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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Hail, Lecturer in Economics, University of Adelaide Australia guards its AAA credit rating with care. Successive governments from both sides of politics have framed federal budgets with one eye on the economy and the other on what ratings agencies such as Standard and Poor’s will do. ... <a title="Australia’s credit rating is irrelevant. Ignore it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/australias-credit-rating-is-irrelevant-ignore-it-151579/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s credit rating is irrelevant. Ignore it">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle Can Christmas be about gender? Apparently so, if the paucity of female Santas is anything to go by. There have, in fact, been cases of Australian women donning the secular red and white Santa attire as far back as ... <a title="Santa was a lady once — is it time to bring her back?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/santa-was-a-lady-once-is-it-time-to-bring-her-back-149744/" aria-label="Read more about Santa was a lady once — is it time to bring her back?">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government is set to rush through parliament this week its legislation enabling parts of the militant CFMMEU to break away. Labor on Monday night was ready to support the legislation – aimed at construction heavyweight John Setka and his ... <a title="Government set for quick passage of bill to facilitate CFMMEU breakup, with Labor support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/government-set-for-quick-passage-of-bill-to-facilitate-cfmmeu-breakup-with-labor-support-151597/" aria-label="Read more about Government set for quick passage of bill to facilitate CFMMEU breakup, with Labor support">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra For the first time, employers committing “egregious” wage theft would face the threat of federal criminal charges, under the Morrison government’s proposed industrial relations omnibus legislation to be introduced on Wednesday. The maximum penalty would be $1.11million or four years ... <a title="Criminal penalties for wage theft for ‘egregious’ cases only" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/criminal-penalties-for-wage-theft-for-egregious-cases-only-151597/" aria-label="Read more about Criminal penalties for wage theft for ‘egregious’ cases only">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rick Sarre, Emeritus Professor of Law and Criminal Justice, University of South Australia Last weekend, The Age reported on a Victorian government plan, quietly unveiled three months ago, that would revolutionise the collection of the private medical data of every Victorian who has ever used public hospitals ... <a title="Victorian government must ensure its proposed healthcare database has iron-clad security and privacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/victorian-government-must-ensure-its-proposed-healthcare-database-has-iron-clad-security-and-privacy-151554/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian government must ensure its proposed healthcare database has iron-clad security and privacy">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Rohlf, La Trobe University Review: Lassie Come Home, directed by Hanno Olderdissen This week, Lassie returned to the screens, with a remake of the 1943 film coming 80 years since Eric Mowbray Knight’s classic novel was first published. In this retelling of the story, Lassie and ... <a title="Lassie Come Home (again): remake of a classic is a reminder of our bond with pets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/lassie-come-home-again-remake-of-a-classic-is-a-reminder-of-our-bond-with-pets-150539/" aria-label="Read more about Lassie Come Home (again): remake of a classic is a reminder of our bond with pets">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Housing Andrea Vance (Stuff): Why New Zealand needs to change how it thinks about housing Bernard Hickey (Stuff): How past generations pulled up the property ladder on today’s youth Susan Edmunds (Stuff): House price drops: ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 07 2020">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Roberto Musotto, Research fellow, Edith Cowan University New research is questioning the popular notion that cybercriminals can make millions of dollars from the comfort of home — and without much effort. Our paper, published in the journal Trends in Organised Crime, suggests offenders who illegally sell cybercrime ... <a title="Nothing like the mafia: cybercriminals are much like the everyday, poorly paid business worker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/nothing-like-the-mafia-cybercriminals-are-much-like-the-everyday-poorly-paid-business-worker-150953/" aria-label="Read more about Nothing like the mafia: cybercriminals are much like the everyday, poorly paid business worker">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Martin Crotty, Associate Professor in Australian History, The University of Queensland For years, Australians have faced a steady stream of investigative media reports about atrocities allegedly committed by the country’s most elite soldiers in Afghanistan. Yet, nothing could have prepared the nation for the breathtaking contents of ... <a title="The Anzac legend has blinded Australia to its war atrocities. It’s time for a reckoning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/the-anzac-legend-has-blinded-australia-to-its-war-atrocities-its-time-for-a-reckoning-151022/" aria-label="Read more about The Anzac legend has blinded Australia to its war atrocities. It’s time for a reckoning">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Thomson, Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research Every four years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) releases data on how effective countries are in teaching mathematics and science in Years 4 and 8. Called TIMSS, (Trends in International Mathematics and ... <a title="Australia hasn’t performed well at maths and science recently. We’re about to find out if we’ve improved" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/australia-hasnt-performed-well-at-maths-and-science-recently-were-about-to-find-out-if-weve-improved-150274/" aria-label="Read more about Australia hasn’t performed well at maths and science recently. We’re about to find out if we’ve improved">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sian Thompson, Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW If you own an apartment – or are thinking of buying one – the recent news about building quality has been worrying. There have been evacuations at the Opal and Mascot apartment towers in Sydney, cladding fires at ... <a title="Dealing with apartment defects: a how-to guide for strata owners and buyers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/dealing-with-apartment-defects-a-how-to-guide-for-strata-owners-and-buyers-150292/" aria-label="Read more about Dealing with apartment defects: a how-to guide for strata owners and buyers">Read more</a>
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December 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Merja Myllylahti, Co-Director, JMAD Research Centre, Auckland University of Technology When Bauer Media announced the closure of its New Zealand magazine operation just a week into level 4 lockdown in early April, things looked ominous for local media. Revenues and newsrooms were already contracting. It was hard ... <a title="Closures, cuts, revival and rebirth: how COVID-19 reshaped the NZ media landscape in 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/07/closures-cuts-revival-and-rebirth-how-covid-19-reshaped-the-nz-media-landscape-in-2020-151020/" aria-label="Read more about Closures, cuts, revival and rebirth: how COVID-19 reshaped the NZ media landscape in 2020">Read more</a>
