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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Whatman, Associate Professor, Sport and Exercise Science, Auckland University of Technology A new deal to televise and live stream more secondary school sports in New Zealand has attracted significant attention and debate. First XV secondary school rugby in New Zealand has been televised for some time ... <a title="Televising school sport could put too much focus on performance, a price too high for young athletes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/televising-school-sport-could-put-too-much-focus-on-performance-a-price-too-high-for-young-athletes-145680/" aria-label="Read more about Televising school sport could put too much focus on performance, a price too high for young athletes">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s announcement that he’ll prioritise reducing unemployment ahead of reducing government debt is welcome news. The government is required by the Charter of Budget Honesty to develop and publish a fiscal strategy to be used in each ... <a title="Frydenberg is setting his budget ambition dangerously low" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/frydenberg-is-setting-his-budget-ambition-dangerously-low-146855/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg is setting his budget ambition dangerously low">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra McEwan, Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia It’s been more than four years since New South Wales greyhound racing was rocked by a special inquiry that found overwhelming evidence of systemic animal cruelty, including mass killings. Overbreeding and euthanasia of healthy dogs is still one of the industry’s ... <a title="Greyhound pups must be tracked from birth to death, so we know how many are killed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/greyhound-pups-must-be-tracked-from-birth-to-death-so-we-know-how-many-are-killed-144868/" aria-label="Read more about Greyhound pups must be tracked from birth to death, so we know how many are killed">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there may be big, and bad, changes happening to a media landscape near you. Right now the Australian government is ... <a title="Vital Signs. Google shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/vital-signs-google-shouldnt-subsidise-journalism-but-the-government-could-146746/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs. Google shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Wellings, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University The United Kingdom has already been battered by COVID-19, with about 410,000 cases and more than 41,000 deaths. But after some respite over summer — and entreaties to “Eat Out to Help Out” to boost the ... <a title="As a second wave of COVID looms in the UK, Australia is watching closely" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/as-a-second-wave-of-covid-looms-in-the-uk-australia-is-watching-closely-146744/" aria-label="Read more about As a second wave of COVID looms in the UK, Australia is watching closely">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Pettigrew, Professorial fellow, George Institute for Global Health Smokers are worried. A respiratory disease is running rampant across the globe and people with unhealthy lifestyle habits appear to be especially vulnerable. We know smokers hospitalised with COVID-19 are more likely to become severely unwell and die ... <a title="COVID-19 has offered us an unexpected opportunity to help more people quit smoking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/covid-19-has-offered-us-an-unexpected-opportunity-to-help-more-people-quit-smoking-146747/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 has offered us an unexpected opportunity to help more people quit smoking">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra McEwan, Lecturer: Law, CQUniversity Australia It’s been more than four years since New South Wales greyhound racing was rocked by a special inquiry that found overwhelming evidence of systemic animal cruelty, including mass killings. Overbreeding and euthanasia of healthy dogs is still one of the industry’s ... <a title="Greyhound pups must be tracked from birth to death, so we know how many are slaughtered" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/greyhound-pups-must-be-tracked-from-birth-to-death-so-we-know-how-many-are-slaughtered-144868/" aria-label="Read more about Greyhound pups must be tracked from birth to death, so we know how many are slaughtered">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chiara Holgate, Hydrologist & PhD Candidate, Australian National University The extreme, recent drought has devastated many communities around the Murray-Darling Basin, but the processes driving drought are still not well understood. Our new study helps to change this. We threw a weather model into reverse and ran ... <a title="We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/we-looked-at-35-years-of-rainfall-and-learnt-how-droughts-start-in-the-murray-darling-basin-145766/" aria-label="Read more about We looked at 35 years of rainfall and learnt how droughts start in the Murray-Darling Basin">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW You might have missed it – what with the biggest recession since the 1930s and a pandemic going on – but there may be big, and bad, changes happening to a media landscape near you. Right now the Australian government is ... <a title="Google and Facebook shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/google-and-facebook-shouldnt-subsidise-journalism-but-the-government-could-146746/" aria-label="Read more about Google and Facebook shouldn’t subsidise journalism, but the government could">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW It’s one thing to bring forward tax cuts, as the government is thinking of doing in the October budget. It’s another to leave wide open an arrangement that allows substantial tax minimisation (or elimination) on income of a trust ... <a title="Testamentary trusts are one of the last truly outrageous means of avoiding tax" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/testamentary-trusts-are-one-of-the-last-truly-outrageous-means-of-avoiding-tax-142035/" aria-label="Read more about Testamentary trusts are one of the last truly outrageous means of avoiding tax">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Clode, Senior Research Fellow in Creative Writing, Flinders University In 1765, a young, peasant woman left a remote corner of rural France where her impoverished family had scraped a living for generations. She set out on a journey that would take her around the world from ... <a title="Friday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/friday-essay-who-was-jeanne-barret-the-first-woman-to-circumnavigate-the-globe-146296/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: who was Jeanne Barret, the first woman to circumnavigate the globe?">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra We’ve all observed Scott Morrison’s pragmatism in this pandemic but COVID has highlighted another notable feature of his political style. The prime minister is a great admirer of Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt, US president in the early 1900s, and this year ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Can Morrison use his ‘bully pulpit’ to inspire the confidence vital for economic recovery?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/grattan-on-friday-can-morrison-use-his-bully-pulpit-to-inspire-the-confidence-vital-for-economic-recovery-146871/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Can Morrison use his ‘bully pulpit’ to inspire the confidence vital for economic recovery?">Read more</a>
