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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brendan Coates, Program Director, Household Finances, Grattan Institute There’s no doubt Australia’s construction industry is facing tough times. COVID-19 has caused migration to slow to a trickle. Some 2.6 million Australians have either lost their jobs or had their hours cut in the past two months. Many ... <a title="Money for social housing, not home buyers grants, is the key to construction stimulus" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/money-for-social-housing-not-home-buyers-grants-is-the-key-to-construction-stimulus-139743/" aria-label="Read more about Money for social housing, not home buyers grants, is the key to construction stimulus">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia Review: Escape from Pretoria, directed by Francis Annan There is something undeniably appealing about prison escape films. Who doesn’t want to watch a bunch of underdogs band together and escape the clutches of their gaolers? ... <a title="Escape from Pretoria review: a film of anti-apartheid nostalgia for apartheid" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/escape-from-pretoria-review-a-film-of-anti-apartheid-nostalgia-for-apartheid-139475/" aria-label="Read more about Escape from Pretoria review: a film of anti-apartheid nostalgia for apartheid">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Claire Breen, Professor of Law, University of Waikato New Zealand is often described as a great place to grow up. We must also ask ourselves whether it is a great place to grow old. The question becomes increasingly urgent as the impact of COVID-19 becomes clearer. While ... <a title="The coronavirus crisis shows why New Zealand urgently needs a commissioner for older people" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/the-coronavirus-crisis-shows-why-new-zealand-urgently-needs-a-commissioner-for-older-people-139383/" aria-label="Read more about The coronavirus crisis shows why New Zealand urgently needs a commissioner for older people">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Gisela Kaplan, Emeritus Professor in Animal Behaviour, University of New England Love, sex and mate choice are topics that never go out of fashion among humans or, surprisingly, among some Australian birds. For these species, choosing the right partner is a driver of evolution and affects the ... <a title="What Australian birds can teach us about choosing a partner and making it last" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/what-australian-birds-can-teach-us-about-choosing-a-partner-and-making-it-last-125734/" aria-label="Read more about What Australian birds can teach us about choosing a partner and making it last">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Monique Robinson, NHMRC Early Career Fellow, Telethon Kids Institute If you’re pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic, you might be feeling a unique type of stress. You might be uncertain about how an infection could affect your unborn baby. That’s over and above the stress you might be ... <a title="Pregnant in a pandemic? If you’re stressed, there’s help" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/pregnant-in-a-pandemic-if-youre-stressed-theres-help-138825/" aria-label="Read more about Pregnant in a pandemic? If you’re stressed, there’s help">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
ANALYSIS: By Danielle K. Kilgo of Indiana University A teenager held her phone steady enough to capture the final moments of George Perry Floyd’s life as he apparently suffocated under the weight of a Minneapolis police officer’s knee on his neck. The video went viral. What happened next has played out time and again in ... <a title="Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/riot-or-resistance-how-media-frames-unrest-in-minneapolis-will-shape-publics-view-of-protest/" aria-label="Read more about Riot or resistance? How media frames unrest in Minneapolis will shape public’s view of protest">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emma Spencer, Ph.D. student, University of Sydney The impacts of invasive mammals such as feral horses and feral cats have featured prominently in the media over the years. But the recent discovery of the infamous “murder hornet” (or giant Asian hornet Vespa mandarinia) in the US has ... <a title="Forget ‘murder hornets’, European wasps in Australia decapitate flies and bully dingoes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/forget-murder-hornets-european-wasps-in-australia-decapitate-flies-and-bully-dingoes-139476/" aria-label="Read more about Forget ‘murder hornets’, European wasps in Australia decapitate flies and bully dingoes">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Suzanne Nielsen, Associate Professor and Deputy Director, Monash Addiction Research Centre, Monash University Several changes to the regulation of opioid supply in Australia come into effect today (June 1). Opioids are strong medicines used for pain. The new rules – including reducing pack sizes and restrictions around ... <a title="Smaller pack sizes from today: could new opioid restrictions stop leftover medicines causing harm?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/smaller-pack-sizes-from-today-could-new-opioid-restrictions-stop-leftover-medicines-causing-harm-139558/" aria-label="Read more about Smaller pack sizes from today: could new opioid restrictions stop leftover medicines causing harm?">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Emily Fobert, Research Associate, Flinders University As winter approaches, marine turtle nesting in the far north of Australia will peak. When these baby turtles hatch at night, they crawl from the sand to the sea, using the relative brightness of the horizon and the natural slope of ... <a title="Turn off the porch light: 6 easy ways to stop light pollution from harming our wildlife" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/turn-off-the-porch-light-6-easy-ways-to-stop-light-pollution-from-harming-our-wildlife-132595/" aria-label="Read more about Turn off the porch light: 6 easy ways to stop light pollution from harming our wildlife">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Brian Abbey, Professor of Physics, La Trobe University The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken university education, with most teaching moved off campus and students learning online at home. But a cornerstone of undergraduate science education has been a challenge: the laboratory class. The real joy of science is ... <a title="Lab experiments in the pandemic moved online or mailed home to uni students" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/lab-experiments-in-the-pandemic-moved-online-or-mailed-home-to-uni-students-138794/" aria-label="Read more about Lab experiments in the pandemic moved online or mailed home to uni students">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Rachel Iampolski, PhD Candidate, Centre for Urban Research RMIT, RMIT University As we emerge from COVID-19 lockdowns, it is timely to reflect on how the design of our neighbourhoods and the ways we interact with them affect our lived experience. A clear lesson from the many conversations ... <a title="A time to embrace the edge spaces that make our neighbourhoods tick" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/a-time-to-embrace-the-edge-spaces-that-make-our-neighbourhoods-tick-138826/" aria-label="Read more about A time to embrace the edge spaces that make our neighbourhoods tick">Read more</a>
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June 1, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Isaac Gross, Lecturer, Monash University Australia is on the brink of its first recession in almost 30 years. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will deliver the official economic growth figure for the March quarter on Wednesday. If it is negative (as is likely because of the downturn ... <a title="Australia’s first service sector recession will be unlike those that have gone before it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/06/01/australias-first-service-sector-recession-will-be-unlike-those-that-have-gone-before-it-137994/" aria-label="Read more about Australia’s first service sector recession will be unlike those that have gone before it">Read more</a>
