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June 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Wendy Boyd, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Southern Cross University Choosing care for your child when returning to paid work can be challenging, and to the uninitiated the terms can be confusing. One alternative to long day care in a larger child care centre is known as ... <a title="What is family day care? And how is it different to long day care in a child care centre?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/what-is-family-day-care-and-how-is-it-different-to-long-day-care-in-a-child-care-centre-140847/" aria-label="Read more about What is family day care? And how is it different to long day care in a child care centre?">Read more</a>
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June 25, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The Morrison government has announced a $250 million package for the entertainment, arts and screen sectors, which have been particularly hard hit by the COVID-19 crisis. The grants and loans will be rolled out over the next 12 months. Activity ... <a title="Government unveils $250 million for ‘creative economy’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/25/government-unveils-250-million-for-creative-economy-141383/" aria-label="Read more about Government unveils $250 million for ‘creative economy’">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gary Mortimer, Professor of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour, Queensland University of Technology Australian supermarket giant Woolworths has announced its single biggest investment in logistics infrastructure, spending A$780 million to replace up to 1,300 workers with robots. It plans to build one semi-automated and one fully automated distribution ... <a title="COVID-19 has changed the future of retail: there’s plenty more automation in store" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/covid-19-has-changed-the-future-of-retail-theres-plenty-more-automation-in-store-139025/" aria-label="Read more about COVID-19 has changed the future of retail: there’s plenty more automation in store">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Debbi Long, Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University While Australia gradually opens up from COVID-19 lockdown, Victoria is still struggling to contain the outbreak. The Black Lives Matter protest in Melbourne on June 6, which attracted thousands of face-masked and hand-sanitised protesters, did not prove to be the ... <a title="From hospitals to households, we can all be better at remembering to wash our hands" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/from-hospitals-to-households-we-can-all-be-better-at-remembering-to-wash-our-hands-141271/" aria-label="Read more about From hospitals to households, we can all be better at remembering to wash our hands">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexandra Wake, Program Manager, Journalism, RMIT University At the height of the coronavirus emergency, and on the back of devastating bushfires, Australia’s much awarded and trusted national broadcaster has again been forced to make major cuts to staff, services and programs. It is doing so to offset ... <a title="Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and our democracy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/latest-84-million-cuts-rip-the-heart-out-of-the-abc-and-our-democracy-141355/" aria-label="Read more about Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and our democracy">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joanna Mendelssohn, Principal Fellow (Hon), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, University of Melbourne On September 10 1965, Sir Robert Menzies commissioned the National Art Gallery Committee of Inquiry to consider the establishment of a national ... <a title="Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/staff-cuts-will-hurt-the-national-gallery-of-australia-but-its-not-spending-less-on-art-its-just-spending-it-differently-141314/" aria-label="Read more about Staff cuts will hurt the National Gallery of Australia, but it’s not spending less on art. It’s just spending it differently">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
By Nasik Swami in Suva In the interest of transparency, the University of the South Pacific should make public the contents of the university’s “secret” BDO Report and also the allegations made against vice-chancellor Professor Pal Ahluwalia, says a leading New Zealand-based Fiji academic. “Public interest demands that the BDO report needs to be released ... <a title="Make ‘secret’ BDO report and USP inquiries public, says Ratuva" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/make-secret-bdo-report-and-usp-inquiries-public-says-ratuva/" aria-label="Read more about Make ‘secret’ BDO report and USP inquiries public, says Ratuva">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jacqui Stol, Senior Experimental Scientist, Ecologist, CSIRO Land and Water, CSIRO In box gum grassy woodlands, widely spaced eucalypts tower over carpets of wildflowers, lush native grasses and groves of flowering wattles. It’s no wonder some early landscape paintings depicting Australian farm life are inspired by this ... <a title="How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/how-drought-breaking-rains-transformed-these-critically-endangered-woodlands-into-a-flower-filled-vista-140638/" aria-label="Read more about How drought-breaking rains transformed these critically endangered woodlands into a flower-filled vista">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch Cook Islands Members of Parliament want to ban a journalist from Parliament for what they claim was inaccurate reporting over them seeking travel perks in the House. They have asked the Speaker, Nikki Rattle, to withdraw senior Cook Islands News journalist and political editor Rashneel Kumar ... <a title="Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-mps-seek-to-ban-political-editor-for-story-exposing-travel-perks/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands MPs seek to ban political editor for story exposing travel perks">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Johanna Reidy, Lecturer, Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine , University of Otago Māori have demonstrably poorer health outcomes than other New Zealanders and this disparity has persisted for decades. A recently released and long-awaited major review of New Zealand’s health and disability sector points ... <a title="Bandaid or cure: a major health review remains split on how to reduce persistent inequalities for Māori" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/bandaid-or-cure-a-major-health-review-remains-split-on-how-to-reduce-persistent-inequalities-for-maori-141118/" aria-label="Read more about Bandaid or cure: a major health review remains split on how to reduce persistent inequalities for Māori">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
But their unanimous vote was not to introduce a new weapon in the fight against covid-19; it was to condemn Cook Islands News for its reporting on MPs’ travel allowances. They went further and asked Speaker Niki Rattle to require that Cook Islands News journalist Rashneel Kumar withdraw from reporting Parliament for an (as yet ... <a title="Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/cook-islands-news-on-journalist-ban-bid-mps-are-all-in-this-together/" aria-label="Read more about Cook Islands News on journalist ban bid: MPs are all in this together">Read more</a>
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June 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sarah Morrison, PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology The Australian government recently announced plans to establish the country’s first taskforce devoted to fighting disinformation campaigns, under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Last week, Foreign Minister Marise Payne accused China and Russia of “using the ... <a title="China’s disinformation threat is real. We need better defences against state-based cyber campaigns" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/24/chinas-disinformation-threat-is-real-we-need-better-defences-against-state-based-cyber-campaigns-141044/" aria-label="Read more about China’s disinformation threat is real. We need better defences against state-based cyber campaigns">Read more</a>
