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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Dew, Professor of Sociology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Getty Images One in three of us will develop cancer at some point in our lives. But survival rates have improved to the point that two-thirds of those diagnosed live more than five years. ... <a title="Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/cancer-is-increasingly-survivable-but-it-shouldnt-depend-on-your-ability-to-wrangle-the-health-system-228774/" aria-label="Read more about Cancer is increasingly survivable – but it shouldn’t depend on your ability to ‘wrangle’ the health system">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mona Nikidehaghani, Senior Lecturer in Accounting, University of Wollongong Many Australians with disability feel on the edge of a precipice right now. Recommendations from the disability royal commission and the NDIS review were released late last year. Now a draft NDIS reform bill has been tabled. In ... <a title="Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/choice-and-control-what-can-the-accc-do-to-stop-ndis-price-gouging-and-reduce-costs-228512/" aria-label="Read more about Choice and control: what can the ACCC do to stop NDIS price gouging and reduce costs?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University National Archives of Australia In 2017, then-Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull alighted from a helicopter to announce a grand plan: Snowy Hydro 2.0. It would turn the famous hydroelectric scheme into a giant battery, ready to power the ... <a title="Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/stirring-films-made-the-snowy-scheme-a-nationbuilding-project-could-the-troubled-snowy-2-0-do-the-same-229365/" aria-label="Read more about Stirring films made the Snowy scheme a nationbuilding project. Could the troubled Snowy 2.0 do the same?">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Nickson, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle Bullying by judges, magistrates and other judicial officers is a factor in many lawyers leaving the profession. This month is the first anniversary of the Judicial Commission of Victoria’s conduct guideline about judicial bullying. Yet, ... <a title="Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/like-being-slapped-or-kicked-judicial-bullying-is-a-problem-in-australian-courtrooms-229501/" aria-label="Read more about Like being ‘slapped’ or ‘kicked’: judicial bullying is a problem in Australian courtrooms">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
RNZ Pacific Outgoing Secretary-General Henry Puna of the Pacific Islands Forum is “not surprised” with the violent unrest in New Caledonia which has shut down the French Pacific territory. New Caledonia has come to a virtual stop after three days of civil unrest, resulting in burning, shooting and looting, as leaders call for calm. French ... <a title="New Caledonia violence ‘unfortunate’ but ‘not surprising’, says Pacific Forum chief" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/new-caledonia-violence-unfortunate-but-not-surprising-says-pacific-forum-chief/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia violence ‘unfortunate’ but ‘not surprising’, says Pacific Forum chief">Read more</a>
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May 16, 2024
COMMENTARY: By Antoinette Lattouf Sorry Palestinian women and children. It seems Australia’s leading women’s media company has more pressing issues to cover than the seemingly endless human rights atrocities committed against you. It’s been seven months of almost complete silence from Mamamia and their most popular writers and podcast hosts. I’ve respected and appreciated their ... <a title="Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/16/antoinette-lattouf-a-disheartening-feminist-silence-over-gaza/" aria-label="Read more about Antoinette Lattouf: A disheartening feminist ‘silence’ over Gaza">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Asia Pacific Report As Israel drives the Palestinians deeper into another Nakba in Gaza with its assault on Rafah, the Palestine Youth Aotearoa (PYA) and solidarity supporters in Aotearoa New Zealand tonight commemorated the original Nakba — “the Catastrophe” — of 1948. The 1948 Nakba . . . more than 750,000 Palestinians were forced to ... <a title="Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/gallery-from-the-river-to-the-sea-palestine-will-be-free/" aria-label="Read more about Gallery: From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Goldie, Adjunct Professor and UNSW Law Advisory Council Member, UNSW Sydney Victoria Labadie/Shutterstock The government says the budget will help people doing it tough. But it has also opted not to increase JobSeeker and Youth Allowance, despite expert advice these payments should be the highest priority ... <a title="The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-couldnt-include-every-good-idea-but-not-boosting-jobseeker-and-the-youth-allowance-were-obvious-misses-230094/" aria-label="Read more about The budget couldn’t include every ‘good idea’ but not boosting JobSeeker and the Youth Allowance were obvious misses">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gwilym Croucher, Associate Professor, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne On one level, the 2024 federal budget brought few big surprises for universities. The two key measures were already announced leading up to May 14: the changes to HELP indexation and ... <a title="Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/funding-might-change-but-job-ready-graduates-stays-for-now-what-does-the-budget-fine-print-say-about-higher-education-230104/" aria-label="Read more about Funding might change, but Job-ready Graduates stays for now. What does the budget fine print say about higher education?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Jim Chalmers on Tuesday handed down his third budget. It had a second successive surplus and sweeteners, including relief on energy bills, and tax breaks for development of green hydrogen and critical minerals processing. The opposition will back the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/politics-with-michelle-grattan-budget-fight-looms-on-future-made-in-australia-tax-breaks-230095/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Budget fight looms on Future Made in Australia tax breaks">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Griffiths, Deputy Program Director, Budgets and Government, Grattan Institute This year’s budget has “something for everyone”, with very little in the way of cuts and no new taxes. It’s a classic “good news” pre-election budget. Whether it is too good to be true hinges on whether ... <a title="The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/the-budget-is-full-of-good-news-but-good-news-isnt-the-same-as-good-management-230110/" aria-label="Read more about The budget is full of good news, but good news isn’t the same as good management">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Three people have now died in New Caledonia in the wake of pro-independence protests and escalating unrest. Charles Wea, a spokesperson for international relations in the New Caledonian territorial President’s office, confirmed the deaths to RNZ Pacific. The circumstances are unclear in the French territory’s third day of violence. France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said ... <a title="Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/three-dead-in-new-caledonia-amid-independence-electoral-unrest/" aria-label="Read more about Three dead in New Caledonia amid independence, electoral unrest">Read more</a>
