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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Rowlands, Associate Professor in Education Leadership, Deakin University Australia and the UK experience regular annual outrage over vice-chancellors’ pay. This is unsurprising – in Australia their average pay at the 37 public universities topped A$1 million in 2019. Those at prestigious Group of Eight universities were ... <a title="How Australian vice-chancellors’ pay came to average $1 million and why it’s a problem" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/how-australian-vice-chancellors-pay-came-to-average-1-million-and-why-its-a-problem-150829/" aria-label="Read more about How Australian vice-chancellors’ pay came to average $1 million and why it’s a problem">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Caitlin Buckle, Research Associate in Housing Studies, University of Sydney COVID-related travel restrictions and the sudden drop in tourism provided an ideal natural experiment to examine the impact of shifts in the supply of short-term rental accommodation. Our research, released today, found even modest reductions in Airbnb ... <a title="What did COVID do to rental markets? Rents fell as owners switched from Airbnb" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/what-did-covid-do-to-rental-markets-rents-fell-as-owners-switched-from-airbnb-151095/" aria-label="Read more about What did COVID do to rental markets? Rents fell as owners switched from Airbnb">Read more</a>
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December 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Smith, Professor of Archaeology, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University The devastation wrought by last summer’s unprecedented bushfires created blackened landscapes across Australia. New life is sprouting, but with fires burning again in New South Wales and Queensland we have once more seen ... <a title="Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/02/not-all-blackened-landscapes-are-bad-we-must-learn-to-love-the-right-kind-129547/" aria-label="Read more about Not all blackened landscapes are bad. We must learn to love the right kind">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Chinese embassy has suggested the Morrison government is trying to “stoke domestic nationalism” in its denunciation of an offensive Chinese tweet depicting an Australian soldier holding a knife to a child’s throat. In a Tuesday statement the embassy also ... <a title="China hits out again – then tells Australia to fix the relationship" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/china-hits-out-again-then-tells-australia-to-fix-the-relationship-151218/" aria-label="Read more about China hits out again – then tells Australia to fix the relationship">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne China has certainly got Australia’s attention with a highly inflammatory tweet from a government spokesperson. It has provoked the desired reaction — a storm of outrage. Read more: Australia demands apology from China over ‘repugnant’ slur on ... <a title="Australia can repair its relationship with China, here are 3 ways to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/australia-can-repair-its-relationship-with-china-here-are-3-ways-to-start-150455/" aria-label="Read more about Australia can repair its relationship with China, here are 3 ways to start">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Pacific Media Watch Newsdesk Academics, journalists and students today raised the West Papuan flag – an act banned in Indonesia and punishable by up to 15 years in jail – at a Pacific Media Centre-hosted symposium in Auckland today. The protest marked the 59th anniversary of the day West Papuans first raised their flag of ... <a title="Academics, journalists, students raise Papuan flag in NZ ‘solidarity’ gesture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/academics-journalists-students-raise-papuan-flag-in-nz-solidarity-gesture/" aria-label="Read more about Academics, journalists, students raise Papuan flag in NZ ‘solidarity’ gesture">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Conley Tyler, Research Fellow, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne China has certainly got Australia’s attention with a highly inflammatory tweet from a government spokesperson. It has provoked the desired reaction — a storm of outrage. Read more: Australia demands apology from China over ‘repugnant’ slur on ... <a title="Australia can repair its relationship with China, here are three ways to start" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/australia-can-repair-its-relationship-with-china-here-are-three-ways-to-start-150455/" aria-label="Read more about Australia can repair its relationship with China, here are three ways to start">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Taucher, PhD Candidate in History, Murdoch University Last week, Prime Minister Scott Morrison made clear he expects senior Australian officers to face some degree of accountability for any crimes allegedly committed by special forces in Afghanistan. So far, however, others have been more circumspect. While Justice ... <a title="Why Australian commanders need to be held responsible for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/why-australian-commanders-need-to-be-held-responsible-for-alleged-war-crimes-in-afghanistan-151030/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australian commanders need to be held responsible for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert McLachlan, Professor in Applied Mathematics, Massey University Following this week’s climate emergency declaration, New Zealand will have to face up to the fact it has one of the worst climate records of industrialised nations. Of 43 industrialised countries — known as Annex 1 countries — 31 ... <a title="Climate emergency or not, New Zealand needs to start doing its fair share of climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/climate-emergency-or-not-new-zealand-needs-to-start-doing-its-fair-share-of-climate-action-151083/" aria-label="Read more about Climate emergency or not, New Zealand needs to start doing its fair share of climate action">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arianna Olivelli, Research Affiliate, CSIRO It’s estimated about two million tonnes of plastics enter the oceans from rivers each year. But our waterways aren’t just conveyor belts transporting land waste to the oceans: they also capture and retain litter. Currently, the most common method for monitoring litter ... <a title="From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/from-hobart-to-london-to-dhaka-using-cameras-and-ai-to-build-an-automatic-litter-detection-system-150950/" aria-label="Read more about From Hobart, to London, to Dhaka: using cameras and AI to build an automatic litter detection system">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government is confronting the ABC board over the Four Corners’ “Inside the Canberra Bubble” expose, demanding chair Ita Buttrose answer 15 questions about the program within 14 days. The program featured Rachelle Miller, a former staffer to minister ... <a title="Government puts 15 questions to ABC chair Ita Buttrose over ‘Canberra Bubble’ program" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/government-puts-15-questions-to-abc-chair-ita-buttrose-over-canberra-bubble-program-151197/" aria-label="Read more about Government puts 15 questions to ABC chair Ita Buttrose over ‘Canberra Bubble’ program">Read more</a>
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December 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Erin Smith, Associate Professor in Disaster and Emergency Response, School of Medical and Health Sciences, Edith Cowan University How does a virus stop? — Angela Gaganis, year 1, Adelaide There’s a scene in the movie “Wreck It Ralph” where Sergeant Calhoun describes some of the bad guys, ... <a title="Curious Kids: how does a virus stop?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/01/curious-kids-how-does-a-virus-stop-148916/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: how does a virus stop?">Read more</a>
