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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In the lead up to the 2019 election, the Shorten opposition attacked the government’s planned 2024 tax cuts, and promised to curb negative gearing and halve the capital gains tax discount. Last week, the Albanese opposition said it wouldn’t try ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers on promoting vaccine uptake and a ‘modest spending program’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/politics-with-michelle-grattan-shadow-treasurer-jim-chalmers-on-promoting-vaccine-uptake-and-a-modest-spending-program-165624/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers on promoting vaccine uptake and a ‘modest spending program’">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Scott, Professor, The University of Melbourne The race to vaccinate Australians is heating up as the supply of vaccines starts to increase and lockdowns continue. Labor this week suggested a A$300 cash payment for people fully vaccinated by December. Meanwhile, “Operation COVID Shield”, the newly published ... <a title="Cash or freedoms: what will work in the race to get Australia vaccinated against COVID-19?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/cash-or-freedoms-what-will-work-in-the-race-to-get-australia-vaccinated-against-covid-19-165531/" aria-label="Read more about Cash or freedoms: what will work in the race to get Australia vaccinated against COVID-19?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Crosby, Professor, Monash University photopixel/Shutterstock If the proposed A$300 payment to each Australian who is fully vaccinated works, it might be at the expense of getting Australians hooked on incentives, and there are reasons to think it might not not work. Labor has suggested paying $300 ... <a title="Would a $300 vaccination payment work? There are reasons to doubt it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/would-a-300-vaccination-payment-work-there-are-reasons-to-doubt-it-165534/" aria-label="Read more about Would a $300 vaccination payment work? There are reasons to doubt it">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Westaway, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Archaeology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland Gilberto Olimpio/Unsplash, CC BY Plans are underway to rebury the remains of more than 100 Aboriginal people, including the remains of Mungo Man and Mungo Lady, arguably the two most important ... <a title="Mungo ancestral remains reburial proposal disrespects the Elders’ original vision" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/mungo-ancestral-remains-reburial-proposal-disrespects-the-elders-original-vision-164854/" aria-label="Read more about Mungo ancestral remains reburial proposal disrespects the Elders’ original vision">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lachlan Van Schaik, PhD candidate, School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, La Trobe University Shutterstock Research Checks interrogate newly published studies and how they’re reported in the media. The analysis is undertaken by one or more academics not involved with the study, and reviewed by another, to ... <a title="Could drinking 6 cups of coffee a day shrink your brain and increase dementia risk?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/could-drinking-6-cups-of-coffee-a-day-shrink-your-brain-and-increase-dementia-risk-165181/" aria-label="Read more about Could drinking 6 cups of coffee a day shrink your brain and increase dementia risk?">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alanna Kamp, Lecturer in Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University Shutterstock It’s not “new” news that Asian Australians are experiencing high rates of racism during the pandemic. However, existing data under-represent the true extent of COVID-related racism. The vast majority of cases aren’t being formally reported ... <a title="‘I don’t think the police would do much’: new research shows racism during COVID is rarely reported" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/i-dont-think-the-police-would-do-much-new-research-shows-racism-during-covid-is-rarely-reported-165312/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I don’t think the police would do much’: new research shows racism during COVID is rarely reported">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Norris, Professor, School of Science, Western Sydney University Jayanne English/EMU/Dark Energy Survey Scanning through data fresh off the telescope, we saw two ghosts dancing deep in the cosmos. We had never seen anything like it before, and we had no idea what they were. Several weeks ... <a title="‘Dancing ghosts’: a new, deeper scan of the sky throws up surprises for astronomers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/dancing-ghosts-a-new-deeper-scan-of-the-sky-throws-up-surprises-for-astronomers-165239/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Dancing ghosts’: a new, deeper scan of the sky throws up surprises for astronomers">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Halpin, Ecologist, Monash University Giant bird-eating centipedes may sound like something out of a science-fiction film — but they’re not. On tiny Phillip Island, part of the South Pacific’s Norfolk Island group, the Phillip Island centipede (Cormocephalus coynei) population can kill and eat up to 3,700 ... <a title="Giant bird-eating centipedes exist — and they’re surprisingly important for their ecosystem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/giant-bird-eating-centipedes-exist-and-theyre-surprisingly-important-for-their-ecosystem-161744/" aria-label="Read more about Giant bird-eating centipedes exist — and they’re surprisingly important for their ecosystem">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Analysis by Bryce Edwards. The supermarket sector is finally about to receive some serious government intervention. Following a scathing report from the Commerce Commission, it’s now almost inevitable that the Labour Government is going to have to introduce some major changes to this vital but uncompetitive retail sector. And these moves are likely to be ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Radical reform coming to a supermarket near you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-radical-reform-coming-to-a-supermarket-near-you/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: Radical reform coming to a supermarket near you">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Click here to subscribe to Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup and New Zealand Politics Daily. Today’s content Housing Bernard Hickey: Here’s all the levers the Govt is not pulling to fix our housing catastrophe Chloe Swarbrick ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 4 2021" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-4-2021/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 4 2021">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kim Ellis Hayes, Senior Lecturer in Space Research & Law / In training as Suborbital Spaceflight PoSSUM Astronaut Candidate Graduate, Swinburne University of Technology Me (top, third from right) with others from the International Space University, in front of the Shuttle Atlantis at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. ... <a title="I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut. Here’s what it takes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/im-training-to-become-australias-first-woman-astronaut-heres-what-it-takes-163173/" aria-label="Read more about I’m training to become Australia’s first woman astronaut. Here’s what it takes">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Patricia A. O’Brien, Visiting Fellow, School of History, Australian National University, and Adjunct Professor, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University Fiji now heads the grim list of Pacific nations counting their dead from coronavirus, having just passed Papua New Guinea’s toll. So far, 254 Fijians have died from ... <a title="Pacific nations grapple with COVID’s terrible toll and the desperate need for vaccines" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/08/04/pacific-nations-grapple-with-covids-terrible-toll-and-the-desperate-need-for-vaccines-164769/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific nations grapple with COVID’s terrible toll and the desperate need for vaccines">Read more</a>
