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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hal Pawson, Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Tonight Labor will deliver its alternative budget and promise that if it was in government it would be investing A$500 million in fast-tracking repairs to social housing, and urging state governments ... <a title="Social housing was one hell of a missed budget opportunity, but there’s time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/social-housing-was-one-hell-of-a-missed-budget-opportunity-but-theres-time-147665/" aria-label="Read more about Social housing was one hell of a missed budget opportunity, but there’s time">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Piers Kelly, Linguistic anthropologist, University of New England This week, newly appointed Greens senator Lidia Thorpe entered the chamber with one fist raised. In her other hand, she carried a large message stick with 441 carefully painted marks. The lines represented each of the First Nations people ... <a title="What are message sticks? Senator Lidia Thorpe continues a long and powerful diplomatic tradition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/what-are-message-sticks-senator-lidia-thorpe-continues-a-long-and-powerful-diplomatic-tradition-147674/" aria-label="Read more about What are message sticks? Senator Lidia Thorpe continues a long and powerful diplomatic tradition">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University During the COVID-19 crisis phase, all eyes have been on childcare, but preschool is an equally important driver of well-being and economic security for children and parents — and of economic productivity. Research has found for every dollar ... <a title="Preschool benefits children and the economy. But the budget has left funding uncertain, again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/preschool-benefits-children-and-the-economy-but-the-budget-has-left-funding-uncertain-again-147737/" aria-label="Read more about Preschool benefits children and the economy. But the budget has left funding uncertain, again">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Larkins, Professor Emeritus and Former Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Melbourne The federal budget injection of an extra A$1 billion of new money as a one-off allocation into the Research Support Program for 2021 is welcome news for the university research community. The stated goal is ... <a title="Budget’s $1bn research boost is a welcome first step. Billions more, plus policy reforms, will be needed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/budgets-1bn-research-boost-is-a-welcome-first-step-billions-more-plus-policy-reforms-will-be-needed-147662/" aria-label="Read more about Budget’s $1bn research boost is a welcome first step. Billions more, plus policy reforms, will be needed">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week the World Health Organisation (WHO) suggested that ten percent of the world’s population may have been infected with Covid19. While my estimates fall well short of this number for the world as a whole, they certainly show many countries with higher infection rates to date than ten percent. The ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19 Case Estimates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-case-estimates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis: Covid-19 Case Estimates">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyli Hedrick, Psychologist and PhD Candidate (submitted), Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Newly published data have revealed the number of self-harm incidents in Australia’s immigration detention centres spiked during the first seven months of this year. While rates of self-harm among detained ... <a title="Self-harm in immigration detention has risen sharply. Here are 6 ways to address this health crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/self-harm-in-immigration-detention-has-risen-sharply-here-are-6-ways-to-address-this-health-crisis-146679/" aria-label="Read more about Self-harm in immigration detention has risen sharply. Here are 6 ways to address this health crisis">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dimitri Perrin, Senior Lecturer, Queensland University of Technology The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences yesterday awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna for their work on CRISPR, a method of genome editing. A genome is the full set of genetic “instructions” ... <a title="What is CRISPR? A close look at the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/what-is-crispr-a-close-look-at-the-gene-editing-technology-that-won-the-chemistry-nobel-prize-147695/" aria-label="Read more about What is CRISPR? A close look at the gene editing technology that won the Chemistry Nobel prize">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Trade Minister Simon Birmingham, a leader of the Liberal moderates, will become Senate leader and finance minister following the imminent retirement of Mathias Cormann. Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia will nominate Cormann as its candidate for secretary general of ... <a title="Simon Birmingham to become finance minister and Senate leader as Australia nominates Cormann for OECD" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/simon-birmingham-to-become-finance-minister-and-senate-leader-as-australia-nominates-cormann-for-oecd-147742/" aria-label="Read more about Simon Birmingham to become finance minister and Senate leader as Australia nominates Cormann for OECD">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate C. Prickett, Director of the Roy McKenzie Centre for the Study of Families and Children, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Despite the 2017 Labour-led government taking power with a mandate to fight Aotearoa New Zealand’s abysmally high child poverty rate, only incremental progress ... <a title="COVID-19 is predicted to make child poverty worse. Should NZ’s next government make temporary safety nets permanent?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/covid-19-is-predicted-to-make-child-poverty-worse-should-nzs-next-government-make-temporary-safety-nets-permanent-147177/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 is predicted to make child poverty worse. Should NZ’s next government make temporary safety nets permanent?">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Clare Villalba, Service Designer and Researcher (PhD), Queensland University of Technology Diabetes-related vision loss is the leading cause of blindness for working-aged Australians. Yet it’s almost entirely preventable. A recent Australian study found only half of people with diabetes get the recommended annual eye checks. We could ... <a title="We could be doing more to prevent vision loss for people with diabetes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/we-could-be-doing-more-to-prevent-vision-loss-for-people-with-diabetes-132086/" aria-label="Read more about We could be doing more to prevent vision loss for people with diabetes">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra With the budget’s expected eye-watering debt and deficit numbers, the question remains whether the huge spending will be enough to fight the coronavirus slump. Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann and Shadow Minister Katy Gallagher joined the podcast to discuss the ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: a budget for a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/politics-with-michelle-grattan-a-budget-for-a-pandemic-147739/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: a budget for a pandemic">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will highlight the potential of spending on social housing as a job creator in his Thursday night budget reply. He says if Labor were in government now it would be investing $500 million to fast-track repairs to social ... <a title="$500 million on social housing repairs: Albanese’s alternative budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/500-million-on-social-housing-repairs-albaneses-alternative-budget-147685/" aria-label="Read more about $500 million on social housing repairs: Albanese’s alternative budget">Read more</a>
