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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Cunneen, Professor of Criminology, University of Technology Sydney In Australia, children as young as ten can be held criminally responsible for their actions. This means they can be arrested by police, remanded in custody, convicted by the courts and imprisoned. Read more: Despite 432 Indigenous deaths ... <a title="Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/ten-year-olds-do-not-belong-in-detention-why-australia-must-raise-the-age-of-criminal-responsibility-142483/" aria-label="Read more about Ten-year-olds do not belong in detention. Why Australia must raise the age of criminal responsibility">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University In the Rose Garden of the White House earlier month the world witnessed a signal moment: a foreign power was catapulted into an American presidential election campaign in a way not witnessed in generations. “Joe Biden and ... <a title="As the US election looms, Trump is running as hard against China as he is against Biden" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/as-the-us-election-looms-trump-is-running-as-hard-against-china-as-he-is-against-biden-142813/" aria-label="Read more about As the US election looms, Trump is running as hard against China as he is against Biden">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Steven Sherwood, ARC Laureate Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW We know the climate changes as greenhouse gas concentrations rise, but the exact amount of expected warming remains uncertain. Scientists study this in terms of “equilibrium climate sensitivity” – the temperature rise for a sustained doubling of ... <a title="The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/the-climate-wont-warm-as-much-as-we-feared-but-it-will-warm-more-than-we-hoped-143175/" aria-label="Read more about The climate won’t warm as much as we feared – but it will warm more than we hoped">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Mclaughlin, PhD Candidate, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle What do bike paths and walk-friendly streets have to do with economic recovery from a pandemic-induced recession? How could removing a car parking space benefit a local business? Instead of considering such questions, building ... <a title="Cycling and walking can help drive Australia’s recovery – but not with less than 2% of transport budgets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/cycling-and-walking-can-help-drive-australias-recovery-but-not-with-less-than-2-of-transport-budgets-142176/" aria-label="Read more about Cycling and walking can help drive Australia’s recovery – but not with less than 2% of transport budgets">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney Gone are the days when economic policy was adjusted once each year by the government in the budget and fine-tuned once each month at meetings of the Reserve Bank board. The coroanvirus means we haven’t had a budget in ... <a title="Frydenberg’s three-stage economic recovery is abominably hard to get right" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/frydenbergs-three-stage-economic-recovery-is-abominably-hard-to-get-right-142841/" aria-label="Read more about Frydenberg’s three-stage economic recovery is abominably hard to get right">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Matthew Sharpe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, Deakin University Marcus Aurelius was no stranger to pandemics. For 16 years of his reign as Roman Emperor (161-180 CE), the empire was ravaged by the Antonine plague, which took five million lives. It was during this period that the philosopher ... <a title="Guide to the Classics: how Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations can help us in a time of pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/guide-to-the-classics-how-marcus-aurelius-meditations-can-help-us-in-a-time-of-pandemic-142659/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the Classics: how Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations can help us in a time of pandemic">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The reintroduction of restrictions in Victoria in response to its COVID second wave will reduce national growth by $3.3 billion, or about 0.75% of GDP, in the September quarter, according to estimates in Thursday’s economic statement. Despite Scott Morrison’s determined ... <a title="Victorian COVID crisis to deliver $3.3 billion hit to nation’s growth in September quarter" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/victorian-covid-crisis-to-deliver-3-3-billion-hit-to-nations-growth-in-september-quarter-143197/" aria-label="Read more about Victorian COVID crisis to deliver $3.3 billion hit to nation’s growth in September quarter">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra A group of Nationals has won a fight to prevent the government appealing against a court judgment finding Labor’s 2011 suspension of live cattle exports to Indonesia was unlawful. Attorney-General Christian Porter had favoured an appeal because of fears the ... <a title="Noisy Nationals score a win over Attorney-General Christian Porter on court appeal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/noisy-nationals-score-a-win-over-attorney-general-christian-porter-on-court-appeal-143212/" aria-label="Read more about Noisy Nationals score a win over Attorney-General Christian Porter on court appeal">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Geoff Kitney fell into a career in journalism, and rose from reporting the local footy in Western Australia to covering many of federal politics’s biggest stories and serving as a foreign correspondent based in Berlin and London. Arriving at parliament ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Geoff Kitney on a life in journalism and the contemporary media landscape" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/politics-with-michelle-grattan-geoff-kitney-on-a-life-in-journalism-and-the-contemporary-media-landscape-143202/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Geoff Kitney on a life in journalism and the contemporary media landscape">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vasso Apostolopoulos, Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research Partnerships, Victoria University Fourteen days after Melbourne was put back into lockdown, the latest daily tally of 484 new cases in Victoria makes for dispiriting reading. Why have the numbers stubbornly refused to go down, despite Melburnians being confined to their homes ... <a title="Two weeks into Melbourne’s lockdown, why aren’t COVID-19 case numbers going down?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/two-weeks-into-melbournes-lockdown-why-arent-covid-19-case-numbers-going-down-142990/" aria-label="Read more about Two weeks into Melbourne’s lockdown, why aren’t COVID-19 case numbers going down?">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Federal parliament’s Speaker Tony Smith and Senate President Scott Ryan have agreed to chair a proposed bipartisan working group on how parliament can meet safely during the pandemic. Labor put forward the working group plan after Scott Morrison cancelled the ... <a title="Speaker and Senate president agree to chair working group on pandemic-safe parliament" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/speaker-and-senate-president-agree-to-chair-working-group-on-pandemic-safe-parliament-143098/" aria-label="Read more about Speaker and Senate president agree to chair working group on pandemic-safe parliament">Read more</a>
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July 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debra Stokes, Lecturer in Environmental Science, Southern Cross University A teenager in New South Wales recently died after a fatal shark bite, adding to four other unprovoked shark-related deaths this year. These tragic events send shockwaves through the community and re-ignite our fear of sharks. They also ... <a title="Lifeguards with drones keep us (and sharks) safe, and beach-goers agree" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/22/lifeguards-with-drones-keep-us-and-sharks-safe-and-beach-goers-agree-142721/" aria-label="Read more about Lifeguards with drones keep us (and sharks) safe, and beach-goers agree">Read more</a>
