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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Berto Pandolfo, Senior Lecturer Product Design, University of Technology Sydney Around the world, people are racing to design and manufacture much-needed ventilators to address a global lack of supply. One New York hospital has reportedly attempted treating two patients per ventilator out of desperation. On March 26, ... <a title="ICU ventilators: what they are, how they work and why it’s hard to make more" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/icu-ventilators-what-they-are-how-they-work-and-why-its-hard-to-make-more-135423/" aria-label="Read more about ICU ventilators: what they are, how they work and why it’s hard to make more">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
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 Health minister demoted, Bridges defends commute 1News: ‘I got it wrong’ – David Clark says he’ll continue as Health Minister at PM’s discretion after breaking lockdown rules Newshub: Health Minister Dr David Clark ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 07 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-april-07-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – April 07 2020">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
By RNZ News New Zealand’s Health Minister David Clark has revealed that he took a trip to the beach during the alert level 4 lockdown and has offered to resign. Dr Clark said he drove his family 20km from his house in Dunedin to Doctor’s Point Beach for a walk during the first weekend of ... <a title="NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/nz-health-minister-offers-to-resign-over-beach-trip-in-virus-lockdown/" aria-label="Read more about NZ Health Minister offers to resign over beach trip in virus lockdown">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Sanderson, Professor of Information Retrieval, RMIT University Wrapping your head around the scale of a global pandemic is not easy, and the volume of stats and data can be bewildering. What, for instance, are we to make of the fact Australia recorded just 109 new cases ... <a title="The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-bar-necessities-5-ways-to-understand-coronavirus-graphs-135537/" aria-label="Read more about The bar necessities: 5 ways to understand coronavirus graphs">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Saeri, Research Fellow, BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University More Australians are worried about the longer-lasting, societal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic – specifically that the health system could be overburdened and the country could enter a recession – than they are about the ... <a title="More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/more-australians-are-worried-about-a-recession-and-an-increasingly-selfish-society-than-about-coronavirus-itself-135297/" aria-label="Read more about More Australians are worried about a recession and an increasingly selfish society than about coronavirus itself">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Mark Meekan, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Australian Institute of Marine Science It might surprise you to learn that nuclear bomb tests during the Cold War are now helping conserve whale sharks, the largest living fish. Growing up to 18 metres – longer than the average bus – ... <a title="The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/the-mushroom-clouds-silver-lining-how-the-cold-war-is-helping-the-biggest-fish-in-the-sea-135429/" aria-label="Read more about The mushroom cloud’s silver lining: how the Cold War is helping the biggest fish in the sea">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University The Australian summer just gone will be remembered as the moment when human-caused climate change struck hard. First came drought, then deadly bushfires, and now a bout of coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef – the third in just ... <a title="We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/we-just-spent-two-weeks-surveying-the-great-barrier-reef-what-we-saw-was-an-utter-tragedy-135197/" aria-label="Read more about We just spent two weeks surveying the Great Barrier Reef. What we saw was an utter tragedy">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alan Morris, Professor, University of Technology Sydney About half of international students in Australia are private renters and more than half of them rely on paid work to pay the rent, but most of the casual jobs they depend on have been lost in the coronavirus pandemic. ... <a title="Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/why-coronavirus-impacts-are-devastating-for-international-students-in-private-rental-housing-134792/" aria-label="Read more about Why coronavirus impacts are devastating for international students in private rental housing">Read more</a>
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April 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Peter Whiteford, Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Many temporary Australian residents will be excluded from the JobSeeker Payment and Coronavirus Supplement to be provided to permanent residents. In this open letter to the prime minister, 40 leading Australian experts on public policy argue ... <a title="Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/07/open-letter-to-the-prime-minister-extend-coronavirus-support-to-temporary-workers-135691/" aria-label="Read more about Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Article by Keith Rankin A Plea for Political Commentary with a Semblance of Accuracy Once again it was very disappointing to hear a radio programme poo-pooing the idea of a Universal Basic Income by misrepresenting it. Refer: (The Panel, National Radio, 6 April 2020) https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/thepanel/audio/2018741718/a-universal-basic-income-to-all-its-citizens And my previous attempt (Keith Rankin on Universal Basic Income ... <a title="Keith Rankin – Universal Basic Income (or Basic Universal Income) and Covid‑19" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/keith-rankin-universal-basic-income-or-basic-universal-income-and-covid-19/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin – Universal Basic Income (or Basic Universal Income) and Covid‑19">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
By RNZ News Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern does not want New Zealand to be at level four for “a minute longer than needed”, but says there is no plan to lift it earlier than the planned four weeks. As New Zealand approaches the halfway point of the four-week lockdown, Ardern said today the country needed ... <a title="NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/nz-lockdown-day-12-nation-needs-to-stay-the-course-says-pm-ardern/" aria-label="Read more about NZ lockdown – day 12: Nation needs to ‘stay the course’, says PM Ardern">Read more</a>
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April 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew McLachlan, Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney Researchers testing the head lice drug Ivermectin as a possible treatment for COVID-19 have seen promising results in lab studies. But the research is in its early stages and the drug is yet to be ... <a title="Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/06/head-lice-drug-ivermectin-is-being-tested-as-a-possible-coronavirus-treatment-but-thats-no-reason-to-buy-it-135683/" aria-label="Read more about Head lice drug Ivermectin is being tested as a possible coronavirus treatment, but that’s no reason to buy it">Read more</a>
