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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nat Kassel, PhD Candidate, Griffith University Treasurer Josh Frydenberg promised a federal budget focused on “jobs, jobs, jobs”. In one sense he didn’t disappoint. His budget speech mentioned jobs 37 times – an average of about once a minute. “This budget is all about jobs,” he declared. ... <a title="The budget promises jobs, but does little for workers in the gig economy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/the-budget-promises-jobs-but-does-little-for-workers-in-the-gig-economy-142638/" aria-label="Read more about The budget promises jobs, but does little for workers in the gig economy">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kate Crowley, Associate Professor, Public and Environmental Policy, University of Tasmania After the 2008 global financial crisis, Green New Deals were proposed in various countries as a way to pick up the pieces of the economy. The general idea is to create jobs while rebuilding societies, by ... <a title="You’ve probably heard of the Green New Deal in the US — is it time for one in Australia?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/youve-probably-heard-of-the-green-new-deal-in-the-us-is-it-time-for-one-in-australia-148254/" aria-label="Read more about You’ve probably heard of the Green New Deal in the US — is it time for one in Australia?">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hui Feng, ARC Future Fellow and Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University Few would have thought a US-China relationship marked by relative stability for half a century would be upended in just four years. But US President Donald Trump’s privileged tour of the Forbidden City in November 2017 ... <a title="Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/trump-took-a-sledgehammer-to-us-china-relations-this-wont-be-an-easy-fix-even-if-biden-wins-147098/" aria-label="Read more about Trump took a sledgehammer to US-China relations. This won’t be an easy fix, even if Biden wins">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Ibrahim, Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University This article is part of our series on the future of aged care. In the face of the harrowing findings of the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety and the ... <a title="If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/if-we-have-the-guts-to-give-older-people-a-fair-go-this-is-how-we-fix-aged-care-in-australia-147461/" aria-label="Read more about If we have the guts to give older people a fair go, this is how we fix aged care in Australia">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Gluckman, Director of Koi Tū, the Centre for Informed Futures; former Chief Science Advisor to the Prime Minister of New Zealand, University of Auckland The World Health Organization (WHO) has come in for its share of criticism for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. While some ... <a title="WHO reform: a call for an early-warning protocol for infectious diseases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/who-reform-a-call-for-an-early-warning-protocol-for-infectious-diseases-148078/" aria-label="Read more about WHO reform: a call for an early-warning protocol for infectious diseases">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brett Hutchins, Professor of Media and Communications Studies, Monash University Australian sport’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been remarkable. Major leagues reorganised with impressive speed to keep games going. Schedules dissolved, seasons were compressed and players relocated. And the once unthinkable is now reality: the AFL ... <a title="Fewer flights and a pesticide-free pitch? Here’s how Australia’s football codes can cut their carbon bootprint" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/fewer-flights-and-a-pesticide-free-pitch-heres-how-australias-football-codes-can-cut-their-carbon-bootprint-148258/" aria-label="Read more about Fewer flights and a pesticide-free pitch? Here’s how Australia’s football codes can cut their carbon bootprint">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabi Mocatta, Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University, and Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Programme, University of Tasmania Universities are vital hubs of research and teaching on climate change. As large organisations, they also have significant emissions, which contribute to our climate crisis. Universities should ... <a title="This is how universities can lead climate action" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/this-is-how-universities-can-lead-climate-action-147191/" aria-label="Read more about This is how universities can lead climate action">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University As second-wave outbreaks of COVID-19 around the world demonstrate, it’s a tricky transition from hard lockdowns to more relaxed, but still effective, measures. The responses of different nations (Sweden and Taiwan, for example) have ... <a title="Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/beyond-the-police-state-to-covid-safe-life-after-lockdown-will-need-a-novel-approach-144205/" aria-label="Read more about Beyond the police state to COVID-safe: life after lockdown will need a novel approach">Read more</a>
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October 20, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland In the history of the West over the last 2000 years, there has never been a time when someone hasn’t been predicting the end of the world. And now, with a seemingly ... <a title="Five things to know about the Antichrist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/20/five-things-to-know-about-the-antichrist-148172/" aria-label="Read more about Five things to know about the Antichrist">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Janine Dixon, Economist at Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University In the absence of an official analysis of the impact of the budget by gender the National Foundation for Australian Women has this morning published its own gender analysis of the budget, across multiple dimensions. It finds ... <a title="New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/19/new-modelling-finds-investing-in-childcare-and-aged-care-almost-pays-for-itself-148097/" aria-label="Read more about New modelling finds investing in childcare and aged care almost pays for itself">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Timothy Baker, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Rural Emergency Medicine, Deakin University At the start of the pandemic, health services in regional cities and small towns braced for a tsunami of cases. Many worried the patient transport system between hospitals would fail, and each hospital would ... <a title="As holidaymakers arrive, what does COVID-19 mean for rural health services?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/19/as-holidaymakers-arrive-what-does-covid-19-mean-for-rural-health-services-148183/" aria-label="Read more about As holidaymakers arrive, what does COVID-19 mean for rural health services?">Read more</a>
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October 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin John Brophy, Emeritus Professor of Creative writing, University of Melbourne Review: The Time of Our Lives: Growing older well, By Robert Dessaix, Brio Books How does one grow old well? Perhaps only by starting to do it early. But who wants to prepare for old age ... <a title="Review: Robert Dessaix on growing older well — a genial journey through a rich inner world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/19/review-robert-dessaix-on-growing-older-well-a-genial-journey-through-a-rich-inner-world-148092/" aria-label="Read more about Review: Robert Dessaix on growing older well — a genial journey through a rich inner world">Read more</a>
