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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian Marshman, Honorary Principal Fellow, Melbourne Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne One objective of the government’s recently announced funding changes for universities is to increase the number of graduates in areas of expected employment growth – such as teaching, nursing, agriculture, STEM ... <a title="The government is making ‘job-ready’ degrees cheaper for students – but cutting funding to the same courses" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/the-government-is-making-job-ready-degrees-cheaper-for-students-but-cutting-funding-to-the-same-courses-141280/" aria-label="Read more about The government is making ‘job-ready’ degrees cheaper for students – but cutting funding to the same courses">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dennis Altman, Professorial Fellow in Human Security, La Trobe University When Disney releases a film version of the musical Hamilton on July 3, it will be 11 years since Lin-Manuel Miranda performed an early number at a White House evening hosted by the Obamas. Watching the musical ... <a title="Watching Hamilton today – musical drama can be radical, just don’t believe all the hype" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/watching-hamilton-today-musical-drama-can-be-radical-just-dont-believe-all-the-hype-139322/" aria-label="Read more about Watching Hamilton today – musical drama can be radical, just don’t believe all the hype">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The July 4 byelection in the highly marginal NSW Labor seat of Eden-Monaro is shaping up to be “very close”, according to participants in focus group research conducted by the University of Canberra. Climate change, job creation, the federal government’s ... <a title="Eden-Monaro byelection will be “very close”, according to participants in focus group research" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/eden-monaro-byelection-will-be-very-close-according-to-participants-in-focus-group-research-141307/" aria-label="Read more about Eden-Monaro byelection will be “very close”, according to participants in focus group research">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Darren O’Donovan, Senior Lecturer in Administrative Law, La Trobe University Public pressure is growing for a royal commission into the controversial robodebt scheme. After calls from the Greens this week, Labor also demanded an inquiry. As Opposition leader Anthony Albanese said: “how can we ensure that a ... <a title="The ‘problem’ is not ‘fixed’. Why we need a royal commission into robodebt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/the-problem-is-not-fixed-why-we-need-a-royal-commission-into-robodebt-141273/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘problem’ is not ‘fixed’. Why we need a royal commission into robodebt">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide Joel Schumacher, who has died aged 80 in New York, never won an Oscar. He began drinking aged nine and spent the last years of his life apologising for having made Batman and Robin (1997). He was ... <a title="Vale Joel Schumacher – the Hollywood legend who brought us brat packs, teen vampires and Falling Down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/vale-joel-schumacher-the-hollywood-legend-who-brought-us-brat-packs-teen-vampires-and-falling-down-141278/" aria-label="Read more about Vale Joel Schumacher – the Hollywood legend who brought us brat packs, teen vampires and Falling Down">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ross Hendy, Lecturer in Criminology, Monash University The recent killing of a police officer and the wounding of his colleague in West Auckland will inevitably change police attitudes to their jobs. Firstly, it will affect how they interact with the public. Such tragedies offer a direct challenge ... <a title="Trust, risk and routine arming: the killing of a frontline officer challenges New Zealand police practice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/trust-risk-and-routine-arming-the-killing-of-a-frontline-officer-challenges-new-zealand-police-practice-141191/" aria-label="Read more about Trust, risk and routine arming: the killing of a frontline officer challenges New Zealand police practice">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Graves, Distinguished Professor of Genetics and Vice Chancellor’s Fellow, La Trobe University Two small studies published recently suggested most men hospitalised with COVID-19 are bald, generating headlines around the world. While this may sound strange, science does offer a plausible explanation. Male pattern baldness is associated ... <a title="Coronavirus and sex hormones — baldness may be a risk factor and anti-androgens a treatment" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/coronavirus-and-sex-hormones-baldness-may-be-a-risk-factor-and-anti-androgens-a-treatment-140340/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus and sex hormones — baldness may be a risk factor and anti-androgens a treatment">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sean Williams, Senior Lecturer, Flinders University Writing is a pastime best conducted on your own — or so common wisdom would have it. Yet writing teams exist, and in many realms they are expected. Take television, where the writers’ room is the norm. Or the academy: one ... <a title="Collaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/collaboration-made-easy-6-ways-to-build-a-writing-relationship-132348/" aria-label="Read more about Collaboration made easy: 6 ways to build a writing relationship">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katharine Kemp, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, UNSW, and Academic Lead, UNSW Grand Challenge on Trust, UNSW The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has expressed concern about Google’s proposed acquisition of fitness tracker company Fitbit. The acquisition will let Google add years’ worth of Fitbit users’ ... <a title="Every step you take: why Google’s plan to buy Fitbit has the ACCC’s pulse racing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/every-step-you-take-why-googles-plan-to-buy-fitbit-has-the-acccs-pulse-racing-141052/" aria-label="Read more about Every step you take: why Google’s plan to buy Fitbit has the ACCC’s pulse racing">Read more</a>
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June 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 Border, quarantine Chris Trotter (Interest): When ‘light-handed regulation’ turns out to mean ‘no regulation at all’ Toby Manhire (Spinoff): Poll reveals public impact of failures in NZ Covid quarantine system Bryce Edwards (Democracy ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 23 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-23-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 23 2020">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By George Rennie, Lecturer in Politics, University of Melbourne After the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a sense history had ended, and that the United States represented a supreme endpoint. Today, the US is not dominant, it is in crisis: convulsed by riots and protest, riven ... <a title="Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/is-america-a-failing-state-how-a-superpower-has-been-brought-to-the-brink-139680/" aria-label="Read more about Is America a ‘failing state’? How a superpower has been brought to the brink">Read more</a>
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June 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hugh Saddler, Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University Amid the urgent need to slow climate change by cutting greenhouse gas emissions, energy efficiency makes sense. But as Australia’s chief scientist Alan Finkel last week warned, we’re not “anywhere close to having ... <a title="Australia has failed miserably on energy efficiency – and government figures hide the truth" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/23/australia-has-failed-miserably-on-energy-efficiency-and-government-figures-hide-the-truth-123176/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has failed miserably on energy efficiency – and government figures hide the truth">Read more</a>
