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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Angela Jackson, PhD Candidate, Monash University We are entering our first pink-tinged recession. The official unemployment figures released on Thursday confirmed that female work has has been more heavily impacted than male work. Since February 457,517 women have lost their jobs and 380,737 men. The disparity is ... <a title="Young women are hit doubly hard by recessions, especially this one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/young-women-are-hit-doubly-hard-by-recessions-especially-this-one-140943/" aria-label="Read more about Young women are hit doubly hard by recessions, especially this one">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Law, Victoria University Earlier this month, the Federal Court found the Gillard’s governmnet’s controversial 2011 live export ban was unlawful. But this is not a problem for the former government, who imposed the ban. It is one the current Morrison government has ... <a title="How the Gillard government’s live cattle ban created a headache for Scott Morrison" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/how-the-gillard-governments-live-cattle-ban-created-a-headache-for-scott-morrison-140551/" aria-label="Read more about How the Gillard government’s live cattle ban created a headache for Scott Morrison">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thalia Anthony, Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney Readers are advised the following article contains descriptions of violence that may be traumatic. In July 2018, Western Australia’s Police Commissioner Chris Dawson formally apologised for the mistreatment of Aboriginal people at the hands of police, acknowledging the ... <a title="Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/enforcing-assimilation-dismantling-aboriginal-families-a-history-of-police-violence-in-australia-140637/" aria-label="Read more about Enforcing assimilation, dismantling Aboriginal families: a history of police violence in Australia">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stuart Marshall, Senior Research Fellow, Anaesthesia Teaching & Research, Monash University Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health workers globally have been concerned about inadequate supplies of personal protective equipment, ventilators and other essential items of medical care. So many have created workarounds to fill the perceived gap ... <a title="How 80s TV show MacGyver is inspiring doctors during the coronavirus pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/how-80s-tv-show-macgyver-is-inspiring-doctors-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-140081/" aria-label="Read more about How 80s TV show MacGyver is inspiring doctors during the coronavirus pandemic">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Romilio, PhD, Independent Researcher, The University of Queensland Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America. We have now discovered that carnivorous dinosaurs of a similar size existed in ancient Australia as well. The giant ... <a title="Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/dinosaur-footprints-show-predators-as-big-as-t-rex-stomped-across-australia-160-million-years-ago-140931/" aria-label="Read more about Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Associate Professor/ Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University Last week, my two-year-old niece was sent home from daycare for having a runny nose – a sin that would otherwise be commonplace on a windy winter’s day. The daycare centre instructed my sister she would need to ... <a title="Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/employers-schools-take-note-coronavirus-clearance-certificates-are-a-waste-of-everybodys-time-140929/" aria-label="Read more about Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Morton, Associate Professor, Journalism, Stream Leader, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney The Australian government’s investment roadmap for low-emissions technologies promises more taxpayers’ money to the gas industry but fails to deliver the policy needed for people to support a transition to renewable energy. ... <a title="People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/people-need-to-see-the-benefits-from-local-renewable-energy-projects-and-that-means-jobs-138433/" aria-label="Read more about People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government will fund an extra 39,000 university places by 2023 in a package that will restructure the amounts students have to pay for courses to encourage them to “make more job-relevant choices”. Under the plan to produce “job-ready ... <a title="Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/fee-cuts-for-nursing-and-teaching-but-big-hikes-for-law-and-humanities-in-package-expanding-university-places-141064/" aria-label="Read more about Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia has done well on the public health front during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to decisive action by the National Cabinet in March. Australia has done better than most countries on the economic front, too, thanks to the federal government’s large ... <a title="Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/vital-signs-covid-19-recession-is-different-and-we-need-more-stimulus-to-deal-with-it-141037/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it.">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Shirley, Edith Cowan University In his surprisingly dark and often shocking account of life at a New York performing arts school, Alan Parker’s Fame (1980) exposes the way youthful exuberance and vulnerability are easy prey for those who manipulate and abuse their position. The fim depicts ... <a title="Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/friday-essay-training-a-new-generation-of-performers-about-intimacy-safety-and-creativity-132516/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The notion that Nine’s 60 Minutes revelations about the appalling shenanigans of Victorian Labor power broker Adem Somyurek were a total surprise to ALP insiders deserves a horse laugh. As one federal source says, anyone with any knowledge of the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/grattan-on-friday-labor-partys-dirty-linen-on-display-at-bad-time-for-anthony-albanese-141075/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Johnston, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Interest in Aboriginal fire knowledge has been high since last summer’s terrible bushfires. One initiative shows the huge potential benefits of this ancient practice – not just in Australia, but globally. The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI) is taking ... <a title="Fighting fire with fire: Botswana adopts Indigenous Australians’ ancient burning tradition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/fighting-fire-with-fire-botswana-adopts-indigenous-australians-ancient-burning-tradition-135363/" aria-label="Read more about Fighting fire with fire: Botswana adopts Indigenous Australians’ ancient burning tradition">Read more</a>
