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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>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University History tells us the month of October in a US presidential election year has a tendency to produce an unforeseen moment that may, or may not, have an impact on the election itself. William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s ... <a title="Why (another) ‘October surprise’ may yet take place –
this time in the Persian Gulf" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/why-another-october-surprise-may-yet-take-place-this-time-in-the-persian-gulf-147354/" aria-label="Read more about Why (another) ‘October surprise’ may yet take place –
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Musker, Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute For many of us, becoming ill with a virus might put us on the couch for a week or two. It’s frustrating, but after recovering we can generally get back to the things we’re used ... <a title="What is post-viral fatigue syndrome, the condition affecting some COVID-19 survivors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/what-is-post-viral-fatigue-syndrome-the-condition-affecting-some-covid-19-survivors-146851/" aria-label="Read more about What is post-viral fatigue syndrome, the condition affecting some COVID-19 survivors?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Britta Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench. But just ... <a title="We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It’s worse than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/we-estimate-there-are-up-to-14-million-tonnes-of-microplastics-on-the-seafloor-its-worse-than-we-thought-146403/" aria-label="Read more about We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It’s worse than we thought">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Duncanson, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University From the first rumblings of its spread, COVID-19’s impact on women academics was immediate. In a sign of the gendered nature of the pandemic’s impacts, men’s research submissions to academic journals almost instantly increased ... <a title="How COVID is widening the academic gender divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/how-covid-is-widening-the-academic-gender-divide-146007/" aria-label="Read more about How COVID is widening the academic gender divide">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Casey, Research Associate, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic caused businesses to shut down, state governments acted to avoid evictions by introducing moratoriums, and the federal government introduced the Coronavirus Supplement of A$550 on top of the fortnightly JobSeeker payment. ... <a title="Cutting JobSeeker payments will cause crippling rental stress in our cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/cutting-jobseeker-payments-will-cause-crippling-rental-stress-in-our-cities-147198/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting JobSeeker payments will cause crippling rental stress in our cities">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute After two decades equating budget surpluses with good economic management, it might seem convenient that the federal government has changed its fiscal strategy just before the budget to focus on jobs over keeping the deficit in check. But it’s the ... <a title="Don’t worry about the debt: we need more stimulus to avoid a prolonged recession" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/dont-worry-about-the-debt-we-need-more-stimulus-to-avoid-a-prolonged-recession-147369/" aria-label="Read more about Don’t worry about the debt: we need more stimulus to avoid a prolonged recession">Read more</a>
