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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute The announcement of stage 4 restrictions in Victoria marks a new, and depressing, stage in Australia’s response to COVID-19. The new measures will close non-essential retailers and most child-care centres across Melbourne, and impose stringent controls on industries such ... <a title="Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/australia-wont-recover-unless-victoria-does-too-the-federal-government-must-step-up-143840/" aria-label="Read more about Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute How do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done? This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six weeks. The Stage 4 restrictions announced by the Victorian ... <a title="Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/victorias-child-care-shutdown-is-a-hard-blow-for-working-mothers-143837/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Non-essential retailers across Melbourne will be shut except for “click and collect” and delivery sales, and industries including meatworks and construction will be drastically scaled back, under Victoria’s unprecedented lockdown. The business shutdown details came as Scott Morrison announced a ... <a title="Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/melbourne-non-essential-retailers-closed-as-morrison-unveils-pandemic-leave-143835/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced sweeping changes to businesses across metropolitan Melbourne, including closure of retail stores and restrictions on some industries, including construction. The new constraints come into force from midnight ... <a title="Takeaway coffee allowed, but no wandering through Bunnings: here’s why Melbourne’s new business restrictions will reduce cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/takeaway-coffee-allowed-but-no-wandering-through-bunnings-heres-why-melbournes-new-business-restrictions-will-reduce-cases-143814/" aria-label="Read more about Takeaway coffee allowed, but no wandering through Bunnings: here’s why Melbourne’s new business restrictions will reduce cases">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months of speculation about national security risks and users’ data being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party, US ... <a title="Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/microsofts-takeover-would-be-a-win-for-tiktok-and-tech-giants-not-users-143818/" aria-label="Read more about Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Nicky Hager welcomes the Op Burnham Inquiry report, the most serious findings against the NZSAS and NZDF in their history – This report was first published on TheDailyBlog.co.nz Ref. Report-of-the-Government-Inquiry-into-Operation-Burnham-print-version (Sir Terence Arnold KNZM QC, Chair, Sir Geoffrey Palmer KCMG AC QC PC, Member, July 31,2020 [pdf]); + Inquiry-into-events-in-Afghanistan (Inspector General of Intelligence and Security, ... <a title="Nicky Hager – I welcome the Operation Burnham Inquiry report" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/nicky-hager-i-welcome-the-operation-burnham-inquiry-report/" aria-label="Read more about Nicky Hager – I welcome the Operation Burnham Inquiry report">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Analysis by Dr Bryce Edwards Can we trust New Zealand’s military? There must now be serious doubt, given the landmark report released on Friday concluding the investigation into allegations made in the book Hit and Run by Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson about a 2010 SAS killing raid in Afghanistan. The most recent Colmar Brunton ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Burnham report shows why we can’t trust NZ’s military" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-the-burnham-report-shows-why-we-cant-trust-nzs-military/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: The Burnham report shows why we can’t trust NZ’s military">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Trigg, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Melbourne In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. The Greeks are at the gates, and the city of Troy is under siege. ... <a title="Chaucer’s great poem Troilus and Criseyde: perfect reading while under siege from a virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/chaucers-great-poem-troilus-and-criseyde-perfect-reading-while-under-siege-from-a-virus-142662/" aria-label="Read more about Chaucer’s great poem Troilus and Criseyde: perfect reading while under siege from a virus">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism”, wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionise the economic structure from within, “incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”. Change happens ... <a title="Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/creative-destruction-the-covid-19-economic-crisis-is-accelerating-the-demise-of-fossil-fuels-143739/" aria-label="Read more about Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW With Victorians heading into a new round of even harsher lockdown measures, there will again be a focus on how people will cope — the various ways such restrictions change ... <a title="More screen time, snacking and chores: a snapshot of how everyday life changed during the first coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/more-screen-time-snacking-and-chores-a-snapshot-of-how-everyday-life-changed-during-the-first-coronavirus-lockdown-143805/" aria-label="Read more about More screen time, snacking and chores: a snapshot of how everyday life changed during the first coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The old maxim that truth is the first casualty of war has been borne out by the damning Report of the Government Inquiry into Operation Burnham. It is almost ten years ago to the day that the fateful military ... <a title="Operation Burnham: the New Zealand military’s self-inflicted wounds will not heal by themselves" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/operation-burnham-the-new-zealand-militarys-self-inflicted-wounds-will-not-heal-by-themselves-143806/" aria-label="Read more about Operation Burnham: the New Zealand military’s self-inflicted wounds will not heal by themselves">Read more</a>
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August 3, 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 Government inquiry into Operation Burnham Justin Giovannetti (Spinoff): SAS did nothing wrong, but senior military officers misled public: report Thomas Manch (Stuff): An apology from the Defence Force, but redemption has just begun ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 03 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-august-03-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – August 03 2020">Read more</a>
