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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg, a Victorian, wore a surgical mask as he walked from his parliament house office to a committee room to deliver the government’s economic statement. The treasurer had already had to obtain permission from the ACT government to be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/grattan-on-friday-pandemic-has-blown-the-tyres-right-off-that-old-coalition-debt-truck-143275/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Danielle Wood, Chief executive officer, Grattan Institute Australia is living through the biggest economic and social disruption since the second world war. Today’s budget update provides a stark reminder of just how big the economic and budgetary fallout really is. If you don’t have the appetite to ... <a title="Five things you need to know about today’s economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-todays-economic-statement-143088/" aria-label="Read more about Five things you need to know about today’s economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael Keane, Professor of Chinese Digital Media and Culture, Curtin University TikTok, the made-in-China, video-sharing platform beloved by youth and influencers alike, is suddenly everywhere in our new world of COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing. The platform’s growth has been tremendous, but this has come at a ... <a title="TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/tiktok-tries-to-distance-itself-from-beijing-but-will-it-be-enough-to-avoid-the-global-blacklist-143247/" aria-label="Read more about TikTok tries to distance itself from Beijing, but will it be enough to avoid the global blacklist?">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Gwynne, Senior Lecturer, Health Leadership, Macquarie University Aboriginal children in rural Australia have up to three times the rate of tooth decay compared to other Australian children. Tooth decay can affect a person’s overall health and nutrition because it can affect how they chew and swallow. ... <a title="Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/collaborating-with-communities-delivers-better-oral-health-for-indigenous-kids-in-rural-australia-141038/" aria-label="Read more about Collaborating with communities delivers better oral health for Indigenous kids in rural Australia">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Even if the government hadn’t spent A$5.9 billion on JobKeeper and other emergency measures last financial year and wasn’t planning to spend a further $12.2 billion this financial year, its budget position would have collapsed. ... <a title="These budget numbers are shocking, and there are worse ones in store" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/these-budget-numbers-are-shocking-and-there-are-worse-ones-in-store-143250/" aria-label="Read more about These budget numbers are shocking, and there are worse ones in store">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lesley Russell, Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney This week revealed cases of coronavirus infection in a Victorian prison guard and a prisoner in quarantine on remand. Now six Victorian prisons are in lockdown. This is not the first time there has ... <a title="Why prisons in Victoria are locked up and locked down" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/why-prisons-in-victoria-are-locked-up-and-locked-down-143178/" aria-label="Read more about Why prisons in Victoria are locked up and locked down">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced massive budget deficits of $85.8 billion for the just-finished 2019-2020 financial year and $184.5 billion projected for 2020-2021. Growth is set to be negative for last financial year and the current one. The government’s economic ... <a title="Budget deficit to hit $184.5B this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/budget-deficit-to-hit-184-5b-this-financial-year-unemployment-to-peak-at-9-25-in-december-economic-statement-143253/" aria-label="Read more about Budget deficit to hit $184.5B this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has announced massive budget deficits of $85.5 billion for the just-finished 2019-2020 financial year with $184.5 billion projected for 2020-2021. Growth is set to be negative for last financial year and the current one. The government’s economic ... <a title="Budget deficit to hit $184.5 this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/budget-deficit-to-hit-184-5-this-financial-year-unemployment-to-peak-at-9-25-in-december-economic-statement-143253/" aria-label="Read more about Budget deficit to hit $184.5 this financial year, unemployment to peak at 9.25% in December: economic statement">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jake Whitehead, Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellow & Tritum E-Mobility Fellow, The University of Queensland Limiting global warming to well below 2℃ this century requires carbon emissions to reach net zero by around 2050. Australian households have done much to support the transition via rooftop solar investments. ... <a title="In a world first, Australian university builds own solar farm to offset 100% of its electricity use" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/in-a-world-first-australian-university-builds-own-solar-farm-to-offset-100-of-its-electricity-use-142972/" aria-label="Read more about In a world first, Australian university builds own solar farm to offset 100% of its electricity use">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julie Ratcliffe, Professor of Health Economics and Mathew Flinders Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University It’s often said the true measure of any society is how well it treats its most vulnerable members. By this measure, Australia is falling woefully short. The Royal Commission into Aged Care ... <a title="Australians want more funding for higher-quality aged care — and most are willing to pay extra tax to achieve it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/australians-want-more-funding-for-higher-quality-aged-care-and-most-are-willing-to-pay-extra-tax-to-achieve-it-143174/" aria-label="Read more about Australians want more funding for higher-quality aged care — and most are willing to pay extra tax to achieve it">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Quentin Hanich, Associate Professor, University of Wollongong A “dark fleet” of hundreds of Chinese fishing vessels has illegally caught more than half a billion dollars worth of squid in North Korean waters since 2017, according to new research that used satellite technology, on-water observations and machine learning ... <a title="Chinese fishing boats took half a billion dollars of illegal squid from North Korea. Scientists used satellites to catch them out" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/chinese-fishing-boats-took-half-a-billion-dollars-of-illegal-squid-from-north-korea-scientists-used-satellites-to-catch-them-out-142642/" aria-label="Read more about Chinese fishing boats took half a billion dollars of illegal squid from North Korea. Scientists used satellites to catch them out">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW Humans lived in what is now Mexico up to 33,000 years ago and may have settled the Americas by travelling along the Pacific coast, according to two studies by myself and colleagues published today. It has been commonly believed that the ... <a title="Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/humans-inhabited-north-america-in-the-depths-of-the-last-ice-age-but-didnt-thrive-until-the-climate-warmed-142810/" aria-label="Read more about Humans inhabited North America in the depths of the last Ice Age, but didn’t thrive until the climate warmed">Read more</a>
