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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Queensland is stereotyped for its sunshine, beaches, lack of daylight saving, Bundy rum, meter maids and One Nation supporters. Many Australians have an ambivalent relationship with the state and don’t take ... <a title="Remember Quexit? 5 reasons you should not take your eyes off the Queensland election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/remember-quexit-5-reasons-you-should-not-take-your-eyes-off-the-queensland-election-146926/" aria-label="Read more about Remember Quexit? 5 reasons you should not take your eyes off the Queensland election">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that world-historic moment when women said they’d had enough. The ... <a title="Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/friday-essay-the-female-eunuch-at-50-germaine-greers-fearless-feminist-masterpiece-147437/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Professor, University of Western Australia Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020) The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel, is one of a slew of novels one expects to emerge from the shadow of the 2019–2020 ... <a title="Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/review-richard-flanagans-the-living-sea-of-waking-dreams-considers-griefs-big-and-small-147105/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Many people who know Mathias Cormann – let us except Malcolm Turnbull – will hope he wins his bid to become secretary-general of the OECD. Not only is he well qualified, but it would be a feather in Australia’s cap. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese tries to climb an impossible mountain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/grattan-on-friday-anthony-albanese-tries-to-climb-an-impossible-mountain-147796/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese tries to climb an impossible mountain">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 has promised an ambitious $20 billion plan to modernise Australia’s electricity grid, and extra spending of $6.2 billion over four years for more affordable child care in a budget reply that emphasises the role of government. In another ... <a title="Albanese promises $20 billion plan to modernise electricity grid, and $6.2 billion for child care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/albanese-promises-20-billion-plan-to-modernise-electricity-grid-and-6-2-billion-for-child-care-147764/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese promises $20 billion plan to modernise electricity grid, and $6.2 billion for child care">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in more anxiety and depression, raised rates of bipolar disorder and other psychoses, and left many Australians stricken with grief. And we will, devastatingly, lose more Australians to suicide. ... <a title="Budget funding for Beyond Blue and Headspace is welcome. But it may not help those who need it most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/budget-funding-for-beyond-blue-and-headspace-is-welcome-but-it-may-not-help-those-who-need-it-most-147661/" aria-label="Read more about Budget funding for Beyond Blue and Headspace is welcome. But it may not help those who need it most">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jodie McVernon, Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, University of Melbourne Melburnians are addicted to the Victorian health department’s daily tweet of the state’s new COVID-19 cases. This figure contributes to the all-important rolling 14-day average, which alongside the number of mystery cases, tells us whether we’re ... <a title="Sorry Melbourne. The chance of reaching an average 5 COVID-19 cases by mid-October is under 50%" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/sorry-melbourne-the-chance-of-reaching-an-average-5-covid-19-cases-by-mid-october-is-under-50-147569/" aria-label="Read more about Sorry Melbourne. The chance of reaching an average 5 COVID-19 cases by mid-October is under 50%">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Shane Satterley, PhD Candidate, Griffith University Facebook has announced a ban on groups and pages identified with the rapidly growing QAnon conspiracy movement, which will cover both Facebook itself and the Facebook-owned Instagram. QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory that alleges, among other things, that US President ... <a title="Facebook is removing QAnon pages and groups from its sites, but critical thinking is still the best way to fight conspiracy theories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/facebook-is-removing-qanon-pages-and-groups-from-its-sites-but-critical-thinking-is-still-the-best-way-to-fight-conspiracy-theories-147668/" aria-label="Read more about Facebook is removing QAnon pages and groups from its sites, but critical thinking is still the best way to fight conspiracy theories">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hao Tan, Associate professor, University of Newcastle China’s President Xi Jinping surprised the global community recently by committing his country to net-zero emissions by 2060. Prior to this announcement, the prospect of becoming “carbon neutral” barely rated a mention in China’s national policies. China currently accounts for ... <a title="China just stunned the world with its step-up on climate action – and the implications for Australia may be huge" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/china-just-stunned-the-world-with-its-step-up-on-climate-action-and-the-implications-for-australia-may-be-huge-147268/" aria-label="Read more about China just stunned the world with its step-up on climate action – and the implications for Australia may be huge">Read more</a>
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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>
