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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Arrow, Professor of History, Macquarie University Broad Agenda Amid the scale and sweep of the list of decisions made by the Whitlam government in their first week in office, most people remember the big changes: freeing all draft resisters from prison, or official recognition of Communist ... <a title="Fifty years ago, the new Whitlam government removed the luxury sales tax on the pill. It changed Australian women’s lives" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/fifty-years-ago-the-new-whitlam-government-removed-the-luxury-sales-tax-on-the-pill-it-changed-australian-womens-lives-194718/" aria-label="Read more about Fifty years ago, the new Whitlam government removed the luxury sales tax on the pill. It changed Australian women’s lives">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Liam Byrne, Honorary Fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, The University of Melbourne David Crosling/AAP On December 2 1972, after 23 years in opposition, Gough Whitlam led the Labor party back to government. What followed was three tumultuous years of crisis and transformation, after which Australia ... <a title="50 years ago today, Gough Whitlam was elected. There are some lessons for Albanese in what came next" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/50-years-ago-today-gough-whitlam-was-elected-there-are-some-lessons-for-albanese-in-what-came-next-195649/" aria-label="Read more about 50 years ago today, Gough Whitlam was elected. There are some lessons for Albanese in what came next">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lidia Morawska, Professor, Science and Engineering Faculty; Director, International Laboratory for Air Quality and Health (WHO CC for Air Quality and Health); Director – Australia, Australia – China Centre for Air Quality Science and Management (ACC-AQSM), Queensland University of Technology IsraelAndrade/Unsplash At the end of the third ... <a title="Ventilation reduces the risk of COVID. So why are we still ignoring it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/ventilation-reduces-the-risk-of-covid-so-why-are-we-still-ignoring-it-194820/" aria-label="Read more about Ventilation reduces the risk of COVID. So why are we still ignoring it?">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deanna Kemp, Professor and Director, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, The University of Queensland An Indigenous person in Indonesia protests against a copper and gold mine. Charles Dharapak/AP Vast quantities of minerals are needed to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. Minerals and metals ... <a title="54% of projects extracting clean energy minerals overlap with Indigenous lands, research reveals" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/54-of-projects-extracting-clean-energy-minerals-overlap-with-indigenous-lands-research-reveals-195438/" aria-label="Read more about 54% of projects extracting clean energy minerals overlap with Indigenous lands, research reveals">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amanda Niland, Lecturer in Early Childhood, University of Sydney The decision about whether to send a child to school “early” or “hold them back” can be a tortuous one for families who have a child born in the first half of the year. So a recent New ... <a title="A push to raise the school starting age to 6 sounds like good news for parents, but there’s a catch" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/a-push-to-raise-the-school-starting-age-to-6-sounds-like-good-news-for-parents-but-theres-a-catch-189624/" aria-label="Read more about A push to raise the school starting age to 6 sounds like good news for parents, but there’s a catch">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra National Archives of Australia/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA After leading the Australian Labor Party to its first federal election victory in 23 years, Gough Whitlam wasted no time. The Tuesday after his election on ... <a title="Half a century on, it’s time to reassess the Whitlam government’s economic legacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/half-a-century-on-its-time-to-reassess-the-whitlam-governments-economic-legacy-195651/" aria-label="Read more about Half a century on, it’s time to reassess the Whitlam government’s economic legacy">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2022
By Lydia Lewis, RNZ Pacific journalist Reports of threats by Indonesia against “Free West Papua” activists have come to light on the anniversary of the first raising of West Papua’s emblem of independence. “The security level is increased, they send direct threats, phone calls or SMS and in the past three days many of our ... <a title="Pacific marks 61st year flying of Papua’s banned Morning Star flag" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/02/pacific-marks-61st-year-flying-of-papuas-banned-morning-star-flag/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific marks 61st year flying of Papua’s banned Morning Star flag">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mick Tsikas/AAP Australia has only a year or less to get itself ready to vote on one of the most significant constitutional referendums in its history – to insert an Indigenous Voice into the constitution. And it has to be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: To have the best chance of success, the Voice must be sold to voters as a positive, unifying story" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/grattan-on-friday-to-have-the-best-chance-of-success-the-voice-must-be-sold-to-voters-as-a-positive-unifying-story-195733/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: To have the best chance of success, the Voice must be sold to voters as a positive, unifying story">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame, The University of Queensland Pawel Czerwinski/Unsplash, CC BY-SA This week’s announcement of a raft of new tobacco control measures – including banning menthol products and proposing health warnings on individual cigarettes – are important ... <a title="Banning menthol cigarettes and more health warnings are only the start. Australia could look to NZ for how to do tobacco control" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/banning-menthol-cigarettes-and-more-health-warnings-are-only-the-start-australia-could-look-to-nz-for-how-to-do-tobacco-control-195710/" aria-label="Read more about Banning menthol cigarettes and more health warnings are only the start. Australia could look to NZ for how to do tobacco control">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharynne Hamilton, Senior Research Fellow, Co-Head, Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing, Telethon Kids Institute Shutterstock The latest Family Matters report reveals a grim lack of progress to eliminate the overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out-of-home care. The report – released by the Secretariat of ... <a title="New report reveals grim lack of progress to cut overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in out-of-home-care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/new-report-reveals-grim-lack-of-progress-to-cut-overrepresentation-of-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-kids-in-out-of-home-care-195355/" aria-label="Read more about New report reveals grim lack of progress to cut overrepresentation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander kids in out-of-home-care">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
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 Con Chronis/AAP There has been much more counting for the Victorian upper house since Saturday night, when under 30% had been counted in most of the eight ... <a title="Labor, Greens and Legalise Cannabis likely to have combined majority in Victorian upper house" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/labor-greens-and-legalise-cannabis-likely-to-have-combined-majority-in-victorian-upper-house-195439/" aria-label="Read more about Labor, Greens and Legalise Cannabis likely to have combined majority in Victorian upper house">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2022
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Byron, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Wollongong Spotify Now that we’ve hit December, many people looking on their social media feeds will be seeing end-of-year listening roundups like Instafest, Spotify Wrapped and Apple Music Replay. These roundups analyse your music listening for the year to generate ... <a title="Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay and Instafest: what do end of year music wrap-ups say about our listening habits?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2022/12/01/spotify-wrapped-apple-music-replay-and-instafest-what-do-end-of-year-music-wrap-ups-say-about-our-listening-habits-195556/" aria-label="Read more about Spotify Wrapped, Apple Music Replay and Instafest: what do end of year music wrap-ups say about our listening habits?">Read more</a>
