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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warwick Smith, Honorary Fellow, School of Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne Reports in The Australian suggesting Treasurer Jim Chalmers has shelved his budget wellbeing framework, known as Measuring What Matters, are incorrect. The framework is alive and well, and making steady (if slow) progress. ... <a title="Despite what you’ve read, Jim Chalmers’s wellbeing framework hasn’t been shelved – if anything, it’s been strengthened" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/despite-what-youve-read-jim-chalmerss-wellbeing-framework-hasnt-been-shelved-if-anything-its-been-strengthened-235194/" aria-label="Read more about Despite what you’ve read, Jim Chalmers’s wellbeing framework hasn’t been shelved – if anything, it’s been strengthened">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paula Lorgelly, Professor of Health Economics, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Associate Health Minister David Seymour’s recent letter of expectations to drug buying agency Pharmac could fundamentally change the way the organisation makes decisions. Some of these changes could also make Pharmac’s job harder and its ... <a title="Dear Pharmac – do things differently: what David Seymour’s expectations could mean for the drug-buying agency" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/dear-pharmac-do-things-differently-what-david-seymours-expectations-could-mean-for-the-drug-buying-agency-234897/" aria-label="Read more about Dear Pharmac – do things differently: what David Seymour’s expectations could mean for the drug-buying agency">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Trigg, Researcher and Lecturer in Public Health, Flinders University fizkes/Shutterstock Vaping is in your news feed for its regulation, impact on public health and effects on young people. So with growing awareness of the effects of vaping on health plus recent reforms to limit availability of ... <a title="Vaping and mental health are closely linked. That can make quitting even harder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/vaping-and-mental-health-are-closely-linked-that-can-make-quitting-even-harder-233450/" aria-label="Read more about Vaping and mental health are closely linked. That can make quitting even harder">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Oliver A.H. Jones, Professor of Chemistry, RMIT University Michelle Spencer/Oliver Jones If not the root of all evil, chemical pollution is surely responsible for a good chunk of it. At least, that’s how it feels sometimes when reading the news and the latest research. From hormone disruptors ... <a title="Environmental pollution and human health – how worried should we be?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/environmental-pollution-and-human-health-how-worried-should-we-be-233819/" aria-label="Read more about Environmental pollution and human health – how worried should we be?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Naomi Zouwer, Visual Artist and Lecturer in Teacher Education, University of Canberra Akimov Igor/Shutterstock Art offers us different, and sometimes challenging, perspectives to consider in our lifelong relationship with the human form. Since they were babes in arms I have taken my two children to museums and ... <a title="How to talk to your kids about nude art at the gallery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/how-to-talk-to-your-kids-about-nude-art-at-the-gallery-231815/" aria-label="Read more about How to talk to your kids about nude art at the gallery">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Binita Mahato, Assistant Professor of Community Planning, Auburn University Oak Park, Montgomery’s first park, was white-only until the mid-1960s. Binita Mahato, CC BY-ND Montgomery, Alabama, touts itself as the birthplace of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. But although Montgomery now embraces its history of bus boycotts and ... <a title="Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/23/buses-werent-the-only-civil-rights-battleground-in-montgomery-the-citys-parks-still-reflect-a-history-of-segregation-224830/" aria-label="Read more about Buses weren’t the only civil rights battleground in Montgomery – the city’s parks still reflect a history of segregation">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
In the West Bank, one in three Palestinians has experienced one or more incarcerations during their life since 1967, or 35 percent of the population, while in Kanaky, the Nouméa prison, known as Camp Est, is populated by 95 percent Kanaks, while they represent only 39 to 43 percent of the Caledonian population. SPECIAL REPORT: ... <a title="From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/from-kanaky-to-palestine-how-paris-is-weaponising-deportations-from-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about From Kanaky to Palestine, how Paris is weaponising deportations from Pacific">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute As war continues to devastate Gaza and its people, we learnt last week that a variant of poliovirus has been detected in the region. The virus was isolated in six sewage samples collected in late June from Khan Younis ... <a title="Polio in Gaza: what does this mean for the region and the world?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/polio-in-gaza-what-does-this-mean-for-the-region-and-the-world-235178/" aria-label="Read more about Polio in Gaza: what does this mean for the region and the world?">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Wolpe, Non-resident Senior Fellow, United States Study Centre, University of Sydney Will his decision to step aside seal Joe Biden’s legacy as US president? Three weeks ago, Biden suffered a political catastrophe. Biden’s team had been surprised that Donald Trump had agreed to an early presidential ... <a title="Joe Biden’s legacy may have been stained had he not stepped aside. How will history view him now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/joe-bidens-legacy-may-have-been-stained-had-he-not-stepped-aside-how-will-history-view-him-now-235204/" aria-label="Read more about Joe Biden’s legacy may have been stained had he not stepped aside. How will history view him now?">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael J. Davern, Professor of Accounting & Business Information Systems, The University of Melbourne In the wake of the widespread chaos we saw on Friday, one old adage perhaps feels even truer now than when it was first coined in the 1960s: To err is human, but ... <a title="The Crowdstrike outage showed that risk management is essential. Why are so many businesses reluctant to do it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/the-crowdstrike-outage-showed-that-risk-management-is-essential-why-are-so-many-businesses-reluctant-to-do-it-235177/" aria-label="Read more about The Crowdstrike outage showed that risk management is essential. Why are so many businesses reluctant to do it?">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Wade, Lecturer in Social Inquiry, La Trobe University Giving is in a tough spot in Australia. A declining proportion of us donate to charities, and fewer of us are registering as formal volunteers than in 2018. However, demand for the work of charities is higher than ... <a title="The Productivity Commission wants to axe a key tax break for private school donations – but the government is determined to keep it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/the-productivity-commission-wants-to-axe-a-key-tax-break-for-private-school-donations-but-the-government-is-determined-to-keep-it-219910/" aria-label="Read more about The Productivity Commission wants to axe a key tax break for private school donations – but the government is determined to keep it">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2024
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Interest Rates and Increasing Prices: The Facts The first chart above challenges the received view that inflation in New Zealand remains stubbornly high, and that it is therefore appropriate for the Reserve Bank’s official cash rate (OCR) to be held for at least a few more months at its damagingly high ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Truth in New Zealand about Price Inflation and Interest Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/07/22/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-the-truth-in-new-zealand-about-price-inflation-and-interest-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – The Truth in New Zealand about Price Inflation and Interest Rates">Read more</a>
