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June 19, 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 failureThomas Coughlan (Stuff): Heads have to roll over border catastrophe, but whose head should it be?Chris Trotter (Daily Blog): Flat Earthers: For how much longer must New Zealand be damaged by Neoliberalism’s ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-june-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – June 19 2020">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Romilio, PhD, Independent Researcher, The University of Queensland Perhaps the most iconic dinosaur is Tyrannosaurus rex, a massive predator that lived in what is now North America. We have now discovered that carnivorous dinosaurs of a similar size existed in ancient Australia as well. The giant ... <a title="Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/dinosaur-footprints-show-predators-as-big-as-t-rex-stomped-across-australia-160-million-years-ago-140931/" aria-label="Read more about Dinosaur footprints show predators as big as _T. rex_ stomped across Australia 160 million years ago">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Ball, Associate Professor/ Principal Research Fellow, Griffith University Last week, my two-year-old niece was sent home from daycare for having a runny nose – a sin that would otherwise be commonplace on a windy winter’s day. The daycare centre instructed my sister she would need to ... <a title="Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/employers-schools-take-note-coronavirus-clearance-certificates-are-a-waste-of-everybodys-time-140929/" aria-label="Read more about Employers, schools, take note. Coronavirus ‘clearance certificates’ are a waste of everybody’s time">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Morton, Associate Professor, Journalism, Stream Leader, Climate Justice Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney The Australian government’s investment roadmap for low-emissions technologies promises more taxpayers’ money to the gas industry but fails to deliver the policy needed for people to support a transition to renewable energy. ... <a title="People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/people-need-to-see-the-benefits-from-local-renewable-energy-projects-and-that-means-jobs-138433/" aria-label="Read more about People need to see the benefits from local renewable energy projects, and that means jobs">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government will fund an extra 39,000 university places by 2023 in a package that will restructure the amounts students have to pay for courses to encourage them to “make more job-relevant choices”. Under the plan to produce “job-ready ... <a title="Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/fee-cuts-for-nursing-and-teaching-but-big-hikes-for-law-and-humanities-in-package-expanding-university-places-141064/" aria-label="Read more about Fee cuts for nursing and teaching but big hikes for law and humanities in package expanding university places">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australia has done well on the public health front during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to decisive action by the National Cabinet in March. Australia has done better than most countries on the economic front, too, thanks to the federal government’s large ... <a title="Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it." class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/vital-signs-covid-19-recession-is-different-and-we-need-more-stimulus-to-deal-with-it-141037/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it.">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Shirley, Edith Cowan University In his surprisingly dark and often shocking account of life at a New York performing arts school, Alan Parker’s Fame (1980) exposes the way youthful exuberance and vulnerability are easy prey for those who manipulate and abuse their position. The fim depicts ... <a title="Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/friday-essay-training-a-new-generation-of-performers-about-intimacy-safety-and-creativity-132516/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: training a new generation of performers about intimacy, safety and creativity">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Roger D. HarrisFrom Corte Madera, California The police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25th was the spark that ignited the tinder of accrued injustice throughout the US and globally. This injustice has deep antecedents in the US and indeed in much of what is ... <a title="“Black Lives Matter” is International: Where there is oppression, there will be resistance " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/black-lives-matter-is-international-where-there-is-oppression-there-will-be-resistance/" aria-label="Read more about “Black Lives Matter” is International: Where there is oppression, there will be resistance ">Read more</a>
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June 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The notion that Nine’s 60 Minutes revelations about the appalling shenanigans of Victorian Labor power broker Adem Somyurek were a total surprise to ALP insiders deserves a horse laugh. As one federal source says, anyone with any knowledge of the ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/19/grattan-on-friday-labor-partys-dirty-linen-on-display-at-bad-time-for-anthony-albanese-141075/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Labor party’s dirty linen on display at bad time for Anthony Albanese">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sam Johnston, Senior Fellow, University of Melbourne Interest in Aboriginal fire knowledge has been high since last summer’s terrible bushfires. One initiative shows the huge potential benefits of this ancient practice – not just in Australia, but globally. The International Savanna Fire Management Initiative (ISFMI) is taking ... <a title="Fighting fire with fire: Botswana adopts Indigenous Australians’ ancient burning tradition" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/fighting-fire-with-fire-botswana-adopts-indigenous-australians-ancient-burning-tradition-135363/" aria-label="Read more about Fighting fire with fire: Botswana adopts Indigenous Australians’ ancient burning tradition">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Daley, Chief Executive Officer, Grattan Institute It’s wrong to expect a “snap-back” at shopping centres, food courts, cinemas and other places where people used to gather to spend money. We’ve identified three reasons why spending in physical stores on goods like clothes is likely to remain ... <a title="Retail won’t snap back. 3 reasons why COVID has changed the way we shop, perhaps forever" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/retail-wont-snap-back-3-reasons-why-covid-has-changed-the-way-we-shop-perhaps-forever-140628/" aria-label="Read more about Retail won’t snap back. 3 reasons why COVID has changed the way we shop, perhaps forever">Read more</a>
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June 18, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Silvia Griselda, PhD student, University of Melbourne Last month, the Australian Academy of Science published a report showing the COVID-19 pandemic would disproportionately affect women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) disciplines. The report noted before COVID-19, around 7,500 women were employed in STEM research ... <a title="Girls score the same in maths and science as boys, but higher in arts – this may be why they are less likely to pick STEM careers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/18/girls-score-the-same-in-maths-and-science-as-boys-but-higher-in-arts-this-may-be-why-they-are-less-likely-to-pick-stem-careers-131563/" aria-label="Read more about Girls score the same in maths and science as boys, but higher in arts – this may be why they are less likely to pick STEM careers">Read more</a>
