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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Accelerated tax cuts, cash splashes for pensioners, massive incentives for business to invest and a subsidy to hire unemployed people are the centrepieces of the Morrison government’s COVID-19 budget. More than 11 million taxpayers will get a tax cut backdated ... <a title="Budget 2020: Frydenberg tells Australians, ‘we have your back’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/budget-2020-frydenberg-tells-australians-we-have-your-back-147014/" aria-label="Read more about Budget 2020: Frydenberg tells Australians, ‘we have your back’">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Senior Lecturer, UNSW The Australian federal budget, unveiled on Tuesday, bases several assumptions on Australians having access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. This timeline is possible, according to researchers on the frontline of vaccine development. A survey published in early October asked 28 US ... <a title="The budget assumes a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available next year. Is this feasible?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/the-budget-assumes-a-covid-19-vaccine-becomes-available-next-year-is-this-feasible-147557/" aria-label="Read more about The budget assumes a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available next year. Is this feasible?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Barnet, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook has responded to Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, saying it “buries the substance in sensationalism”. The show is currently in Netflix Australia’s top ten list and has been popular around the globe. Some media ... <a title="Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/netflixs-the-social-dilemma-highlights-the-problem-with-social-media-but-whats-the-solution-147351/" aria-label="Read more about Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University Review: Brazen Hussies, directed by Catherine Dwyer, Brisbane International Film Festival. The moment feminist author Kate Jennings took to the microphone at a moratorium on the front lawn of Sydney University in 1970 is presented as a ... <a title="Brazen Hussies: a new film captures the heady, turbulent power of Australia’s women’s liberation movement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/brazen-hussies-a-new-film-captures-the-heady-turbulent-power-of-australias-womens-liberation-movement-147182/" aria-label="Read more about Brazen Hussies: a new film captures the heady, turbulent power of Australia’s women’s liberation movement">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University A common critique of Australian universities today is that they operate as if they are corporations. The pursuit of endless sales in the form of international student enrolments appears to be their principal purpose, rather than the pursuit ... <a title="Unis are run like corporations but their leaders are less accountable. Here’s an easy way to fix that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/unis-are-run-like-corporations-but-their-leaders-are-less-accountable-heres-an-easy-way-to-fix-that-147194/" aria-label="Read more about Unis are run like corporations but their leaders are less accountable. Here’s an easy way to fix that">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Kingham, Professor, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/climate-explained-does-building-and-expanding-motorways-really-reduce-congestion-and-emissions-147024/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barns, Sessional Lecturer in Law, RMIT University In early September, Victoria Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Ferguson issued a statement as COVID cases began to rapidly decline across the state following the peak of the second wave. Ferguson said she and her colleagues would carefully consider ... <a title="Victoria’s criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/victorias-criminal-courts-are-critically-backlogged-this-is-how-we-can-speed-up-justice-146761/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justice">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s controversial changes to higher education fees now appear set to pass the Senate, with Centre Alliance giving its support. The minor party, whose two federal parliamentarians come from South Australia, has won modest concessions, including 12,000 extra places ... <a title="Government wins crossbench support for new tertiary fees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/government-wins-crossbench-support-for-new-tertiary-fees-147568/" aria-label="Read more about Government wins crossbench support for new tertiary fees">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland What is the relationship between hate crimes and terrorism? Could we have predicted the terror attacks at Masjid Al Noor and the Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15 last year if we had been able ... <a title="Hate crimes against Muslims spiked after the mosque attacks, and Ardern promises to make such abuse illegal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/hate-crimes-against-muslims-spiked-after-the-mosque-attacks-and-ardern-promises-to-make-such-abuse-illegal-147347/" aria-label="Read more about Hate crimes against Muslims spiked after the mosque attacks, and Ardern promises to make such abuse illegal">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Ford, Lecturer in Digital Humanities / Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury When 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 ... <a title="Analysis shows how the Greens have changed the language of economic debate in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/analysis-shows-how-the-greens-have-changed-the-language-of-economic-debate-in-new-zealand-144492/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis shows how the Greens have changed the language of economic debate in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
ANALYSIS: By David Robie While pro-independence Kanak supporters rued another defeat in the second referendum on independence for New Caledonia at the weekend, it was even narrower than the loss two years ago. Now there is a real prospect of a win in 2022. “The path to independence and sovereignty is inevitable,” pledges the Front ... <a title="Victory in defeat for Kanak independence supporters in latest referendum" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/victory-in-defeat-for-kanak-independence-supporters-in-latest-referendum/" aria-label="Read more about Victory in defeat for Kanak independence supporters in latest referendum">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
By Rowan Quinn, RNZ News health correspondent Aucklanders are being warned not to be caught napping again when it comes to the covid-19 pandemic. New Zealand’s largest city is preparing to join the rest of the country in alert level 1 from Thursday. But some experts are worried the government has kept no extra precautions ... <a title="Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/aucklanders-warned-not-to-fall-into-a-slumber-again-over-covid/" aria-label="Read more about Aucklanders warned not to fall into a ‘slumber’ again over covid">Read more</a>
