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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laurien Beane, Course Coordinator, Queensland Undergraduate Early Childhood, Australian Catholic University Social distancing during COVID-19 has seen a radical upheaval to the way we work and socialise. But what are the implications for young children? Many children have been uprooted from their places of education and care, ... <a title="Will COVID lockdowns hurt your child’s social development? 3 different theories suggest they’ll probably be OK" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/will-covid-lockdowns-hurt-your-childs-social-development-3-different-theories-suggest-theyll-probably-be-ok-137248/" aria-label="Read more about Will COVID lockdowns hurt your child’s social development? 3 different theories suggest they’ll probably be OK">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Norton, Professor in the Practice of Higher Education Policy, Australian National University The Morrison government’s Job-ready Graduates legislation has passed the Senate. This higher education policy has two major aims: to steer enrolments towards courses with good employment prospects to ready the higher education system for ... <a title="3 flaws in Job-Ready Graduates package will add to the turmoil in Australian higher education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/3-flaws-in-job-ready-graduates-package-will-add-to-the-turmoil-in-australian-higher-education-147740/" aria-label="Read more about 3 flaws in Job-Ready Graduates package will add to the turmoil in Australian higher education">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Noble, Education Policy Fellow, Mitchell Institute, Victoria University Childcare was the centrepiece of last night’s budget reply speech from Leader of the Opposition Anthony Albanese. He announced Labor’s plan to increase the maximum childcare subsidy from 85% to 90% and remove the annual cap on subsidies ... <a title="Labor’s childcare plan may get more women into work. Now what about quality and educators’ pay?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/labors-childcare-plan-may-get-more-women-into-work-now-what-about-quality-and-educators-pay-147755/" aria-label="Read more about Labor’s childcare plan may get more women into work. Now what about quality and educators’ pay?">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: Council on Hemispheric Affairs – Analysis-Reportage By Peter M. TaseFrom Asunción, Paraguay Landlocked, hit by wildfires, engulfed in a prolonged rainfall shortage and drought, and with its people succumbed into malnourishment, the Republic of Paraguay under the leadership of Mario Abdo Benítez is confronted with an overwhelming number of middle income families that have ... <a title="Paraguay marred by violence at home and uncertain foreign policy abroad " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/paraguay-marred-by-violence-at-home-and-uncertain-foreign-policy-abroad/" aria-label="Read more about Paraguay marred by violence at home and uncertain foreign policy abroad ">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Geoffrey Ford, University of Canterbury; Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury, and Kevin Watson, University of Canterbury When New Zealand Health Minister Chris Hipkins recently quipped that the Green Party is “to some extent the conscience of the Labour Party” he was not simply referring to polls suggesting Labour may need the Greens’ support ... <a title="How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/how-the-greens-have-changed-the-nz-language-of-economic-debate/" aria-label="Read more about How the Greens have changed the NZ language of economic debate">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Susan Harris Rimmer, Professor and Director of the Policy Innovation Hub, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Queensland is stereotyped for its sunshine, beaches, lack of daylight saving, Bundy rum, meter maids and One Nation supporters. Many Australians have an ambivalent relationship with the state and don’t take ... <a title="Remember Quexit? 5 reasons you should not take your eyes off the Queensland election" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/remember-quexit-5-reasons-you-should-not-take-your-eyes-off-the-queensland-election-146926/" aria-label="Read more about Remember Quexit? 5 reasons you should not take your eyes off the Queensland election">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch changed lives. Published 50 years ago in October 1970, it exists in the popular imagination as a kind of shorthand for that world-historic moment when women said they’d had enough. The ... <a title="Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/friday-essay-the-female-eunuch-at-50-germaine-greers-fearless-feminist-masterpiece-147437/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: The Female Eunuch at 50, Germaine Greer’s fearless, feminist masterpiece">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Hughes-d’Aeth, Professor, University of Western Australia Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020) The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel, is one of a slew of novels one expects to emerge from the shadow of the 2019–2020 ... <a title="Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/review-richard-flanagans-the-living-sea-of-waking-dreams-considers-griefs-big-and-small-147105/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Many people who know Mathias Cormann – let us except Malcolm Turnbull – will hope he wins his bid to become secretary-general of the OECD. Not only is he well qualified, but it would be a feather in Australia’s cap. ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese tries to climb an impossible mountain" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/grattan-on-friday-anthony-albanese-tries-to-climb-an-impossible-mountain-147796/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Anthony Albanese tries to climb an impossible mountain">Read more</a>
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October 9, 2020
By RNZ Pacific New Caledonia’s pro-independence Kanak and Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS) movement has confirmed that it will request a third and final referendum on independence from France. Last Sunday, 53 percent voted against independence in the second of three possible referendums – three percent less than in 2018. The FLNKS spokesman, Victor Tutugoro, ... <a title="Kanaks pledge third New Caledonia independence referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/09/kanaks-pledge-third-new-caledonia-independence-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Kanaks pledge third New Caledonia independence referendum">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese has promised an ambitious $20 billion plan to modernise Australia’s electricity grid, and extra spending of $6.2 billion over four years for more affordable child care in a budget reply that emphasises the role of government. In another ... <a title="Albanese promises $20 billion plan to modernise electricity grid, and $6.2 billion for child care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/albanese-promises-20-billion-plan-to-modernise-electricity-grid-and-6-2-billion-for-child-care-147764/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese promises $20 billion plan to modernise electricity grid, and $6.2 billion for child care">Read more</a>
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October 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Stone, General practitioner; Clinical Associate Professor, ANU Medical School, Australian National University The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in more anxiety and depression, raised rates of bipolar disorder and other psychoses, and left many Australians stricken with grief. And we will, devastatingly, lose more Australians to suicide. ... <a title="Budget funding for Beyond Blue and Headspace is welcome. But it may not help those who need it most" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/08/budget-funding-for-beyond-blue-and-headspace-is-welcome-but-it-may-not-help-those-who-need-it-most-147661/" aria-label="Read more about Budget funding for Beyond Blue and Headspace is welcome. But it may not help those who need it most">Read more</a>
