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April 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stefan Volk, Associate Professor and Co-Director Body, Heart and Mind in Business Research Group, University of Sydney As governments look to ease general social-distancing measures and instead use more targeted strategies to stop coronavirus transmission, we face a social dilemma about the limits of cooperative behaviour. Consider ... <a title="Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: most of us won’t cooperate unless everyone does" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/23/coronavirus-contact-tracing-apps-most-of-us-wont-cooperate-unless-everyone-does-135959/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus contact-tracing apps: most of us won’t cooperate unless everyone does">Read more</a>
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April 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Bubenik, Senior Lecturer in Art History, The University of Queensland Famous paintings are flooding the internet – but not as we are accustomed to seeing them. These are not just reproductions. Literally coming to life, paintings are being re-enacted at home with art lovers posing their ... <a title="Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/23/recreating-masterpieces-at-home-people-have-been-doing-it-for-centuries-136617/" aria-label="Read more about Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
DISPATCH FROM THE PACIFIC: By Professor Elisabeth Holland. She writes from a remote island in Fiji’s Koro Sea where she went to stay out of the way of Covid-19, as named by the World Health Organisation (WHO), or SARS-CoV-2, as named by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses. The island is in the Lomaviti ... <a title="When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/when-tropical-cyclone-harold-meets-the-novel-coronavirus/" aria-label="Read more about When Tropical Cyclone Harold meets the novel coronavirus">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Greg Hunt is set to become the lead ministerial face of the sales effort for the proposed controversial new COVID-19 tracing app, aided by the government’s health professionals. Federal cabinet discussed the app at its Wednesday meeting, and the national ... <a title="View from The Hill: Government needs credible pitch and strong guarantees to get app take-up" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/view-from-the-hill-government-needs-credible-pitch-and-strong-guarantees-to-get-app-take-up-136979/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Government needs credible pitch and strong guarantees to get app take-up">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meru Sheel, Epidemiologist | Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University Recent headlines have suggested COVID-19 can spread up to four meters, drawing into question the current advice to maintain 1.5 metres between people to prevent the spread of the virus. The news was based on a study ... <a title="Can coronavirus spread 4 metres?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/can-coronavirus-spread-4-metres-136239/" aria-label="Read more about Can coronavirus spread 4 metres?">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute The near-total shutdown of elective surgery across Australia will end soon, following National Cabinet consideration on Tuesday. The shutdown was imposed to ensure there would be enough personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses to manage a projected tsunami ... <a title="Elective surgery’s due to restart next week so now’s the time to fix waiting lists once and for all" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/elective-surgerys-due-to-restart-next-week-so-nows-the-time-to-fix-waiting-lists-once-and-for-all-136835/" aria-label="Read more about Elective surgery’s due to restart next week so now’s the time to fix waiting lists once and for all">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kay Nankervis, Lecturer in Theatre, Media and Creative Practice., Charles Sturt University Federal Communications Minister Paul Fletcher announced three measures last week to help commercial TV broadcasters deal with COVID-19 financial stress. First, the spectrum tax broadcasters pay the government for access to audiences will be waived ... <a title="Coronavirus TV ‘support’ package leaves screen writers and directors even less certain than before" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/coronavirus-tv-support-package-leaves-screen-writers-and-directors-even-less-certain-than-before-136545/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus TV ‘support’ package leaves screen writers and directors even less certain than before">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Arnagretta Hunter, ANU Human Futures Fellow 2020; Cardiologist and Physician., Australian National University Four months in, this year has already been a remarkable showcase for existential and catastrophic risk. A severe drought, devastating bushfires, hazardous smoke, towns running dry – these events all demonstrate the consequences of ... <a title="There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/there-are-10-catastrophic-threats-facing-humans-right-now-and-coronavirus-is-only-one-of-them-136854/" aria-label="Read more about There are 10 catastrophic threats facing humans right now, and coronavirus is only one of them">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Kenny, Professor, Australian Studies Institute, Australian National University Despite nearly three decades without a recession, Australia’s last proper budget surplus came a dozen years ago – just before the Global Financial Crisis hit. Two or three months back, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg ... <a title="Despite huge coronavirus stimulus package, the government might still need to pay more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/despite-huge-coronavirus-stimulus-package-the-government-might-still-need-to-pay-more-136503/" aria-label="Read more about Despite huge coronavirus stimulus package, the government might still need to pay more">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Smith, Research Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne has led a bipartisan call for a global inquiry into the origins of the coronavirus, noting Australia will insist on an independent review, not ... <a title="Murky origins: why China will never welcome a global inquiry into the source of COVID-19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/murky-origins-why-china-will-never-welcome-a-global-inquiry-into-the-source-of-covid-19-136713/" aria-label="Read more about Murky origins: why China will never welcome a global inquiry into the source of COVID-19">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew J. Martin, Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology, UNSW NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian yesterday announced school students would return to face-to-face classrooms in a staggered fashion from May 11, the third week of term. She said students would initially return for one day a week, ... <a title="NSW ‘staggered’ return to school: some students may need in-class time more than others" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/nsw-staggered-return-to-school-some-students-may-need-in-class-time-more-than-others-136837/" aria-label="Read more about NSW ‘staggered’ return to school: some students may need in-class time more than others">Read more</a>
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April 22, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Tracy Ireland, Professor of Cultural Heritage, University of Canberra The coronavirus crisis has challenged the global aviation industry in previously unimaginable ways. The latest announcement is Virgin Australia has entered voluntary administration. While Virgin’s future hangs in the balance, over the one hundred years of civil aviation ... <a title="‘Home away from home’: reflecting on past airline collapses in Australia" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/22/home-away-from-home-reflecting-on-past-airline-collapses-in-australia-136840/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Home away from home’: reflecting on past airline collapses in Australia">Read more</a>
