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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sebastian Leuzinger, Professor, Auckland University of Technology Climate Explained is a collaboration between The Conversation, Stuff and the New Zealand Science Media Centre to answer your questions about climate change. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, please send it to climate.change@stuff.co.nz If ... <a title="Climate explained: why higher carbon dioxide levels isn’t only good news even if some plants grow faster" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/climate-explained-why-higher-carbon-dioxide-levels-isnt-only-good-news-even-if-some-plants-grow-faster-137235/" aria-label="Read more about Climate explained: why higher carbon dioxide levels isn’t only good news even if some plants grow faster">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Laura Schuijers, Research Fellow in Environmental Law, University of Melbourne Independent MP and barrister Zali Steggall recently drew public attention to a federal government program that supports gas, hydro and coal power projects through underwriting. Writing to Auditor General Grant Hehir, Steggall called for an investigation into ... <a title="The government’s UNGI scheme: what it is and why Zali Steggall wants it investigated" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/the-governments-ungi-scheme-what-it-is-and-why-zali-steggall-wants-it-investigated-137252/" aria-label="Read more about The government’s UNGI scheme: what it is and why Zali Steggall wants it investigated">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Zarmati, Lecturer in Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Tasmania Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see ... <a title="Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia, and other myths from old school text books" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/captain-cook-discovered-australia-and-other-myths-from-old-school-text-books-128926/" aria-label="Read more about Captain Cook ‘discovered’ Australia, and other myths from old school text books">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ben Beck, Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University The coronavirus pandemic has dramatically shifted our lives and the ways we move about our cities. Despite tight restrictions on non-essential work and outings, and on social gatherings in every state and territory, ... <a title="Physical distancing is here for a while – over 100 experts call for more safe walking and cycling space" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/physical-distancing-is-here-for-a-while-over-100-experts-call-for-more-safe-walking-and-cycling-space-137374/" aria-label="Read more about Physical distancing is here for a while – over 100 experts call for more safe walking and cycling space">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Morley, Professor of Macroeconomics, University of Sydney Governments are being asked to do the near impossible: to deliver on both health and the economy. In many circumstances doing both at the same time would be completely impossible. But fortunately in Australia we have separate instruments we ... <a title="It’s just started: we’ll need war bonds, and stimulus on a scale not seen in our lifetimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/its-just-started-well-need-war-bonds-and-stimulus-on-a-scale-not-seen-in-our-lifetimes-137155/" aria-label="Read more about It’s just started: we’ll need war bonds, and stimulus on a scale not seen in our lifetimes">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alison Page, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney Captain James Cook arrived in the Pacific 250 years ago, triggering British colonisation of the region. We’re asking researchers to reflect on what happened and how it shapes us today. You can see other stories in the series ... <a title="‘They are all dead’: for Indigenous people, Cook’s voyage of ‘discovery’ was a ghostly visitation" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/they-are-all-dead-for-indigenous-people-cooks-voyage-of-discovery-was-a-ghostly-visitation-126430/" aria-label="Read more about ‘They are all dead’: for Indigenous people, Cook’s voyage of ‘discovery’ was a ghostly visitation">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland In classical Western theism, God is said to be both good and all-powerful. So how do we square natural disasters – global pandemics, earthquakes, tsunamis, famines, bushfires, and so on – with ... <a title="Is God good? In the shadow of mass disaster, great minds have argued the toss" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/is-god-good-in-the-shadow-of-mass-disaster-great-minds-have-argued-the-toss-137078/" aria-label="Read more about Is God good? In the shadow of mass disaster, great minds have argued the toss">Read more</a>
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April 29, 2020
By Gemma Holliani Cahya in Jakarta When the first covid-19 coronavirus pandemic cases were detected in Indonesia, one doctor at least knew right away that Papua was not ready to handle the highly infectious disease. “I know this might sound harsh for some people but this is the fact; if you don’t want to die, ... <a title="‘If you don’t want to die, don’t come to Papua’, warns response team doctor" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/29/if-you-dont-want-to-die-dont-come-to-papua-warns-response-team-doctor/" aria-label="Read more about ‘If you don’t want to die, don’t come to Papua’, warns response team doctor">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
PACIFIC PANDEMIC DIARY: By Sri Krishnamurthi, contributing editor of Pacific Media Watch The collapse of tourism across the world in the face of the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic could plunge thousands of people into poverty in the Pacific, predicts a new International Labour Organisation report. Thousands of jobs in countries like Fiji, Samoa and Tonga are ... <a title="Virus tourism collapse threatens many in Pacific with poverty" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/virus-tourism-collapse-threatens-many-in-pacific-with-poverty/" aria-label="Read more about Virus tourism collapse threatens many in Pacific with poverty">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrea Pattinson, PhD Candidate, University of Sydney Recent studies have found alongside older age and chronic health conditions, obesity is a risk factor for becoming seriously ill with COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It’s true a number of the health conditions which we know ... <a title="Evidence obesity is a risk factor for serious illness with coronavirus is mounting – even if you’re young" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/evidence-obesity-is-a-risk-factor-for-serious-illness-with-coronavirus-is-mounting-even-if-youre-young-137081/" aria-label="Read more about Evidence obesity is a risk factor for serious illness with coronavirus is mounting – even if you’re young">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
By Jo Moir, political reporter of RNZ News New Zealand’s Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield has had to walk back comments made by himself and the Prime Minister yesterday about the country having achieved “elimination”. New Zealand has been hailed in international media, including The New York Times and the Sydney Daily Telegraph, ... <a title="NZ hailed for ‘winning battle’ over covid-19 – but the war isn’t over" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/nz-hailed-for-winning-battle-over-covid-19-but-the-war-isnt-over/" aria-label="Read more about NZ hailed for ‘winning battle’ over covid-19 – but the war isn’t over">Read more</a>
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April 28, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Tess Newton Cain of Griffith University Across the globe, the coronavirus pandemic has prompted countries and governments to become increasingly inward-looking. Australia is not immune to this. One of the effects of this situation has been that the “Pacific Step-up” appears to have dropped entirely off the political radar. The step-up is – ... <a title="How might coronavirus change Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/04/28/how-might-coronavirus-change-australias-pacific-step-up/" aria-label="Read more about How might coronavirus change Australia’s ‘Pacific Step-up’?">Read more</a>
