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December 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s industrial relations legislation, to be introduced on Wednesday, would allow businesses affected by COVID to be exempt from the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) in enterprise agreements. More broadly, the planned changes would make it easier for agreements ... <a title="Businesses hit by COVID could give the boot to BOOT hurdle under workplace changes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/09/businesses-hit-by-covid-could-give-the-boot-to-boot-hurdle-under-workplace-changes-151697/" aria-label="Read more about Businesses hit by COVID could give the boot to BOOT hurdle under workplace changes">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sue Thomson, Deputy CEO (Research), Australian Council for Educational Research Results from the longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science. More than 580,000 students from 64 countries participated in the ... <a title="Australia lifts to be among top ten countries in maths and science" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/australia-lifts-to-be-among-top-ten-countries-in-maths-and-science-150275/" aria-label="Read more about Australia lifts to be among top ten countries in maths and science">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The most fundamental obligation of any state is the safety of its citizens. On March 15, 2019, New Zealand completely failed in this obligation. The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Terrorist Attack on Christchurch Mosques was designed to ... <a title="The Christchurch commission’s call to improve social cohesion is its hardest — and most important — recommendation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/the-christchurch-commissions-call-to-improve-social-cohesion-is-its-hardest-and-most-important-recommendation-149969/" aria-label="Read more about The Christchurch commission’s call to improve social cohesion is its hardest — and most important — recommendation">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabriel Conroy, Environmental Management Program Coordinator, University of the Sunshine Coast K’gari (Fraser Island) has been burning for more than seven weeks and, so far, the fires have razed half of the World Heritage-listed island off the coast of Queensland. The devastation will become more pronounced in ... <a title="The K’gari-Fraser Island bushfire is causing catastrophic damage. What can we expect when it’s all over?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/the-kgari-fraser-island-bushfire-is-causing-catastrophic-damage-what-can-we-expect-when-its-all-over-151664/" aria-label="Read more about The K’gari-Fraser Island bushfire is causing catastrophic damage. What can we expect when it’s all over?">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will introduce on Wednesday its legislation forcing Google and Facebook to face arbitration if they fail to come to commercial deals with traditional media on payment for content. The government resorted to the mandatory bargaining code after ... <a title="World is watching plan to make Facebook and Google pay for content: Frydenberg" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/world-is-watching-plan-to-make-facebook-and-google-pay-for-content-frydenberg-151684/" aria-label="Read more about World is watching plan to make Facebook and Google pay for content: Frydenberg">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. To understand the world we live in, it is important to read books written in different time periods. Older literature does not have access to the latest research and currently fashionable tropes, and they may include some expressions that would be censured today as sexist or racist or similar. All periods ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Microbes and Macrobes; lessons from biology and history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/keith-rankin-analysis-microbes-and-macrobes-lessons-from-biology-and-history/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Microbes and Macrobes; lessons from biology and history">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Conigrave, Senior Staff Specialist and Professor of Addiction Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has today released new guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. Under the new recommendations, healthy adults ... <a title="No more than 10 standard drinks a week, or 4 on any day: new guidelines urge Aussies to go easy on the booze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/no-more-than-10-standard-drinks-a-week-or-4-on-any-day-new-guidelines-urge-aussies-to-go-easy-on-the-booze-151595/" aria-label="Read more about No more than 10 standard drinks a week, or 4 on any day: new guidelines urge Aussies to go easy on the booze">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Conigrave, Senior Staff Specialist and Professor of Addiction Medicine, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has today released new guidelines to reduce health risks from drinking alcohol. Under the new recommendations, healthy adults ... <a title="No more than 10 standard drinks a week, or 4 a day: new guidelines urge Aussies to go easy on the booze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/no-more-than-10-standard-drinks-a-week-or-4-a-day-new-guidelines-urge-aussies-to-go-easy-on-the-booze-151595/" aria-label="Read more about No more than 10 standard drinks a week, or 4 a day: new guidelines urge Aussies to go easy on the booze">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Viney, PhD Candidate, School of Philosophical, Historical & International Studies, Monash University Under editor Esmé Fenston, by the end of the 1950s, the Australian Women’s Weekly was selling over 805,000 copies a week. More than half of all Australian women read the magazine. It focused on ... <a title="How the Australian Women’s Weekly spoke to ’50s housewives about the Cold War" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/how-the-australian-womens-weekly-spoke-to-50s-housewives-about-the-cold-war-145699/" aria-label="Read more about How the Australian Women’s Weekly spoke to ’50s housewives about the Cold War">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Flood, Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology Most Australians recognise that traditional gender stereotypes are limiting and harmful for boys and men, a new national survey has found. And perhaps contrary to popular belief, many Australians are receptive to messages about alternative, healthy versions of masculinity. ... <a title="Who is a real man? Most Australians believe outdated ideals of masculinity are holding men back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/who-is-a-real-man-most-australians-believe-outdated-ideals-of-masculinity-are-holding-men-back-147847/" aria-label="Read more about Who is a real man? Most Australians believe outdated ideals of masculinity are holding men back">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By William Feeney, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Evolutionary Ecology, Griffith University Humans are experts at domesticating other species and our world would be unrecognisable without it. There would be no cities, no supermarkets, and no pets. Domestication is a special kind of cooperative relationship, where one species provides ... <a title="We found algae-farming fish that domesticate tiny shrimp to help run their farms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/we-found-algae-farming-fish-that-domesticate-tiny-shrimp-to-help-run-their-farms-151615/" aria-label="Read more about We found algae-farming fish that domesticate tiny shrimp to help run their farms">Read more</a>
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December 8, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content 1News Colmar Brunton poll TVNZ: 1News Colmar Brunton poll: Judith Collins slips further as Labour maintains big election lead Sam Sachveda (Newsroom): Poll an unpleasant Christmas present for Judith Collins RNZ: Latest TVNZ poll has Labour up 7 ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 08 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-december-08-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – December 08 2020">Read more</a>
