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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kylie Quinn, Vice-Chancellor’s Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University This week, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced it will donate A$10 million to help fund an Australian trial testing whether a very old vaccine, BCG, can be used against a new threat, ... <a title="Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/could-bcg-a-100-year-old-vaccine-for-tuberculosis-protect-against-coronavirus-138006/" aria-label="Read more about Could BCG, a 100-year-old vaccine for tuberculosis, protect against coronavirus?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Today, the federal court ruled feral horses can be removed from the Victorian high country. The case was brought by the Australian Brumby Alliance against the Victorian Government in 2018. Since then, the strategic management plan for feral horses ... <a title="National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/national-parks-are-for-native-wildlife-not-feral-horses-federal-court-138204/" aria-label="Read more about National parks are for native wildlife, not feral horses: federal court">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Kris Gledhill, Professor of Law, Auckland University of Technology As New Zealand approaches the end of its strictest lockdown period, a debate has begun about whether it was legal in the first place. This is important because people are being prosecuted for breaching the lockdown. Naturally, lawyers ... <a title="Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/was-new-zealands-coronavirus-lockdown-legal-one-week-might-make-all-the-difference-138203/" aria-label="Read more about Was New Zealand’s coronavirus lockdown legal? One week might make all the difference">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Cherine Fahd, Director Photography, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney There are images of her everywhere, especially as Mother’s Day draws near. As two photographers who happen to be mothers, we think critically about the way photography overly determines the image of “The Mother”. One iconic ... <a title="From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/from-hidden-women-to-influencers-and-individuals-putting-mothers-in-the-frame-137702/" aria-label="Read more about From hidden women to influencers and individuals – putting mothers in the frame">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Christine Carson, Senior Research Fellow, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia As the end of the second world war neared, mass production of the newly developed antibiotic penicillin enabled life-saving treatment of bacterial infections in wounded soldiers. Since then, penicillin and many other antibiotics have ... <a title="Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/why-are-there-so-many-drugs-to-kill-bacteria-but-so-few-to-tackle-viruses-137480/" aria-label="Read more about Why are there so many drugs to kill bacteria, but so few to tackle viruses?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Peetz, Professor of Employment Relations, Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University As Australia contemplates its post-COVID economy, industrial relations reform has been repackaged by some as the way to “kickstart” growth. The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has called for our workplace relations system ... <a title="We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/we-should-simplify-our-industrial-relations-system-but-not-in-the-way-big-business-wants-137607/" aria-label="Read more about We should simplify our industrial relations system, but not in the way big business wants">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sally Casswell, Professor of public health policy, Massey University New Zealand has won international praise for its strict lockdown conditions and public health response to COVID-19, but there’s one glaring blindspot. Last month, the World Health Organization released a new factsheet on alcohol and COVID-19, warning that ... <a title="Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as ‘essential’ in New Zealand’s lockdown?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/alcohol-can-make-coronavirus-worse-so-why-was-it-treated-as-essential-in-new-zealands-lockdown-137698/" aria-label="Read more about Alcohol can make coronavirus worse – so why was it treated as ‘essential’ in New Zealand’s lockdown?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adam Dodd, Tutor, The University of Queensland On April 27, 2020, the US Department of Defense issued a public statement authorising the release of three “UFO” videos taken by US Navy pilots. The footage appears to depict airborne, heat-emitting objects with no visible wings, fuselage or exhaust, ... <a title="The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn’t anybody seem to care?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/the-us-military-has-officially-published-three-ufo-videos-why-doesnt-anybody-seem-to-care-137498/" aria-label="Read more about The US military has officially published three UFO videos. Why doesn’t anybody seem to care?">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Leah Ruppanner, Associate Professor in Sociology and Co-Director of The Policy Lab, University of Melbourne One of the surprise silver linings of the COVID-19 crisis is that childcare became free for all Australian families. Australia has traditionally been viewed as a liberal welfare state where government policies ... <a title="Forget flowers and chocolates for Mother’s Day: keep free childcare going instead" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/forget-flowers-and-chocolates-for-mothers-day-keep-free-childcare-going-instead-137992/" aria-label="Read more about Forget flowers and chocolates for Mother’s Day: keep free childcare going instead">Read more</a>
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May 8, 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 Democracy, lockdown legality Matthew Hooton (Herald): Government abusing lockdown powers (paywalled) Chris Trotter: The Safety Of The People Shall Be The Highest Law Peter Dunne: Cracks in the machinery of democracy Barry Soper (Newstalk ZB): Leaked ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-may-08-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – May 08 2020">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
By Clifford Faiparik in Port Moresby Repatriation of about 120 Papua New Guinea citizens from the Papua province of Indonesia to West Sepik under the Indonesian special covid-19 state of emergency (SOE) will start next week, says PNG’s Covid-19 SOE Controller David Manning. Manning said the PNG citizens included prisoners serving various terms in Indonesian ... <a title="Indonesia helping PNG citizen repatriations from West Papua" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/indonesia-helping-png-citizen-repatriations-from-west-papua/" aria-label="Read more about Indonesia helping PNG citizen repatriations from West Papua">Read more</a>
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May 8, 2020
By Hortencio Sanchez in Dili Foreign Minister Dionísio Babo Soares has confirmed that an expatriate Timorese woman living in Northern Ireland has become Timor-Leste’s first death from covid-19. The minister said yesterday 58-year-old Luciana Viviana da Silva had died on Sunday night due to “complications from pneumonia”. Ambassador Gil da Costa in the United Kingdom ... <a title="Woman living in Northern Ireland becomes Timor’s first covid-19 fatality" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/05/08/woman-living-in-northern-ireland-becomes-timors-first-covid-19-fatality/" aria-label="Read more about Woman living in Northern Ireland becomes Timor’s first covid-19 fatality">Read more</a>
