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November 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government is getting itself onto very sticky paper in the developing row over revoking the citation awarded to the Special Operations Task Group that served in Afghanistan because of alleged atrocities committed by a number of its members. Announcing ... <a title="View from The Hill: How will ADF chief react if government insists Special Operations Task Group should keep citation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/29/view-from-the-hill-how-will-adf-chief-react-if-government-insists-special-operations-task-group-should-keep-citation-151075/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: How will ADF chief react if government insists Special Operations Task Group should keep citation?">Read more</a>
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November 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Once about as high as the pension, the JobSeeker (Newstart) unemployment payment has fallen shockingly low compared to living standards. It’s now only two thirds of the pension, just 40% of the full-time minimum wage ... <a title="Top economists want JobSeeker boosted by $100+ per week and tied to wages" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/29/top-economists-want-jobseeker-boosted-by-100-per-week-and-tied-to-wages-150364/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists want JobSeeker boosted by $100+ per week and tied to wages">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Abas Mirzaei, Senior Lecturer – Branding, Macquarie University The makers of Coon cheese will no doubt have paid close attention to the publicity surrounding Nestle’s rebadging of its Red Skins and Chicos confectionary brands. While the change of Chicos to Cheekies was uncontroversial, the change of Red ... <a title="Coon’s rebranding dilemma: polishing a brand name to stay out of controversy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/coons-rebranding-dilemma-polishing-a-brand-name-to-stay-out-of-controversy-150456/" aria-label="Read more about Coon’s rebranding dilemma: polishing a brand name to stay out of controversy">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thea van de Mortel, Professor, Nursing and Deputy Head (Learning & Teaching), School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University As restrictions ease around the country and the prospect of travel beckons, many of us will be planning road trips for the holiday season. To ensure your trip ... <a title="Planning a road trip in a pandemic? 11 tips for before you leave, on the road and when you arrive" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/planning-a-road-trip-in-a-pandemic-11-tips-for-before-you-leave-on-the-road-and-when-you-arrive-149620/" aria-label="Read more about Planning a road trip in a pandemic? 11 tips for before you leave, on the road and when you arrive">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, Canberra School of Politics, Economics and Society, University of Canberra The “team of rivals” was the term historian Doris Kearns Goodwin used to describe US President Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. It included three men who had run against Lincoln for the Republican nomination for ... <a title="Biden’s cabinet picks are globally respected, but one obstacle remains for the US to ‘lead the world’ again" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/bidens-cabinet-picks-are-globally-respected-but-one-obstacle-remains-for-the-us-to-lead-the-world-again-150935/" aria-label="Read more about Biden’s cabinet picks are globally respected, but one obstacle remains for the US to ‘lead the world’ again">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Toole, Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute Today Victoria satisfied a common definition of elimination for COVID-19, recording its 28th consecutive day of zero new cases. While there is no international definition of elimination, two average incubation periods without community transmission is widely accepted as local ... <a title="Victoria may have eliminated COVID-19, but eradication is a distant dream" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/victoria-may-have-eliminated-covid-19-but-eradication-is-a-distant-dream-150736/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria may have eliminated COVID-19, but eradication is a distant dream">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Poropat, Postdoctoral Researcher (Palaeontology), Swinburne University of Technology Will there ever be dinosaurs again? — Anonymous What an interesting question! Well, technically dinosaurs are still here in the form of birds. Just like you’re a direct descendant of your grandparents, birds are the only remaining direct ... <a title="Curious Kids: could dinosaurs evolve back into existence?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/curious-kids-could-dinosaurs-evolve-back-into-existence-148623/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: could dinosaurs evolve back into existence?">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Esme Franken, Lecturer in Management, Edith Cowan University New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian, who last week carried on working for up to two hours while awaiting the results of a rapid COVID test, wasn’t the first Australian to “soldier on” in the face of health concerns ... <a title="Taking proper sick leave has never been more crucial. So why are people still ‘soldiering on’ at work?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/taking-proper-sick-leave-has-never-been-more-crucial-so-why-are-people-still-soldiering-on-at-work-150931/" aria-label="Read more about Taking proper sick leave has never been more crucial. So why are people still ‘soldiering on’ at work?">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tootoooleaava Dr. Fanaafi Aiono-Le Tagaloa, Law Lecturer and Convenor of Pacific Engagement, University of Waikato Within minutes of news that crew members of the cargo ship Fesco Askold had tested positive for COVID-19, a social media storm broke across Samoa. COVID-free until then, the island nation’s anxiety ... <a title="Devastated by disease in the past, Samoa is on high alert after recent coronavirus scares" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/devastated-by-disease-in-the-past-samoa-is-on-high-alert-after-recent-coronavirus-scares-150940/" aria-label="Read more about Devastated by disease in the past, Samoa is on high alert after recent coronavirus scares">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Culum Brown, Professor, Macquarie University They may have been around for hundreds of millions of years — long before trees — but today sharks and rays are are among the most threatened animals in the world, largely because of overfishing and habitat loss. Climate change adds another ... <a title="How will sharks respond to climate change? It might depend on where they grew up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/how-will-sharks-respond-to-climate-change-it-might-depend-on-where-they-grew-up-150460/" aria-label="Read more about How will sharks respond to climate change? It might depend on where they grew up">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yu Tao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Western Australia Before the COVID-19 pandemic, about two in every five international students enrolled in Australian higher education institutions were from mainland China. These Chinese students brought in more than $A10 billion a year. During the pandemic, Australian ... <a title="5 ways Australia can get ahead in attracting and retaining Chinese international students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/5-ways-australia-can-get-ahead-in-attracting-and-retaining-chinese-international-students-148444/" aria-label="Read more about 5 ways Australia can get ahead in attracting and retaining Chinese international students">Read more</a>
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November 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amelia Thorpe, Associate Professor in Law, UNSW Five food-delivery cyclists have died on Australian roads in the past three months, four in Sydney. Most commentary has focused on the harsh employment conditions that force people to take risks they shouldn’t have to. These problems should of course ... <a title="Delivery rider deaths highlight need to make streets safer for everyone" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/11/27/delivery-rider-deaths-highlight-need-to-make-streets-safer-for-everyone-150752/" aria-label="Read more about Delivery rider deaths highlight need to make streets safer for everyone">Read more</a>
