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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s recession is the deepest since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Nothing else comes close. The economy shrank an extraordinary 7% in the three months to June – by far the biggest collapse ... <a title="Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/six-graphs-that-explain-australias-recession-145445/" aria-label="Read more about Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Daley, Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute It’s become a truism of Australian politics that important economic reform peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. Sometimes the early years of the Howard government in the late 1990s are given credit as well. This Grattan Institute map of important reforms ... <a title="When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/when-it-comes-to-economic-reform-the-old-days-really-were-better-we-checked-145296/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, reporting for the Pacific Media Centre Six years on from being appointed head of the Pacific Community, Director-General Collin Tukuitonga, a boy born on the tiny Pacific island of Niue, has a voice louder than a schoolboy rugby captain, a voice that serves him well as a Pasifika community leader. There is ... <a title="Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/common-enemy-overcomes-fragile-pacific-regional-unity-climate-change/" aria-label="Read more about Common enemy overcomes fragile Pacific regional unity – climate change">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael William Blissenden, Professor of Law, University of New England Most graduates leaving university today do so with a massive debt hanging over their heads. They will take many years to repay their accrued HECS-HELP debt through the taxation system. There will be little relief for these ... <a title="Let working graduates claim a tax deduction for their HECS-HELP debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/let-working-graduates-claim-a-tax-deduction-for-their-hecs-help-debt-145027/" aria-label="Read more about Let working graduates claim a tax deduction for their HECS-HELP debt">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne On Tuesday, seven months after the sector closed down in March, applications opened for the government’s COVID-19 arts relief package, named “Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand”, or RISE. A$75 million ... <a title="Too little, too late, too confusing? The funding criteria for the arts COVID package is a mess" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/too-little-too-late-too-confusing-the-funding-criteria-for-the-arts-covid-package-is-a-mess-145397/" aria-label="Read more about Too little, too late, too confusing? The funding criteria for the arts COVID package is a mess">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Whether or not Peter Ellis’s appeal against his remaining child abuse convictions from the Civic Creche case is successful, the fact it can be heard at all is significant. The Supreme Court decision announced today not only opens ... <a title="By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/by-allowing-the-peter-ellis-appeal-to-continue-the-supreme-court-recognises-the-right-to-justice-outlives-the-individual-145447/" aria-label="Read more about By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In practice, democratic political reforms are usually incremental, though typically seen as part of a process leading to wider and more embedded improvement. Reforms are ‘evolutionary’ – indeed, in a technical sense – in that they improve the ‘fitness’ of democratic society. Unlike biological evolution, which is a fully blind process, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/keith-rankin-analysis-extending-democracy-a-path-dependent-process/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Murray Wesson, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia The West Australian government recently took the extraordinary step of passing legislation to try to stop mining magnate Clive Palmer from collecting about $30 billion in damages from the state. As Premier Mark McGowan argues, such a ... <a title="How Clive Palmer could challenge the act designed to stop him getting $30 billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/how-clive-palmer-could-challenge-the-act-designed-to-stop-him-getting-30-billion-145098/" aria-label="Read more about How Clive Palmer could challenge the act designed to stop him getting $30 billion">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madhu Bhaskaran, Professor, Electronic and Communications Engineering, RMIT University Skin is our largest organ, made up of complex sensors constantly monitoring for anything that might cause us pain. Our new technology replicates that – electronically. The electronic artificial skin we’ve developed reacts to pain stimuli just like ... <a title="Pain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin grafts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/pain-sensing-electronic-silicone-skin-paves-the-way-for-smart-prosthetics-and-skin-grafts-145386/" aria-label="Read more about Pain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin grafts">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillip Mendes, Associate Professor, Director Social Inclusion and Social Policy Research Unit, Monash University The Black Lives Matter protests have highlighted concerns about white-dominated systems and structures and the oppression of Indigenous people. Most notable is the high rate of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander deaths in ... <a title="Indigenous children are leaving out-of-home care to uncertain futures. This is the support they need" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/indigenous-children-are-leaving-out-of-home-care-to-uncertain-futures-this-is-the-support-they-need-143906/" aria-label="Read more about Indigenous children are leaving out-of-home care to uncertain futures. This is the support they need">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Dave Parry, Auckland University of Technology The Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) has issued a warning to all New Zealand businesses to be prepared for cyber attacks, following almost a week of daily attacks on the New Zealand stock exchange (NZX). The attacks have caused outages, sometimes for hours, of NZX’s public-facing website ... <a title="NZ’s cyber security centre warns more attacks likely after stock market outages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/nzs-cyber-security-centre-warns-more-attacks-likely-after-stock-market-outages/" aria-label="Read more about NZ’s cyber security centre warns more attacks likely after stock market outages">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Maisey, PhD Candidate, La Trobe University When you think of lyrebirds, what comes to mind may be the sound of camera clicks, chainsaws and the songs of other birds. While the mimicry of lyrebirds is remarkable, it is not the only striking feature of this species. ... <a title="New research shows lyrebirds move more litter and soil than any other digging animal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/new-research-shows-lyrebirds-move-more-litter-and-soil-than-any-other-digging-animal-141737/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows lyrebirds move more litter and soil than any other digging animal">Read more</a>
