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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christopher Ziguras, Director, Centre for the Study of Higher Education, The University of Melbourne The federal government is due to introduce legislation on Thursday to enable new caps on the number of international student places at educational institutions in Australia. These include universities, TAFEs and private colleges. ... <a title="Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/why-is-the-government-proposing-caps-on-international-students-and-how-did-we-get-here-230003/" aria-label="Read more about Why is the government proposing caps on international students and how did we get here?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Walker, Visiting Fellow, Australian National University Crazy Owl Productions/Shutterstock This year’s federal budget is making up for decades of lost time – both in our clean energy transition and in betting on new technological breakthroughs. The Future Made in Australia Act holds tantalising potential for building ... <a title="For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/for-a-future-made-in-australia-we-need-more-innovation-and-diverse-people-in-science-and-tech-229717/" aria-label="Read more about For a ‘future made in Australia’, we need more innovation and diverse people in science and tech">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Jaana Dielenberg Australians have more pet cats than ever before – more than 5 million in total. With the growing number, expectations on pet owners are shifting. Many cat owners are now voluntarily keeping their cats indoors or in secure ... <a title="Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/two-thirds-of-us-support-banning-pet-cats-from-roaming-a-ban-would-save-millions-of-native-animals-and-billions-of-dollars-229180/" aria-label="Read more about Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Campbell, Lecturer, Performing Arts, UniSA Creative, University of South Australia Tracey Leigh/State Theatre Company of South Australia Symphonie of the Bicycle is a tour de force. Actor and writer Hew Parham takes the audience through comic and heartfelt parallel stories about the trials and triumphs of ... <a title="Symphonie of the Bicycle: on the desire to be great, and the desire to live a life with great meaning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/symphonie-of-the-bicycle-on-the-desire-to-be-great-and-the-desire-to-live-a-life-with-great-meaning-228013/" aria-label="Read more about Symphonie of the Bicycle: on the desire to be great, and the desire to live a life with great meaning">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Theresa Larkin, Associate professor of Medical Sciences, University of Wollongong BonNontawat/Shutterstock Why is blood red? – Asher, 6 years 11 months, New South Wales What a great question about something in our body, Asher. Blood is inside our body, but we see it on the outside when ... <a title="Curious Kids: why is blood red?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/curious-kids-why-is-blood-red-229121/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: why is blood red?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Benjamin Wilson Mountford, Associate Professor in History, Australian Catholic University State Library of Western Australia, call number: BA428/1 Around 90 years ago, two-thirds of Western Australian voters voted in favour of leaving the Commonwealth at a state referendum. This 1933 result – often seen as a protest ... <a title="‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/westralia-shall-be-free-how-western-australias-secessionists-stoked-british-fears-the-empire-was-at-risk-219222/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Westralia shall be free!’ How Western Australia’s secessionists stoked British fears the Empire was at risk">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Parmeter, Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University The Gaza war has now entered its eighth month and a resolution to the conflict still seems far off. Israel claims to have killed 13,000 Hamas militants so far. If that figure is correct, ... <a title="Israel’s invasion of Rafah will not eliminate Hamas or end the war. So, what is Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/israels-invasion-of-rafah-will-not-eliminate-hamas-or-end-the-war-so-what-is-benjamin-netanyahus-plan-229995/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s invasion of Rafah will not eliminate Hamas or end the war. So, what is Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Raven Cretney, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Getty Images Adaptation to climate change will challenge New Zealand politically and economically. As such, it becomes a problem of imagination. We will need to fund things differently, build differently, restructure aspects of our economy, and develop innovative ... <a title="New Zealanders have had their say on climate adaptation: here’s where we agree and disagree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/new-zealanders-have-had-their-say-on-climate-adaptation-heres-where-we-agree-and-disagree-229799/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealanders have had their say on climate adaptation: here’s where we agree and disagree">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Breadon, Program Director, Health and Aged Care, Grattan Institute Shutterstock Health was a centrepiece of last year’s budget, based on a new vision for Medicare. This year, there is less health reform, but the budget does set the foundation for a new approach to community-based mental ... <a title="Cheaper medicines and a new approach for mental health care. Will the budget make us healthier?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/cheaper-medicines-and-a-new-approach-for-mental-health-care-will-the-budget-make-us-healthier-229612/" aria-label="Read more about Cheaper medicines and a new approach for mental health care. Will the budget make us healthier?">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Macron’s plan has backfired. But there can be no sustainable solution without cooperation of all parties, writes a former Australian diplomat New Caledonia. ANALYSIS: By Denise Fisher Monday night saw demonstrations by independence supporters in New Caledonia erupt into serious violence for the first time since the 1980s civil disturbances. The mainly indigenous demonstrators were ... <a title="Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in Paris" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/violence-erupts-in-new-caledonia-as-independence-supporters-oppose-legislation-in-paris/" aria-label="Read more about Violence erupts in New Caledonia as independence supporters oppose legislation in Paris">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk A group belonging to New Caledonia’s pro-independence movement, UNI (Union Nationale pour l’Indépendance), has released a communiqué saying they were “moved by and deplored the exactions and violence taking place“. UNI member of New Caledonia’s Northern provincial assembly Patricia Goa said the violent unrest “affects the ... <a title="New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence calls for calm ‘to preserve peace’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/new-caledonia-unrest-pro-independence-calls-for-calm-to-preserve-peace/" aria-label="Read more about New Caledonia unrest: Pro-independence calls for calm ‘to preserve peace’">Read more</a>
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May 15, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Walker-Munro, Senior Lecturer (Law), Southern Cross University Drones are an example of the ‘dual-use technologies’ that can fall foul of research security concerns. Goh Rhy Yan / Unsplash Over the weekend, Queensland University of Technology PhD student Xiaolong Zhu became national news – and not for ... <a title="A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’. What’s going on with Australian research security?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/05/15/a-students-visa-has-been-cancelled-for-links-to-weapons-of-mass-destruction-whats-going-on-with-australian-research-security-230002/" aria-label="Read more about A student’s visa has been cancelled for links to ‘weapons of mass destruction’. What’s going on with Australian research security?">Read more</a>
