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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anastasiya Byesyedina, PhD Candidate, Department of Government and International Relations, Sessional Teacher and Student Writing Fellow, University of Sydney I’m an Australian-Ukrainian researcher and I moved back to Kyiv from Sydney in 2022 after the full-scale Russian invasion. My life in a war zone has given me ... <a title="As the air-raid sirens sound, I am studying Ukrainian culture with new fervour. I’m far from alone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/as-the-air-raid-sirens-sound-i-am-studying-ukrainian-culture-with-new-fervour-im-far-from-alone-224508/" aria-label="Read more about As the air-raid sirens sound, I am studying Ukrainian culture with new fervour. I’m far from alone">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan March, Professor of Urban Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne Helitak430/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA As extreme fire weather becomes more common across ever larger areas of Australia, we need new options for living with the risk of bushfire. Underground or earth-sheltered ... <a title="Can earth-covered houses protect us from bushfires? Even if they’re a solution, it’s not risk-free" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/can-earth-covered-houses-protect-us-from-bushfires-even-if-theyre-a-solution-its-not-risk-free-216449/" aria-label="Read more about Can earth-covered houses protect us from bushfires? Even if they’re a solution, it’s not risk-free">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Rowe, Research Fellow, James Cook University Wildfire burns between 3.94 million and 5.19 million square kilometres of land every year worldwide. If that area were a single country, it would be the seventh largest in the world. In Australia, most fire occurs in the vast tropical ... <a title="Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/indigenous-fire-management-began-more-than-11-000-years-ago-new-research-225263/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous fire management began more than 11,000 years ago: new research">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor, School of Early Childhood & Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology Mobile phones are currently banned in all Australian state schools and many Catholic and independent schools around the country. This is part of a global trend over more than a decade to restrict ... <a title="We looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools – this is what we found" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/we-looked-at-all-the-recent-evidence-on-mobile-phone-bans-in-schools-this-is-what-we-found-224848/" aria-label="Read more about We looked at all the recent evidence on mobile phone bans in schools – this is what we found">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ameeta Jain, Associate Professor, Deakin Business School, Deakin University This article is part of The Conversation’s series examining the housing crisis. Read the other articles in the series here. Australia’s rental vacancy rate has hit a historic low of close to zero. The latest estimate from SQM ... <a title="Prefabricated and build-to-rent houses could help bring rents down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/prefabricated-and-build-to-rent-houses-could-help-bring-rents-down-223839/" aria-label="Read more about Prefabricated and build-to-rent houses could help bring rents down">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maree Patsouras, PhD Candidate, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University Syda Productions/Shutterstock Men have historically, and still do, drink more than women. But in recent years there has been an uptick in women’s drinking, particularly among women in their late 30s through to their 60s. ... <a title="Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/mothers-little-helper-interviews-with-australian-women-show-a-complex-relationship-with-alcohol-225285/" aria-label="Read more about Mother’s little helper: interviews with Australian women show a complex relationship with alcohol">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Lamb, Associate Professor in Geophysics, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington NASA, CC BY-SA Our world may seem fragile, but Earth has been around for a very long time. If we ventured far back into the past, would we reach a time when it ... <a title="Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/strange-rock-formations-beneath-the-pacific-ocean-could-change-our-understanding-of-the-early-earth-223718/" aria-label="Read more about Strange rock formations beneath the Pacific Ocean could change our understanding of the early Earth">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A $4 billion ten-year agreement between the federal and Northern Territory governments that aims to see up to 270 houses built annually in remote Indigenous communities will be unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday. The federal government is ... <a title="Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/albanese-and-nt-governments-to-spend-4-billion-over-a-decade-to-tackle-indigenous-housing-225466/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese and NT governments to spend $4 billion over a decade to tackle Indigenous housing">Read more</a>
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March 12, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A government-instituted taskforce has proposed older Australians should pay more of the cost of their aged care, while steering clear of politically fraught options such as a levy or touching the family home to help finance the sector. Under the ... <a title="Government’s aged care report proposes older Australians pay more but eschews a levy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/12/governments-aged-care-report-proposes-older-australians-pay-more-but-eschews-a-levy-225462/" aria-label="Read more about Government’s aged care report proposes older Australians pay more but eschews a levy">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Like most biopics, Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer – which won seven awards, including the big one, Best Picture – seems kind of silly, an exercise in dress up. We watch “serious” actors like Robert Downey Jr. ... <a title="Oppenheimer’s triumph, a stunning First Nations performance, and lots of sparkles: 5 experts on the 2024 Oscars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/oppenheimers-triumph-a-stunning-first-nations-performance-and-lots-of-sparkles-5-experts-on-the-2024-oscars-221493/" aria-label="Read more about Oppenheimer’s triumph, a stunning First Nations performance, and lots of sparkles: 5 experts on the 2024 Oscars">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
ANALYSIS: By Ali Mirin Papua New Guinea and Indonesia have formally ratified a defence agreement a decade after its initial signing. PNG’s Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko and the Indonesian ambassador to the Pacific nation, Andriana Supandy, convened a press briefing in Port Moresby on February 29 to declare the ratification. The agreement enables an enhancement ... <a title="Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/question-for-png-foreign-minister-tkatchenko-what-does-the-defence-pact-mean-for-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Question for PNG foreign minister Tkatchenko – what does the defence pact mean for West Papua?">Read more</a>
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March 11, 2024
By Caleb Fotheringham, RNZ Pacific journalist A secret ballot by members of the Association of University of the South Pacific Staff (AUSPS) and USP Staff Union have voted in favour of strike action at the institution. Unofficial results in the poll last Wednesday showed 63 percent in favour, above the needed majority threshold. AUSPS general ... <a title="USP staff vote in favour of strike action over ‘just and fair’ pay rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2024/03/11/usp-staff-vote-in-favour-of-strike-action-over-just-and-fair-pay-rise/" aria-label="Read more about USP staff vote in favour of strike action over ‘just and fair’ pay rise">Read more</a>
