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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Griffin, Senior Lecturer, Geospatial Sciences, RMIT University Maps have shown us how the events of this disastrous year have played out around the globe, from the Australian bushfires to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. But there are good reasons to question the maps we see. ... <a title="Can I trust this map? 4 questions to ask when you see a map of the coronavirus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/can-i-trust-this-map-4-questions-to-ask-when-you-see-a-map-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic-141131/" aria-label="Read more about Can I trust this map? 4 questions to ask when you see a map of the coronavirus pandemic">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smith, Senior Lecturer in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney The US presidential election is being shaped by the two crises that have defined 2020 so far: the coronavirus pandemic and the national reckoning over police brutality and racism. COVID-19 has ... <a title="Trump is struggling against two invisible enemies: the coronavirus and Joe Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/trump-is-struggling-against-two-invisible-enemies-the-coronavirus-and-joe-biden-139667/" aria-label="Read more about Trump is struggling against two invisible enemies: the coronavirus and Joe Biden">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lisa Bricknell, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Health, CQUniversity Australia One of the most profound ways the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our lives has been in the way we work. For people lucky enough to keep their jobs, and for those of us in professions where it’s possible, ... <a title="Heading back to the office? Here’s how to protect yourself and your colleagues from coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/heading-back-to-the-office-heres-how-to-protect-yourself-and-your-colleagues-from-coronavirus-140436/" aria-label="Read more about Heading back to the office? Here’s how to protect yourself and your colleagues from coronavirus">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University A long-awaited draft review of federal environment laws is due this week. There’s a lot riding on it – particularly in light of recent events that suggest the laws are in crisis. Late last week, ... <a title="Let there be no doubt: blame for our failing environment laws lies squarely at the feet of government" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/let-there-be-no-doubt-blame-for-our-failing-environment-laws-lies-squarely-at-the-feet-of-government-141482/" aria-label="Read more about Let there be no doubt: blame for our failing environment laws lies squarely at the feet of government">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University Education minister Dan Tehan will be meeting with university vice-chancellors to devise a new way of funding university research. They will have plenty to talk about. Australia’s universities have been remarkably successful in building ... <a title="Coronavirus and university reforms put at risk Australia’s research gains of the last 15 years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/coronavirus-and-university-reforms-put-at-risk-australias-research-gains-of-the-last-15-years-141452/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and university reforms put at risk Australia’s research gains of the last 15 years">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillip O’Neill, Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University This is the first of three articles based on newly released research on the impacts of a lack of local jobs on the rapidly growing Western Sydney region. Western Sydney has a jobs problem. No other big ... <a title="Jobs deficit drives army of daily commuters out of Western Sydney" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/jobs-deficit-drives-army-of-daily-commuters-out-of-western-sydney-139384/" aria-label="Read more about Jobs deficit drives army of daily commuters out of Western Sydney">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute After managing the first stage of the COVID-19 crisis so effectively, the government now faces a bigger challenge: getting us back to work. The official employment figures indicate the scale of what’s needed. In the past two months number ... <a title="Cutting unemployment will require an extra $70 to $90 billion in stimulus. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/cutting-unemployment-will-require-an-extra-70-to-90-billion-in-stimulus-heres-why-141376/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting unemployment will require an extra $70 to $90 billion in stimulus. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoff Plimmer, Senior lecturer in Human Resource Management, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Having had to rapidly adjust to working from home due to COVID-19, many people are now having to readjust to life back in the office. Many will have enjoyed aspects of ... <a title="In praise of the office: let’s learn from COVID-19 and make the traditional workplace better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/in-praise-of-the-office-lets-learn-from-covid-19-and-make-the-traditional-workplace-better-138516/" aria-label="Read more about In praise of the office: let’s learn from COVID-19 and make the traditional workplace better">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
From RNZ Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan New Zealand established its credentials as an independent small nation after the fatal bombing of the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in 1985, says an author and academic who spent weeks on the vessel shortly before it was attacked. On 10 July 1985, the Rainbow Warrior was sunk at an ... <a title="NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/nz-gained-international-creds-as-nuclear-free-nation-with-rainbow-warrior-bombing-says-author/" aria-label="Read more about NZ gained ‘international creds’ as nuclear-free nation with Rainbow Warrior bombing, says author">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Protesters in Papua New Guinea and on social media have launched calls for tougher laws to protect women and girls from gender-based violence and brutality after the torture and death of a 19-year-old mother of two this week. The death of Jenelyn Kennedy on Tuesday after six days of torture, allegedly by ... <a title="PNG women ‘as good as dead’ say protesters calling for tougher laws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/28/png-women-as-good-as-dead-say-protesters-calling-for-tougher-laws/" aria-label="Read more about PNG women ‘as good as dead’ say protesters calling for tougher laws">Read more</a>
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June 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University The picture of economic recovery painted by Prime Minister Scott Morrison is looking like a mirage. The 22 leading economists polled by The Conversation from 16 universities in seven states on average expect historically weak ... <a title="No big bounce: 2020-21 economic survey points to a weak recovery getting weaker, amid declining living standards" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/28/no-big-bounce-2020-21-economic-survey-points-to-a-weak-recovery-getting-weaker-amid-declining-living-standards-141184/" aria-label="Read more about No big bounce: 2020-21 economic survey points to a weak recovery getting weaker, amid declining living standards">Read more</a>
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June 27, 2020
By Rebecca Kuku in The National Jenelyn Kennedy … died this week at 19 in a tragic domestic violence case in Papua New Guinea. Image: EMTV News The battered body of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy lay in a morgue yesterday as relatives told of the repeated beatings she had been receiving in the past five ... <a title="The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/27/the-harrowing-picture-that-tells-a-thousand-words-about-tragedy/" aria-label="Read more about The harrowing picture that tells a thousand words about tragedy">Read more</a>
