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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University News that US President Donald Trump was fully seized of the deadly potential of the novel coronavirus, despite his sustained public dismissals, has provoked anger and surprise. Audio recordings from interviews granted to veteran reporter Bob Woodward expose ... <a title="Trump reportedly played down the risk of COVID-19 to avoid ‘panic’. How much should leaders say, and when?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/trump-reportedly-played-down-the-risk-of-covid-19-to-avoid-panic-how-much-should-leaders-say-and-when-145919/" aria-label="Read more about Trump reportedly played down the risk of COVID-19 to avoid ‘panic’. How much should leaders say, and when?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Meese, Research fellow, RMIT University Google and Facebook have launched a nationwide public relations campaign in response to the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission’s draft news media bargaining code. Rather than agree to negotiate with media companies to pay for using news content, Google has launched ... <a title="Platform regulation in Australia is just the start. Facebook and Google are fighting a global battle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/platform-regulation-in-australia-is-just-the-start-facebook-and-google-are-fighting-a-global-battle-145748/" aria-label="Read more about Platform regulation in Australia is just the start. Facebook and Google are fighting a global battle">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University of Melbourne On Tuesday, eight young Australians aged 13-17 filed a class action seeking an injunction to prevent federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley approving a new coal project expansion. They are bringing their case to the Federal Court. They ... <a title="These Aussie teens have launched a landmark climate case against the government. Win or lose, it’ll make a difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/these-aussie-teens-have-launched-a-landmark-climate-case-against-the-government-win-or-lose-itll-make-a-difference-145830/" aria-label="Read more about These Aussie teens have launched a landmark climate case against the government. Win or lose, it’ll make a difference">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland In another round of the increasingly bitter exchanges between China and Australia, a columnist for China’s Global Times, Yu Lei, suggested that a further decoupling from China will make former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew’s famous ... <a title="Relax, losing access to China won’t make us the ‘poor white trash of Asia’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/relax-losing-access-to-china-wont-make-us-the-poor-white-trash-of-asia-145442/" aria-label="Read more about Relax, losing access to China won’t make us the ‘poor white trash of Asia’">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Gill, Post-doctoral Researcher (Gastroenterology and Immunology), Monash University The Oxford vaccine trial at the centre of safety concerns this week highlights the idea that people’s immune systems respond to vaccines differently. We don’t yet know whether reports of immune complications in one or two trial participants ... <a title="5 ways our immune responses to COVID vaccines are unique" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/5-ways-our-immune-responses-to-covid-vaccines-are-unique-145248/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways our immune responses to COVID vaccines are unique">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narrelle Morris, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University A proposed law would give the federal government power to cancel arrangements between foreign governments and Australian states, territories, local councils and public universities. At first glance, it’s not meant to cover universities’ arrangements with all foreign universities. ... <a title="Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/why-unis-are-worried-about-a-federal-power-to-cancel-their-foreign-arrangements-145689/" aria-label="Read more about Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Henderson, PhD Candidate in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, University of Canberra Night in the Woods is a video game about strange in-between spaces: between youth and adulthood, between a rose-tinted past and an uncertain future. Released in 2017, it feels especially resonant in a time ... <a title="Night in the Woods: the video game that captures bittersweet, millennial life under COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/night-in-the-woods-the-video-game-that-captures-bittersweet-millennial-life-under-covid-19-145451/" aria-label="Read more about Night in the Woods: the video game that captures bittersweet, millennial life under COVID-19">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chantal Denise Pagel, Doctoral student | Marine Wildlife Tourism Professional, Auckland University of Technology Three people were injured last month in separate humpback whale encounters off the Western Australia coast. The incidents happened during snorkelling tours on Ningaloo Reef when swimmers came too close to a mother ... <a title="Swimming with whales: you must know the risks and when it’s best to keep your distance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/swimming-with-whales-you-must-know-the-risks-and-when-its-best-to-keep-your-distance-145614/" aria-label="Read more about Swimming with whales: you must know the risks and when it’s best to keep your distance">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Ability to pay is the basic principle of tax fairness: people in a similar financial position should pay similar amounts of tax; people who can afford to pay more tax than others ought ... <a title="With their conservative promises, Labour and National lock in existing unfairness in New Zealand’s tax system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/with-their-conservative-promises-labour-and-national-lock-in-existing-unfairness-in-new-zealands-tax-system-145916/" aria-label="Read more about With their conservative promises, Labour and National lock in existing unfairness in New Zealand’s tax system">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Parkin, Digital Economist, Western Sydney University A banknote has been sitting in my wallet for six months now. As time ticks on, it burns an ever greater hole in my pocket. At first I felt uneasy spending it, following COVID-19 warnings to pay more attention to ... <a title="Cashless payment is booming, thanks to coronavirus. So is financial surveillance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/cashless-payment-is-booming-thanks-to-coronavirus-so-is-financial-surveillance-145179/" aria-label="Read more about Cashless payment is booming, thanks to coronavirus. So is financial surveillance">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The late historian John Hirst liked to tell students from overseas that Australians are an obedient people. To those of us raised on the idea that we were an anti-authoritarian nation of ... <a title="An obedient nation of larrikins: why Victorians are not revolting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/an-obedient-nation-of-larrikins-why-victorians-are-not-revolting-145675/" aria-label="Read more about An obedient nation of larrikins: why Victorians are not revolting">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kellie Bousfield, Associate Head of School, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Every year (except this year) Australian children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit a standardised literacy and numeracy test — NAPLAN. When NAPLAN was brought in in 2008, the government argued it would ... <a title="Not all parents use NAPLAN testing in the same way – and it may be related to their background" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/not-all-parents-use-naplan-testing-in-the-same-way-and-it-may-be-related-to-their-background-145389/" aria-label="Read more about Not all parents use NAPLAN testing in the same way – and it may be related to their background">Read more</a>
