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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Mark Butler, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy, is optimistic that Labor is better placed to prosecute its climate policy at the next election, compared to the last. “I think we are better positioned now for two reasons.” “Firstly, ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mark Butler on Labor’s 2050 carbon neutral target" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/politics-with-michelle-grattan-mark-butler-on-labors-2050-carbon-neutral-target-132511/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Mark Butler on Labor’s 2050 carbon neutral target">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Yvonne Zurynski, Associate Professor of Health System Sustainability, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University If you have a rare disease, you may be the only person in Australia with that condition. You may not know, however, that being diagnosed with a rare disease means you are ... <a title="What is a rare disease? It’s not as simple as it sounds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/what-is-a-rare-disease-its-not-as-simple-as-it-sounds-132251/" aria-label="Read more about What is a rare disease? It’s not as simple as it sounds">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Akshaya Kamalnath, Lecturer (Corporate law), Auckland University of Technology Global investment company Goldman Sachs recently announced it would only take startups public if they had at least one diverse board member. In New Zealand, a new KiwiSaver fund, CareSaver, announced it would only invest in listed companies ... <a title="Diversity quotas will only lead to token appointments, doing more harm than good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/diversity-quotas-will-only-lead-to-token-appointments-doing-more-harm-than-good-132244/" aria-label="Read more about Diversity quotas will only lead to token appointments, doing more harm than good">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Barton, Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University Words matter. Especially when you are the director-general of security and head of ASIO. Barely three months into the post, and delivering his first ASIO Annual Threat Assessment, Mike Burgess spoke ... <a title="ASIO chief’s assessment shows the need to do more, and better, to prevent terrorism" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/asio-chiefs-assessment-shows-the-need-to-do-more-and-better-to-prevent-terrorism-132447/" aria-label="Read more about ASIO chief’s assessment shows the need to do more, and better, to prevent terrorism">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Terry, Vice-Chancellor, Curtin University This is an edited extract of a speech to the National Press Club given by Chair of Universities Australia, Professor Deborah Terry AO New modelling for Universities Australia prepared by Ernst and Young finds close to 17,000 companies in Australia collaborated with ... <a title="New modelling shows the importance of university research to business" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/new-modelling-shows-the-importance-of-university-research-to-business-132442/" aria-label="Read more about New modelling shows the importance of university research to business">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Maguire, Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, James Cook University In today’s terms, June Dally-Watkins was Australia’s OG (original gangster) #girlboss. The illegitimate child of a single mother, Dally-Watkins came from humble rural beginnings and found fame as a young model in 1950s Sydney. She turned ... <a title="Young women won’t be told how to behave, but is #girlboss just deportment by another name?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/young-women-wont-be-told-how-to-behave-but-is-girlboss-just-deportment-by-another-name-132351/" aria-label="Read more about Young women won’t be told how to behave, but is #girlboss just deportment by another name?">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
By Nicola Igusa The value of different perspectives in film making is valued now more than ever, says Auckland University of Technology screen production Associate Professor Arezou Zalipour. “We’ve just seen the historic win of Parasite at the 2020s Oscars – the first non-English language production to win Best Picture,” she says. “In the same ... <a title="‘Outsider’ voice films open new storytelling spaces, says academic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/outsider-voice-films-open-new-storytelling-spaces-says-academic/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Outsider’ voice films open new storytelling spaces, says academic">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Editor’s Note: Here below is a list of the main issues currently under discussion in New Zealand and links to media coverage. Today’s content Child poverty, welfare Max Rashbrooke (RNZ): Child poverty stats promising, but more is needed Mike Hosking (Newstalk ZB): Child poverty is the KiwiBuild of social failure Heather du Plessis Allan (Newstalk ZB): Child poverty ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 26 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-february-26-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – February 26 2020">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tony Wood, Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute Opposition leader Anthony Albanese sought to claim the climate policy high ground last week with his commitment to a net-zero emissions target by 2050. But figures on Australia’s emissions from the Department of the Environment and Energy help frame the ... <a title="Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/carbon-pricing-its-a-proven-way-to-reduce-emissions-but-everyones-too-scared-to-mention-it-132342/" aria-label="Read more about Carbon pricing: it’s a proven way to reduce emissions but everyone’s too scared to mention it">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Greg Marston, Head of School, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland The Australian government touts compulsory income management as a way to stop welfare payments being spent on alcohol, drugs or gambling. The Howard government introduced the BasicsCard more than a decade ago. About 22,500 ... <a title="‘I don’t want anybody to see me using it’: cashless welfare cards do more harm than good" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/i-dont-want-anybody-to-see-me-using-it-cashless-welfare-cards-do-more-harm-than-good-132341/" aria-label="Read more about ‘I don’t want anybody to see me using it’: cashless welfare cards do more harm than good">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Chris Clarkson, Professor in Archaeology, The University of Queensland About 74,000 years ago a volcanic eruption at what is now Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia, created one of the most dramatic natural disasters of the past 2 million years. The plume of the eruption punched 30 kilometres ... <a title="Stone tools show humans in India survived the cataclysmic Toba eruption 74,000 years ago" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/stone-tools-show-humans-in-india-survived-the-cataclysmic-toba-eruption-74-000-years-ago-132101/" aria-label="Read more about Stone tools show humans in India survived the cataclysmic Toba eruption 74,000 years ago">Read more</a>
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February 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Juliet Watson, Senior Lecturer, Housing and Homelessness, RMIT University Mental health inpatient units should be safe and healing places. But we’ve found women staying in these units are being threatened, harassed and sexually and physically assaulted by men. These are mostly men also staying on the ward, ... <a title="‘They wouldn’t let me call anybody’: women in mental health wards need better protection from sexual assault" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/02/26/they-wouldnt-let-me-call-anybody-women-in-mental-health-wards-need-better-protection-from-sexual-assault-131998/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They wouldn’t let me call anybody’: women in mental health wards need better protection from sexual assault">Read more</a>
