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December 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Victoria Stace, Senior Lecturer, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington The last time you used a car parking building and paid for the service online, did you pause to read the terms and conditions? If not, you might be surprised to find the car park ... <a title="NZ businesses are still including potentially unfair terms in their general contracts — consumers deserve better" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/nz-businesses-are-still-including-potentially-unfair-terms-in-their-general-contracts-consumers-deserve-better-152079/" aria-label="Read more about NZ businesses are still including potentially unfair terms in their general contracts — consumers deserve better">Read more</a>
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December 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government will inject a further $1 billion into aged care, most of it for home care packages, in Thursday’s budget update. Prime Minister Scott Morrison is also likely to elevate the troubled policy area to cabinet, in his imminent ... <a title="Morrison likely to elevate aged care to cabinet, as government boosts its funding by $1 billion" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/16/morrison-likely-to-elevate-aged-care-to-cabinet-as-government-boosts-its-funding-by-1-billion-152090/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison likely to elevate aged care to cabinet, as government boosts its funding by $1 billion">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Australians became more satisfied with federal public services, and more trusting of them, during the first months of COVID-19, according to survey results released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Between February and June this year, satisfaction with ... <a title="Australians became more trusting of federal public services during pandemic: survey" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/australians-became-more-trusting-of-federal-public-services-during-pandemic-survey-152086/" aria-label="Read more about Australians became more trusting of federal public services during pandemic: survey">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tania Sorrell, Professor of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Director Sydney Institute for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney By any global measure, Australia’s response to the COVID pandemic has been a spectacular success. Public health measures introduced by state, territory and federal governments, with the help ... <a title="Vaccines alone won’t keep Australia safe in 2021. Here’s what else we need to do" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/vaccines-alone-wont-keep-australia-safe-in-2021-heres-what-else-we-need-to-do-152078/" aria-label="Read more about Vaccines alone won’t keep Australia safe in 2021. Here’s what else we need to do">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hongzhi Gao, Associate professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand and China are being pushed toward further regional economic integration as part of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) signed last month. On the face of it, the RCEP is a positive step ... <a title="As China’s trade war with Australia shows, New Zealand must be careful to balance its own economic priorities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/as-chinas-trade-war-with-australia-shows-new-zealand-must-be-careful-to-balance-its-own-economic-priorities-149966/" aria-label="Read more about As China’s trade war with Australia shows, New Zealand must be careful to balance its own economic priorities">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jenni Downes, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia (Monash Sustainable Development Institute), Monash University Last week, Australia took an important step towards addressing the ongoing effects of the 2018 waste crisis. The federal parliament passed legislation banning the export of unprocessed waste overseas via the Recycling and Waste Reduction ... <a title="Australia’s waste export ban becomes law, but the crisis is far from over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/australias-waste-export-ban-becomes-law-but-the-crisis-is-far-from-over-151675/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s waste export ban becomes law, but the crisis is far from over">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter McPhee, Emeritus professor, University of Melbourne Two years ago, the streets of France were filled with the gilets jaunes (yellow vests), a grassroots protest movement sparked by a proposed tax hike on petrol. Though they have shed their yellow safety jackets, many of these disaffected people ... <a title="As protests roil France, Macron faces a wicked problem — and it could lead to his downfall" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/as-protests-roil-france-macron-faces-a-wicked-problem-and-it-could-lead-to-his-downfall-151206/" aria-label="Read more about As protests roil France, Macron faces a wicked problem — and it could lead to his downfall">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mary-Louise McLaws, Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW As many of us return to the office, and congregate indoors over dinner and drinks during the summer holidays, we need to think about ventilation to minimise the indoor spread of COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2, the virus ... <a title="5 tips for ventilation to reduce COVID risk at home and work" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/5-tips-for-ventilation-to-reduce-covid-risk-at-home-and-work-151758/" aria-label="Read more about 5 tips for ventilation to reduce COVID risk at home and work">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniella Teixeira, Researcher, Griffith University One night in January 2020, I couldn’t sleep. I kept waking to check my phone for news from Kangaroo Island, off South Australia. Fires had already burned through several sites where I’d researched the island’s endangered glossy black cockatoos, and now it ... <a title="‘I felt immense grief’: one year on from the bushfires, scientists need mental health support" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/i-felt-immense-grief-one-year-on-from-the-bushfires-scientists-need-mental-health-support-148251/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I felt immense grief’: one year on from the bushfires, scientists need mental health support">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Australians receiving unemployment payments are often negatively portrayed as a relatively small group of people with personal or behavioural problems that stop them from getting a job.The unparalleled growth in unemployment during COVID-19 has opened up ... <a title="Our research shows more Australians receive unemployment payments than you think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/our-research-shows-more-australians-receive-unemployment-payments-than-you-think-151289/" aria-label="Read more about Our research shows more Australians receive unemployment payments than you think">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Costanza, Professor and VC’s Chair, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University As JobKeeper is wound back, businesses are tentatively preparing to stand on their own feet. What follows is a simple proposal to help them share the risk (and rewards) with their workers. It ... <a title="Revenue-contingent wage loans, a proposal for supporting jobs in times of crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/revenue-contingent-wage-loans-a-proposal-for-supporting-jobs-in-times-of-crisis-151565/" aria-label="Read more about Revenue-contingent wage loans, a proposal for supporting jobs in times of crisis">Read more</a>
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December 15, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Zoltan Szabo, Cellist and musicologist, University of Sydney The tradition of performing George Frideric Handel’s Messiah is as inseparable from festivities preceding Christmas as the oversweet carol arrangements oozing through loudspeakers at shopping centres. It’s a tradition worth noticing, as the Messiah was originally composed as an ... <a title="Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/15/decoding-the-music-masterpieces-handels-messiah-oratorio-composed-in-just-24-days-151092/" aria-label="Read more about Decoding the music masterpieces: Handel’s Messiah oratorio, composed in just 24 days">Read more</a>
