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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By La Toya Jamieson, Wildlife Detection Dog Specialist, La Trobe University Moss bounds happily through the bush showing the usual exuberance of a young labrador. Despite this looking like play, he is on a serious mission to help fight the extinction of some of our most critically endangered ... <a title="Meet Moss, the detection dog helping Tassie devils find love" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/meet-moss-the-detection-dog-helping-tassie-devils-find-love-142909/" aria-label="Read more about Meet Moss, the detection dog helping Tassie devils find love">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Douglas, Professor, Flinders University We teach English at university. Our weekly engagements include navigating unnerving plot twists, falling in and out of love with iconic characters, and evaluating the complexities of language and genre. Reading challenges how we think. Each week, in English classes, we explore ... <a title="Reading during coronavirus: books can be triggering, but difficult texts teach us resilience, too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/reading-during-coronavirus-books-can-be-triggering-but-difficult-texts-teach-us-resilience-too-141114/" aria-label="Read more about Reading during coronavirus: books can be triggering, but difficult texts teach us resilience, too">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christian A. Nygaard, Associate Professor in Social Economics, Swinburne University of Technology What will be the normal way of urban living when the COVID-19 crisis passes? What aspects will remain with us and what will disappear? The coronavirus pandemic has thrust us into a moment of rapid ... <a title="Why COVID-19 might not change our cities as much as we expect" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/why-covid-19-might-not-change-our-cities-as-much-as-we-expect-142159/" aria-label="Read more about Why COVID-19 might not change our cities as much as we expect">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Breunig, Professor of Economics and Director, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University We’re told Australia has a progressive tax system – the more you earn, the higher the rate. And that’s certainly the case for earnings from wages. An ... <a title="Progressive in theory, regressive in practice: that’s how we tax income from savings" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/progressive-in-theory-regressive-in-practice-thats-how-we-tax-income-from-savings-142823/" aria-label="Read more about Progressive in theory, regressive in practice: that’s how we tax income from savings">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael O’Neil, Executive Director, SA Centre for Economic Studies, University of Adelaide The government is about to make an historic decision. The JobSeeker unemployment benefit (previously called Newstart) has scarcely increased in real terms since 1994. In that time general living standards, as measured by real gross ... <a title="The compromise that might just boost the JobSeeker unemployment benefit" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/the-compromise-that-might-just-boost-the-jobseeker-unemployment-benefit-142321/" aria-label="Read more about The compromise that might just boost the JobSeeker unemployment benefit">Read more</a>
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July 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Henderson, PhD Candidate in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, University of Canberra Early ventures in queer young adult (YA) fiction followed certain conventions: they tended to be set in the contemporary world and their narratives focused on coming out, bullying, heartbreak or fighting for acceptance. Most ... <a title="Queer young adult fiction isn’t all gloomy realism. Here are 5 uplifting books to get you started" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/20/queer-young-adult-fiction-isnt-all-gloomy-realism-here-are-5-uplifting-books-to-get-you-started-141125/" aria-label="Read more about Queer young adult fiction isn’t all gloomy realism. Here are 5 uplifting books to get you started">Read more</a>
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July 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government is set to continue a revamped and re-targeted wage subsidy when it delivers its Thursday economic statement amid massive uncertainty about the trajectory of COVID-19 in the two largest states. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann on Sunday said JobKeeper ... <a title="Government to announce revamped wage subsidy amid huge COVID uncertainty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/19/government-to-announce-revamped-wage-subsidy-amid-huge-covid-uncertainty-142969/" aria-label="Read more about Government to announce revamped wage subsidy amid huge COVID uncertainty">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Bryan Bruce in the first of a series What is the purpose of an economy? I realised this morning that it is 7 years since I made my documentary Mind The Gap in which I unpacked the socially disastrous consequences of the neoliberal economic agenda, introduced by the 4th Labour government led by ... <a title="Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/bryan-bruce-economics-and-the-nz-election-unpacking-neoliberal-agendas/" aria-label="Read more about Bryan Bruce: Economics and the NZ election – unpacking neoliberal agendas">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. This chart orders countries by their Covid19 death rates in the seven days to 16 July. The seven worst countries are in Latin America; all except Panama being large countries. Two other large Latin American countries (Guatemala and Ecuador) are in the top 11 for recent Covid19 deaths. Of the larger countries ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Recent Cases and Deaths" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid19-recent-cases-and-deaths/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid19: Recent Cases and Deaths">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Burke, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney Lorna Jane recently launched an “antiviral” line of its activewear, called “LJ Shield”, generating significant backlash from medical professionals. The popular activewear brand has now pedalled back and removed any mention of LJ Shield being antiviral from its marketing. ... <a title="Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/antibacterial-activewear-the-claim-is-just-as-absurd-as-it-sounds-142828/" aria-label="Read more about Antibacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Burke, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney Lorna Jane recently launched an “antiviral” line of its activewear, called “LJ Shield”, generating significant backlash from medical professionals. The popular activewear brand has now pedalled back and removed any mention of LJ Shield being antiviral from its marketing. ... <a title="Anti-bacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/anti-bacterial-activewear-the-claim-is-just-as-absurd-as-it-sounds-142828/" aria-label="Read more about Anti-bacterial activewear? The claim is just as absurd as it sounds">Read more</a>
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July 17, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Just weeks after allowing public hospitals to restart elective surgeries, the Victorian government has ordered Melbourne hospitals to defer category 3 procedures again. Category 3 procedures include hip and knee replacements and cataract procedures. Category 3 patients are the easiest ... <a title="Victoria’s latest elective surgery slowdown is painful but necessary" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/17/victorias-latest-elective-surgery-slowdown-is-painful-but-necessary-142896/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s latest elective surgery slowdown is painful but necessary">Read more</a>
