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September 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute Australia is in for a long and damaging economic slump, unless governments inject substantially more fiscal stimulus. The July budget update forecast that unemployment would hit 9.25% in coming months. The Treasury now apparently expects it to remain above ... <a title="Now we’ll need $100-$120 billion. Why the budget has to spend big to avoid scarring" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/09/now-well-need-100-120-billion-why-the-budget-has-to-spend-big-to-avoid-scarring-145489/" aria-label="Read more about Now we’ll need $100-$120 billion. Why the budget has to spend big to avoid scarring">Read more</a>
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September 9, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Danks, Associate professor in Cinema and Media Studies, RMIT University It’s hard to imagine that Martin Scorsese’s GoodFellas is 30 years old. A massive influence on contemporary filmmakers ranging from Quentin Tarantino and Fernando Morales to David O. Russell and Paul Thomas Anderson, it remains one ... <a title="GoodFellas at 30: Scorsese’s massively influential, virtuoso gangster film" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/09/goodfellas-at-30-scorseses-massively-influential-virtuoso-gangster-film-144738/" aria-label="Read more about GoodFellas at 30: Scorsese’s massively influential, virtuoso gangster film">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kaya Klop-Toker, Conservation Biology Researcher, University of Newcastle On an island off the Queensland coast, a battle is brewing over the fate of a small population of goats. The battle positions the views of some conservation scientists and managers who believe native species must be protected from ... <a title="‘Compassionate conservation’: just because we love invasive animals, doesn’t mean we should protect them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/compassionate-conservation-just-because-we-love-invasive-animals-doesnt-mean-we-should-protect-them-144945/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Compassionate conservation’: just because we love invasive animals, doesn’t mean we should protect them">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rowan Callick, Industry Fellow, Griffith University The forced departure from China of leading Australian journalists Bill Birtles of the ABC and Mike Smith of The Australian Financial Review robs Australia of direct coverage of events in the vast nation for the first time since the Mao Zedong ... <a title="Journalists have become diplomatic pawns in China’s relations with the West, setting a worrying precedent" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/journalists-have-become-diplomatic-pawns-in-chinas-relations-with-the-west-setting-a-worrying-precedent-145749/" aria-label="Read more about Journalists have become diplomatic pawns in China’s relations with the West, setting a worrying precedent">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University Yesterday, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australians will get access to 84.8 million COVID-19 vaccine doses throughout 2021, provided current trials prove the vaccines in question are safe and effective. A series of deals ... <a title="Putting our money on two COVID vaccines is better than one: why Australia’s latest vaccine deal makes sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/putting-our-money-on-two-covid-vaccines-is-better-than-one-why-australias-latest-vaccine-deal-makes-sense-145693/" aria-label="Read more about Putting our money on two COVID vaccines is better than one: why Australia’s latest vaccine deal makes sense">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Larissa Sandy, Senior Lecturer in Criminology & Justice Studies, RMIT University In recent weeks, Queensland and the ACT became the first Australian jurisdictions to ban conversion therapy. Both passed laws making the widely discredited practice a criminal offence. While this is progress, it is not enough to ... <a title="Why Australia needs a national ban on conversion therapy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/why-australia-needs-a-national-ban-on-conversion-therapy-145410/" aria-label="Read more about Why Australia needs a national ban on conversion therapy">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Tregear, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Melbourne Anyone looking for evidence of just how devastating the COVID-19 pandemic has been to Australia’s performing arts industry need look no further than its flagship company, Opera Australia. Only last year it was boasting an operating surplus. Last month, ... <a title="As COVID wreaks havoc in the performing arts, do we still need a national opera company?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/as-covid-wreaks-havoc-in-the-performing-arts-do-we-still-need-a-national-opera-company-145461/" aria-label="Read more about As COVID wreaks havoc in the performing arts, do we still need a national opera company?">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marc Stears, Professor and Director, Sydney Policy Lab, University of Sydney In the early months of the pandemic, Australia’s public policy response to COVID-19 was widely celebrated across the world. The missteps and extended lockdowns in Victoria recently, though, shows how at least one state has slipped ... <a title="Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdown is the wrong approach. Here’s what good public policy looks like" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/victorias-roadmap-out-of-lockdown-is-the-wrong-approach-heres-what-good-public-policy-looks-like-145723/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdown is the wrong approach. Here’s what good public policy looks like">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Mudgway, Senior Lecturer in Law, Auckland University of Technology It’s been two years since the New Zealand Defence Force set up Operation Respect to stamp out sexual harassment and abuse in its ranks. It came after reports exposed a culture of “persistent sexism” in the NZDF. ... <a title="How to tackle sexual harassment and abuse in the New Zealand Defence Force" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/how-to-tackle-sexual-harassment-and-abuse-in-the-new-zealand-defence-force-145245/" aria-label="Read more about How to tackle sexual harassment and abuse in the New Zealand Defence Force">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
By Charlotte Cook, RNZ News journalist New Zealand health authorities have reported a surge in the number of people returning to the country from India who have tested positive for the covid-19 coronavirus. It comes at the same time India has overtaken Brazil to become the second worst-covid hit country. In the last fortnight, 26 ... <a title="NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/nz-reports-surge-in-positive-covid-19-cases-returning-from-india/" aria-label="Read more about NZ reports surge in positive covid-19 cases returning from India">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joshua Gans, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto I totally support the goal of eliminating the coronavirus from Victoria and at the same time hopefully eliminating it from all of Australia. I’ve written a book making the case this is the best way to get Australia ... <a title="The modelling behind Melbourne’s extended city-wide lockdown is problematic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/the-modelling-behind-melbournes-extended-city-wide-lockdown-is-problematic-145681/" aria-label="Read more about The modelling behind Melbourne’s extended city-wide lockdown is problematic">Read more</a>
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September 8, 2020
By Indria Fernida in Jakarta Yesterday, 16 years ago, Munir Said Thailb, a defender of human rights, was murdered with arsenic poison aboard a Garuda plane on his way to the Netherlands to pursue his postgraduate studies. An official independent joint investigation team later concluded it was a premeditated murder. However, the mastermind of the ... <a title="Indria Fernida: Long road to see justice over Munir’s murder" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/08/indria-fernida-long-road-to-see-justice-over-munirs-murder/" aria-label="Read more about Indria Fernida: Long road to see justice over Munir’s murder">Read more</a>
