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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Scott Morrison’s new housing stimulus package is straight-out retail politics. HomeBuilder offers homeowners (including first home buyers) a grant of A$25,000 to build a new home worth less than $750,000 or to spend between $150,000 and $750,000 renovating an ... <a title="Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/scott-morrisons-homebuilder-scheme-is-classic-retail-politics-but-lousy-economics-140076/" aria-label="Read more about Scott Morrison’s HomeBuilder scheme is classic retail politics but lousy economics">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Research Associate, Griffith University Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic. Pangolins are also one of the world’s most threatened species but new efforts are underway to reintroduce ... <a title="Back from extinction: a world first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/back-from-extinction-a-world-first-effort-to-return-threatened-pangolins-to-the-wild-138621/" aria-label="Read more about Back from extinction: a world first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
By Moch. Fiqih Prawira Adjie in Jakarta A panel of judges at the Jakarta State Administrative Court (PTUN) has granted a lawsuit filed by civil society groups against the Indonesian government’s decision to impose an internet blackout during weeks of protests in Papua and West Papua provinces last year, declaring that such a move violated ... <a title="Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/jokowi-violates-the-law-for-banning-internet-in-papua-court-rules/" aria-label="Read more about Jokowi ‘violates the law’ for banning internet in Papua, court rules">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Mitchell, Professor of Nursing, University of Newcastle With coronavirus restrictions gradually lifting across the country, we’re now able to resume many of our regular activities. A lot of us might have been particularly keen to get back to the gym, which is now an option in ... <a title="Heading back to the gym? Here’s how you can protect yourself and others from coronavirus infection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/heading-back-to-the-gym-heres-how-you-can-protect-yourself-and-others-from-coronavirus-infection-139681/" aria-label="Read more about Heading back to the gym? Here’s how you can protect yourself and others from coronavirus infection">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Perhaps at no point in Australia’s history has the demand for real-time figures been stronger than during the coronavirus crisis. The Australian Bureau of Statistics has stepped up its efforts to get data fast, to help inform the government’s COVID-19 ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Statistician David Gruen and the race for real-time pandemic data" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/politics-with-michelle-grattan-statistician-david-gruen-and-the-race-for-real-time-pandemic-data-140068/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Statistician David Gruen and the race for real-time pandemic data">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bree Hurst, Senior Lecturer, QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the ... <a title="Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy, but it also shows leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/brands-backing-black-lives-matter-it-might-be-a-marketing-ploy-but-it-also-shows-leadership-139874/" aria-label="Read more about Brands backing Black Lives Matter: it might be a marketing ploy, but it also shows leadership">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jolynna Sinanan, Research Fellow in Digital Media and Ethnography, University of Sydney Earlier this week, you might have seen your social media taken over by a stream of posts showing simple images of a black square. These posts, often tagged with #BlackoutTuesday, were gestures of solidarity with ... <a title="Blackout Tuesday: the black square is a symbol of online activism for non-activists" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/blackout-tuesday-the-black-square-is-a-symbol-of-online-activism-for-non-activists-139982/" aria-label="Read more about Blackout Tuesday: the black square is a symbol of online activism for non-activists">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patrick White, PhD Candidate in History and Politics, James Cook University Australia’s local governments breathed new life into embattled regional communities after the second world war. Today, this history reminds us of the role local councils and communities should play in plans to power the national recovery ... <a title="Lessons from history point to local councils’ role in Australia’s recovery" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/lessons-from-history-point-to-local-councils-role-in-australias-recovery-138547/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons from history point to local councils’ role in Australia’s recovery">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Richard Braczkowski, Research Associate, Griffith University Pangolins are one of the most illegally trafficked animals on the planet and are suspected to be linked to the current coronavirus pandemic. Pangolins are also one of the world’s most threatened species but new efforts are underway to reintroduce ... <a title="Back from extinction: a world’s first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/back-from-extinction-a-worlds-first-effort-to-return-threatened-pangolins-to-the-wild-138621/" aria-label="Read more about Back from extinction: a world’s first effort to return threatened pangolins to the wild">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mick Broderick, Associate Professor of Media Analysis, Murdoch University Over successive Sunday nights, the ABC has premiered two important television programs recounting the history of nuclear testing in Australia – the documentary Maralinga Tjuratja and a six-drama series Operation Buffalo. Both explore the ramifications of the Anglo-Australian ... <a title="Sixty years on, two TV programs revisit Australia’s nuclear history at Maralinga" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/sixty-years-on-two-tv-programs-revisit-australias-nuclear-history-at-maralinga-139313/" aria-label="Read more about Sixty years on, two TV programs revisit Australia’s nuclear history at Maralinga">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marisa Paterson, Centre for Social Research and Methods, Australian National University When the COVID-19 restrictions came into force more than two months ago, it meant lights out for the country’s 200,000 poker machines. Now, the pokies are slowly turning on again across the country. This week, NSW ... <a title="There’s another health crisis looming – what happens when the pokies switch back on?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/theres-another-health-crisis-looming-what-happens-when-the-pokies-switch-back-on-137995/" aria-label="Read more about There’s another health crisis looming – what happens when the pokies switch back on?">Read more</a>
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June 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Lee, Associate Professor of History , UNSW The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the nature of debate, its impact then, and it relevance to politics today. You can read our piece ... <a title="Henry Parkes had a vision of a new Australian nation. In 1901, it became a reality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/04/henry-parkes-had-a-vision-of-a-new-australian-nation-in-1901-it-became-a-reality-131453/" aria-label="Read more about Henry Parkes had a vision of a new Australian nation. In 1901, it became a reality">Read more</a>
