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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Breen, Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing, Griffith University Review: Brazen Hussies, directed by Catherine Dwyer, Brisbane International Film Festival. The moment feminist author Kate Jennings took to the microphone at a moratorium on the front lawn of Sydney University in 1970 is presented as a ... <a title="Brazen Hussies: a new film captures the heady, turbulent power of Australia’s women’s liberation movement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/brazen-hussies-a-new-film-captures-the-heady-turbulent-power-of-australias-womens-liberation-movement-147182/" aria-label="Read more about Brazen Hussies: a new film captures the heady, turbulent power of Australia’s women’s liberation movement">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Luke Beck, Associate Professor of Constitutional Law, Monash University A common critique of Australian universities today is that they operate as if they are corporations. The pursuit of endless sales in the form of international student enrolments appears to be their principal purpose, rather than the pursuit ... <a title="Unis are run like corporations but their leaders are less accountable. Here’s an easy way to fix that" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/unis-are-run-like-corporations-but-their-leaders-are-less-accountable-heres-an-easy-way-to-fix-that-147194/" aria-label="Read more about Unis are run like corporations but their leaders are less accountable. Here’s an easy way to fix that">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Kingham, Professor, University of Canterbury CC BY-ND Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz ... <a title="Climate explained: does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/climate-explained-does-building-and-expanding-motorways-really-reduce-congestion-and-emissions-147024/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: does building and expanding motorways really reduce congestion and emissions?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barns, Sessional Lecturer in Law, RMIT University In early September, Victoria Supreme Court Chief Justice Anne Ferguson issued a statement as COVID cases began to rapidly decline across the state following the peak of the second wave. Ferguson said she and her colleagues would carefully consider ... <a title="Victoria’s criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/victorias-criminal-courts-are-critically-backlogged-this-is-how-we-can-speed-up-justice-146761/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s criminal courts are critically backlogged. This is how we can speed up justice">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government’s controversial changes to higher education fees now appear set to pass the Senate, with Centre Alliance giving its support. The minor party, whose two federal parliamentarians come from South Australia, has won modest concessions, including 12,000 extra places ... <a title="Government wins crossbench support for new tertiary fees" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/government-wins-crossbench-support-for-new-tertiary-fees-147568/" aria-label="Read more about Government wins crossbench support for new tertiary fees">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland What is the relationship between hate crimes and terrorism? Could we have predicted the terror attacks at Masjid Al Noor and the Linwood Islamic Centre on March 15 last year if we had been able ... <a title="Hate crimes against Muslims spiked after the mosque attacks, and Ardern promises to make such abuse illegal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/hate-crimes-against-muslims-spiked-after-the-mosque-attacks-and-ardern-promises-to-make-such-abuse-illegal-147347/" aria-label="Read more about Hate crimes against Muslims spiked after the mosque attacks, and Ardern promises to make such abuse illegal">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Geoffrey Ford, Lecturer in Digital Humanities / Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury When Health Minister Chris Hipkins recently quipped that the Green Party is “to some extent the conscience of the Labour Party” he was not simply referring to polls suggesting ... <a title="Analysis shows how the Greens have changed the language of economic debate in New Zealand" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/analysis-shows-how-the-greens-have-changed-the-language-of-economic-debate-in-new-zealand-144492/" aria-label="Read more about Analysis shows how the Greens have changed the language of economic debate in New Zealand">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University History tells us the month of October in a US presidential election year has a tendency to produce an unforeseen moment that may, or may not, have an impact on the election itself. William Casey, Ronald Reagan’s ... <a title="Why (another) ‘October surprise’ may yet take place –
this time in the Persian Gulf" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/why-another-october-surprise-may-yet-take-place-this-time-in-the-persian-gulf-147354/" aria-label="Read more about Why (another) ‘October surprise’ may yet take place –
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Musker, Senior Research Fellow, South Australian Health & Medical Research Institute For many of us, becoming ill with a virus might put us on the couch for a week or two. It’s frustrating, but after recovering we can generally get back to the things we’re used ... <a title="What is post-viral fatigue syndrome, the condition affecting some COVID-19 survivors?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/what-is-post-viral-fatigue-syndrome-the-condition-affecting-some-covid-19-survivors-146851/" aria-label="Read more about What is post-viral fatigue syndrome, the condition affecting some COVID-19 survivors?">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Britta Denise Hardesty, Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship, CSIRO Nowhere, it seems, is immune from plastic pollution: plastic has been reported in the high Arctic oceans, in the sea ice around Antarctica and even in the world’s deepest waters of the Mariana Trench. But just ... <a title="We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It’s worse than we thought" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/we-estimate-there-are-up-to-14-million-tonnes-of-microplastics-on-the-seafloor-its-worse-than-we-thought-146403/" aria-label="Read more about We estimate there are up to 14 million tonnes of microplastics on the seafloor. It’s worse than we thought">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kirsty Duncanson, Senior Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies, La Trobe University From the first rumblings of its spread, COVID-19’s impact on women academics was immediate. In a sign of the gendered nature of the pandemic’s impacts, men’s research submissions to academic journals almost instantly increased ... <a title="How COVID is widening the academic gender divide" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/how-covid-is-widening-the-academic-gender-divide-146007/" aria-label="Read more about How COVID is widening the academic gender divide">Read more</a>
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October 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simone Casey, Research Associate, Future Social Service Institute, RMIT University As soon as the COVID-19 pandemic caused businesses to shut down, state governments acted to avoid evictions by introducing moratoriums, and the federal government introduced the Coronavirus Supplement of A$550 on top of the fortnightly JobSeeker payment. ... <a title="Cutting JobSeeker payments will cause crippling rental stress in our cities" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/10/06/cutting-jobseeker-payments-will-cause-crippling-rental-stress-in-our-cities-147198/" aria-label="Read more about Cutting JobSeeker payments will cause crippling rental stress in our cities">Read more</a>
