA finds working from home boosts women’s job satisfaction more than men’s, and that has a downside" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/05/hilda-finds-working-from-home-boosts-womens-job-satisfaction-more-than-mens-and-that-has-a-downside-195641/" aria-label="Read more about HILDA finds working from home boosts women’s job satisfaction more than men’s, and that has a downside">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2022
By Lucy Xia, RNZ News journalist More than 200 people from Aotearoa New Zealand’s Chinese community gathered for a vigil at Auckland’s Aotea Square last night to mourn the lives lost under China’s stringent covid-19 lockdowns and to call for an end to the country’s “Zero Covid” policy. The unprecedented display of defiance by a ... <a title="NZ Chinese local community protests against China lockdowns, ‘dictatorship’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/04/nz-chinese-local-community-protests-against-china-lockdowns-dictatorship/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Chinese local community protests against China lockdowns, ‘dictatorship’">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2022
By Rachael Nath, RNZ Pacific journalist A year after re-opening its borders, Fiji has recorded an injection of F$805 million into its economy from international visitor arrivals between April and August. After shutting its borders for almost two years at the height of the covid-19 pandemic, Fiji has welcomed 520,000 tourists to its shores in ... <a title="‘Tourists buzzing’ in resorts and islands as Fiji welcomes back visitors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/03/tourists-buzzing-in-resorts-and-islands-as-fiji-welcomes-back-visitors/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Tourists buzzing’ in resorts and islands as Fiji welcomes back visitors">Read more</a>
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December 3, 2022
The French flag and the Kanak independence ensign . . . flown together since 2011. Image: 123rf/RNZ Pacific The territorial government of New Caledonia debated the introduction of an official regional flag in 2008, as required by the Nouméa Accord. In July 2010, the New Caledonian Congress voted in favour of flying both flags together. ... <a title="Pro-independence groups want Kanak flag for New Caledonia’s official flag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/03/pro-independence-groups-want-kanak-flag-for-new-caledonias-official-flag/" aria-label="Read more about Pro-independence groups want Kanak flag for New Caledonia’s official flag">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Blazevich, Professor of Biomechanics, Edith Cowan University If you’ve been watching the World Cup, you might have marvelled at the physical fitness and skill of these elite players. How can they run and run and run for so long? What makes them so good at speedy ... <a title="World Cup: what body type works best for football? A professor of biomechanics explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/world-cup-what-body-type-works-best-for-football-a-professor-of-biomechanics-explains-195813/" aria-label="Read more about World Cup: what body type works best for football? A professor of biomechanics explains">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney The Albanese government proposes to ditch the “Yes/No” case pamphlets that are ordinarily posted to voters before a referendum. Is this a good idea, and what, if anything, should replace it? What changes are proposed? Under the existing ... <a title="The government will not send out Yes and No case pamphlets ahead of the Voice to Parliament referendum. Does this matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/the-government-will-not-send-out-yes-and-no-case-pamphlets-ahead-of-the-voice-to-parliament-referendum-does-this-matter-195806/" aria-label="Read more about The government will not send out Yes and No case pamphlets ahead of the Voice to Parliament referendum. Does this matter?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Economics is a profound and important discipline. But its practice is prone to self-censorship, and still reflects in large part its (Victorian era) glory days and the sensibilities of that era. The father and mother of today’s textbook economics were Alfred Marshall and Mary Paley who published The Economics of Industry ... <a title="Keith Rankin Essay – Using the Sex Industry to Critique Textbook Economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/keith-rankin-essay-using-the-sex-industry-to-critique-textbook-economics/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Essay – Using the Sex Industry to Critique Textbook Economics">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Burgin, Lecturer in Criminology and Criminal Justice, Swinburne University of Technology ACT Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shane Drumgold today announced that the charges against Bruce Lehrmann, the man accused of raping Brittany Higgins at Parliament House in 2019, have been withdrawn. An earlier jury had ... <a title="Lehrmann trial discontinued: when prosecution isn’t in the public interest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/lehrmann-trial-discontinued-when-prosecution-isnt-in-the-public-interest-192495/" aria-label="Read more about Lehrmann trial discontinued: when prosecution isn’t in the public interest">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide IMDB Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles – Chantal Akerman’s 1975 hypnotic study of a mother performing domestic chores in microscopic detail – has just been crowned the “greatest film of all time” in Sight ... <a title="The ‘greatest film of all time’: Chantal Akerman’s win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/the-greatest-film-of-all-time-chantal-akermans-win-shows-a-generational-shift-is-taking-place-among-critics-and-filmmakers-195437/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘greatest film of all time’: Chantal Akerman’s win shows a generational shift is taking place among critics and filmmakers">Read more</a>
