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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Troy Baisden, Professor and Chair in Lake and Freshwater Sciences, University of Waikato The latest environmental report on New Zealand’s lakes and rivers reiterates bleak news about the state of freshwater ecosystems, and warns that climate change will exacerbate existing threats. Almost all New Zealand rivers running ... <a title="Polluted, drained, and drying out: new warnings on New Zealand’s rivers and lakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/polluted-drained-and-drying-out-new-warnings-on-new-zealands-rivers-and-lakes-136486/" aria-label="Read more about Polluted, drained, and drying out: new warnings on New Zealand’s rivers and lakes">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Cook, Lecturer, Computer and Security Science,Edith Cowan University, Edith Cowan University Whether you use Zoom, Skype or Microsoft Teams, the webcam on your home PC or laptop device has probably never been as active as it is during this pandemic. Most of us have a camera ... <a title="Hackers can access your mobile and laptop cameras and record you – cover them up now" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/hackers-can-access-your-mobile-and-laptop-cameras-and-record-you-cover-them-up-now-135933/" aria-label="Read more about Hackers can access your mobile and laptop cameras and record you – cover them up now">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. I should be at Iguaçu Falls today, in Brazil and in Argentina. In mid-February I booked my domestic flights in these two countries, believing that the Covid19 epidemic was under control in Asia, and was unlikely to become anything like as serious anywhere else in the world, least of all in ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – ‘Europia’ and the Spread of Covid19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/keith-rankin-analysis-europia-and-the-spread-of-covid19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – ‘Europia’ and the Spread of Covid19">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
It was only a matter of time before politicians took a pay cut. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has done the right thing in announcing she will cut the pay of her own ministers and departmental chief executives – see Eleanor Ainge Roy’s Jacinda Ardern and ministers take pay cut in solidarity with those hit by ... <a title="Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-a-powerful-but-tiny-gesture-from-leaders-under-pressure/" aria-label="Read more about Bryce Edwards’ Political Roundup: A Powerful but tiny gesture from leaders under pressure">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bryan Rodgers, Honorary Professor, School of Demography, Australian National University Since March 29, we have congratulated ourselves for flattening the curve of the COVID-19 epidemic in Australia. But if we ask more detailed questions, such as “which curves have flattened?”, “by how much?”, and “how was it ... <a title="How much has Australia really flattened the curve of coronavirus? Until we keep better records, we don’t know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/how-much-has-australia-really-flattened-the-curve-of-coronavirus-until-we-keep-better-records-we-dont-know-136252/" aria-label="Read more about How much has Australia really flattened the curve of coronavirus? Until we keep better records, we don’t know">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced details of the next stage of lockdown, but New Zealanders won’t know until Monday when the country moves out of strict level 4 conditions. Once in level 3, people will have to remain ... <a title="Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/five-ways-new-zealanders-lives-and-liberties-will-be-heavily-controlled-even-after-lockdown-eases-136237/" aria-label="Read more about Five ways New Zealanders’ lives and liberties will be heavily controlled, even after lockdown eases">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Crystal Abidin, Senior Research Fellow & ARC DECRA, Internet Studies, Curtin University, Curtin University For many of us who are used to working regular hours in an office, home-based isolation and lockdown is a novel and even unnerving experience. However, East Asian home vloggers (video bloggers) have ... <a title="Slow living and the art of home maintenance: East Asian vloggers celebrate the domestic space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/slow-living-and-the-art-of-home-maintenance-east-asian-vloggers-celebrate-the-domestic-space-135555/" aria-label="Read more about Slow living and the art of home maintenance: East Asian vloggers celebrate the domestic space">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Elshaug, HCF Research Foundation Professorial Fellow, Professor in Health Policy and Co-Director, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney Part of Australia’s response to the coronavirus pandemic was a severe reduction in elective surgery, and so private hospitals have stood almost empty for a month ... <a title="Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn’t restart them after the pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/hospitals-have-stopped-unnecessary-elective-surgeries-and-shouldnt-restart-them-after-the-pandemic-136259/" aria-label="Read more about Hospitals have stopped unnecessary elective surgeries – and shouldn’t restart them after the pandemic">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Lockdowns work. That’s the evidence from many different countries now, including Australia. To be more precise, lockdowns reduce the effective reproductive rate of the virus to the point where it is below 1, meaning that, on average, ... <a title="Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/unlocking-australia-what-can-benefit-cost-analysis-tell-us-136233/" aria-label="Read more about Unlocking Australia: What can benefit-cost analysis tell us?">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Professor, Course Director Undergraduate Studies, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney Two of the most pressing needs worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic are for more hospital beds and testing centres. No country in the world has enough hospital beds or intensive-care unit (ICU) ... <a title="Hospital beds and coronavirus test centres are needed fast. Here’s an Australian-designed solution" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/hospital-beds-and-coronavirus-test-centres-are-needed-fast-heres-an-australian-designed-solution-136041/" aria-label="Read more about Hospital beds and coronavirus test centres are needed fast. Here’s an Australian-designed solution">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bethaney Turner, Associate Professor, Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra Recent COVID-19 induced panic buying has raised concerns about food security for many Australians. While there’s plenty of food available, many Australians have seen supermarkets stripped bare of essentials in recent weeks. For some ... <a title="Supermarket shelves stripped bare? History can teach us to ‘make do’ with food" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/supermarket-shelves-stripped-bare-history-can-teach-us-to-make-do-with-food-135304/" aria-label="Read more about Supermarket shelves stripped bare? History can teach us to ‘make do’ with food">Read more</a>
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April 16, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By David Robie, self-isolating in Auckland under New Zealand’s Covid-19 lockdown as part of a Pacific Media Watch series. Donald Trump’s sabre-rattling freeze on funding for the World Health Organisation at a time when many countries are pulling together for a global response to the coronavirus pandemic has surely earned him the ... <a title="How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/16/how-the-chief-covidiot-has-blocked-world-health-unity-with-who-freeze/" aria-label="Read more about How the ‘chief covidiot’ has blocked world health unity with WHO freeze">Read more</a>
