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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Every January Larry Fink, the head of the world’s largest funds manager, BlackRock, sends a letter to the chief executives of major public companies. This year’s letter focused on climate risk. “Climate change has become a defining factor in companies’ long-term ... <a title="Vital Signs: a 3-point plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/vital-signs-a-3-point-plan-to-reach-net-zero-emissions-by-2050-132436/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: a 3-point plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kevin Davis, Professor of Finance, University of Melbourne The government’s financial system inquiry, on which I sat, reported five years ago. It recommended that the creators of financial products be subject to a design and distribution obligation (DDO), which would mean the products they sold had to ... <a title="Requiring firms to only sell financial products we can use is good, but not enough" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/requiring-firms-to-only-sell-financial-products-we-can-use-is-good-but-not-enough-131887/" aria-label="Read more about Requiring firms to only sell financial products we can use is good, but not enough">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andy Simionato, Lecturer, RMIT University Books are always transforming. The book we hold today has arrived through a number of materials (clay, papyrus, parchment, paper, pixels) and forms (tablet, scroll, codex, kindle). The book can be a tool for communication, reading, entertainment, or learning; an object and ... <a title="Friday essay: a real life experiment illuminates the future of books and reading" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/friday-essay-a-real-life-experiment-illuminates-the-future-of-books-and-reading-131832/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: a real life experiment illuminates the future of books and reading">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The government would be looking for the private sector to put in four or five times as much as it invests in research and development of particular technologies to reduce emissions, Energy Minister Angus Taylor says. In a speech on ... <a title="Angus Taylor sets down ‘markers’ to measure success of government’s technology roadmap" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/angus-taylor-sets-down-markers-to-measure-success-of-governments-technology-roadmap-132623/" aria-label="Read more about Angus Taylor sets down ‘markers’ to measure success of government’s technology roadmap">Read more</a>
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February 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Two issues are currently presenting the Morrison government with fast-moving targets. One is the fallout from the coronavirus, where the picture has been altering on a near-daily basis. The other is very different – the now rapidly changing politics of ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Morrison looks to his messaging on coronavirus and climate" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/28/grattan-on-friday-morrison-looks-to-his-messaging-on-coronavirus-and-climate-132614/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Morrison looks to his messaging on coronavirus and climate">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The federal government has activated its emergency response plan to deal with a spread of the coronavirus locally, in anticipation of it becoming a “pandemic”. It is also considering limited assistance for those hardest hit by the economic fallout. Prime ... <a title="Government triggers emergency plan for COVID-19 pandemic, and considers economic assistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/government-triggers-emergency-plan-for-covid-19-pandemic-and-considers-economic-assistance-132610/" aria-label="Read more about Government triggers emergency plan for COVID-19 pandemic, and considers economic assistance">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Muecke, Clinical senior lecturer in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Adelaide Humans are physiologically hardwired to love and seek out sweet things. It’s an ancient survival mechanism that evolved to prepare our bodies for periods of fasting when food supplies were scarce. Like nicotine, alcohol ... <a title="Let’s ‘declare war on type 2 diabetes’ – Australian of the year James Muecke on why we need to cut back on sugar" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/lets-declare-war-on-type-2-diabetes-australian-of-the-year-james-muecke-on-why-we-need-to-cut-back-on-sugar-131024/" aria-label="Read more about Let’s ‘declare war on type 2 diabetes’ – Australian of the year James Muecke on why we need to cut back on sugar">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn McMahon, Deputy Dean, School of Law, Deakin University The NSW government has just introduced a bill that will, among other significant reforms, make it easier for a jury to be informed about the prior convictions of a person on trial for a sex offence involving a ... <a title="Juries will soon learn more about people accused of child sex crimes. Will it lead to fairer trials?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/juries-will-soon-learn-more-about-people-accused-of-child-sex-crimes-will-it-lead-to-fairer-trials-132517/" aria-label="Read more about Juries will soon learn more about people accused of child sex crimes. Will it lead to fairer trials?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Marilyn McMahon, Deputy Dean, School of Law, Deakin University The NSW government has just introduced a bill that will, among other significant reforms, make it easier for a jury to be informed about the prior convictions of a person on trial for a sex offence involving a ... <a title="Juries will soon learn more about people accused of child sex crimes. Will it lead to trials that are more fair?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/juries-will-soon-learn-more-about-people-accused-of-child-sex-crimes-will-it-lead-to-trials-that-are-more-fair-132517/" aria-label="Read more about Juries will soon learn more about people accused of child sex crimes. Will it lead to trials that are more fair?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato The Christchurch mosque attacks on March 15 last year have prompted a significant rise in tip-offs about people expressing extremist views, according to a report by New Zealand’s Security Intelligence Service (NZSIS). During the three months following the terrorist ... <a title="A year from the Christchurch terror attacks, NZ intelligence records a surge in reports" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/a-year-from-the-christchurch-terror-attacks-nz-intelligence-records-a-surge-in-reports-131895/" aria-label="Read more about A year from the Christchurch terror attacks, NZ intelligence records a surge in reports">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Madeline Taylor, Academic Fellow, University of Sydney This week’s decision by Norwegian company Equinor to abandon a A$200 million plan to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight surprised both its critics and backers. Equinor says it abandoned the project off the remote South Australian coast ... <a title="Equinor has abandoned oil-drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight – so what’s next?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/equinor-has-abandoned-oil-drilling-plans-in-the-great-australian-bight-so-whats-next-132435/" aria-label="Read more about Equinor has abandoned oil-drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight – so what’s next?">Read more</a>
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February 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David A. Savage, Associate Professor of Behavioural Economics , Newcastle Business School, University of Newcastle Recent days have brought reports of shoppers clearing out supermarket shelves from Wuhan and Hong Kong to Singapore and Milan in response to the spread of coronavirus. This behaviour is often described ... <a title="Stocking up to prepare for a crisis isn’t ‘panic buying’. It’s actually a pretty rational choice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/27/stocking-up-to-prepare-for-a-crisis-isnt-panic-buying-its-actually-a-pretty-rational-choice-132437/" aria-label="Read more about Stocking up to prepare for a crisis isn’t ‘panic buying’. It’s actually a pretty rational choice">Read more</a>
