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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The pandemic – and developments in health care – have forced the Commonwealth government to commit to a massive increase in spending on health care this year. In the 2019-20 budget, the Commonwealth promised an increase of A$540 million in ... <a title="Budget 2020: big health problems lead to big health spending" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/budget-2020-big-health-problems-lead-to-big-health-spending-147580/" aria-label="Read more about Budget 2020: big health problems lead to big health spending">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Grant Duncan, Associate Professor, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University New Zealand’s election is coming down to a simple contest between the Labour-Green bloc on the left and the National-ACT bloc on the right. Although the right is behind in the polls, if it were ... <a title="The rise of ACT in 2020 highlights tensions between the party’s libertarian and populist traditions" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/the-rise-of-act-in-2020-highlights-tensions-between-the-partys-libertarian-and-populist-traditions-147170/" aria-label="Read more about The rise of ACT in 2020 highlights tensions between the party’s libertarian and populist traditions">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sheena G. Sullivan, Epidemiologist, WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza When we get a test result for a disease like COVID-19, we naturally expect it to be either positive or negative. But the results of these tests are not so black and white. Polymerase ... <a title="Why do some COVID-19 tests come back with a ‘weak positive’, and why does it matter?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/why-do-some-covid-19-tests-come-back-with-a-weak-positive-and-why-does-it-matter-147258/" aria-label="Read more about Why do some COVID-19 tests come back with a ‘weak positive’, and why does it matter?">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gemma Sharp, NHMRC Early Career Senior Research Fellow, Monash University Cosmetic genital procedures are becoming increasingly popular in women. The most common is labiaplasty, which involves the surgical reduction of the inner lips of the vulva — the labia minora. Most women who undergo labiaplasty in Australia ... <a title="Is my vulva normal? Not all genitalia look the same, and we’re trying to teach teenagers that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/is-my-vulva-normal-not-all-genitalia-look-the-same-and-were-trying-to-teach-teenagers-that-147438/" aria-label="Read more about Is my vulva normal? Not all genitalia look the same, and we’re trying to teach teenagers that">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Hobbins, Honorary Associate, Department of History, University of Sydney Review: Design for Life, the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney. Life is messy, yet on the surface it comes neatly packaged. Our skin both enfolds and conceals internal systems that are almost infinite in their complexity. No wonder it’s ... <a title="Surgical corsets, respirators: a new exhibition showcases the art hidden in medical devices" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/surgical-corsets-respirators-a-new-exhibition-showcases-the-art-hidden-in-medical-devices-147087/" aria-label="Read more about Surgical corsets, respirators: a new exhibition showcases the art hidden in medical devices">Read more</a>
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October 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leslie Roberson, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland Many exotic animals are banned from import into Australia because they’re threatened with extinction, and trading them is illegal under environment laws. Yet boatloads of threatened marine species are legally brought into Australia, and may end up on your ... <a title="What are you really eating? How threatened ‘seafood’ species slip through the law and onto your plate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/07/what-are-you-really-eating-how-threatened-seafood-species-slip-through-the-law-and-onto-your-plate-147108/" aria-label="Read more about What are you really eating? How threatened ‘seafood’ species slip through the law and onto your plate">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra This is an extraordinary giveaway budget, driven by desperate circumstances that would have been inconceivable less than a year ago. The debt and deficit numbers are predictably eye-watering – but the gamble is whether they are big enough. The Morrison ... <a title="This budget will only work if business and consumers play ball" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/this-budget-will-only-work-if-business-and-consumers-play-ball-147013/" aria-label="Read more about This budget will only work if business and consumers play ball">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW This year’s budget is something of a play in two acts. Act one involves large economic stimulus to help plug the hole in output generated by the coronavirus pandemic. Act two tries to set Australia up for a bounce back in ... <a title="The budget’s tax cuts have their critics, but this year they make fiscal sense" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/the-budgets-tax-cuts-have-their-critics-but-this-year-they-make-fiscal-sense-147015/" aria-label="Read more about The budget’s tax cuts have their critics, but this year they make fiscal sense">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Tax cuts aren’t the half of it. The personal income tax cuts promised in the budget will cost A$17.8 billion over four years. The measures aimed at supporting businesses – the temporary instant tax write ... <a title="Budget 2020: promising tax breaks, but relying on hope" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/budget-2020-promising-tax-breaks-but-relying-on-hope-147012/" aria-label="Read more about Budget 2020: promising tax breaks, but relying on hope">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Accelerated tax cuts, cash splashes for pensioners, massive incentives for business to invest and a subsidy to hire unemployed people are the centrepieces of the Morrison government’s COVID-19 budget. More than 11 million taxpayers will get a tax cut backdated ... <a title="Budget 2020: Frydenberg tells Australians, ‘we have your back’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/budget-2020-frydenberg-tells-australians-we-have-your-back-147014/" aria-label="Read more about Budget 2020: Frydenberg tells Australians, ‘we have your back’">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Holly Seale, Senior Lecturer, UNSW The Australian federal budget, unveiled on Tuesday, bases several assumptions on Australians having access to a COVID-19 vaccine in 2021. This timeline is possible, according to researchers on the frontline of vaccine development. A survey published in early October asked 28 US ... <a title="The budget assumes a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available next year. Is this feasible?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/the-budget-assumes-a-covid-19-vaccine-becomes-available-next-year-is-this-feasible-147557/" aria-label="Read more about The budget assumes a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available next year. Is this feasible?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Barnet, Senior Lecturer in Media and Communications, Swinburne University of Technology Facebook has responded to Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma, saying it “buries the substance in sensationalism”. The show is currently in Netflix Australia’s top ten list and has been popular around the globe. Some media ... <a title="Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/netflixs-the-social-dilemma-highlights-the-problem-with-social-media-but-whats-the-solution-147351/" aria-label="Read more about Netflix’s The Social Dilemma highlights the problem with social media, but what’s the solution?">Read more</a>
