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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Power, Senior Research Fellow, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University Older women renters are struggling in an insecure and unaffordable rental housing market. A combination of high rents and low incomes leaves many living in substandard housing and unable to afford necessities like food and ... <a title="‘Uprooting, no matter how small a plant you are, is a trauma’: older women renters are struggling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/uprooting-no-matter-how-small-a-plant-you-are-is-a-trauma-older-women-renters-are-struggling-142907/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Uprooting, no matter how small a plant you are, is a trauma’: older women renters are struggling">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbie Faulkner, Senior Research Fellow, UniSA Business, University of South Australia Older women have been recognised as the fastest-growing group of homeless people in Australia in recent years. Yet until now we have not known exactly how many older women are at risk of homelessness. Our research, ... <a title="400,000 women over 45 are at risk of homelessness in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/400-000-women-over-45-are-at-risk-of-homelessness-in-australia-142906/" aria-label="Read more about 400,000 women over 45 are at risk of homelessness in Australia">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cameron Murray, Research Fellow – Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney Throughout Australia, when land is rezoned from industrial to high-rise residential, a charge is levied to help fund the required infrastructure. In NSW it is called an infrastructure contribution. The NSW government is reviewing it in ... <a title="Our states are crying poor. They wouldn’t if they charged for rezoning like the ACT" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/our-states-are-crying-poor-they-wouldnt-if-they-charged-for-rezoning-like-the-act-142838/" aria-label="Read more about Our states are crying poor. They wouldn’t if they charged for rezoning like the ACT">Read more</a>
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August 4, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daryl Sparkes, Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland It wasn’t the first time I’d crashed a film set. My first was the 1984 film The Coolangatta Gold. You’ll recognise me in one of the shots because I’m the only person wearing jeans on ... <a title="That’ll do, pig, that’ll do: Babe at 25, a trailblazing cinematic classic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/04/thatll-do-pig-thatll-do-babe-at-25-a-trailblazing-cinematic-classic-143813/" aria-label="Read more about That’ll do, pig, that’ll do: Babe at 25, a trailblazing cinematic classic">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute The announcement of stage 4 restrictions in Victoria marks a new, and depressing, stage in Australia’s response to COVID-19. The new measures will close non-essential retailers and most child-care centres across Melbourne, and impose stringent controls on industries such ... <a title="Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/australia-wont-recover-unless-victoria-does-too-the-federal-government-must-step-up-143840/" aria-label="Read more about Australia won’t recover unless Victoria does too. The federal government must step up">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute How do you occupy a child for long enough to get any work done? This will be the question confronting more than 150,000 Melbourne families for at least the next six weeks. The Stage 4 restrictions announced by the Victorian ... <a title="Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/victorias-child-care-shutdown-is-a-hard-blow-for-working-mothers-143837/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria’s child-care shutdown is a hard blow for working mothers">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Non-essential retailers across Melbourne will be shut except for “click and collect” and delivery sales, and industries including meatworks and construction will be drastically scaled back, under Victoria’s unprecedented lockdown. The business shutdown details came as Scott Morrison announced a ... <a title="Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/melbourne-non-essential-retailers-closed-as-morrison-unveils-pandemic-leave-143835/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne non-essential retailers closed, as Morrison unveils pandemic leave">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced sweeping changes to businesses across metropolitan Melbourne, including closure of retail stores and restrictions on some industries, including construction. The new constraints come into force from midnight ... <a title="Takeaway coffee allowed, but no wandering through Bunnings: here’s why Melbourne’s new business restrictions will reduce cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/takeaway-coffee-allowed-but-no-wandering-through-bunnings-heres-why-melbournes-new-business-restrictions-will-reduce-cases-143814/" aria-label="Read more about Takeaway coffee allowed, but no wandering through Bunnings: here’s why Melbourne’s new business restrictions will reduce cases">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Paul Haskell-Dowland, Associate Dean (Computing and Security), Edith Cowan University In what seems to be a common occurrence, Chinese video-sharing app TikTok is once again in the headlines. After months of speculation about national security risks and users’ data being harvested by the Chinese Communist Party, US ... <a title="Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/microsofts-takeover-would-be-a-win-for-tiktok-and-tech-giants-not-users-143818/" aria-label="Read more about Microsoft’s takeover would be a win for TikTok and tech giants – not users">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephanie Trigg, Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor of English Literature, University of Melbourne In our series Art for Trying Times, authors nominate a work they turn to for solace or perspective during this pandemic. The Greeks are at the gates, and the city of Troy is under siege. ... <a title="Chaucer’s great poem Troilus and Criseyde: perfect reading while under siege from a virus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/chaucers-great-poem-troilus-and-criseyde-perfect-reading-while-under-siege-from-a-virus-142662/" aria-label="Read more about Chaucer’s great poem Troilus and Criseyde: perfect reading while under siege from a virus">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism”, wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942. New technologies and processes continuously revolutionise the economic structure from within, “incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one”. Change happens ... <a title="Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/creative-destruction-the-covid-19-economic-crisis-is-accelerating-the-demise-of-fossil-fuels-143739/" aria-label="Read more about Creative destruction: the COVID-19 economic crisis is accelerating the demise of fossil fuels">Read more</a>
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August 3, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor, Vitalities Lab, Centre for Social Research in Health and Social Policy Centre, UNSW With Victorians heading into a new round of even harsher lockdown measures, there will again be a focus on how people will cope — the various ways such restrictions change ... <a title="More screen time, snacking and chores: a snapshot of how everyday life changed during the first coronavirus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/08/03/more-screen-time-snacking-and-chores-a-snapshot-of-how-everyday-life-changed-during-the-first-coronavirus-lockdown-143805/" aria-label="Read more about More screen time, snacking and chores: a snapshot of how everyday life changed during the first coronavirus lockdown">Read more</a>
