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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has announced a dramatic overhaul of the federal public service, cutting the number of departments and creating several new mega ones, while removing five secretaries. The departments will be reduced from 18 to 14. But Morrison said there ... <a title="Morrison cuts a swathe through the public service, with five departmental heads gone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/morrison-cuts-a-swathe-through-the-public-service-with-five-departmental-heads-gone-128306/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison cuts a swathe through the public service, with five departmental heads gone">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Szymek Drobniak, DECRA Fellow, UNSW Ageing is an inevitability for all living organisms, and although we still don’t know exactly why our bodies gradually grow ever more decrepit, we are starting to grasp how it happens. Our new research, published in Ecology Letters, pinpoints factors that influence ... <a title="Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/tick-tock-how-stress-speeds-up-your-chromosomes-ageing-clock-127728/" aria-label="Read more about Tick, tock… how stress speeds up your chromosomes’ ageing clock">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Khan, PhD Candidate, Western Sydney University The Department of Home Affairs has begun taking steps to outsource its visa processing to private service providers. This move has sparked an important national debate on transparency, accountability and profiteering in the immigration system. The proposed changes will involve ... <a title="The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/the-government-wants-to-privatise-visa-processing-who-will-be-held-accountable-when-something-goes-wrong-127618/" aria-label="Read more about The government wants to privatise visa processing. Who will be held accountable when something goes wrong?">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
What is it about reforming laws around money and politics that makes politicians so inclined to stuff it up and act undemocratically? From Helen Clark’s notorious Electoral Finance Act (2007) – which the party eventually voted to repeal, given it was so anti-democratic and unworkable – through to yesterday’s announcement of a so-called ban on ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-whats-driving-the-urgent-clamp-down-on-foreign-donations/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: What’s driving the urgent clamp down on foreign donations?">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Political donations Guyon Espiner and Kate Newton (RNZ): New details revealed over NZ First-linked company and Shane Jones’ office Matt Shand (Stuff): Winston Peters says the NZ First foundation is similar to the National Party’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 05 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-05-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 05 2019">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor for the School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University In October 2017, 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern became prime minister of New Zealand. The world looked longingly at a young and inspiring female leader who had unexpectedly catapulted the Labour Party into office. Ardern ... <a title="Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/left-leaning-australians-may-look-to-new-zealand-with-envy-but-ardern-still-has-much-work-to-do-128227/" aria-label="Read more about Left-leaning Australians may look to New Zealand with envy, but Ardern still has much work to do">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sara James, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, La Trobe University If recent television shows are anything to go by, we’re a little concerned about the consequences of technological development. Dystopian narratives abound. Black Mirror projects the negative consequences of social media, while artificial intelligence turns rogue in The 100 ... <a title="To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/to-stop-a-tech-apocalypse-we-need-ethics-and-the-arts-128235/" aria-label="Read more about To stop a tech apocalypse we need ethics and the arts">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Kathleen Liddicoat, Lecturer, Architectural Design, Swinburne University of Technology Welcome to the next article in our Designing Hospitals series, where we explore how architecture and design shape our hospitals and medical centres. Today, we look at how good design affects mental health and well-being, particularly in ... <a title="Aquariums, meerkats and gaming screens: how hospital design supports children, young people and their families" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/aquariums-meerkats-and-gaming-screens-how-hospital-design-supports-children-young-people-and-their-families-122198/" aria-label="Read more about Aquariums, meerkats and gaming screens: how hospital design supports children, young people and their families">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Yeates, Director of the Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO Are you planning a big garden clean-up this summer, or stocking up on fly spray to keep bugs at bay? Before you do, it’s worth considering the damage you might cause to the insects we share the ... <a title="Scientists fear insect populations are shrinking. Here are six ways to help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/scientists-fear-insect-populations-are-shrinking-here-are-six-ways-to-help-128213/" aria-label="Read more about Scientists fear insect populations are shrinking. Here are six ways to help">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW A prestige apartment building in Sydney built by a well-known developer is undergoing a second replacement of a terrace waterproof membrane five years after replacement of the first one, which had leaked from completion. The second membrane almost certainly complied ... <a title="To restore public confidence in apartments, rewrite Australia’s building codes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/to-restore-public-confidence-in-apartments-rewrite-australias-building-codes-126678/" aria-label="Read more about To restore public confidence in apartments, rewrite Australia’s building codes">Read more</a>
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December 5, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cat Moir, Senior Lecturer in Germanic Studies, University of Sydney It was claimed Immanuel Kant’s routine was so predictable his neighbours could set their clocks by his daily walk. Born in 1724 in the Prussian town of Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), Kant had a strict education and ... <a title="Explainer: the ideas of Kant" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/05/explainer-the-ideas-of-kant-121881/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: the ideas of Kant">Read more</a>
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December 4, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australians saved rather than spent most of the budget tax cuts, almost doubling the proportion of household income saved, leaving spending languishing. The September quarter national accounts show that in the first three months of ... <a title="GDP update: spending dips and saving soars as we stash rather than spend our tax cuts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/12/04/gdp-update-spending-dips-and-saving-soars-as-we-stash-rather-than-spend-our-tax-cuts-128297/" aria-label="Read more about GDP update: spending dips and saving soars as we stash rather than spend our tax cuts">Read more</a>
