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February 10, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Anthony Albanese will risk a backlash from employers when he releases an industrial relations policy promising a Labor government would substantially increase the legal rights and protections for Australians in insecure work. Wednesday’s policy unveiling will ensure industrial relations is ... <a title="Anthony Albanese’s plan to boost protections for Australians in insecure work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/10/anthony-albaneses-plan-to-boost-protections-for-australians-in-insecure-work-154953/" aria-label="Read more about Anthony Albanese’s plan to boost protections for Australians in insecure work">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Charles Livingstone, Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University After months of hearings, characterised by spectacular admissions including threats of violence, the report of the Bergin Inquiry into the probity of Crown Sydney Gaming, a subsidiary of Crown Resorts Limited, has been tabled ... <a title="‘Not suitable’: where to now for James Packer and Crown’s other casinos?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/not-suitable-where-to-now-for-james-packer-and-crowns-other-casinos-154938/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Not suitable’: where to now for James Packer and Crown’s other casinos?">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elena Collinson, Senior Project and Research Officer, Australia-China Relations Institute, University of Technology Sydney Australia-China relations, which have been spiralling downward for some time, continue to sink. The latest blow comes in the form of the formal arrest of Australian journalist and former business anchor for Chinese ... <a title="Australia must continue to press for humane treatment of journalist Cheng Lei after her arrest in China" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/australia-must-continue-to-press-for-humane-treatment-of-journalist-cheng-lei-after-her-arrest-in-china-154937/" aria-label="Read more about Australia must continue to press for humane treatment of journalist Cheng Lei after her arrest in China">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University There’s something odd about those television and internet advertisements telling us we are getting more super. The money seems to come from nowhere. “Pretty soon,” explains the woman getting onto an escalator, “the amount of ... <a title="That extra you’re about to get in super, most of it will come from you, but don’t expect the ads to tell you that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/that-extra-youre-about-to-get-in-super-most-of-it-will-come-from-you-but-dont-expect-the-ads-to-tell-you-that-154723/" aria-label="Read more about That extra you’re about to get in super, most of it will come from you, but don’t expect the ads to tell you that">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenny Fisher, Associate Professor in Atmospheric Chemistry, University of Wollongong Mercury is a nasty toxin that harms humans and ecosystems. Most human exposure comes from eating contaminated fish and other seafood. But how does mercury enter the Australian environment in the first place? Our recent research dug ... <a title="Australia’s gold industry stamped out mercury pollution – now it’s coal’s turn" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/australias-gold-industry-stamped-out-mercury-pollution-now-its-coals-turn-151202/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s gold industry stamped out mercury pollution – now it’s coal’s turn">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amelia Thorpe, Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Replacing cars that run on fossil fuels with electric cars will be important in meeting climate goals – road transport produces more than 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions. But there are obstacles to wider uptake, particularly in Australia. Too ... <a title="On an electric car road trip around NSW, we found range anxiety (and the need for more chargers) is real" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/on-an-electric-car-road-trip-around-nsw-we-found-range-anxiety-and-the-need-for-more-chargers-is-real-154071/" aria-label="Read more about On an electric car road trip around NSW, we found range anxiety (and the need for more chargers) is real">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Grieve Williams, Adjunct Professor, RMIT University There is a quiet movement among settler colonials in Australia and the US to critically examine their family histories as a way of re-examining the impact of centuries of dispossession and slavery of Indigenous peoples. Critical family histories enable a ... <a title="Truth telling and giving back: how settler colonials are coming to terms with painful family histories" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/truth-telling-and-giving-back-how-settler-colonials-are-coming-to-terms-with-painful-family-histories-145165/" aria-label="Read more about Truth telling and giving back: how settler colonials are coming to terms with painful family histories">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Sydney We all know the queen can’t refuse assent to a bill just because she doesn’t like it. But can she secretly get a law changed, in her personal interest, before it is even introduced into parliament? The answer ... <a title="New evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-shows-how-her-majesty-wields-influence-on-legislation-154818/" aria-label="Read more about New evidence shows how Her Majesty wields influence on legislation">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Vice-chancellor’s fellow, La Trobe University Australia’s efforts to end a diplomatic deep freeze with China may not be getting anywhere fast on the surface, but there are nonetheless some signs of a potential thaw. China’s announcement it was “actively studying” joining a region-wide trade pact ... <a title="Australia has a great chance to engage in trade diplomacy with China, and it must take it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/australia-has-a-great-chance-to-engage-in-trade-diplomacy-with-china-and-it-must-take-it-154737/" aria-label="Read more about Australia has a great chance to engage in trade diplomacy with China, and it must take it">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachelle Meyer, Postdoctoral Fellow (Farm Systems Analysis), University of Melbourne Prime Minister Scott Morrison might be warming to the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, but federal Nationals leader Michael McCormack has thrown a spanner in the works by suggesting agriculture be excluded from the target. On ... <a title="Nationals’ push to carve farming from a net-zero target is misguided and dangerous" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/nationals-push-to-carve-farming-from-a-net-zero-target-is-misguided-and-dangerous-154822/" aria-label="Read more about Nationals’ push to carve farming from a net-zero target is misguided and dangerous">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Melissa Crouch, Professor and Associate Dean Research, Law School, UNSW We all had hoped for a positive start to 2021, but that has not been the case for Australia’s engagement in the region. The Australian government has shown disregard for the importance of our ties with Asia ... <a title="Axing protection for national strategic languages is no way to build ties with Asia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/axing-protection-for-national-strategic-languages-is-no-way-to-build-ties-with-asia-154555/" aria-label="Read more about Axing protection for national strategic languages is no way to build ties with Asia">Read more</a>
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February 9, 2021
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen King, Adjunct professor, Monash University Australia and the United States have been waving through takeovers because the targets are small, something that’s usually good practice. Under Australian law takeovers are normally permitted unless they would have the effect, or be likely to have the effect, of ... <a title="Our corporate cops allowed Facebook to grow big by worrying about the wrong thing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2021/02/09/our-corporate-cops-allowed-facebook-to-grow-big-by-worrying-about-the-wrong-thing-152190/" aria-label="Read more about Our corporate cops allowed Facebook to grow big by worrying about the wrong thing">Read more</a>
