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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Victoria will lock down for a month 36 suburbs in ten Melbourne postcode areas, and Premier Daniel Andrews has asked Scott Morrison to stop for a fortnight flights bringing quarantine passengers into the city. The drastic re-imposition of restrictions in ... <a title="Victoria locks down 36 Melbourne suburbs to try control COVID-19 spike" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/victoria-locks-down-36-melbourne-suburbs-to-try-control-covid-19-spike-141707/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria locks down 36 Melbourne suburbs to try control COVID-19 spike">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Komesaroff, Professor of Medicine, Monash University One year ago, the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Act came into effect after a prolonged, intense and divisive public debate. For some, it marked a major step forward for individual freedom in Victoria — an acknowledgement of the right of ... <a title="One year of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: 400 have registered, despite obstacles" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/one-year-of-voluntary-assisted-dying-in-victoria-400-have-registered-despite-obstacles-141054/" aria-label="Read more about One year of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: 400 have registered, despite obstacles">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Austin, Professor UNSW Canberra Cyber, UNSW The federal government has announced it will spend more than a billion dollars over the next ten years to boost Australia’s cyber defences. This comes barely a week after Prime Minister Scott Morrison warned the country was in the grip ... <a title="Morrison’s $1.3 billion for more ‘cyber spies’ is an incremental response to a radical problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/morrisons-1-3-billion-for-more-cyber-spies-is-an-incremental-response-to-a-radical-problem-141692/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison’s $1.3 billion for more ‘cyber spies’ is an incremental response to a radical problem">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Phillip O’Neill, Director, Centre for Western Sydney, Western Sydney University This is the second of three articles based on newly released research on the impacts of a lack of local jobs on the rapidly growing Western Sydney region. After 2016 – but before COVID-19, it should be ... <a title="Recession will hit job-poor parts of Western Sydney very hard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/recession-will-hit-job-poor-parts-of-western-sydney-very-hard-139385/" aria-label="Read more about Recession will hit job-poor parts of Western Sydney very hard">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University In a deadly game of Middle East cat and mouse, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is continuing to weigh his options in pushing ahead with plans to extend Israeli sovereignty over territories occupied by Israel in the ... <a title="Israel’s proposed annexation of the West Bank could bring a ‘diplomatic tsunami’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/israels-proposed-annexation-of-the-west-bank-could-bring-a-diplomatic-tsunami-141688/" aria-label="Read more about Israel’s proposed annexation of the West Bank could bring a ‘diplomatic tsunami’">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sanjaya Senanayake, Associate Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Physician, Australian National University It is now almost six months since the world became aware of COVID-19, and almost four months since the World Health Organisation declared a pandemic. As the number of people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus ... <a title="4 unusual things we’ve learned about the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/4-unusual-things-weve-learned-about-the-coronavirus-since-the-start-of-the-pandemic-140168/" aria-label="Read more about 4 unusual things we’ve learned about the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland Since the mid-1980s, the Unsolved Mysteries television program has investigated thousands of weird and wonderful tales. The popularity of the series over almost 35 years, more than 600 episodes, and five reboots, is testament to ... <a title="Neverending stories – why we still love Unsolved Mysteries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/neverending-stories-why-we-still-love-unsolved-mysteries-141046/" aria-label="Read more about Neverending stories – why we still love Unsolved Mysteries">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elisa deCourcy, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow 2020-2023, Research School of Humanities and the Arts, Australian National University, Australian National University It is little wonder the life of Hemi Pomara has attracted the attention of writers and film makers. Kidnapped in the early 1840s, passed from person ... <a title="Portrait of Hemi Pomara as a young man: how we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/portrait-of-hemi-pomara-as-a-young-man-how-we-uncovered-the-oldest-surviving-photograph-of-a-maori-141599/" aria-label="Read more about Portrait of Hemi Pomara as a young man: how we uncovered the oldest surviving photograph of a Māori">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Goss, School Education Program Director, Grattan Institute Education Minister Dan Tehan recently announced changes to Commonwealth contributions for university courses. As part of the government’s “Job-ready graduates” package, many humanities subjects would become more expensive but students would pay less for courses where the government believes ... <a title="The government claims teaching is a national priority, but cheaper degrees won’t improve the profession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/the-government-claims-teaching-is-a-national-priority-but-cheaper-degrees-wont-improve-the-profession-141524/" aria-label="Read more about The government claims teaching is a national priority, but cheaper degrees won’t improve the profession">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
These charts tell a simple story about how the coronavirus pandemic could be a catalyst for the transition to a more sustainable economic future. Looking at Chart 1, the gross domestic product (GDP) of the economy is shown as the combination of yellow and orange. (We note that these charts represent another aspect of pie ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Pandemic as a Catalyst for a New Economic Normal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-pandemic-as-a-catalyst-for-a-new-economic-normal/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Pandemic as a Catalyst for a New Economic Normal">Read more</a>
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June 30, 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 Greens Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Labour Will Not Win With A Yeah-Nah Strategy Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Taxing weath: a necessary step, or unachievable pipe dream? Dave Armstrong (Stuff): Greens’ wealth tax will appeal to ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 30 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-30-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 30 2020">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Smith, Professor and Director, NCI Australia, Australian National University As 2020 began, Australia was stunned by the worst bushfires on record. Six months later we are weathering the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. This year, perhaps more than ever before, decision-makers, emergency services, health providers and ... <a title="How Australia’s supercomputers crunched the numbers to guide our bushfire and pandemic response" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/how-australias-supercomputers-crunched-the-numbers-to-guide-our-bushfire-and-pandemic-response-141047/" aria-label="Read more about How Australia’s supercomputers crunched the numbers to guide our bushfire and pandemic response">Read more</a>
