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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The A$1.25 billion Community Health and Hospitals Program Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced this week should be awarded a big policy fail. The move sets back Commonwealth-state relations by decades – and it’s unclear exactly how much money will actually ... <a title="Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/morrisons-health-handout-is-bad-policy-but-might-be-good-politics-108747/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s health handout is bad policy (but might be good politics)">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastien Darchen, Senior Lecturer in Planning, The University of Queensland Thirty years after the landmark Brundtland report, the debate on urban sustainability continues. Urban planners are still grappling with the challenges of making our cities sustainable. Urban sustainability is an evolving concept. Our edited volume provides planning ... <a title="Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/our-cities-fall-short-on-sustainability-but-planning-innovations-offer-local-solutions-107091/" aria-label="Read more about Our cities fall short on sustainability, but planning innovations offer local solutions">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney An appallingly perfect storm is brewing for the federal budget: a government with much more income than expected a federal election due within months a government well behind in the polls With the election all but announced for May, ... <a title="Monday’s MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/mondays-myefo-will-look-good-but-it-will-set-the-budget-up-for-awful-trouble-down-the-track-107567/" aria-label="Read more about Monday’s MYEFO will look good, but it will set the budget up for awful trouble down the track">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics and PLuS Alliance Fellow, UNSW Anyone who has been to La Guardia airport in New York can attest the dire need in the United States for infrastructure spending. It’s not just crumbling bridges, pot-holed roads and lousy airports that provide the impetus ... <a title="Vital Signs: No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia’s ‘asset recycling’ misdirection" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/vital-signs-no-joe-america-should-not-be-copying-australias-asset-recycling-misdirection-108663/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: No, Joe, America should not be copying Australia’s ‘asset recycling’ misdirection">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Aileen Marwung Walsh, ARC Laureate Research Scholarship, Rediscovering Deep Human History, Australian National University Untangling the web that is the history of the stolen generations is a very satisfying process. In October, I went to the Centenary Memorial gathering at Mogumber, on the site of the Moore ... <a title="Friday essay: back to Moore River and finding family" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/friday-essay-back-to-moore-river-and-finding-family-107522/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: back to Moore River and finding family">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra In this week’s Newspoll 55% believed Labor would win next year’s election, compared with just 24% who thought the Coalition would. These are figures to frighten Scott Morrison, and make Bill Shorten just a touch nervous. If most people think ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/grattan-on-friday-unions-likely-to-be-more-challenging-for-a-shorten-government-than-boats-108771/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Unions likely to be more challenging for a Shorten government than boats">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2018
Fiji Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama … urging world leaders to summon the courage and political will to make the switch from dirty to clean energy. Image: Fiji Times Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Talks to draft the Paris Agreement rulebook remained deadlocked today on traditionally tough issues. Emerging economies – China, India, Brazil and South Africa ... <a title="Fiji warns ‘selfish’ countries amid Paris Agreement climate rulebook deadlock" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/14/fiji-warns-selfish-countries-amid-paris-agreement-climate-rulebook-deadlock/" aria-label="Read more about Fiji warns ‘selfish’ countries amid Paris Agreement climate rulebook deadlock">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism, University of Melbourne Two reports out this week – one into the operations of Facebook and Google, the other into the competitive neutrality of the ABC and SBS – present the federal government with significant policy ... <a title="A tale of two media reports: one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/a-tale-of-two-media-reports-one-poses-challenges-for-digital-media-the-other-gives-abc-and-sbs-a-clean-bill-of-health-108743/" aria-label="Read more about A tale of two media reports: one poses challenges for digital media; the other gives ABC and SBS a clean bill of health">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yee-Fui Ng, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University The federal government has announced it will establish a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. This new commission will be the peak body to detect and investigate corrupt and criminal behaviour by Commonwealth employees. This announcement followed mounting pressure from Labor, ... <a title="The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/the-proposed-national-integrity-commission-is-a-watered-down-version-of-a-federal-icac-108753/" aria-label="Read more about The proposed National Integrity Commission is a watered-down version of a federal ICAC">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Hemsley, Professor of Speech Pathology, University of Technology Sydney Swallowing food, drink, and saliva is a central part of our lives. It’s something we do about 900 times a day, yet we barely give it a second thought. We’re mostly unaware of the many food decisions ... <a title="Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to ‘eat, drink and be merry’ this Christmas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/many-people-have-a-hard-time-swallowing-help-them-to-eat-drink-and-be-merry-this-christmas-108426/" aria-label="Read more about Many people have a hard time swallowing. Help them to ‘eat, drink and be merry’ this Christmas">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anja Hilkemeijer, Lecturer in Law, University of Tasmania Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Attorney-General Christian Porter have released both the Ruddock Panel Report on Religious Freedom and the government’s response. Given the panel’s recommendations were leaked to the media some time ago, the full report contains few ... <a title="In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/in-long-awaited-response-to-ruddock-review-the-government-pushes-hard-on-religious-freedom-108750/" aria-label="Read more about In long-awaited response to Ruddock review, the government pushes hard on religious freedom">Read more</a>
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December 13, 2018
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Suburban affluence is the defining image of the good life under capitalism, commonly held up as a model to which all humanity should aspire. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities. Yet ... <a title="The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2018/12/13/the-suburbs-are-the-spiritual-home-of-overconsumption-but-they-also-hold-the-key-to-a-better-future-108496/" aria-label="Read more about The suburbs are the spiritual home of overconsumption. But they also hold the key to a better future">Read more</a>
