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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison is facing new questioning over the sports rorts affair, after former cabinet minister Bridget McKenzie issued a statement on Friday denying she had made last-minute changes to a list of grants. Evidence to a Senate estimate committee from ... <a title="More ‘sports rort’ questions for Morrison after Bridget McKenzie speaks out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/more-sports-rort-questions-for-morrison-after-bridget-mckenzie-speaks-out-133160/" aria-label="Read more about More ‘sports rort’ questions for Morrison after Bridget McKenzie speaks out">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alfredo R. Paloyo, Senior Lecturer in Economics, University of Wollongong Panic buying knows no borders. Shoppers in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the United States have caught toilet paper fever on the back of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Shop shelves are being emptied as quickly as they can ... <a title="A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/a-toilet-paper-run-is-like-a-bank-run-the-economic-fixes-are-about-the-same-133065/" aria-label="Read more about A toilet paper run is like a bank run. The economic fixes are about the same">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belal Alsinglawi, PhD Candidate in Data Science and ICT Lecturer, Western Sydney University The coronavirus disease COVID-19 has so far caused about 3,380 deaths, infected about 98,300 people, and is significantly impacting the economy in many countries. We used predictive analytics, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI), ... <a title="COVID-19 death toll estimated to reach 3,900 by next Friday, according to AI modelling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/covid-19-death-toll-estimated-to-reach-3-900-by-next-friday-according-to-ai-modelling-133052/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 death toll estimated to reach 3,900 by next Friday, according to AI modelling">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dominique Allen, Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University The #MeToo movement has reminded us that sexual harassment has not gone away. The legal tools we’re using are not working and may even be hiding the true extent of the problem. Most sexual harassment complaints are resolved confidentially ... <a title="Sexual harassment claims are costly and complex – can this be fixed?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/sexual-harassment-claims-are-costly-and-complex-can-this-be-fixed-133149/" aria-label="Read more about Sexual harassment claims are costly and complex – can this be fixed?">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
By Rappler in Manila Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is among Time‘s “100 Women of the Year”, the news magazine has revealed ahead of International Women’s Day on Sunday. Time‘s “100 Women of the Year,” a list of the most influential women of the past century, puts the spotlight on “influential women who were often overshadowed”. ... <a title="Maria Ressa named among Time’s most influential women of century" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/maria-ressa-named-among-times-most-influential-women-of-century/" aria-label="Read more about Maria Ressa named among Time’s most influential women of century">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Shane Jones on immigration Chris Trotter: Shane Jones’s Critics Offer Grist To NZ First’s “Populist-Nationalist” Mill. Morgan Godfery (Guardian): After the Christchurch shooting politicians promised tolerance. It didn’t last Liam Hehir (Pundit): A Sub-Prime ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 06 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-march-06-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – March 06 2020">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons has died. Her husband, Harry Parke, said the death was totally unexpected. “Yesterday morning she was out on the farm doing stuff, she had a bit of a fall and finally ended up in Thames Hospital where she had a massive stroke and died at 9.45pm last night – ... <a title="Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/former-green-party-co-leader-jeanette-fitzsimons-lived-her-convictions/" aria-label="Read more about Former Green Party co-leader Jeanette Fitzsimons ‘lived her convictions’">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roberto Musotto, Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Postdoctoral Fellow, Edith Cowan University While many Australians were preoccupied with panic-buying toilet paper, sales of another commodity encountered a very different sort of crisis. Wool sales were severely disrupted last week by a ransomware attack on IT company Talman ... <a title="Ransomware attack on sheep farmers shows there’s no room for woolly thinking in cyber security" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/ransomware-attack-on-sheep-farmers-shows-theres-no-room-for-woolly-thinking-in-cyber-security-132882/" aria-label="Read more about Ransomware attack on sheep farmers shows there’s no room for woolly thinking in cyber security">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kathleen McPhillips, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Women still make up the majority of the Catholic workforce and Catholic congregations, but their participation in church life is in decline. Indeed, each generation of Catholic women in Australia is less likely than ... <a title="Denied full participation, Catholic women mobilise for change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/denied-full-participation-catholic-women-mobilise-for-change-131557/" aria-label="Read more about Denied full participation, Catholic women mobilise for change">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee-Fay Low, Associate Professor in Ageing and Health, University of Sydney In July 2019, the government introduced new aged care standards to “raise the bar” in an aged care system where some nursing home residents have experienced care that is neglectful, depersonalised, uncaring, unsafe and of poor ... <a title="Which aged care services near you weren’t up to scratch in 2019?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/which-aged-care-services-near-you-werent-up-to-scratch-in-2019-131449/" aria-label="Read more about Which aged care services near you weren’t up to scratch in 2019?">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Pittock, Professor, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University The hellish summer of bushfires in southeast Australia triggered global concern for our iconic mammals. Donations flooded in from at home and around the world to help protect furry species. But there’s a risk the ... <a title="Sure, save furry animals after the bushfires – but our river creatures are suffering too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/sure-save-furry-animals-after-the-bushfires-but-our-river-creatures-are-suffering-too-133004/" aria-label="Read more about Sure, save furry animals after the bushfires – but our river creatures are suffering too">Read more</a>
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March 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jessica Gerrard, Senior lecturer, University of Melbourne In recent days the federal government announced a new funding formula for non-government schools. Called the Direct Measure of Income, the formula will base the level of government funding on school parents’ incomes rather than the socioeconomic profile of where ... <a title="More money for private schools won’t make Australia’s education fairer, no matter how you split it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/06/more-money-for-private-schools-wont-make-australias-education-fairer-no-matter-how-you-split-it-132769/" aria-label="Read more about More money for private schools won’t make Australia’s education fairer, no matter how you split it">Read more</a>
