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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Smit, Adjunct professor, The University of Queensland When it comes to road transport, Australia is at risk of becoming a climate villain as we lag behind international best practice on fuel efficiency. Road transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions and represented ... <a title="Australians could have saved over $1 billion in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/australians-could-have-saved-over-1-billion-in-fuel-if-car-emissions-standards-were-introduced-3-years-ago-117190/" aria-label="Read more about Australians could have saved over $1 billion in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
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 Budget leak Tova O’Brien (Newshub): ‘Human error’ that led to Treasury Budget information access well-known – source Herald: Budget leak ‘not unlawful’, the Treasury’s website exploited: Police RNZ: Budget breach didn’t break the law ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 30 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-30-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 30 2019">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Tarcisius Kabutaulaka Since the late 1980s, the logging industry has dominated the Solomon Islands economy. For nearly three decades, it has accounted for about 50 percent of the country’s foreign exchange revenue. In 2018, round logs account for 70 percent of Solomon Islands total exports. Eighty percent of that is exported to China. ... <a title="Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/tarcisius-kabutaulaka-logging-bonanza-hasnt-helped-solomon-islands-landowners/" aria-label="Read more about Tarcisius Kabutaulaka: Logging bonanza hasn’t helped Solomon Islands landowners">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Wanna, Sir John Bunting Chair of Public Administration, Australian National University Labor has taken a major gamble by appointing Anthony Albanese unopposed as party leader. His speedy elevation came because he was not tarred with the Bill Shorten-Chris Bowen brush that failed so spectacularly on May ... <a title="Policies, not posturing, will help Albanese shake the ‘left-wing’ tag and restore faith in his party" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/policies-not-posturing-will-help-albanese-shake-the-left-wing-tag-and-restore-faith-in-his-party-117817/" aria-label="Read more about Policies, not posturing, will help Albanese shake the ‘left-wing’ tag and restore faith in his party">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robin Smit, Adjunct professor, The University of Queensland When it comes to road transport, Australia is at risk of becoming a climate villain as we lag behind international best practice on fuel efficiency. Road transport is one of the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions and represented ... <a title="Australians could have saved over $1 billon in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/australians-could-have-saved-over-1-billon-in-fuel-if-car-emissions-standards-were-introduced-3-years-ago-117190/" aria-label="Read more about Australians could have saved over $1 billon in fuel if car emissions standards were introduced 3 years ago">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sharon Parkinson, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology Homelessness has increased greatly in Australian capital cities since 2001. Almost two-thirds of people experiencing homelessness are in these cities, with much of the growth associated with severely crowded dwellings and rough sleeping. Homelessness ... <a title="Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/homelessness-soars-in-our-biggest-cities-driven-by-rising-inequality-since-2001-117833/" aria-label="Read more about Homelessness soars in our biggest cities, driven by rising inequality since 2001">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Young, Francine V. McNiff Professor of Criminology, University of Melbourne The news of Courtney Herron’s death has shocked Melburnians. While full details are yet to emerge, both she and the man charged with murdering her have been widely reported as being homeless. It’s revealing how news ... <a title="Carelessly linking crime to being homeless adds to the harmful stigma" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/carelessly-linking-crime-to-being-homeless-adds-to-the-harmful-stigma-117834/" aria-label="Read more about Carelessly linking crime to being homeless adds to the harmful stigma">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ralph-Christopher Bayer, Professor of Economics , University of Adelaide Kogan Australia has grown from a garage to an online retail giant in a little more than a decade. Key to its success have been its discount prices. But apparently not all of those discounts have been legit, ... <a title="The behavioural economics of discounting, and why Kogan would profit from discount deception" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/the-behavioural-economics-of-discounting-and-why-kogan-would-profit-from-discount-deception-117895/" aria-label="Read more about The behavioural economics of discounting, and why Kogan would profit from discount deception">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne The oft-quoted saying “may you live in interesting times” has been (rightly or wrongly) interpreted as a Chinese curse. The exhibition Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang at the National Gallery of Victoria has a ... <a title="A scope as big as humanity can conjure: the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/a-scope-as-big-as-humanity-can-conjure-the-terracotta-warriors-and-cai-guo-qiang-117825/" aria-label="Read more about A scope as big as humanity can conjure: the Terracotta Warriors & Cai Guo-Qiang">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Billy Tusker Haworth, Lecturer in GIS and Disaster Management, University of Manchester With natural hazard and climate-related disasters on the rise, online tools such as crowdsourced mapping and social media can help people understand and respond to a crisis. They enable people to share their location and ... <a title="Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/online-tools-can-help-people-in-disasters-but-do-they-represent-everyone-116810/" aria-label="Read more about Online tools can help people in disasters, but do they represent everyone?">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW In one of his first official public remarks since being re-elected, Prime Minister Scott Morrison pledged that addressing failures in the national disability insurance scheme (NDIS) would be a priority for the new government. Stuart Robert has assumed the role ... <a title="Here’s what needs to happen to get the NDIS back on track" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/heres-what-needs-to-happen-to-get-the-ndis-back-on-track-117835/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what needs to happen to get the NDIS back on track">Read more</a>
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May 30, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pi-Shen Seet, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Edith Cowan University The vocational education and training (VET) sector is integral to Australia’s economy and the businesses and workforce that underpin it. The sector provides skills to 4.2 million students at 4,200 registered training providers. This is important because, ... <a title="The government keeps talking about revamping VET – but is it actually doing it?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/05/30/the-government-keeps-talking-about-revamping-vet-but-is-it-actually-doing-it-117743/" aria-label="Read more about The government keeps talking about revamping VET – but is it actually doing it?">Read more</a>
