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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Bragge, Director of Health Programs, BehaviourWorks Australia; Lead, Monash-McMaster Social Systems Evidence Collaboration, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University COVID-19 is a rare moment in time where individual behaviours can have profound impacts on society. To address some of the negative impacts, politicians are talking to ... <a title="Stay positive, Scott Morrison: when you berate people for bad behaviour, they do it more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/stay-positive-scott-morrison-when-you-berate-people-for-bad-behaviour-they-do-it-more-134793/" aria-label="Read more about Stay positive, Scott Morrison: when you berate people for bad behaviour, they do it more">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
By Philip Cass Tonga will go into lockdown at 1am on Sunday morning, March 29. There will also be a night time curfew from 8pm to 6am. Prime Minister Pohiva Tu’i’onetoa said the lockdown was being ordered as a response to the World Health Organisation declaration that the Covid-19 coronavirus was a global pandemic and ... <a title="Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/pacific-coronavirus-lockdown-curfew-begin-in-tonga-on-sunday/" aria-label="Read more about Pacific coronavirus: Lockdown, curfew, begin in Tonga on Sunday">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mike Lee, Professor in Evolutionary Biology (jointly appointed with South Australian Museum), Flinders University While the world waits for an effective vaccine against COVID-19, we are relying heavily on social distancing – perhaps better termed “physical distancing” – to control the spread of the coronavirus. Physical distancing ... <a title="Want to make social distancing even more effective? It’s about time (as well as space)" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/want-to-make-social-distancing-even-more-effective-its-about-time-as-well-as-space-134551/" aria-label="Read more about Want to make social distancing even more effective? It’s about time (as well as space)">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Mills, Hon Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Set into the tiles of the entrance to the boomtime-era Victorian Parliament is a message from the past that is as urgent as it is ancient: Where no counsel is, the people fall: ... <a title="‘Where no counsel is, the people fall’: why parliaments should keep functioning during the coronavirus crisis" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/where-no-counsel-is-the-people-fall-why-parliaments-should-keep-functioning-during-the-coronavirus-crisis-134772/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Where no counsel is, the people fall’: why parliaments should keep functioning during the coronavirus crisis">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Natasha Chassagne, University Associate, University of Tasmania, University of Tasmania Every aspect of our lives has been affected by the coronavirus. The global economy has slowed, people have retreated to their homes and thousands have died or become seriously ill. At this frightening stage of the crisis, ... <a title="Here’s what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us about tackling climate change" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/heres-what-the-coronavirus-pandemic-can-teach-us-about-tackling-climate-change-134399/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s what the coronavirus pandemic can teach us about tackling climate change">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Glover, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University Most major corporate, academic and other networking events have been cancelled because of the risks of spreading the coronavirus while travelling or at the events themselves. This flurry of cancellations has even spawned a literally titled website: https://www.isitcanceledyet.com/. But the ... <a title="New ways of ‘being together apart’ can work for us and the planet long after coronavirus crisis passes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/new-ways-of-being-together-apart-can-work-for-us-and-the-planet-long-after-coronavirus-crisis-passes-133348/" aria-label="Read more about New ways of ‘being together apart’ can work for us and the planet long after coronavirus crisis passes">Read more</a>
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March 27, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Camilla Nelson, Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Words can help us imagine the world more deeply. Even as we retreat into our homes in this time of crisis, words can help us reach out to each other and pile up strength. The Stella ... <a title="Stella Prize 2020: a readers’ guide to the contenders" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/27/stella-prize-2020-a-readers-guide-to-the-contenders-132515/" aria-label="Read more about Stella Prize 2020: a readers’ guide to the contenders">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra After the coronavirus nightmare has passed, harsh judgements will be made about which political leaders and health experts were on the right or wrong side in handling this crisis. Politicians like to cast back to the global financial crisis and ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Which leaders and health experts will be on the right side of history on COVID-19 policy?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/grattan-on-friday-which-leaders-and-health-experts-will-be-on-the-right-side-of-history-on-covid-19-policy-134801/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Which leaders and health experts will be on the right side of history on COVID-19 policy?">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By C Raina MacIntyre, Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW As the World Health Organisation keeps reminding health officials around the world, in order to get COVID-19 under control, we must “test, test, test”. Along with tracing contacts of cases, ... <a title="To get on top of the coronavirus, we also need to test people without symptoms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/to-get-on-top-of-the-coronavirus-we-also-need-to-test-people-without-symptoms-134381/" aria-label="Read more about To get on top of the coronavirus, we also need to test people without symptoms">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand has – almost – made it through the first day of the national month-long lockdown, and according to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, things have gone “as smoothly as could be expected”. Speaking to media today, Ardern highlighted just how much of a feat that was. The lockdown – unprecedented in ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day one: Things going as ‘smoothly as possible’, says PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/nz-lockdown-day-one-things-going-as-smoothly-as-possible-says-pm/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day one: Things going as ‘smoothly as possible’, says PM">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jeff Borland, Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne The immediate impact of the coronavirus shutdown is striking in its magnitude, its speed and its concentration on a small set of industries. My attempt to identify where the virus and the shutdown will have the biggest effect suggests ... <a title="Which jobs are most at risk from the coronavirus shutdown? " class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/which-jobs-are-most-at-risk-from-the-coronavirus-shutdown-134680/" aria-label="Read more about Which jobs are most at risk from the coronavirus shutdown? ">Read more</a>
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March 26, 2020
OPINION: By Antonio Sampaio in Dili The Timor-Leste authorities have to improve significantly the conditions in which journalists are working to cover the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. As the only foreign journalist in East Timor, I support the recommendations made today by the two associations of Timorese journalists. In a statement sent to Lusa ndewsagency, the ... <a title="‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to Timorese officials" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/03/26/we-cant-keep-working-like-this-a-journalists-plea-to-timorese-officials/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We can’t keep working like this’ – a journalist’s plea to Timorese officials">Read more</a>
