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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Amy Graham, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UNSW More than one billion young people around the world are now shut out of classrooms due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Even in Australia where many schools remain open, many parents have chosen to keep their kids home. Some Australian non-government schools ... <a title="Schools are moving online, but not all children start out digitally equal" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/schools-are-moving-online-but-not-all-children-start-out-digitally-equal-134650/" aria-label="Read more about Schools are moving online, but not all children start out digitally equal">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease COVID-19, has infected nearly half a million people and taken the lives of more than 21,200. No person in Australia is more qualified to speak on the science of this global pandemic than ... <a title="Politics with Michelle Grattan: Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty on the coronavirus crisis and the timeline for a vaccine" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/politics-with-michelle-grattan-nobel-laureate-professor-peter-doherty-on-the-coronavirus-crisis-and-the-timeline-for-a-vaccine-134795/" aria-label="Read more about Politics with Michelle Grattan: Nobel Laureate Professor Peter Doherty on the coronavirus crisis and the timeline for a vaccine">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology Less than a fortnight after the first anniversary of the Christchurch mosque shootings, and on the first day of New Zealand’s four-week COVID-19 lockdown, the Australian man responsible for the attacks has surprised the nation by pleading guilty ... <a title="Life in prison looms for Australia’s Christchurch gunman, now NZ’s first convicted terrorist" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/life-in-prison-looms-for-australias-christchurch-gunman-now-nzs-first-convicted-terrorist-134780/" aria-label="Read more about Life in prison looms for Australia’s Christchurch gunman, now NZ’s first convicted terrorist">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW The COVID-19 pandemic is terrifying for many of us, but people with a disability have more reason to worry than most. People with a disability often have underlying health conditions that make them more susceptible to serious illness or death ... <a title="People with a disability are more likely to die from coronavirus – but we can reduce this risk" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/people-with-a-disability-are-more-likely-to-die-from-coronavirus-but-we-can-reduce-this-risk-134383/" aria-label="Read more about People with a disability are more likely to die from coronavirus – but we can reduce this risk">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anthea Batsakis, Deputy Editor: Environment + Energy, The Conversation Right now, the best thing we can do to help stop the alarming spread of coronavirus is to stay home. But that doesn’t mean we can’t find pleasure in nature or help the environment. Here, a behavioural science ... <a title="Running out of things to do in isolation? Get back in the garden with these ideas from 4 experts" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/running-out-of-things-to-do-in-isolation-get-back-in-the-garden-with-these-ideas-from-4-experts-134229/" aria-label="Read more about Running out of things to do in isolation? Get back in the garden with these ideas from 4 experts">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tamara Kohn, Professor of Anthropology, University of Melbourne The coronavirus is not only affecting the way we live, it’s also dramatically affecting the way we die. In Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that funerals would be limited to a maximum of ten people to limit the ... <a title="Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/small-funerals-online-memorials-and-grieving-from-afar-the-coronavirus-is-changing-how-we-care-for-the-dead-134647/" aria-label="Read more about Small funerals, online memorials and grieving from afar: the coronavirus is changing how we care for the dead">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Daniel Johnston, Research Affiliate, University of Sydney Being close to others is intrinsically associated with theatre. In Shakespeare’s London, theatre gatherings were condemned by the Puritans as evil. They thought the plague spread by theatre crowds was God’s punishment on the wicked for indulging in pastimes such ... <a title="The power of proximity and the theatre of touch: what losing live audiences may mean for theatre" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/the-power-of-proximity-and-the-theatre-of-touch-what-losing-live-audiences-may-mean-for-theatre-133515/" aria-label="Read more about The power of proximity and the theatre of touch: what losing live audiences may mean for theatre">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vanessa Whittington, PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University The queues of unemployed people outside Centrelink offices in recent days are reminiscent of the dole queues seen across Australia during the Great Depression of the 1930s. At that time, most states provided inadequate food ... <a title="Lessons from the Great Depression: how to prevent evictions in an economic crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/lessons-from-the-great-depression-how-to-prevent-evictions-in-an-economic-crisis-134644/" aria-label="Read more about Lessons from the Great Depression: how to prevent evictions in an economic crisis">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
By RNZ News The man due to go on trial for the mosque attacks in Christchurch on 15 March 2019 has today pleaded guilty to all the charges he was facing. At the High Court in Christchurch, Brenton Tarrant admitted 51 counts of murder, 40 of attempted murder and one under the Terrorism Suppression Act. ... <a title="NZ mosque massacre: Gunman pleads guilty to all charges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/nz-mosque-massacre-gunman-pleads-guilty-to-all-charges/" aria-label="Read more about NZ mosque massacre: Gunman pleads guilty to all charges">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Collignon, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Australian National University Victoria started school holidays a week early while parents can choose whether to send their children to school in other states. All states and territories are working towards reopening schools in term two. Prime Minister Scott ... <a title="Other countries are shutting schools – why does the Australian government say it’s safe to keep them open?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/other-countries-are-shutting-schools-why-does-the-australian-government-say-its-safe-to-keep-them-open-134538/" aria-label="Read more about Other countries are shutting schools – why does the Australian government say it’s safe to keep them open?">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin In today’s first chart, which excludes countries with a single death, only Iran features as a country outside of Western Europe. In Europe, worst hit is the ‘Latin’ group in the southwest. I include Switzerland here, which has large Italian‑speaking and French‑speaking components. Next are the Benelux countries – Netherlands, Belgium ... <a title="Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/keith-rankin-chart-analysis-covid-19-virus-countries-with-highest-death-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Chart Analysis – Covid-19 Virus: Countries with Highest Death Rates">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Rizki Fachriansyah and Ary Hermawan in Jakarta The Covid-19 pandemic situation is already bad in Indonesia, which now has the highest death toll in Southeast Asia just a few weeks after declaring itself “virus-free”. As of yesterday, Indonesia had reported 686 cases with 55 deaths. The crisis is likely going to get worse. ... <a title="Will Indonesia be Southeast Asia’s Italy? How Jakarta is battling Covid-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/will-indonesia-be-southeast-asias-italy-how-jakarta-is-battling-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Will Indonesia be Southeast Asia’s Italy? How Jakarta is battling Covid-19">Read more</a>
