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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Samuel Alexander, Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne Based in Melbourne, we set out to find new ways of seeing and understanding aspects of Australian urban life in the 21st century. We did this by walking the city without preconceptions, open and ready to ... <a title="Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/tramping-the-city-to-find-enchantment-in-a-disenchanting-world-150938/" aria-label="Read more about Tramping the city to find enchantment in a disenchanting world">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Ralston, Professorial fellow, Monash University When the government’s retirement incomes review of which I was a part examined superannuation, the age pension and voluntary savings, home ownership had a surprisingly important role. The home is the largest form of voluntary saving and is far more entwined ... <a title="Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/home-ownership-and-super-are-far-more-entwined-than-you-might-think-151693/" aria-label="Read more about Home ownership and super are far more entwined than you might think">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sommer Kapitan, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Auckland University of Technology When New Zealand digital media giant Stuff stopped using Facebook as an advertising partner in July this year, it joined the ranks of other openly activist brands. But it also showed how brand activism is moving from ... <a title="Brand activism is moving up the supply chain — corporate accountability or commercial censorship?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/brand-activism-is-moving-up-the-supply-chain-corporate-accountability-or-commercial-censorship-151749/" aria-label="Read more about Brand activism is moving up the supply chain — corporate accountability or commercial censorship?">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Giselle Bastin, Associate Professor of English, Flinders University The recent outcry from royal biographers about the accuracy and fairness of series 4 of The Crown taps into narratives that have surrounded the field of royal life writing since it emerged in the early 20th century. There has ... <a title="Friday essay: the hidden agenda of royal experts circling The Crown series 4" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/friday-essay-the-hidden-agenda-of-royal-experts-circling-the-crown-series-4-151293/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the hidden agenda of royal experts circling The Crown series 4">Read more</a>
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December 11, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A government-dominated parliamentary committee has recommended the voting system for federal elections should become optional preferential and pre-polling should be reduced from three to two weeks. The Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters in its report on the 2019 election ... <a title="Parliamentary electoral committee floats bigger parliament, longer terms and no byelections" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/11/parliamentary-electoral-committee-floats-bigger-parliament-longer-terms-and-no-byelections-151863/" aria-label="Read more about Parliamentary electoral committee floats bigger parliament, longer terms and no byelections">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra You didn’t need Nostradamus to predict the Labor and union blasts when the government released its industrial relations reforms this week. But who – except the few in the know – would have foreseen the government-union-Labor unity ticket to land ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Who would have thought John Setka could be such a unifying force?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/grattan-on-friday-who-would-have-thought-john-setka-could-be-such-a-unifying-force-151852/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Who would have thought John Setka could be such a unifying force?">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Elise Klein, Senior Lecturer, Australian National University The government’s Cashless Debit Card almost fell apart last night. Senator Rex Patrick’s refusal to support the government’s plans to make the scheme permanent gave some hope that this expensive, ideological and cruel policy would end. Yet in the final ... <a title="Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/whos-really-behaving-badly-confronting-australias-cashless-welfare-card-151847/" aria-label="Read more about Who’s really behaving badly? Confronting Australia’s cashless welfare card">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jen Webb, Dean, Graduate Research, University of Canberra Tara June Winch’s The Yield has won the fiction category of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. I wrote an enthusiastic review of this novel earlier in 2020, and my admiration has not abated in the months since it won ... <a title="Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/prime-ministers-literary-awards-the-yield-and-the-lost-arabs-throw-fragile-lines-across-cultural-and-linguistic-divides-151848/" aria-label="Read more about Prime Minister’s Literary Awards: The Yield and The Lost Arabs throw fragile lines across cultural and linguistic divides">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Walker, Adjunct Fellow, Macquarie University Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the stuff of science fiction. In the form of machine learning tools and decision-making algorithms, it’s all around us. AI determines what news you get served up on the internet. It plays a key role ... <a title="Upheaval at Google signals pushback against biased algorithms and unaccountable AI" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/upheaval-at-google-signals-pushback-against-biased-algorithms-and-unaccountable-ai-151768/" aria-label="Read more about Upheaval at Google signals pushback against biased algorithms and unaccountable AI">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Wilson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine this week became the first major COVID vaccine candidate to have efficacy results from phase 3 trials published in a peer-reviewed journal. The vaccine, AZD1222, is a viral vector vaccine. Researchers took an adenovirus from chimpanzees and ... <a title="The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is the first to publish peer-reviewed efficacy results. Here’s what they tell us — and what they don’t" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/the-oxford-astrazeneca-vaccine-is-the-first-to-publish-peer-reviewed-efficacy-results-heres-what-they-tell-us-and-what-they-dont-151755/" aria-label="Read more about The Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is the first to publish peer-reviewed efficacy results. Here’s what they tell us — and what they don’t">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matt McDonald, Associate Professor of International Relations, The University of Queensland Today, the Morrison government released updated projections of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions, which indicate Australia is on track to meet 2030 Paris targets without using “carryover” credits earned from the Kyoto Protocol period. Australia’s plan to ... <a title="3 reasons meeting climate targets and dumping Kyoto credits won’t salvage Australia’s international reputation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/3-reasons-meeting-climate-targets-and-dumping-kyoto-credits-wont-salvage-australias-international-reputation-151836/" aria-label="Read more about 3 reasons meeting climate targets and dumping Kyoto credits won’t salvage Australia’s international reputation">Read more</a>
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December 10, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn Campbell, Professor Faculty of Education, School of Cultural and Professional Learning, Queensland University of Technology Last week, South Australia announced a mobile phone ban in primary schools. Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan endorsed the ban, saying: Data shows a correlation between the uptake of mobile phones ... <a title="No, Education Minister, we don’t have enough evidence to support banning mobile phones in schools" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/12/10/no-education-minister-we-dont-have-enough-evidence-to-support-banning-mobile-phones-in-schools-151574/" aria-label="Read more about No, Education Minister, we don’t have enough evidence to support banning mobile phones in schools">Read more</a>
