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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The second wave of the pandemic in Victoria has pushed the post-COVID economic recovery further beyond the horizon. Among the challenges for the federal opposition are dealing itself into the debate and formulating alternative economic policies before the next election. ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on tax cuts, inequality, and the Queensland election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/politics-with-michelle-grattan-jim-chalmers-on-tax-cuts-inequality-and-the-queensland-election-144410/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on tax cuts, inequality, and the Queensland election">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle H Lim, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Psychologist, Swinburne University of Technology The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to loneliness in Australia. This is especially so as Melburnians entered the strictest lockdown to date. Meanwhile, the rest of Australia braces for the possibility of a second wave ... <a title="It’s hard to admit we’re lonely, even to ourselves. Here are the signs and how to manage them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/its-hard-to-admit-were-lonely-even-to-ourselves-here-are-the-signs-and-how-to-manage-them-143987/" aria-label="Read more about It’s hard to admit we’re lonely, even to ourselves. Here are the signs and how to manage them">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoe Loh, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO COVID-19 has curtailed the activities of millions of people across the world and with it, greenhouse gas emissions. As climate scientists at the Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station, we are routinely asked: does this mean carbon dioxide concentrations in the ... <a title="Carbon dioxide levels over Australia rose even after COVID-19 forced global emissions down. Here’s why" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/carbon-dioxide-levels-over-australia-rose-even-after-covid-19-forced-global-emissions-down-heres-why-144119/" aria-label="Read more about Carbon dioxide levels over Australia rose even after COVID-19 forced global emissions down. Here’s why">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Wilson, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago As New Zealand enters its second day at heightened alert levels to contain a community outbreak of COVID-19, we expect that it should only be a temporary setback. Four cases with no direct links to border or quarantine ... <a title="Masking the outbreak: despite New Zealand’s growing COVID-19 cases, there are more ways to get back to elimination faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/masking-the-outbreak-despite-new-zealands-growing-covid-19-cases-there-are-more-ways-to-get-back-to-elimination-faster-144356/" aria-label="Read more about Masking the outbreak: despite New Zealand’s growing COVID-19 cases, there are more ways to get back to elimination faster">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bain Munro Attwood, Professor of History, Monash University The Conversation is running a series of explainers on key figures in Australian political history, looking at the way they changed the nature of debate, its impact then, and it relevance to politics today. You can read the rest ... <a title="William Cooper: the Indigenous leader who petitioned the king, demanding a Voice to Parliament in the 1930s" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/william-cooper-the-indigenous-leader-who-petitioned-the-king-demanding-a-voice-to-parliament-in-the-1930s-140056/" aria-label="Read more about William Cooper: the Indigenous leader who petitioned the king, demanding a Voice to Parliament in the 1930s">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thomas McGee, PhD researcher, Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, University of Melbourne No child should be denied her rights because her parents are LGBTIQ+, and no family should have to endure the indignity we did. These are the words of Roee and Adiel Kiviti, a same-sex married ... <a title="‘We are taboo everywhere’: how LGBTIQ+ people, and their children, become stateless" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/we-are-taboo-everywhere-how-lgbtiq-people-and-their-children-become-stateless-141987/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We are taboo everywhere’: how LGBTIQ+ people, and their children, become stateless">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Varela, Research Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many economists think that earnings in super funds should be taxed at a relatively low rate, compared to labour earnings and other types of earnings such as interest and dividends. ... <a title="We need super, but we’re taxing it the wrong way round" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/we-need-super-but-were-taxing-it-the-wrong-way-round-143421/" aria-label="Read more about We need super, but we’re taxing it the wrong way round">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nick Wilson, Professor of Public Health, University of Otago As New Zealand enters its second day at heightened alert levels to contain a community outbreak of COVID-19, we expect that it should only be a temporary setback. Four cases with no direct links to border or quarantine ... <a title="Masking the outbreak: how New Zealand could return to its COVID-19 elimination status even faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/masking-the-outbreak-how-new-zealand-could-return-to-its-covid-19-elimination-status-even-faster-144356/" aria-label="Read more about Masking the outbreak: how New Zealand could return to its COVID-19 elimination status even faster">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Evening Report Video: This week in A View from Afar with Paul G. Buchanan and Selwyn Manning, we continue with our debate of how leaders around the world are embracing authoritarianism, isolationism, and in some cases, an abandonment of the rule of international law. A View from Afar is a joint effort between EveningReport’s parent ... <a title="LIVE: A View from Afar – Global Authoritarianism and Abandonment of International Law" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/live-a-view-from-afar-global-authoritarianism-and-abandonment-of-international-law/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: A View from Afar – Global Authoritarianism and Abandonment of International Law">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin Jacinda Ardern is Prime Minister for a good reason. She is an excellent communicator. She got the message about mask-wearing almost bang-on in her speech yesterday. She was correctly reported as saying: Aucklanders should use a mask if they leave the house to access essential services. She may have given the ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/keith-rankin-on-messaging-and-masks-and-media/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Messaging and Masks and Media">Read more</a>
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August 13, 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 Election date, parliament Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Judith Collins’ dangerous constitutional game Audrey Young (Herald): Jacinda Ardern holds all the cards in Covid election (paywalled) Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Let’s delay the election Claire Robinson ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-13-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 13 2020">Read more</a>
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August 13, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Turney, Professor, Earth Science and Climate Change, UNSW Geological and archaeological records offer important insights into what seems to be an increasingly uncertain future. The better we understand what conditions Earth has already experienced, the better we can predict (and potentially prevent) future threats. But to ... <a title="From cave art to climate chaos: how a new carbon dating timeline is changing our view of history" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/13/from-cave-art-to-climate-chaos-how-a-new-carbon-dating-timeline-is-changing-our-view-of-history-143620/" aria-label="Read more about From cave art to climate chaos: how a new carbon dating timeline is changing our view of history">Read more</a>
