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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Beck, Lecturer in Biology, University of Salford Wombats are among the most peculiar of animals. They look like a massively overgrown guinea pig with a boofy head, a waddling gait, squared-off butt, backwards-facing pouch and ever-growing molars. Indeed, wombats are oddballs and don’t look much like ... <a title="Meet the giant wombat relative that scratched out a living in Australia 25 million years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/meet-the-giant-wombat-relative-that-scratched-out-a-living-in-australia-25-million-years-ago-141296/" aria-label="Read more about Meet the giant wombat relative that scratched out a living in Australia 25 million years ago">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Chapple, Director, Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington We all remember the lockdown, but not all our memories are the same. Some say they miss the tranquillity. Others don’t miss being stuck at home at all – especially ... <a title="Time, family, work – and bored zombies. New Zealanders open up about life in coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/time-family-work-and-bored-zombies-new-zealanders-open-up-about-life-in-coronavirus-lockdown-140237/" aria-label="Read more about Time, family, work – and bored zombies. New Zealanders open up about life in coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle O’Shea, Senior Lecturer Sport Management, Western Sydney University In the early hours of the morning, we learned Australia and New Zealand won their historic joint bid to host the FIFA 2023 Women’s World Cup. It’s the first time two nations from different football confederations (Asia and ... <a title="World Cup 2023 will be a massive boost for women’s sport – but does it make financial sense?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/world-cup-2023-will-be-a-massive-boost-for-womens-sport-but-does-it-make-financial-sense-140445/" aria-label="Read more about World Cup 2023 will be a massive boost for women’s sport – but does it make financial sense?">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Peacock, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW There’s no question COVID-19 has changed many aspects of our lives. As drug researchers, we are interested in how the pandemic has affected illicit drug use in Australia. Our two new surveys of Australians who regularly use illicit drugs show people ... <a title="Pot, pills and the pandemic: how coronavirus is changing the way we use drugs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/pot-pills-and-the-pandemic-how-coronavirus-is-changing-the-way-we-use-drugs-141269/" aria-label="Read more about Pot, pills and the pandemic: how coronavirus is changing the way we use drugs">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyle J.D. Mulrooney, Lecturer in Criminology, Co-director of the Centre for Rural Criminology, University of New England This month, the Victorian government announced on-the-spot fines for trespassers on farms following an upper house inquiry into how animal activism affects agriculture. It’s the latest in a string of ... <a title="Illegal hunters are a bigger problem on farms than animal activists – so why aren’t we talking about that?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/illegal-hunters-are-a-bigger-problem-on-farms-than-animal-activists-so-why-arent-we-talking-about-that-126513/" aria-label="Read more about Illegal hunters are a bigger problem on farms than animal activists – so why aren’t we talking about that?">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
The recent University of the South Pacific (USP) Council meeting to address governance issues resulting in the reinstatement of its suspended vice-chancellor may have opened a pathway for political will among leaders and politicians of forum member countries to push for better governance in regional institutions. It may have also put the spotlight on our ... <a title="USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other way?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/usp-saga-lesson-for-pacific-future-no-more-looking-the-other-way/" aria-label="Read more about USP saga lesson for Pacific future: No more looking the other way?">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University The future of jobs has been used to justify the major changes to university education announced last week. Fees for courses that, according to the government, lead to jobs with a great future ... <a title="Can government actually predict the jobs of the future?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/can-government-actually-predict-the-jobs-of-the-future-141275/" aria-label="Read more about Can government actually predict the jobs of the future?">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Draper, Executive Director: Institute for International Trade, University of Adelaide For a short time Australia has an unrivalled opportunity to set itself apart from donors to the Pacific including China, Japan and the European Union. As Victoria’s current COVID-19 spike shows, it will take Australia some ... <a title="COVID-19 provides a rare chance for Australia to set itself apart from other regional powers. It can create a Pacific ‘bubble’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/covid-19-provides-a-rare-chance-for-australia-to-set-itself-apart-from-other-regional-powers-it-can-create-a-pacific-bubble-139276/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 provides a rare chance for Australia to set itself apart from other regional powers. It can create a Pacific ‘bubble’">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW In light of Victoria’s COVID-19 resurgence, and with school holidays imminent, it might seem likely premier Daniel Andrews would tighten social mobility restrictions and his New South Wales counterpart, Gladys Berejiklian, would close the border with Victoria. Read more: Victoria’s coronavirus ... <a title="Vital Signs: why even competent politicians refuse to change policy course" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/vital-signs-why-even-competent-politicians-refuse-to-change-policy-course-141356/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: why even competent politicians refuse to change policy course">Read more</a>
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June 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kerrie Davies, Lecturer, School of the Arts & Media, UNSW Washington Post publisher, Philip L. Graham, famously declared that journalism is the “first rough draft of history”. It’s also the first rough draft of inspiration for movies and books “based on a true story”. Since four Victorian ... <a title="Friday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/26/friday-essay-how-a-gonzo-press-gang-forged-the-ned-kelly-legend-136232/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: how a ‘gonzo’ press gang forged the Ned Kelly legend">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Excess buying of toilet paper has become a leading indicator of public alarm about COVID-19. This week in Victoria, people were heading for the shelves again. Just when Australians’ march out of our dark months was accelerating, Victorian numbers of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison undeterred on COVID re-opening despite rise in toilet paper index" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/grattan-on-friday-scott-morrison-undeterred-on-covid-re-opening-despite-rise-in-toilet-paper-index-141456/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison undeterred on COVID re-opening despite rise in toilet paper index">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
Editorial by Selwyn Manning. With the New Zealand General Election campaign looming, parties in the Labour-led coalition government are openly parading their differences (rather than common-ground) before the voting public. It’s a situation that can be interpreted as being typical of MMP politics. But it also causes voters to rethink its record-level support for its ... <a title="Election Campaign Looms: Is It Time For Labour To Abandon NZF?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/election-campaign-looms-is-it-time-for-labour-to-abandon-new-zealand-first/" aria-label="Read more about Election Campaign Looms: Is It Time For Labour To Abandon NZF?">Read more</a>
