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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW By the end of August, the Morrison government wants Parliament to consider changes to Australia’s flagship environment law to help arrest nature’s steady decline. The move follows the release this week of Professor Graeme Samuel’s preliminary review of ... <a title="Court action, confusion and a big escape clause: here’s why changes to environment law shouldn’t be rushed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/court-action-confusion-and-a-big-escape-clause-heres-why-changes-to-environment-law-shouldnt-be-rushed-143136/" aria-label="Read more about Court action, confusion and a big escape clause: here’s why changes to environment law shouldn’t be rushed">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Only 22% of family members and carers of students with a disability agreed they had received adequate educational support during the pandemic. Many respondents in our new research, and survey, on behalf of Children and Young People with Disability Australia ... <a title="Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/only-one-fifth-of-school-students-with-disability-had-enough-support-during-the-remote-learning-period-143195/" aria-label="Read more about Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra Carrasco, Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne The toughest lockdown imposed on residents of public housing in Australia has been lifted, but their COVID-19 ordeal isn’t over – and recovering from their traumatic experience will take time. Recent events have ... <a title="Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/our-lives-matter-melbourne-public-housing-residents-talk-about-why-covid-19-hits-them-hard-142901/" aria-label="Read more about Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney Thursday’s economic statement is the government’s first attempt to quantify the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on government finances and should be treated with caution. The near A$300 billion hit to government finances over two years is, as the ... <a title="Eye-wateringly bad, yet rosy: why these budget numbers will get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/eye-wateringly-bad-yet-rosy-why-these-budget-numbers-will-get-worse-142840/" aria-label="Read more about Eye-wateringly bad, yet rosy: why these budget numbers will get worse">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Most people agree there are services government should pay for. Primary and secondary education, a dignified level of health care, emergency services and the military come to mind. What is less clear is what services government should directly provide, and what ... <a title="Vital Signs: Victoria’s privatised quarantine arrangements were destined to fail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/vital-signs-victorias-privatised-quarantine-arrangements-were-destined-to-fail-143169/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Victoria’s privatised quarantine arrangements were destined to fail">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Haebich, Senior Research Professor, Curtin University It is not widely known that many Australian colonial natural history collections are represented in German museums and herbaria, nor that there are initiatives to transform these artefacts of colonial heritage and science back into objects from living cultures with ... <a title="Friday essay: the forgotten German botanist who took 200,000 Australian plants to Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/friday-essay-the-forgotten-german-botanist-who-took-200-000-australian-plants-to-europe-143099/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the forgotten German botanist who took 200,000 Australian plants to Europe">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg, a Victorian, wore a surgical mask as he walked from his parliament house office to a committee room to deliver the government’s economic statement. The treasurer had already had to obtain permission from the ACT government to be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/grattan-on-friday-pandemic-has-blown-the-tyres-right-off-that-old-coalition-debt-truck-143275/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This week’s first chart shows the huge European wave of Covid-19 in March. At its exponential peak, the chart shows world Covid19 weekly deaths increasing by 260 percent in the second week of March, compared to March’s first week. This European wave contrasts sharply with the last week of February, when ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-global-covid19-european-wave-and-rising-tail/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Global Covid19: European Wave and Rising Tail">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute Australia is living through the biggest economic and social disruption since the second world war. Today’s budget update provides a stark reminder of just how big the economic and budgetary fallout really is. If you don’t have the appetite to ... <a title="Five things you need to know about today’s economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-todays-economic-statement-143088/" aria-label="Read more about Five things you need to know about today’s economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Keane, Professor of Chinese Digital Media and Culture, Curtin University TikTok, the made-in-China, video-sharing platform beloved by youth and influencers alike, is suddenly everywhere in our new world of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing. The platform’s growth has been tremendous, but this has come at a ... <a title="TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/tiktok-tries-to-distance-itself-from-beijing-but-will-it-be-enough-to-avoid-the-global-blacklist-143247/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Gwynne, Senior Lecturer, Health Leadership, Macquarie University Aboriginal children in rural Australia have up to three times the rate of tooth decay compared to other Australian children. Tooth decay can affect a person’s overall health and nutrition because it can affect how they chew and swallow. ... <a title="Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/collaborating-with-communities-delivers-better-oral-health-for-indigenous-kids-in-rural-australia-141038/" aria-label="Read more about Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Even if the government hadn’t spent A$5.9 billion on JobKeeper and other emergency measures last financial year and wasn’t planning to spend a further $12.2 billion this financial year, its budget position would have collapsed. ... <a title="These budget numbers are shocking, and there are worse ones in store" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/these-budget-numbers-are-shocking-and-there-are-worse-ones-in-store-143250/" aria-label="Read more about These budget numbers are shocking, and there are worse ones in store">Read more</a>
