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September 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Isaacs, Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney How do filmmakers communicate big ideas on screen? In this video series, film scholar Bruce Isaacs analyses pivotal film scenes in detail. [embedded content] Watching Christopher Nolan’s 2010 film Inception, especially in the cinema, is an overwhelming experience. ... <a title="Close up: Inception’s mindbending Paris scene" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/28/close-up-inceptions-mindbending-paris-scene-145620/" aria-label="Read more about Close up: Inception’s mindbending Paris scene">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Daniel Andrews’ Sunday announcement of some modest steps out of lockdown will bring both relief and reassurance to many Victorians, but frustration to those who think he should move faster. Certainly the Morrison government wants the state to take bigger ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison government’s message to Daniel Andrews: ‘open faster’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/view-from-the-hill-morrison-governments-message-to-daniel-andrews-open-faster-146997/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison government’s message to Daniel Andrews: ‘open faster’">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Wallace, Associate Professor, 50/50 By 2030 Foundation, Faculty of Business Government & Law, University of Canberra The politician who achieved equal rights legislation for women in Australia, Hon Susan Ryan AO, died unexpectedly yesterday in Sydney aged 77, still fighting for fairness in a country challenged ... <a title="Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/vale-susan-ryan-pioneer-labor-feminist-who-showed-big-difficult-policy-changes-can-and-should-be-made-146996/" aria-label="Read more about Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced an end to the curfew and a COVID-safe return to work for 127,000 Melburnians, as restrictions ease at 11.59pm tonight. He has also flagged a provisional early lifting of many other aspects of the ... <a title="Curfew lifted and COVID-19 roadmap is ‘ahead of schedule’ as Melbourne inches towards end of lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/curfew-lifted-and-covid-19-roadmap-is-ahead-of-schedule-as-melbourne-inches-towards-end-of-lockdown-146987/" aria-label="Read more about Curfew lifted and COVID-19 roadmap is ‘ahead of schedule’ as Melbourne inches towards end of lockdown">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Overwhelmingly, Australia’s leading economists want the budget to boost social housing and the JobSeeker unemployment benefit rather than bring forward personal income tax cuts. The 49 eminent economists who responded to Conversation-Economic Society of Australia ... <a title="Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/top-economists-back-boosts-to-jobseeker-and-social-housing-over-tax-cuts-in-pre-budget-poll-146914/" aria-label="Read more about Top economists back boosts to JobSeeker and social housing over tax cuts in pre-budget poll">Read more</a>
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September 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Last week, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish”, revealed by her granddaughter, was that she “not be replaced until a new president ... <a title="What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/27/what-would-amy-coney-barrett-trumps-pick-for-the-supreme-court-mean-for-abortion-rights-in-the-us-146931/" aria-label="Read more about What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Prudence Flowers, Lecturer in US History, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Flinders University Last week, US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer. Ginsburg’s “most fervent wish”, revealed by her granddaughter, was that she “not be replaced until a new president ... <a title="What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s expected pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/26/what-would-amy-coney-barrett-trumps-expected-pick-for-the-supreme-court-mean-for-abortion-rights-in-the-us-146931/" aria-label="Read more about What would Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s expected pick for the Supreme Court, mean for abortion rights in the US?">Read more</a>
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September 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lea M D Delbridge, Professor of Physiology, University of Melbourne Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s easy to forget one of the largest health challenges we face remains the global obesity epidemic. World Health Organisation data shows obesity has nearly tripled in less than 50 years, with about ... <a title="Body fat deep below the surface is a toxic risk, especially for your heart" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/26/body-fat-deep-below-the-surface-is-a-toxic-risk-especially-for-your-heart-146307/" aria-label="Read more about Body fat deep below the surface is a toxic risk, especially for your heart">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Gibney, NHMRC early career fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Testing remains a vital component of Australia’s success in managing COVID-19. We need to diagnose people infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as early as possible so they can be isolated ... <a title="The new 15-minute test has potential, but standard tests are still the best way to track COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/the-new-15-minute-test-has-potential-but-standard-tests-are-still-the-best-way-to-track-covid-19-146844/" aria-label="Read more about The new 15-minute test has potential, but standard tests are still the best way to track COVID-19">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne The 2020 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes, held under the strangest of all circumstances, has produced a neat piece of history. In ... <a title="At last, the arts Revolution — Archibald winners flag the end of white male dominance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/at-last-the-arts-revolution-archibald-winners-flag-the-end-of-white-male-dominance-146832/" aria-label="Read more about At last, the arts Revolution — Archibald winners flag the end of white male dominance">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Coghlan, Senior Research Fellow in Digital Ethics, Centre for AI and Digital Ethics, School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne Violence against animals in video games is ubiquitous. Players can kill or torture animals in various popular games, including Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto ... <a title="You wouldn’t hit a dog, so why kill one in Minecraft? Why violence against virtual animals is an ethical issue" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/you-wouldnt-hit-a-dog-so-why-kill-one-in-minecraft-why-violence-against-virtual-animals-is-an-ethical-issue-146845/" aria-label="Read more about You wouldn’t hit a dog, so why kill one in Minecraft? Why violence against virtual animals is an ethical issue">Read more</a>
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September 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra University of Canberra Professorial Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Paddy Nixon discuss the week in politics. This week Michelle and Paddy discuss the upcoming 6 October budget, the government’s plans to reform the insolvency ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the upcoming budget, government reform, and the NBN" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/09/25/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-upcoming-budget-government-reform-and-the-nbn-146921/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the upcoming budget, government reform, and the NBN">Read more</a>
