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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Karlheinz Peter, Lab Head, Atherothrombosis and Vascular Biology and Deputy Director, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute; Interventional Cardiologist, Alfred Hospital; Professor of Medicine and Immunology, Monash University, Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute A spate of recent media headlines have described blood thinning medications – which include aspirin ... <a title="Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here’s what the science says and what it means for you" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/could-blood-thinners-be-a-lifesaving-treatment-for-covid-19-heres-what-the-science-says-and-what-it-means-for-you-138813/" aria-label="Read more about Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here’s what the science says and what it means for you">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
By Evaristo Soares Martins and Robert Baird in Dili The Vice-President of Timor-Leste’s National Parliament, Maria Angelina Sarmento, has been physically removed from a plenary session after she tried to claim the president’s chair. The chamber erupted into farce yesterday as members of parliamentary President – or Speaker – Arão Noé Amaral’s CNRT party blocked ... <a title="Vice-president forced out of Timorese Parliament in bitter row" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/vice-president-forced-out-of-timorese-parliament-in-bitter-row/" aria-label="Read more about Vice-president forced out of Timorese Parliament in bitter row">Read more</a>
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May 19, 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 Newshub Reid-Research poll Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Jacinda Ardern goes stratospheric, Simon Bridges is annihilated Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Politically Simon Bridges is a dead man walking Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Simon Bridges still confident he will ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 19 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-19-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 19 2020">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Katie Attwell, Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia The first I heard of the “Plandemic” video was when a friend shared it on her Facebook. “I’m pro-vaccine,” was her accompanying statement. “And I’m not a conspiracy theorist.” For those who don’t know, Plandemic is a misinformation-driven viral ... <a title="Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/coronavirus-anti-vaxxers-arent-a-huge-threat-yet-how-do-we-keep-it-that-way-138531/" aria-label="Read more about Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Frank Bongiorno, Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University What does political leadership look like in a pandemic? Many of us probably carry images in our heads of what good leadership might be in a depression or a war. But before ... <a title="Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/why-good-leaders-need-to-hold-the-hose-how-history-might-read-morrisons-coronavirus-leadership-137785/" aria-label="Read more about Why good leaders need to hold the hose: how history might read Morrison’s coronavirus leadership">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Devi Veytia, PhD student , University of Tasmania The Southern Ocean circling Antarctica is one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems. Its food webs support an abundance of life, from tiny micro-organisms to seals, penguins and several species of whales. But climate change is set to disrupt this ... <a title="Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/climate-change-threatens-antarctic-krill-and-the-sea-life-that-depends-on-it-138436/" aria-label="Read more about Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Justine Bell-James, Associate professor, The University of Queensland In a landmark case, 25 young people aged 13 to 30 are mounting a legal challenge to the massive, Clive Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project. This will be the first time human rights arguments are used in a climate ... <a title="These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer’s coal company and making history for human rights" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/these-young-queenslanders-are-taking-on-clive-palmers-coal-company-and-making-history-for-human-rights-138732/" aria-label="Read more about These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer’s coal company and making history for human rights">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Laird, Honorary Principal Fellow, University of Wollongong The New South Wales government has focused on delivering more motorways and rail links for Sydney, along with main roads in regional NSW, since the Coalition won office in 2011. The biggest of these, WestConnex, is still being built. ... <a title="Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney’s best option right now?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/is-another-huge-and-costly-road-project-really-sydneys-best-option-right-now-136836/" aria-label="Read more about Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney’s best option right now?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Responding to COVID-19 required governments to make hard choices with enormous consequences. The biggest were whether to let the disease rip, lock it down, or strike out in search of a middle ground that delivered ... <a title="The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here’s how to get it right, quickly" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/the-big-stimulus-spending-has-just-begun-heres-how-to-get-it-right-quickly-138414/" aria-label="Read more about The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here’s how to get it right, quickly">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meng Xia, PhD candidate on Literature, memory and trauma, UNSW Starting on January 25 2020, novelist and poet Fang Fang has posted 60 daily diary entries about life and death in her home town of Wuhan to WeChat, China’s most popular social media platform. Born in 1955, ... <a title="Fang Fang’s Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/fang-fangs-wuhan-diaries-are-a-personal-account-of-shared-memory-138007/" aria-label="Read more about Fang Fang’s Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Alexander Gillespie, Professor of Law, University of Waikato Reaction to the New Zealand government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and resultant lockdown has ranged from high praise to criticism that its actions were illegal and its management chaotic. Partly in response to the concerns, and to put ... <a title="Are New Zealand’s new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/are-new-zealands-new-covid-19-laws-and-powers-really-a-step-towards-a-police-state-138114/" aria-label="Read more about Are New Zealand’s new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?">Read more</a>
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May 19, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Pippa Blackburn, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Griffith University, Qld, Griffith University Health-care staff are trained to deal with whatever comes through the hospital doors. But COVID-19 is a completely different ballgame. During this pandemic, health-care workers are facing traumatic experiences in both their professional and personal worlds. They ... <a title="Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/19/health-care-workers-share-our-trauma-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic-on-top-of-their-own-137887/" aria-label="Read more about Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own">Read more</a>
