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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Narrelle Morris, Senior Lecturer, Curtin Law School, Curtin University A proposed law would give the federal government power to cancel arrangements between foreign governments and Australian states, territories, local councils and public universities. At first glance, it’s not meant to cover universities’ arrangements with all foreign universities. ... <a title="Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/why-unis-are-worried-about-a-federal-power-to-cancel-their-foreign-arrangements-145689/" aria-label="Read more about Why unis are worried about a federal power to cancel their foreign ‘arrangements’">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alex Henderson, PhD Candidate in Literary Studies and Creative Writing, University of Canberra Night in the Woods is a video game about strange in-between spaces: between youth and adulthood, between a rose-tinted past and an uncertain future. Released in 2017, it feels especially resonant in a time ... <a title="Night in the Woods: the video game that captures bittersweet, millennial life under COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/night-in-the-woods-the-video-game-that-captures-bittersweet-millennial-life-under-covid-19-145451/" aria-label="Read more about Night in the Woods: the video game that captures bittersweet, millennial life under COVID-19">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chantal Denise Pagel, Doctoral student | Marine Wildlife Tourism Professional, Auckland University of Technology Three people were injured last month in separate humpback whale encounters off the Western Australia coast. The incidents happened during snorkelling tours on Ningaloo Reef when swimmers came too close to a mother ... <a title="Swimming with whales: you must know the risks and when it’s best to keep your distance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/swimming-with-whales-you-must-know-the-risks-and-when-its-best-to-keep-your-distance-145614/" aria-label="Read more about Swimming with whales: you must know the risks and when it’s best to keep your distance">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Welcome to Evening Report’s A View from Afar: As always, we are joined by political scientist Paul Buchanan to discuss: 1: How Trump told Bob Woodward he intentionally held back how deadly Covid-19 was. We consider how damaging will Woodward’s book RAGE be, for his presidential campaign? 2: How effective is Trump’s culture-wars, race-baiting tactic… VERSUS ... <a title="LIVE: A View from Afar – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning: Is Trump Losing the US Presidential Campaign?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/live-a-view-from-afar-paul-buchanan-selwyn-manning-is-trump-losing-the-us-presidential-campaign/" aria-label="Read more about LIVE: A View from Afar – Paul Buchanan & Selwyn Manning: Is Trump Losing the US Presidential Campaign?">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
By Anusha Bradley, RNZ News reporter New Zealand churches with US links are being blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation. Health Minister Chris Hipkins has said some of the 43 people linked to the Mt Roskill Evangelical Fellowship church “mini-cluster” in Auckland were sceptical about the seriousness of the pandemic, as church and community leaders say ... <a title="NZ churches with US links blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/nz-churches-with-us-links-blamed-for-spreading-covid-19-misinformation/" aria-label="Read more about NZ churches with US links blamed for spreading covid-19 misinformation">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Barrett, Senior Lecturer in Taxation, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Ability to pay is the basic principle of tax fairness: people in a similar financial position should pay similar amounts of tax; people who can afford to pay more tax than others ought ... <a title="With their conservative promises, Labour and National lock in existing unfairness in New Zealand’s tax system" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/with-their-conservative-promises-labour-and-national-lock-in-existing-unfairness-in-new-zealands-tax-system-145916/" aria-label="Read more about With their conservative promises, Labour and National lock in existing unfairness in New Zealand’s tax system">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Parkin, Digital Economist, Western Sydney University A banknote has been sitting in my wallet for six months now. As time ticks on, it burns an ever greater hole in my pocket. At first I felt uneasy spending it, following COVID-19 warnings to pay more attention to ... <a title="Cashless payment is booming, thanks to coronavirus. So is financial surveillance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/cashless-payment-is-booming-thanks-to-coronavirus-so-is-financial-surveillance-145179/" aria-label="Read more about Cashless payment is booming, thanks to coronavirus. So is financial surveillance">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University The late historian John Hirst liked to tell students from overseas that Australians are an obedient people. To those of us raised on the idea that we were an anti-authoritarian nation of ... <a title="An obedient nation of larrikins: why Victorians are not revolting" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/an-obedient-nation-of-larrikins-why-victorians-are-not-revolting-145675/" aria-label="Read more about An obedient nation of larrikins: why Victorians are not revolting">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kellie Bousfield, Associate Head of School, School of Education, Charles Sturt University Every year (except this year) Australian children in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 sit a standardised literacy and numeracy test — NAPLAN. When NAPLAN was brought in in 2008, the government argued it would ... <a title="Not all parents use NAPLAN testing in the same way – and it may be related to their background" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/not-all-parents-use-naplan-testing-in-the-same-way-and-it-may-be-related-to-their-background-145389/" aria-label="Read more about Not all parents use NAPLAN testing in the same way – and it may be related to their background">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Nottage, Professor, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney We may not like Clive Palmer as a person, or his business activities, or his politics, but from a legal perspective that should not matter. All of us, rich or poor, should have equal rights under the rule ... <a title="Clive Palmer versus (Western) Australia. He could survive a High Court loss if his company is found to be “foreign”" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/clive-palmer-versus-western-australia-he-could-survive-a-high-court-loss-if-his-company-is-found-to-be-foreign-145334/" aria-label="Read more about Clive Palmer versus (Western) Australia. He could survive a High Court loss if his company is found to be “foreign”">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia In a post-credit scene at the end of Bill & Ted Face the Music, the titular couple are old men in a nursing home. Decrepit, they stand up from their beds, pick up their guitars, ... <a title="Bill & Ted Face the Music review: party on, dudes – this film is as sweet and daggy as its predecessors" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/bill-and-ted-face-the-music-review-party-on-dudes-this-film-is-as-sweet-and-daggy-as-its-predecessors-144074/" aria-label="Read more about Bill & Ted Face the Music review: party on, dudes – this film is as sweet and daggy as its predecessors">Read more</a>
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September 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australian Federal Police and ASIO raided two Chinese journalists in June as part of an investigation into foreign interference in Australia. The previously unpublicised action has come to light via Chinese media reports, in the same week that two Australian ... <a title="Chinese reveal their journalists in Australia were questioned in foreign interference investigation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/10/chinese-reveal-their-journalists-in-australia-were-questioned-in-foreign-interference-investigation-145873/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese reveal their journalists in Australia were questioned in foreign interference investigation">Read more</a>
