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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniella Teixeira, Researcher, Griffith University One night in January 2020, I couldn’t sleep. I kept waking to check my phone for news from Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. Fires had already burned through several sites where I’d researched the island’s endangered glossy black cockatoos, and now it ... <a title="‘I felt immense grief’: one year on from the bushfires, scientists need mental health support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/i-felt-immense-grief-one-year-on-from-the-bushfires-scientists-need-mental-health-support-148251/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I felt immense grief’: one year on from the bushfires, scientists need mental health support">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australians receiving unemployment payments are often negatively portrayed as a relatively small group of people with personal or behavioural problems that stop them from getting a job.The unparalleled growth in unemployment during COVID-19 has opened up ... <a title="Our research shows more Australians receive unemployment payments than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/our-research-shows-more-australians-receive-unemployment-payments-than-you-think-151289/" aria-label="Read more about Our research shows more Australians receive unemployment payments than you think">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Costanza, Professor and VC’s Chair, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University As JobKeeper is wound back, businesses are tentatively preparing to stand on their own feet. What follows is a simple proposal to help them share the risk (and rewards) with their workers. It ... <a title="Revenue-contingent wage loans, a proposal for supporting jobs in times of crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/revenue-contingent-wage-loans-a-proposal-for-supporting-jobs-in-times-of-crisis-151565/" aria-label="Read more about Revenue-contingent wage loans, a proposal for supporting jobs in times of crisis">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoltan Szabo, Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney The tradition of performing George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is as inseparable from festivities preceding Christmas as the oversweet carol arrangements oozing through loudspeakers at shopping centres. It’s a tradition worth noticing, as the Messiah was originally composed as an ... <a title="Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/decoding-the-music-masterpieces-handels-messiah-oratorio-composed-in-just-24-days-151092/" aria-label="Read more about Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Pickles, Professor of History, University of Canterbury Kate Sheppard was around 40 in 1888, the year she and her family moved into the brand-new wooden villa at 83 Clyde Road, Ilam. Now part of inner Christchurch, it was then a rural section some five kilometres from ... <a title="The ‘epicentre of women’s suffrage’ — Kate Sheppard’s Christchurch home finally opens as a public museum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/the-epicentre-of-womens-suffrage-kate-sheppards-christchurch-home-finally-opens-as-a-public-museum-151828/" aria-label="Read more about The ‘epicentre of women’s suffrage’ — Kate Sheppard’s Christchurch home finally opens as a public museum">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Blaize Gardiner, PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone. These international waters, known as the high seas, harbour a plethora of natural resources and millions of unique marine species. But they ... <a title="Marine protection falls short of the 2020 target to safeguard 10% of the world’s oceans. A UN treaty and lessons from Antarctica could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/marine-protection-falls-short-of-the-2020-target-to-safeguard-10-of-the-worlds-oceans-a-un-treaty-and-lessons-from-antarctica-could-help-151282/" aria-label="Read more about Marine protection falls short of the 2020 target to safeguard 10% of the world’s oceans. A UN treaty and lessons from Antarctica could help">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Dan Lubman, Executive Clinical Director, Turning Point & Director of Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University The year 2020 has challenged us all. The bushfires and then the pandemic forced us to reflect on what’s important, how we respond to crises as a community, and the ways ... <a title="A mental disorder, not a personal failure: why now is the time for Australia to rethink addiction" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/a-mental-disorder-not-a-personal-failure-why-now-is-the-time-for-australia-to-rethink-addiction-151686/" aria-label="Read more about A mental disorder, not a personal failure: why now is the time for Australia to rethink addiction">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Blaize Gardiner, PhD Candidate, University of Canterbury Two-thirds of the world’s oceans fall outside national jurisdictions – they belong to no one and everyone. These international waters, known as the high seas, harbour a plethora of natural resources and millions of unique marine species. But they ... <a title="Marine protection falls short of the 2020 target to safeguard 10% of the world’s oceans. Lessons from Antarctica and a UN treaty could help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/marine-protection-falls-short-of-the-2020-target-to-safeguard-10-of-the-worlds-oceans-lessons-from-antarctica-and-a-un-treaty-could-help-151282/" aria-label="Read more about Marine protection falls short of the 2020 target to safeguard 10% of the world’s oceans. Lessons from Antarctica and a UN treaty could help">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
The sinking of the Rainbow Warrior happened 35 years ago this year. The event had ramifications across the Pacific, and politicised a generation of New Zealanders. But in this age of climate change and global pandemic, have Kiwis held onto the lessons they learnt on that winter’s night in 1985? Matthew Scott investigates. Article by ... <a title="Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/echoes-of-the-rainbow-warrior-have-the-lessons-been-learned/" aria-label="Read more about Echoes of the Rainbow Warrior – have the lessons been learned?">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeremy Moss, Professor of Political Philosophy, UNSW On Saturday, more than 70 global leaders came together at the UN’s Climate Ambition Summit, marking the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. Prime Minister Scott Morrison was denied a speaking slot, in recognition of Australia’s failure to set meaningful ... <a title="The Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia face a reckoning" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/the-paris-agreement-5-years-on-big-coal-exporters-like-australia-face-a-reckoning-151915/" aria-label="Read more about The Paris Agreement 5 years on: big coal exporters like Australia face a reckoning">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Miranda Kaye, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney As federal parliament heads off on its Christmas break, a cloud of uncertainty hangs over the legal community and the Australians who use the family law system. Amid a busy final sitting week, the Morrison government’s ... <a title="The government still wants a Family Court merger — new research shows why this is not the answer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/the-government-still-wants-a-family-court-merger-new-research-shows-why-this-is-not-the-answer-151481/" aria-label="Read more about The government still wants a Family Court merger — new research shows why this is not the answer">Read more</a>
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December 14, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Smerdon, Assistant Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Unlike the wildly popular Netflix chess-themed series The Queen’s Gambit, female players have struggled to climb to the top of the real-life chess world. Just 37 of the more than 1,600 international chess grandmasters are women. ... <a title="What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/14/whats-behind-the-gender-imbalance-in-top-level-chess-150637/" aria-label="Read more about What’s behind the gender imbalance in top-level chess?">Read more</a>
