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July 24, 2019
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 Climate change, environment Henry Cooke (Stuff): Government extends tax break for oil rigs, despite promise not to subsidise fossil fuel industry RNZ: Jacinda Ardern supports, does not commit to ‘climate emergency’ declaration Bryce ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 24 2019" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-24-2019/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 24 2019">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
COMMENTARY: By Phil Fitzpatrick in Tumby Bay The recent horrific events in Hela Province have brought the role of the police force in Papua New Guinea into sharp focus. Prime Minister James Marape is currently in Australia and has apparently discussed the issue with Prime Minister Scott Morrison. We can only hope that Morrison, if ... <a title="Phil Fitzpatrick: PNG’s Kramer ‘crucial’ law and order change maker" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/phil-fitzpatrick-pngs-kramer-crucial-law-and-order-change-maker/" aria-label="Read more about Phil Fitzpatrick: PNG’s Kramer ‘crucial’ law and order change maker">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra After a bruising election outcome, GetUp is regrouping around a batch of issues – with press freedom the big ticket item. The activist group’s national director Paul Oosting, who has been in Canberra for the parliamentary week, says this is ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Paul Oosting responds to GetUp’s critics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/politics-with-michelle-grattan-paul-oosting-responds-to-getups-critics-120886/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Paul Oosting responds to GetUp’s critics">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bruce Mountain, Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Last week the body that governs Australia’s energy market released a draft proposal to introduce a demand response mechanism to the wholesale electricity market. It argues the proposal will unearth some electricity users’ “latent flexibility” to prices in ... <a title="New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/new-demand-response-energy-rules-sound-good-but-the-devil-is-in-the-hugely-complicated-details-120676/" aria-label="Read more about New demand-response energy rules sound good, but the devil is in the (hugely complicated) details">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Belinda Nicholson, Lecturer, University of Southern Queensland Curious Kids is a series for children. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.edu.au You might also like the podcast Imagine This, a co-production between ABC KIDS listen and The Conversation, based ... <a title="Curious Kids: does the Sun spin as well as the planets?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/curious-kids-does-the-sun-spin-as-well-as-the-planets-119877/" aria-label="Read more about Curious Kids: does the Sun spin as well as the planets?">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ray Markey, Emeritus Professor, Macquarie University One of the Coalition government’s first priorities in the new parliament is the passage of its Ensuring Integrity Bill, aimed at tightening regulations on unions and union officials. Similar legislation was introduced in 2017, but rejected in the Senate. This time ... <a title="Fall-out from Setka affair could give Coalition easier passage of union bill" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/fall-out-from-setka-affair-could-give-coalition-easier-passage-of-union-bill-120586/" aria-label="Read more about Fall-out from Setka affair could give Coalition easier passage of union bill">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Koval, Academic, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne How does a woman feel when a man wolf-whistles at her from across the street? Or when a male coworker gives her body a fleeting once-over before looking her in the eye? These examples may seem ... <a title="Sexually objectifying women leads women to objectify themselves, and harms emotional well-being" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/sexually-objectifying-women-leads-women-to-objectify-themselves-and-harms-emotional-well-being-120762/" aria-label="Read more about Sexually objectifying women leads women to objectify themselves, and harms emotional well-being">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Edwards, Research Director, Australian Council for Educational Research Australia spent A$111.8 billion on education in 2015, the most recent year for which the full dataset for all levels of education spending is available. A report from the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) released today shows ... <a title="Three charts on: how much Australia spends on all levels of education" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/three-charts-on-how-much-australia-spends-on-all-levels-of-education-120076/" aria-label="Read more about Three charts on: how much Australia spends on all levels of education">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Neil Sipe, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, The University of Queensland While car parking was a non-negotiable amenity for baby boomers, it is an eyesore to millennials and the up-and-coming iGen. Newer generations want more city and fewer cars. Globally, scrapping car parking is the latest ... <a title="What can our cities do about sprawl, congestion and pollution? Tip: scrap car parking" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/what-can-our-cities-do-about-sprawl-congestion-and-pollution-tip-scrap-car-parking-118393/" aria-label="Read more about What can our cities do about sprawl, congestion and pollution? Tip: scrap car parking">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Since parliament has resumed three Liberal members – Dean Smith, Russell Broadbent and Andrew Wallace – have joined a group of Nationals calling for an increase in the A$40 per day Newstart unemployment allowance. Labor has ... <a title="Are most people on the Newstart unemployment benefit for a short or long time?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/are-most-people-on-the-newstart-unemployment-benefit-for-a-short-or-long-time-120826/" aria-label="Read more about Are most people on the Newstart unemployment benefit for a short or long time?">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Renee Knake, RMIT Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Professor of Law at the University of Houston, RMIT University In this series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. When Grata Flos Matilda Greig walked into her first law school class at the University of ... <a title="Hidden women of history: Flos Grieg, Australia’s first female lawyer and early innovator" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/hidden-women-of-history-flos-grieg-australias-first-female-lawyer-and-early-innovator-119990/" aria-label="Read more about Hidden women of history: Flos Grieg, Australia’s first female lawyer and early innovator">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2019
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lida Ayoubi, Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology The New Zealand parliament seems closer to adopting a bill to amend copyright legislation to make it easier for visually impaired people to access published works. An estimated 90% of all written works published worldwide are not available in formats ... <a title="NZ considers changes to copyright law as part of promise to help end global ‘book famine’" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2019/07/24/nz-considers-changes-to-copyright-law-as-part-of-promise-to-help-end-global-book-famine-117891/" aria-label="Read more about NZ considers changes to copyright law as part of promise to help end global ‘book famine’">Read more</a>
