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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Dunk, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Amid fanfare last week at the start of the new financial year the government promised to invest A$270 billion over a decade to upgrade the defence force. It said a side benefit would be a stronger local defence industry and ... <a title="It’s one thing to build war fighting capability, it’s another to build industrial capability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/its-one-thing-to-build-war-fighting-capability-its-another-to-build-industrial-capability-135640/" aria-label="Read more about It’s one thing to build war fighting capability, it’s another to build industrial capability">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sonya Teich, Lecturer in Design, Visual Effects Projects, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington When Star Wars was awarded the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1978 it marked the first time the visual component of effects was differentiated from sound. Yet, even in ... <a title="Auteur vs computer: the frightening complexity of visual effects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/auteur-vs-computer-the-frightening-complexity-of-visual-effects-131458/" aria-label="Read more about Auteur vs computer: the frightening complexity of visual effects">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Kelly, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University This week, the Victorian government unilaterally placed the residents of nine public housing towers in inner Melbourne under “hard lockdown” due to the “explosive potential” of increasing COVID-19 cases. The lockdown requires all residents of these estates ... <a title="Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/melbourne-tower-lockdowns-unfairly-target-already-vulnerable-public-housing-residents-142041/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology On the very day New Zealand entered COVID-19 lockdown (March 26), the man arrested for the Christchurch mosque terror attacks admitted he was a murderer and a terrorist. Despite the lockdown, Justice Mander arranged for media and community ... <a title="Explainer: will life mean life when the Christchurch mosque killer is sentenced?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/explainer-will-life-mean-life-when-the-christchurch-mosque-killer-is-sentenced-141984/" aria-label="Read more about Explainer: will life mean life when the Christchurch mosque killer is sentenced?">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cassandra Cross, Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Law, Cybersecurity Cooperative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology Last year, Australians reported more than A$634 million lost to fraud, a significant jump from $489.7 million the year before. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has released its latest ... <a title="$2.5 billion lost over a decade: Nigerian princes lose their sheen, but scams are on the rise" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/2-5-billion-lost-over-a-decade-nigerian-princes-lose-their-sheen-but-scams-are-on-the-rise-141289/" aria-label="Read more about $2.5 billion lost over a decade: Nigerian princes lose their sheen, but scams are on the rise">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor, UNSW Law School, UNSW In an open letter to Attorney-General Christian Porter, about 500 women working in the law from across Australia have sought changes to the way judges are disciplined and appointed. The letter comes after former High Court judge Dyson Heydon was ... <a title="Deep cultural shifts required: open letter from 500 legal women calls for reform of way judges are appointed and disciplined" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/deep-cultural-shifts-required-open-letter-from-500-legal-women-calls-for-reform-of-way-judges-are-appointed-and-disciplined-142042/" aria-label="Read more about Deep cultural shifts required: open letter from 500 legal women calls for reform of way judges are appointed and disciplined">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Genevieve Wilkinson, Lecturer in Intellectual Property and Human Rights, University of Technology Sydney After a decade of legal challenges by the tobacco lobby, Australia’s pioneering push to eliminate all tobacco advertising finally has clear air. Its longest stoush, over plain packaging laws introduced in 2012, finally ended ... <a title="Big Tobacco’s decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won’t stop its war against public health" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/big-tobaccos-decisive-defeat-on-plain-packaging-laws-wont-stop-its-war-against-public-health-140439/" aria-label="Read more about Big Tobacco’s decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won’t stop its war against public health">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Moore, Director of The Australian National University Institute for Space and the Advanced Instrumentation Technology Centre, Australian National University With all of the immense challenges we face on Earth this year, space can feel like an afterthought. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope of a growing ... <a title="Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/why-outer-space-matters-in-a-post-pandemic-world-141977/" aria-label="Read more about Why outer space matters in a post-pandemic world">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tanya Notley, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media, Western Sydney University Today we release the findings from our new research into how young Australians consume and think about news media. Following a summer of bushfires and during the COVID-19 pandemic, young people have told us they consume news ... <a title="We live in an age of ‘fake news’. But Australian children are not learning enough about media literacy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/we-live-in-an-age-of-fake-news-but-australian-children-are-not-learning-enough-about-media-literacy-141371/" aria-label="Read more about We live in an age of ‘fake news’. But Australian children are not learning enough about media literacy">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Thwaites, Chair, Monash Sustainable Development Institute & ClimateWorks Australia, Monash University The global Sustainable Development Report 2020, released this week in New York, ranks Australia third among OECD countries for the effectiveness of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic, beaten by only South Korea and Latvia. ... <a title="Global report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D on climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/global-report-gives-australia-an-a-for-coronavirus-response-but-a-d-on-climate-141982/" aria-label="Read more about Global report gives Australia an A for coronavirus response but a D on climate">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marina Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology Only 40% of students in China who previously intended to study overseas still plan to, while just under 50% of those who had studied overseas plan to return to their study after the borders ... <a title="Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia – less than half plan to come back" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/students-in-china-heed-their-governments-warnings-against-studying-in-australia-less-than-half-plan-to-come-back-141871/" aria-label="Read more about Students in China heed their government’s warnings against studying in Australia – less than half plan to come back">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Warren, Emeritus Professor of Taxation, UNSW A major report commissioned by the NSW government has proposed lifting and expanding the goods and services tax and replacing stamp duty with a broad-based land tax. Launched at the National Press Club on July 1 by NSW Treasurer Dominic ... <a title="Memo to Australia’s states: try renovating your tax system before asking for a new one" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/memo-to-australias-states-try-renovating-your-tax-system-before-asking-for-a-new-one-141893/" aria-label="Read more about Memo to Australia’s states: try renovating your tax system before asking for a new one">Read more</a>
