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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Sydney When the review of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) was handed down at the end of last year, one of the more controversial recommendations was to make provider registration mandatory. The review – and NDIS Minister Bill Shorten ... <a title="Tiered NDIS provider registration and a say on supports. Are we finally listening to people with disability?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/tiered-ndis-provider-registration-and-a-say-on-supports-are-we-finally-listening-to-people-with-disability-233657/" aria-label="Read more about Tiered NDIS provider registration and a say on supports. Are we finally listening to people with disability?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jane Simon, Senior Lecturer in Media, Macquarie University Hiroshi Sugimoto, installation view, Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2024. Image courtesy the artist and Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, © the artist, photograph: Zan Wimberley In the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto, photography is a ... <a title="The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/the-photography-of-japanese-artist-hiroshi-sugimoto-captures-uncertainty-ruin-and-empty-splendour-235666/" aria-label="Read more about The photography of Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto captures uncertainty, ruin and empty splendour">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Australia Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has raised Australia’s national terrorism threat level from “possible” to “probable”, with ASIO head Mike Burgess giving a grim assessment of the “degrading security enviroment”. The “probable” threat level means ASIO assesses there is ... <a title="ASIO raises threat level to ‘probable’ due to increasing extremism, chief says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/asio-raises-threat-level-to-probable-due-to-increasing-extremism-chief-says-236133/" aria-label="Read more about ASIO raises threat level to ‘probable’ due to increasing extremism, chief says">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justin Hastings, Professor of International Relations and Comparative Politics, University of Sydney It may not have attracted much attention in recent months with global attention focused elsewhere. But the international sanctions monitoring regime on North Korea has been disbanded, raising concerns about the unimpeded flow of North ... <a title="With UN oversight of sanctions against North Korea now scrapped, its weapons are going global" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/with-un-oversight-of-sanctions-against-north-korea-now-scrapped-its-weapons-are-going-global-232716/" aria-label="Read more about With UN oversight of sanctions against North Korea now scrapped, its weapons are going global">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Thorpe, Professor in Sociology of Sport and Gender, University of Waikato In a preliminary women’s under 66kg boxing match at the Paris Olympics last week between Algerian Imane Khelif and Italian Angela Carini, a powerful punch to the face resulted in Carini withdrawing after 46 seconds. ... <a title="Misinformation, abuse and injustice: breaking down the Olympic boxing firestorm" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/misinformation-abuse-and-injustice-breaking-down-the-olympic-boxing-firestorm-236061/" aria-label="Read more about Misinformation, abuse and injustice: breaking down the Olympic boxing firestorm">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
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 The United States presidential election will be held on November 5. Election analyst Nate Silver’s national poll aggregate has Democratic nominee and current vice president Kamala Harris ... <a title="Kamala Harris edges ahead of Donald Trump in national polls for US election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/kamala-harris-edges-ahead-of-donald-trump-in-national-polls-for-us-election-235187/" aria-label="Read more about Kamala Harris edges ahead of Donald Trump in national polls for US election">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Irma Mooi-Reci, Professor in Labour Sociology, The University of Melbourne Liudmila Fadzeyeva/Shutterstock Across developed countries, including Australia, fewer babies are being born. In 2023, 289,100 babies were born in Australia, a big drop from the 2021 post-lockdown spike during which there was 315,200 births, an analysis by ... <a title="More secure jobs and higher unemployment benefits would help lift Australia’s birth rate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/more-secure-jobs-and-higher-unemployment-benefits-would-help-lift-australias-birth-rate-230538/" aria-label="Read more about More secure jobs and higher unemployment benefits would help lift Australia’s birth rate">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
On Wednesday next week, the people of Kiribati go to the polls in the first of two votes for a new government. The second vote is on Monday, August 19, after which nominations will be made for president with that vote to happen in September or October. Don Wiseman spoke with RNZ Pacific correspondent in ... <a title="What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/what-are-the-issues-facing-kiribati-as-it-prepares-for-elections/" aria-label="Read more about What are the issues facing Kiribati as it prepares for elections?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
The LIVE Recording of A View from Afar podcast will begin today at 12:45pm August 5, 2024 (NZST) which is Sunday evening, 8:45pm (USEDT). In this episode of A View from Afar political scientist and former Pentagon Analyst, Paul G. Buchanan and journalist Selwyn Manning will discuss, debate, and assess whether deterrence is still a ... <a title="POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK: Deterrence and De-Escalation Are They Still Valid Concepts In International Relations?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/live-recording-deterrence-and-de-escalation-are-they-still-valid-concepts-in-international-relations/" aria-label="Read more about POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK: Deterrence and De-Escalation Are They Still Valid Concepts In International Relations?">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Anderson, Associate Professor, National Centre for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Wellbeing Research, Australian National University Australian children are among the healthiest in the world. However, First Nations children continue to be left behind. To break the cycle of disadvantage, we need to foster First Nations ... <a title="What matters to First Nations children in Australia? A new app is helping us find out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/what-matters-to-first-nations-children-in-australia-a-new-app-is-helping-us-find-out-235593/" aria-label="Read more about What matters to First Nations children in Australia? A new app is helping us find out">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ava Kalinauskas, Research Associate, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney Now that US Vice President Kamala Harris has sewn up the Democratic presidential nomination, she has a busy few weeks ahead of her. After she announces her vice-presidential running mate, the pair will campaign in seven ... <a title="What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the world – and where she differs from Joe Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/what-a-kamala-harris-presidency-could-mean-for-the-world-and-where-she-differs-from-joe-biden-235651/" aria-label="Read more about What a Kamala Harris presidency could mean for the world – and where she differs from Joe Biden">Read more</a>
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August 5, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phoebe Williams, Paediatrician & Infectious Diseases Physician; Senior Lecturer & NHMRC Fellow, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney Ground Picture/Shutterstock So far in 2024 there have been more than 17,000 cases of whooping cough (pertussis) across Australia. This is well above our usual national average. It’s already ... <a title="Whooping cough can be deadly for young babies. Vaccination is our best defence" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/08/05/whooping-cough-can-be-deadly-for-young-babies-vaccination-is-our-best-defence-235527/" aria-label="Read more about Whooping cough can be deadly for young babies. Vaccination is our best defence">Read more</a>
