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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ruth Boyask, Senior Lecturer in Education, Auckland University of Technology The anger and outrage expressed by school leaders and teacher unions towards Green Party co-leader James Shaw’s announcement of a government grant of NZ$11.7 million to the private Green School New Zealand comes at a time of ... <a title="We need public value from govt funding of the private Green School New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/we-need-public-value-from-govt-funding-of-the-private-green-school-new-zealand-145441/" aria-label="Read more about We need public value from govt funding of the private Green School New Zealand">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Stanley, Adjunct Professor, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney Up to now the focus has been on managing “hot spots” in the COVID lockdowns of Melbourne and Victoria. We have identified four key factors that might help explain ... <a title="Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/open-covid-cold-spots-first-a-way-out-of-lockdown-for-melbourne-145387/" aria-label="Read more about Open COVID ‘cold spots’ first: a way out of lockdown for Melbourne">Read more</a>
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September 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darius Sepehri, Doctoral Candidate, Comparative Literature, Religion and History of Philosophy, University of Sydney In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. In Memoriam AHH, cantos 27 & 28, read by Darius Sepehri. Alfred ... <a title="‘A doubtful gleam of solace’: reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in difficult times" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/03/a-doubtful-gleam-of-solace-reading-tennysons-in-memoriam-ahh-in-difficult-times-143614/" aria-label="Read more about ‘A doubtful gleam of solace’: reading Tennyson’s In Memoriam AHH in difficult times">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vincent Ho, Senior Lecturer and clinical academic gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University Media reports earlier this week described a Queensland nurse with stomach pains who went on to test positive for COVID-19. Could stomach pains be another symptom of COVID-19? And if you have stomach pains, should you ... <a title="Diarrhoea, stomach ache and nausea: the many ways COVID-19 can affect your gut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/diarrhoea-stomach-ache-and-nausea-the-many-ways-covid-19-can-affect-your-gut-145440/" aria-label="Read more about Diarrhoea, stomach ache and nausea: the many ways COVID-19 can affect your gut">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australia’s recession is the deepest since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. Nothing else comes close. The economy shrank an extraordinary 7% in the three months to June – by far the biggest collapse ... <a title="Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/six-graphs-that-explain-australias-recession-145445/" aria-label="Read more about Six graphs that explain Australia’s recession">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Daley, Senior Fellow, Grattan Institute It’s become a truism of Australian politics that important economic reform peaked in the 1980s and 1990s. Sometimes the early years of the Howard government in the late 1990s are given credit as well. This Grattan Institute map of important reforms ... <a title="When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/when-it-comes-to-economic-reform-the-old-days-really-were-better-we-checked-145296/" aria-label="Read more about When it comes to economic reform, the old days really were better. We checked">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael William Blissenden, Professor of Law, University of New England Most graduates leaving university today do so with a massive debt hanging over their heads. They will take many years to repay their accrued HECS-HELP debt through the taxation system. There will be little relief for these ... <a title="Let working graduates claim a tax deduction for their HECS-HELP debt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/let-working-graduates-claim-a-tax-deduction-for-their-hecs-help-debt-145027/" aria-label="Read more about Let working graduates claim a tax deduction for their HECS-HELP debt">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne On Tuesday, seven months after the sector closed down in March, applications opened for the government’s COVID-19 arts relief package, named “Restart Investment to Sustain and Expand”, or RISE. A$75 million ... <a title="Too little, too late, too confusing? The funding criteria for the arts COVID package is a mess" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/too-little-too-late-too-confusing-the-funding-criteria-for-the-arts-covid-package-is-a-mess-145397/" aria-label="Read more about Too little, too late, too confusing? The funding criteria for the arts COVID package is a mess">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Whether or not Peter Ellis’s appeal against his remaining child abuse convictions from the Civic Creche case is successful, the fact it can be heard at all is significant. The Supreme Court decision announced today not only opens ... <a title="By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/by-allowing-the-peter-ellis-appeal-to-continue-the-supreme-court-recognises-the-right-to-justice-outlives-the-individual-145447/" aria-label="Read more about By allowing the Peter Ellis appeal to continue, the Supreme Court recognises the right to justice outlives the individual">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. In practice, democratic political reforms are usually incremental, though typically seen as part of a process leading to wider and more embedded improvement. Reforms are ‘evolutionary’ – indeed, in a technical sense – in that they improve the ‘fitness’ of democratic society. Unlike biological evolution, which is a fully blind process, ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/keith-rankin-analysis-extending-democracy-a-path-dependent-process/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Extending Democracy; a Path-Dependent Process">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Murray Wesson, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Western Australia The West Australian government recently took the extraordinary step of passing legislation to try to stop mining magnate Clive Palmer from collecting about $30 billion in damages from the state. As Premier Mark McGowan argues, such a ... <a title="How Clive Palmer could challenge the act designed to stop him getting $30 billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/how-clive-palmer-could-challenge-the-act-designed-to-stop-him-getting-30-billion-145098/" aria-label="Read more about How Clive Palmer could challenge the act designed to stop him getting $30 billion">Read more</a>
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September 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madhu Bhaskaran, Professor, Electronic and Communications Engineering, RMIT University Skin is our largest organ, made up of complex sensors constantly monitoring for anything that might cause us pain. Our new technology replicates that – electronically. The electronic artificial skin we’ve developed reacts to pain stimuli just like ... <a title="Pain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin grafts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/02/pain-sensing-electronic-silicone-skin-paves-the-way-for-smart-prosthetics-and-skin-grafts-145386/" aria-label="Read more about Pain-sensing electronic silicone skin paves the way for smart prosthetics and skin grafts">Read more</a>
