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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced massive budget deficits of $85.8 billion for the just-finished 2019-2020 financial year and $184.5 billion projected for 2020-2021. Growth is set to be negative for last financial year and the current one. The government’s economic ... <a title="Budget deficit to hit $184.5B this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/budget-deficit-to-hit-184-5b-this-financial-year-unemployment-to-peak-at-9-25-in-december-economic-statement-143253/" aria-label="Read more about Budget deficit to hit $184.5B this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced massive budget deficits of $85.5 billion for the just-finished 2019-2020 financial year with $184.5 billion projected for 2020-2021. Growth is set to be negative for last financial year and the current one. The government’s economic ... <a title="Budget deficit to hit $184.5 this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/budget-deficit-to-hit-184-5-this-financial-year-unemployment-to-peak-at-9-25-in-december-economic-statement-143253/" aria-label="Read more about Budget deficit to hit $184.5 this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Whitehead, Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow & Tritum E-Mobility Fellow, The University of Queensland Limiting global warming to well below 2℃ this century requires carbon emissions to reach net zero by around 2050. Australian households have done much to support the transition via rooftop solar investments. ... <a title="In a world first, Australian university builds own solar farm to offset 100% of its electricity use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/in-a-world-first-australian-university-builds-own-solar-farm-to-offset-100-of-its-electricity-use-142972/" aria-label="Read more about In a world first, Australian university builds own solar farm to offset 100% of its electricity use">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
EveningReport LIVE: Evening Report has launched a new programme called A View from Afar with political scientist and security intelligence expert, Paul G. Buchanan. The programme is a joint effort between EveningReport’s parent company Multimedia Investments Ltd and Paul Buchanan’s 36th-Parallel Assessments business. The programme, A View from Afar, will launch today, at 8pm US ... <a title="EveningReport.nz Launches LIVE Programme – A View from Afar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/eveningreport-nz-launches-live-programme-a-view-from-afar/" aria-label="Read more about EveningReport.nz Launches LIVE Programme – A View from Afar">Read more</a>
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July 23, 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 Iain Lees-Galloway sacking Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Firing someone for having an affair is pretty low Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Tit for tat – nasty election campaign looms RNZ: Checkpoint: Deceit, integrity problem ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 23 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-23-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 23 2020">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Ratcliffe, Professor of Health Economics and Mathew Flinders Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University It’s often said the true measure of any society is how well it treats its most vulnerable members. By this measure, Australia is falling woefully short. The Royal Commission into Aged Care ... <a title="Australians want more funding for higher-quality aged care — and most are willing to pay extra tax to achieve it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/australians-want-more-funding-for-higher-quality-aged-care-and-most-are-willing-to-pay-extra-tax-to-achieve-it-143174/" aria-label="Read more about Australians want more funding for higher-quality aged care — and most are willing to pay extra tax to achieve it">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Hanich, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong A “dark fleet” of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels has illegally caught more than half a billion dollars worth of squid in North Korean waters since 2017, according to new research that used satellite technology, on-water observations and machine learning ... <a title="Chinese fishing boats took half a billion dollars of illegal squid from North Korea. Scientists used satellites to catch them out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/chinese-fishing-boats-took-half-a-billion-dollars-of-illegal-squid-from-north-korea-scientists-used-satellites-to-catch-them-out-142642/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese fishing boats took half a billion dollars of illegal squid from North Korea. Scientists used satellites to catch them out">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself and colleagues published today. It has been commonly believed that the ... <a title="Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/humans-inhabited-north-america-in-the-depths-of-the-last-ice-age-but-didnt-thrive-until-the-climate-warmed-142810/" aria-label="Read more about Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney In Australia, children as young as ten can be held criminally responsible for their actions. This means they can be arrested by police, remanded in custody, convicted by the courts and imprisoned. Read more: Despite 432 Indigenous deaths ... <a title="Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/ten-year-olds-do-not-belong-in-detention-why-australia-must-raise-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility-142483/" aria-label="Read more about Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University In the Rose Garden of the White House earlier month the world witnessed a signal moment: a foreign power was catapulted into an American presidential election campaign in a way not witnessed in generations. “Joe Biden and ... <a title="As the US election looms, Trump is running as hard against China as he is against Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/as-the-us-election-looms-trump-is-running-as-hard-against-china-as-he-is-against-biden-142813/" aria-label="Read more about As the US election looms, Trump is running as hard against China as he is against Biden">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Sherwood, ARC Laureate Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW We know the climate changes as greenhouse gas concentrations rise, but the exact amount of expected warming remains uncertain. Scientists study this in terms of “equilibrium climate sensitivity” – the temperature rise for a sustained doubling of ... <a title="The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/the-climate-wont-warm-as-much-as-we-feared-but-it-will-warm-more-than-we-hoped-143175/" aria-label="Read more about The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Mclaughlin, PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle What do bike paths and walk-friendly streets have to do with economic recovery from a pandemic-induced recession? How could removing a car parking space benefit a local business? Instead of considering such questions, building ... <a title="Cycling and walking can help drive Australia’s recovery – but not with less than 2% of transport budgets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/cycling-and-walking-can-help-drive-australias-recovery-but-not-with-less-than-2-of-transport-budgets-142176/" aria-label="Read more about Cycling and walking can help drive Australia’s recovery – but not with less than 2% of transport budgets">Read more</a>
