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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jing Qi, Lecturer, School of Global, Urban and Social Sciences, RMIT University When Australians think of international education and China, they typically consider the country as a source of international students — Australia’s largest. But China is now one of the leading host countries of international students ... <a title="How China has been transforming international education to become a leading host of students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/how-china-has-been-transforming-international-education-to-become-a-leading-host-of-students-157241/" aria-label="Read more about How China has been transforming international education to become a leading host of students">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lois Towart, Lecturer in Property Economics, University of Technology Sydney The impacts of a closed border and recent floods have highlighted the challenges facing older Australians who live permanently in caravan parks and manufactured home estates. These properties have long provided affordable housing for retirees, particularly those ... <a title="Soaring housing costs are pushing retirees into areas where disaster risks are high" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/soaring-housing-costs-are-pushing-retirees-into-areas-where-disaster-risks-are-high-158216/" aria-label="Read more about Soaring housing costs are pushing retirees into areas where disaster risks are high">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Knox Peden, Senior Lecturer in European Enlightenment Studies, The University of Queensland We have recently seen a spate of books defending the Enlightenment, that period of efflorescence, in 18th-century Europe, which helped shape the modern world. At the vanguard has been the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker, who ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: Montesquieu’s Persian Letters at 300 — an Enlightenment story that resonates in a time of culture wars" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/guide-to-the-classics-montesquieus-persian-letters-at-300-an-enlightenment-story-that-resonates-in-a-time-of-culture-wars-160176/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: Montesquieu’s Persian Letters at 300 — an Enlightenment story that resonates in a time of culture wars">Read more</a>
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May 13, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A Labor government would provide support for aspiring young entrepreneurs to spend a business-focused year working with a university or private sector incubator to develop their startup enterprise or idea. The Startup Year proposal, in Anthony Albanese’s Thursday night budget ... <a title="Albanese promises support for young entrepreneurs to develop startups" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/13/albanese-promises-support-for-young-entrepreneurs-to-develop-startups-160822/" aria-label="Read more about Albanese promises support for young entrepreneurs to develop startups">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This year’s budget, handed down on Tuesday, boasts plenty of winners and minimal direct losers. Spending is lavish, with the government doing its utmost to avoid offending voters. The big spending commitments include: $17.7 billion for aged care over five ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham and Jim Chalmers on a big spending budget" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/politics-with-michelle-grattan-simon-birmingham-and-jim-chalmers-on-a-big-spending-budget-160784/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Simon Birmingham and Jim Chalmers on a big spending budget">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Wong, Associate professor, Monash University The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the air we breathe, the water we drink – it’s all underpinned by healthy and productive soils. Since Europeans arrived in Australia, the continent’s soil has steadily been degraded. Yet, until now, we’ve ... <a title="Pay dirt: $200 million plan for Australia’s degraded soil is a crucial turning point" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/pay-dirt-200-million-plan-for-australias-degraded-soil-is-a-crucial-turning-point-160704/" aria-label="Read more about Pay dirt: $200 million plan for Australia’s degraded soil is a crucial turning point">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthony Jorm, Professor emeritus, The University of Melbourne The federal budget’s allocation of A$2.3 billion in mental health and suicide prevention funding will be welcome news for the mental health services sector and for people who have struggled to find adequate support. The recent Productivity Commission and ... <a title="A bigger budget for mental health services won’t necessarily improve Australia’s mental health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/a-bigger-budget-for-mental-health-services-wont-necessarily-improve-australias-mental-health-160767/" aria-label="Read more about A bigger budget for mental health services won’t necessarily improve Australia’s mental health">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jo Caust, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne The arts were in free fall this time last year. COVID-19 restrictions had shut everything down and artists and arts organisations were reeling from a dramatic loss of income, as ... <a title="Has the government rescued the arts in this budget? There are some winners but not much has changed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/has-the-government-rescued-the-arts-in-this-budget-there-are-some-winners-but-not-much-has-changed-160195/" aria-label="Read more about Has the government rescued the arts in this budget? There are some winners but not much has changed">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Catherine Bennett, Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University This week, a returned traveller who was quarantining in South Australia seems to have been infected with the virus during his stay, before testing positive once returning to Melbourne. It’s the latest in a long line of hotel quarantine leaks ... <a title="Should we vaccinate all returned travellers in hotel quarantine? It’s no magic fix but it could reduce risks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/should-we-vaccinate-all-returned-travellers-in-hotel-quarantine-its-no-magic-fix-but-it-could-reduce-risks-160711/" aria-label="Read more about Should we vaccinate all returned travellers in hotel quarantine? It’s no magic fix but it could reduce risks">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julia Bergin, Researcher, The University of Melbourne At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping enjoyed prime real estate in the centre of Serbia’s capital, Belgrade: his face plastered across a billboard with the words “Thank you brother Xi”. The sign, courtesy of the ... <a title="How China used the media to spread its COVID narrative — and win friends around the world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/how-china-used-the-media-to-spread-its-covid-narrative-and-win-friends-around-the-world-160694/" aria-label="Read more about How China used the media to spread its COVID narrative — and win friends around the world">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marek Kowalkiewicz, Professor and Founding Director of QUT Centre for the Digital Economy, Queensland University of Technology The federal budget for 2021-22 promises A$1.2 billion over the next six years to support the Digital Economy Strategy, a plan to make Australia “a leading digital economy and society ... <a title="Did someone drop a zero? Australia’s digital economy budget spend should be 10 times bigger" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/did-someone-drop-a-zero-australias-digital-economy-budget-spend-should-be-10-times-bigger-160626/" aria-label="Read more about Did someone drop a zero? Australia’s digital economy budget spend should be 10 times bigger">Read more</a>
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May 12, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The big investment in aged care announced in last night’s federal budget – an extra A$17.7 billion over five years – is a welcome response to the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety. But even an investment of ... <a title="Budget package doesn’t guarantee aged-care residents will get better care" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/05/12/budget-package-doesnt-guarantee-aged-care-residents-will-get-better-care-160611/" aria-label="Read more about Budget package doesn’t guarantee aged-care residents will get better care">Read more</a>
