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May 29, 2020
Pacific Media Watch The Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom has welcomed the decision by the Australian Federal Police to drop charges against Newscorp journalist Annika Smethurst and has renewed its call for a media freedom law. The announcement, coming more than a year after the raids, underscores the need for unambiguous protections for press freedom in ... <a title="AJF renews call for media freedom law while welcoming Smethurst move" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/ajf-renews-call-for-media-freedom-law-while-welcoming-smethurst-move/" aria-label="Read more about AJF renews call for media freedom law while welcoming Smethurst move">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Bronwyn Fredericks, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement), The University of Queensland National Reconciliation Week is a time of reflection, talking and sharing of histories, cultures and achievements. It is a time to think about our relationships as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. This year’s theme is “In This Together”, ... <a title="Reconciliation Week: a time to reflect on strong Indigenous leadership and resiliency in the face of a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/reconciliation-week-a-time-to-reflect-on-strong-indigenous-leadership-and-resiliency-in-the-face-of-a-pandemic-139311/" aria-label="Read more about Reconciliation Week: a time to reflect on strong Indigenous leadership and resiliency in the face of a pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Thami Croeser, Research Officer, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University As Australia re-opens, the bars, cafes and restaurants that give life to our streets face a tough ask: stay open and stay afloat with just a fraction of the customers. From June 1 in Victoria, for example, ... <a title="4 ways our streets can rescue restaurants, bars and cafes after coronavirus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/4-ways-our-streets-can-rescue-restaurants-bars-and-cafes-after-coronavirus-139302/" aria-label="Read more about 4 ways our streets can rescue restaurants, bars and cafes after coronavirus">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison this week announced plans for a potential “grand bargain” on industrial relations. Speaking at the National Press Club, he framed the issue as one of boosting economic productivity: We must enable our businesses to earn Australia’s ... <a title="Vital Signs: Morrison’s industrial relations peace gambit is worth a shot. Even if it fails, it’s shrewd politics" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/vital-signs-morrisons-industrial-relations-peace-gambit-is-worth-a-shot-even-if-it-fails-its-shrewd-politics-139459/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Morrison’s industrial relations peace gambit is worth a shot. Even if it fails, it’s shrewd politics">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jonathan Roberts, Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology The coronavirus pandemic has caused a massive surge in global unemployment. It has also highlighted the increasingly valuable role of automation in today’s world. Although there are some jobs machines just can’t do, COVID-19 has left us wondering ... <a title="The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/the-coronavirus-has-thrust-human-limitations-into-the-spotlight-will-it-mark-the-rise-of-automation-139198/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus has thrust human limitations into the spotlight. Will it mark the rise of automation?">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University Group B streptococcal (GBS) is a common bacteria that likes to live in the human gut and migrate down the rectum, vagina and sometimes to the urinary tract. Not everyone has ... <a title="Group B strep and having a baby: what pregnant women need to know" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/group-b-strep-and-having-a-baby-what-pregnant-women-need-to-know-131893/" aria-label="Read more about Group B strep and having a baby: what pregnant women need to know">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Hitchcock, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of Canberra Each year the ocean is inundated with 4.8 to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic washed in from land. A big proportion of this plastic is between 0.001 to 5 millimetres, and called “microplastic”. But what happens during a storm, ... <a title="A fire extinguisher, a suit and 14 million plastic particles: after a storm, microplastic pollution surged in the Cooks River" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/a-fire-extinguisher-a-suit-and-14-million-plastic-particles-after-a-storm-microplastic-pollution-surged-in-the-cooks-river-139043/" aria-label="Read more about A fire extinguisher, a suit and 14 million plastic particles: after a storm, microplastic pollution surged in the Cooks River">Read more</a>
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May 29, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Malcolm Burt, Amusement academic and disruptive media researcher, CQUniversity Australia In the not-so-distant past I commuted fairly hefty distances in a fairly garbage car. But you didn’t hear me complaining – I had an extensive library of podcasts (or “my stories” as I liked to call them) ... <a title="Friday essay: missing the commute, the spaces between places and the podcast stories in our pockets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/29/friday-essay-missing-the-commute-the-spaces-between-places-and-the-podcast-stories-in-our-pockets-139222/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: missing the commute, the spaces between places and the podcast stories in our pockets">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra It was Greg Combet, one-time ACTU secretary and former Labor minister, who got Christian Porter and Sally McManus together in the early days of the pandemic. Recalling what happened, Porter told the Australian Financial Review he said to Combet he ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: When Christian met Sally – the match made by a pandemic" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/grattan-on-friday-when-christian-met-sally-the-match-made-by-a-pandemic-139562/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: When Christian met Sally – the match made by a pandemic">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kristy Hess, Associate Professor (Communication), Deakin University With swift and savage force, the COVID-19 pandemic has inadvertently attacked Australia’s local news media ecology, which was already battling a weakened immune system. As a researcher working on Australia’s largest academic study into the future of local newspapers, the ... <a title="Another savage blow to regional media spells disaster for the communities they serve" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/another-savage-blow-to-regional-media-spells-disaster-for-the-communities-they-serve-139559/" aria-label="Read more about Another savage blow to regional media spells disaster for the communities they serve">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michael (Mike) Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington New Zealand’s government has been praised for listening to health experts in its pandemic response, but when it comes to dealing with pollution of the country’s waterways, scientific ... <a title="New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/new-zealand-government-ignores-expert-advice-in-its-plan-to-improve-water-quality-in-rivers-and-lakes-139554/" aria-label="Read more about New Zealand government ignores expert advice in its plan to improve water quality in rivers and lakes">Read more</a>
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May 28, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. On Project Syndicate – and in other places in recent months – orthodox US economist Kenneth Rogoff has presented the case for deeply negative interest rates. Another financial sacred cow falls; yes, interest rates can be negative, even substantially negative. It can take a while, though, for shot sacred cows to ... <a title="Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/28/keith-rankin-on-deeply-negative-interest-rates/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin on Deeply Negative Interest Rates">Read more</a>
