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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Clissold, Researcher, The University of Queensland They contribute only 0.03% of global carbon emissions, but small island developing states, particularly in the Pacific, are at extreme risk to the threats of climate change. Our study, published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, provides the first ... <a title="Their fate isn’t sealed: Pacific nations can survive climate change – if locals take the lead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/their-fate-isnt-sealed-pacific-nations-can-survive-climate-change-if-locals-take-the-lead-136709/" aria-label="Read more about Their fate isn’t sealed: Pacific nations can survive climate change – if locals take the lead">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, so too is the road to economic recovery if we don’t get it right. The COVID-19 Recovery (Fast Track Consenting) Bill, currently rushing through the parliamentary process, certainly has ... <a title="Unless we improve the law, history shows rushing shovel-ready projects comes with real risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/unless-we-improve-the-law-history-shows-rushing-shovel-ready-projects-comes-with-real-risk-141530/" aria-label="Read more about Unless we improve the law, history shows rushing shovel-ready projects comes with real risk">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kyle Clem, Research Fellow in Climate Science, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Climate scientists long thought Antarctica’s interior may not be very sensitive to warming, but our research, published today, shows a dramatic change. Over the past 30 years, the South Pole has been ... <a title="New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/new-research-shows-the-south-pole-is-warming-faster-than-the-rest-of-the-world-141536/" aria-label="Read more about New research shows the South Pole is warming faster than the rest of the world">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dale Boccabella, Associate Professor of Taxation Law, UNSW Nearly all of the income tax focus in the context of “working from home” during COVID-19 has been on claiming “running expenses” – things like electricity, heating and internet/broadband fees. These are pretty straightforward. The Australian Tax Office released ... <a title="Be careful what you claim for when working from home. There are capital gains tax risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/be-careful-what-you-claim-for-when-working-from-home-there-are-capital-gains-tax-risks-141364/" aria-label="Read more about Be careful what you claim for when working from home. There are capital gains tax risks">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Ellis, Professor, Curtin University Following a A$2 million funding injection from the federal government, the ABC and SBS have introduced an audio description service for audiences who are blind or vision impaired. Audio description is a voice-over narration describing important visual elements, including facial expressions, actions, ... <a title="Audio description finally comes to ABC and SBS" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/audio-description-finally-comes-to-abc-and-sbs-141276/" aria-label="Read more about Audio description finally comes to ABC and SBS">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Op-Ed by Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana – United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific. Developing countries of Asia and the Pacific are experiencing unbalanced tolls of the COVID-19 pandemic. Grim milestones in infections and deaths have left countless devastated. Yet, we must look at the economic ... <a title="Submission – Sustainable tourism and fisheries key to growth in post-COVID Pacific" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/submission-sustainable-tourism-and-fisheries-key-to-growth-in-post-covid-pacific/" aria-label="Read more about Submission – Sustainable tourism and fisheries key to growth in post-COVID Pacific">Read more</a>
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June 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government is repurposing $1.35 billion of its planned defence spending over a decade to meet the increasing threat of cyber attacks on Australia. The announcement follows Scott Morrison recently revealing “a sophisticated state-based cyber actor” was targeting “Australian ... <a title="Morrison announces repurposing of defence money to fight increasing cyber threats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/30/morrison-announces-repurposing-of-defence-money-to-fight-increasing-cyber-threats-141629/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison announces repurposing of defence money to fight increasing cyber threats">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
By Gordon Campbell, editor of Werewolf For most of the past week, any consumer of this country’s management of covid-19 would think New Zealand was actually Brazil, or Texas. The media language has been full of claims of “botches” at the border, and laxness and inexcusable errors that amounted to a “national disgrace.” Amid all ... <a title="Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/gordon-campbell-media-collusion-with-nationals-attack-lines-the-real-disgrace/" aria-label="Read more about Gordon Campbell: Media collusion with National’s attack lines the real disgrace">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mehmet Ulubasoglu, Professor of Economics, Head of the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Energy, the Environment and Natural Disasters, Deakin University Victoria’s outbreak of COVID-19 infections, with 75 more cases identified overnight on top of 173 cases the previous five days, underlines the ... <a title="Teleworkability in Australia: 41% of full-time and 35% of part-time jobs can be done from home" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/teleworkability-in-australia-41-of-full-time-and-35-of-part-time-jobs-can-be-done-from-home-140723/" aria-label="Read more about Teleworkability in Australia: 41% of full-time and 35% of part-time jobs can be done from home">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rebecca Bentley, Professor of Social Epidemiology, Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne Melbourne is once again grappling with increasing COVID-19 rates. Ten suburbs in Melbourne have been designated COVID-19 outbreak hotspots: Broadmeadows, Keilor Downs, Maidstone, Albanvale, Sunshine West, Hallam, ... <a title="Overcrowding and affordability stress: Melbourne’s COVID-19 hotspots are also housing crisis hotspots" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/overcrowding-and-affordability-stress-melbournes-covid-19-hotspots-are-also-housing-crisis-hotspots-141381/" aria-label="Read more about Overcrowding and affordability stress: Melbourne’s COVID-19 hotspots are also housing crisis hotspots">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marta Rychert, Senior Researcher in Drug Policy, Massey University In less than three months, New Zealanders will vote in the world’s first national referendum on a comprehensive proposal to legalise the recreational use of cannabis. Unlike cannabis ballots in several US states in which the public only ... <a title="Reforming cannabis laws is a complex challenge, but New Zealand’s history of drug reform holds important lessons" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/reforming-cannabis-laws-is-a-complex-challenge-but-new-zealands-history-of-drug-reform-holds-important-lessons-141113/" aria-label="Read more about Reforming cannabis laws is a complex challenge, but New Zealand’s history of drug reform holds important lessons">Read more</a>
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June 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Heather R. Stevens, Doctoral student in Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University The link between hot weather and aggressive crime is well established. But can the same be said for online aggression, such as angry tweets? And is online anger a predictor of assaults? Our study just published suggests ... <a title="Anger is all the rage on Twitter when it’s cold outside (and on Mondays)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/29/anger-is-all-the-rage-on-twitter-when-its-cold-outside-and-on-mondays-141589/" aria-label="Read more about Anger is all the rage on Twitter when it’s cold outside (and on Mondays)">Read more</a>
