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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute This morning the Grattan Institute releases its submission to the government’s retirement incomes review, a review called in anticipation of five annual increases in compulsory superannuation contributions, scheduled to begin in July 2021. Our research shows the super increases ... <a title="Forget more compulsory super: here are 5 ways to actually boost retirement incomes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/forget-more-compulsory-super-here-are-5-ways-to-actually-boost-retirement-incomes-132655/" aria-label="Read more about Forget more compulsory super: here are 5 ways to actually boost retirement incomes">Read more</a>
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March 2, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government will use its procurement policy to encourage the recycling of plastics, as well as committing financial assistance for upgrading infrastructure to boost the capacity for this waste to be reused. Scott Morrison will announce the initiatives to ... <a title="Morrison government will use purchasing power to encourage plastics recycling" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/02/morrison-government-will-use-purchasing-power-to-encourage-plastics-recycling-132742/" aria-label="Read more about Morrison government will use purchasing power to encourage plastics recycling">Read more</a>
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March 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jack Anderson, Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne With the announcement that China’s Sun Yang has been banned from swimming for eight years, FINA, the world governing swimming body, must take stock of how it oversees one of the most popular and high-profile ... <a title="Sun Yang ban shows world swimming body must establish an integrity commission" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/01/sun-yang-ban-shows-world-swimming-body-must-establish-an-integrity-commission-132738/" aria-label="Read more about Sun Yang ban shows world swimming body must establish an integrity commission">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland Happy February 29! It doesn’t come round very often, so make sure you enjoy it. But why do we have these extra days? Well, if we didn’t, the seasons would gradually move around the calendar. Rather than midsummer in ... <a title="How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/how-a-seasonal-snarl-up-in-the-mid-1500s-gave-us-our-strange-rules-for-leap-years-132659/" aria-label="Read more about How a seasonal snarl-up in the mid-1500s gave us our strange rules for leap years">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Mercer, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, Curtin University Review: Leviathan, directed by Yaron Lifschitz. Circa in collaboration with Co:3 Australia, MAXIMA Circus and CircusWA for Perth Festival. As the audience takes their seats, two feet poke out from beneath the curtain. In hindsight, it’s the first ... <a title="Leviathan review: Circa’s new production explores the ordinary, extraordinary mass of humanity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/leviathan-review-circas-new-production-explores-the-ordinary-extraordinary-mass-of-humanity-132270/" aria-label="Read more about Leviathan review: Circa’s new production explores the ordinary, extraordinary mass of humanity">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tom Bailey, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland If you’re hot and sticky even before your daily commute, you might ask why you sweat so much. Sweating is usually the body’s way of stopping you overheating. But for some people, sweating becomes a problem. Either they sweat ... <a title="Why do I sweat so much?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/why-do-i-sweat-so-much-131135/" aria-label="Read more about Why do I sweat so much?">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Maggie Tonkin, Senior Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, University of Adelaide Review: Dance Nation, directed by Imara Savage. State Theatre Company South Australia and Belvoir for the Adelaide Festival Dance is at the heart of playwright Clare Barron’s Dance Nation, from the resolutely upbeat ensemble number that ... <a title="Dance Nation review: an outrageous depiction of girls grasping their emerging sexuality and power" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/dance-nation-review-an-outrageous-depiction-of-girls-grasping-their-emerging-sexuality-and-power-132350/" aria-label="Read more about Dance Nation review: an outrageous depiction of girls grasping their emerging sexuality and power">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher about the week in politics, including the implementation of an emergency plan to tackle the spread of coronavirus, the major parties’ policies on climate change, national security and the Senate motion to ... <a title="VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government’s emergency plan, climate change, and Bettina Arndt" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/video-michelle-grattan-on-the-governments-emergency-plan-climate-change-and-bettina-arndt-132658/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government’s emergency plan, climate change, and Bettina Arndt">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Euan Ritchie, Associate Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University On Churchill Island, southeast of Melbourne, small cone-shaped, shallow holes (digs) puncture the grass. They’re widespread, and reveal moist soil below the surface. A soil heap ... <a title="One little bandicoot can dig up an elephant’s worth of soil a year – and our ecosystem loves it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/one-little-bandicoot-can-dig-up-an-elephants-worth-of-soil-a-year-and-our-ecosystem-loves-it-132266/" aria-label="Read more about One little bandicoot can dig up an elephant’s worth of soil a year – and our ecosystem loves it">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Simon Tormey, Professor of Politics, University of Bristol Of the many issues thrown up by Brexit, one of the most pressing is the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom. Brexit was in large measure a revolt by a certain section of English and Welsh opinion against transnational ... <a title="Many Scots want independence from the United Kingdom. How might that play out in a post-Brexit world?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/many-scots-want-independence-from-the-united-kingdom-how-might-that-play-out-in-a-post-brexit-world-131776/" aria-label="Read more about Many Scots want independence from the United Kingdom. How might that play out in a post-Brexit world?">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katherine Gibney, NHMRC early career fellow, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity While countries around the globe have been taking precautions to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, it has now been reported in 37 countries outside China. As ... <a title="It’s now a matter of when, not if, for Australia. This is how we’re preparing for a jump in coronavirus cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/its-now-a-matter-of-when-not-if-for-australia-this-is-how-were-preparing-for-a-jump-in-coronavirus-cases-132448/" aria-label="Read more about It’s now a matter of when, not if, for Australia. This is how we’re preparing for a jump in coronavirus cases">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lee Baumgartner, Professor of Fisheries and River Management, Institute for Land, Water, and Society, Charles Sturt University As this summer draws to a close, it marks just over a year since successive fish death events at Menindee in Lower Darling River made global headlines. Two independent investigations ... <a title="Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here’s what has happened since" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/last-summers-fish-carnage-sparked-public-outrage-heres-what-has-happened-since-132346/" aria-label="Read more about Last summer’s fish carnage sparked public outrage. Here’s what has happened since">Read more</a>
