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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erika Martino, Research Fellow In Healthy Housing, University of Melbourne There is a crisis within crisis accommodation. Homelessness providers struggle to meet women’s requests for accommodation under usual circumstances. During COVID-19 lockdowns the dramatic increase in domestic abuse has put an already stretched system under greater pressure. ... <a title="As demand for crisis housing soars, surely we can tap into COVID-19 vacancies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/as-demand-for-crisis-housing-soars-surely-we-can-tap-into-covid-19-vacancies-143815/" aria-label="Read more about As demand for crisis housing soars, surely we can tap into COVID-19 vacancies">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Barry Oliver, Associate Professor, The University of Queensland Insider trading comes in two main forms: arguably legal and clearly illegal. But, as with drugs in sport, it’s hard to tell when arguably legal ends and clearly illegal begins. It is generally accepted that it is wrong to ... <a title="Insider trading has become more subtle" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/insider-trading-has-become-more-subtle-142981/" aria-label="Read more about Insider trading has become more subtle">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frances Di Lauro, Senior Lecturer, Department of Writing Studies, University of Sydney In the year then of our Lord 1348, there happened at Florence, the finest city in all Italy, a most terrible plague… Giovanni Boccaccio introduces his acclaimed collection of novellas, the Decameron, with a reference ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Boccaccio’s Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/guide-to-the-classics-boccaccios-decameron-a-masterpiece-of-plague-and-resilience-143437/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Boccaccio’s Decameron, a masterpiece of plague and resilience">Read more</a>
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August 12, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Nationals are demanding major changes to the government’s controversial new higher education fee plan, declaring it would disadvantage regional communities and students as it stands. The Nationals party room on Monday discussed the JobReady Graduates Package draft legislation – ... <a title="Nationals revolt over the government’s proposed university fee changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/12/nationals-revolt-over-the-governments-proposed-university-fee-changes-144306/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals revolt over the government’s proposed university fee changes">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government has clashed with the Royal Commission into Aged Care, strongly rejecting the claim by senior counsel assisting the inquiry Peter Rozen that it had no specific COVID-19 plan for the sector. Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck told ... <a title="Government rejects Royal Commission’s claim of no aged care plan, as commission set to grill regulator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-rejects-royal-commissions-claim-of-no-aged-care-plan-as-commission-set-to-grill-regulator-144301/" aria-label="Read more about Government rejects Royal Commission’s claim of no aged care plan, as commission set to grill regulator">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-alleged-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on alleged Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government and the Australian Defence Force are bracing for reputational damage to the military from damning findings in an imminent report on Australian Special Forces’ behaviour in Afghanistan. The report, expected within a month, is from a long-running inquiry ... <a title="Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/government-bracing-for-damning-report-on-special-forces-incidents-in-afghanistan-144284/" aria-label="Read more about Government bracing for damning report on Special Forces’ incidents in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zachariah Wylde, Postdoctoral Researcher in Evolutionary Biology, UNSW As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing. In recent decades, we’ve come leaps and bounds in treating and preventing some of the world’s leading age-related diseases, ... <a title="Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/can-ageing-really-be-treated-or-cured-an-evolutionary-biologist-explains-143255/" aria-label="Read more about Can ageing really be ‘treated’ or ‘cured’? An evolutionary biologist explains">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janneke Berecki-Gisolf, Associate Professor, Accident Research Centre, Monash University COVID-19 restrictions in Victoria have had a marked effect on how and where we spend our time. For many people, home has become the workplace, and for most school-aged children, home is also the classroom. We compared Victorian ... <a title="Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/victorian-emergency-departments-during-covid-19-overall-presentations-down-but-assault-diy-injuries-up-144071/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian emergency departments during COVID-19: overall presentations down but assault, DIY injuries up">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Wilson, Associate Professor in Education, University of Sydney To fix inequality in Australian education, governments should fully fund all non-government primary schools, according to former former NSW Education Minister and now head of the UNSW Gonski Institute, Adrian Piccoli. In an opinion piece published in the ... <a title="Australian primary private schools should be fully funded by governments — but banned from charging fees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/australian-primary-private-schools-should-be-fully-funded-by-governments-but-banned-from-charging-fees-131753/" aria-label="Read more about Australian primary private schools should be fully funded by governments — but banned from charging fees">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ilana Finefter-Rosenbluh, Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Monash University Over the weekend, Victorian Education Minister, James Merlino, announced the individual impact of COVID-19 will be taken into account for every Year 12 student in the state when calculating their VCE score and ATAR. Under usual circumstances, individual students ... <a title="Every Victorian Year 12 student will have COVID-19 factored into their grade — we should do it for all Australian students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/every-victorian-year-12-student-will-have-covid-19-factored-into-their-grade-we-should-do-it-for-all-australian-students-144192/" aria-label="Read more about Every Victorian Year 12 student will have COVID-19 factored into their grade — we should do it for all Australian students">Read more</a>
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August 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Clift, Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate, University of Melbourne The arrest this week of pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong reveals the repressive reality of the city’s new made-in-China national security law. It also sends a sharp signal to the remaining independent media in ... <a title="‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/11/killing-the-chicken-to-scare-the-monkey-what-jimmy-lais-arrest-means-for-hong-kongs-independent-media-144206/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media">Read more</a>
