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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Saul Eslake, Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Tasmania For two decades now, meaningful tax reform has proved elusive. At the federal level, there hasn’t been any comprehensive reform since the Howard government’s New Tax System of 2000, the one that brought in the goods and services tax. It’s ... <a title="Tasmania’s tax system is broken: here are three ways to fix it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/tasmanias-tax-system-is-broken-here-are-three-ways-to-fix-it-146186/" aria-label="Read more about Tasmania’s tax system is broken: here are three ways to fix it">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amandine Denis, Head of Research, ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University The wild fires that have ravaged the US west coast, turning skies orange, are a lurid reminder that climate change looms ever larger as an economic threat. This week has seen a flurry of announcements reflecting that reality. ... <a title="Super funds are feeling the financial heat from climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/super-funds-are-feeling-the-financial-heat-from-climate-change-146191/" aria-label="Read more about Super funds are feeling the financial heat from climate change">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sin Wen Lau, Senior Lecturer in China Studies, University of Otago Disney’s live-action adaptation of Mulan was released last week amid much controversy. Accusations of Disney bowing to the Chinese Communist Party emerged when the trailer was released. Many were outraged to learn the movie was partially ... <a title="Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/disneys-mulan-tells-women-to-know-their-place-146017/" aria-label="Read more about Disney’s Mulan tells women to know their place">Read more</a>
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September 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachael Ka’ai-Mahuta, Senior Lecturer in Māori Language Revitalisation, Auckland University of Technology Editor’s note: this article marks Māori Language Week/Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. You can read the full article in Māori here. Earlier this year, I met an Aucklander whose teenage passion for K-pop sparked ... <a title="Making te reo Māori cool: what language revitalisation could learn from the Korean Wave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/16/making-te-reo-maori-cool-what-language-revitalisation-could-learn-from-the-korean-wave-145833/" aria-label="Read more about Making te reo Māori cool: what language revitalisation could learn from the Korean Wave">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of South Australia From 11.59pm tomorrow (September 16), regional Victoria will take the third step out of COVID-19 restrictions, Premier Daniel Andrews announced today. According to the roadmap revealed last weekend, the move to step 3 in regional Victoria ... <a title="On the road to COVID normal: the easing of regional Victoria’s restrictions signals hope for Melbourne too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/on-the-road-to-covid-normal-the-easing-of-regional-victorias-restrictions-signals-hope-for-melbourne-too-146203/" aria-label="Read more about On the road to COVID normal: the easing of regional Victoria’s restrictions signals hope for Melbourne too">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Ghezelbash, Associate Professor, Macquarie University It is virtually impossible for anyone to travel to Australia at the moment due to COVID-19 restrictions — let alone those seeking asylum. But even before the pandemic, it was very difficult for asylum seekers to make their way here. With ... <a title="With our borders shut, this is the ideal time to overhaul our asylum seeker policies" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/with-our-borders-shut-this-is-the-ideal-time-to-overhaul-our-asylum-seeker-policies-146016/" aria-label="Read more about With our borders shut, this is the ideal time to overhaul our asylum seeker policies">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University The federal government today announced it will build a new gas power plant in the Hunter Valley, NSW, if electricity generators don’t fill the energy gap left by the Liddell ... <a title="No, Prime Minister, gas doesn’t ‘work for all Australians’ and your scare tactics ignore modern energy problems" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/no-prime-minister-gas-doesnt-work-for-all-australians-and-your-scare-tactics-ignore-modern-energy-problems-146196/" aria-label="Read more about No, Prime Minister, gas doesn’t ‘work for all Australians’ and your scare tactics ignore modern energy problems">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Craig Mark, Professor, Faculty of International Studies, Kyoritsu Women’s University Yoshihide Suga is set to be Japan’s new prime minister after he was easily elected leader of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday. Suga is due to be formally appointed prime minister by a vote in ... <a title="Yoshihide Suga – who is the man set to be Japan’s next prime minister?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/yoshihide-suga-who-is-the-man-set-to-be-japans-next-prime-minister-146195/" aria-label="Read more about Yoshihide Suga – who is the man set to be Japan’s next prime minister?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Hart, Graduate Director, ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, UNSW A typical Australian PhD often involves a focused research project at one university, with one to two supervisors, and often far from your home or home country. It can be a quite isolating experience. PhD ... <a title="PhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/phd-students-need-support-at-the-best-of-the-times-how-can-you-help-in-a-pandemic-144799/" aria-label="Read more about PhD students need support at the best of the times. How can you help in a pandemic?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University Passwords have been used for thousands of years, as a means of identifying ourselves to others and in more recent times, to computers. It’s a simple concept – a shared piece of information, kept secret between individuals ... <a title="A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/a-computer-can-guess-more-than-100-000-000-000-passwords-per-second-still-think-yours-is-secure-144418/" aria-label="Read more about A computer can guess more than 100,000,000,000 passwords per second. Still think yours is secure?">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marguerite Johnson, Professor of Classics, University of Newcastle Throughout antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Egypt and today’s Middle East, people believed that misfortune, including accidents, diseases, and sometimes even death, were caused by external forces. Be they gods or other types of supernatural forces (such as a ... <a title="Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/scarabs-phalluses-evil-eyes-how-ancient-amulets-tried-to-ward-off-disease-143842/" aria-label="Read more about Scarabs, phalluses, evil eyes — how ancient amulets tried to ward off disease">Read more</a>
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September 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nigel French, Professor of Food Safety and Veterinary Public Health, Massey University Genome sequencing — the mapping of the genetic sequences of an organism — has helped track the spread of COVID-19 cases in Auckland, but it also plays an important role in the control of other ... <a title="COVID-19 is not the only infectious disease New Zealand wants to eliminate, and genome sequencing is a crucial tool" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/15/covid-19-is-not-the-only-infectious-disease-new-zealand-wants-to-eliminate-and-genome-sequencing-is-a-crucial-tool-145695/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 is not the only infectious disease New Zealand wants to eliminate, and genome sequencing is a crucial tool">Read more</a>
