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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Vikrant Minhas, PhD candidate, University of Adelaide China has launched its Tianwen-1 mission to Mars. A rocket holding an orbiter, lander and rover took flight from the country’s Hainan province yesterday, with hopes to deploy the rover on Mars’s surface by early next year. Similarly, the launch ... <a title="As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/as-if-space-wasnt-dangerous-enough-bacteria-become-more-deadly-in-microgravity-141053/" aria-label="Read more about As if space wasn’t dangerous enough, bacteria become more deadly in microgravity">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Dwyer, Professor, Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence, School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle Stories of alleged unlawful killings by Australian special forces in Afghanistan continue to emerge in the media — now on a regular basis. In the latest ... <a title="It’s time for Australia’s SAS to stop its culture of cover-up and take accountability for possible war crimes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/its-time-for-australias-sas-to-stop-its-culture-of-cover-up-and-take-accountability-for-possible-war-crimes-142808/" aria-label="Read more about It’s time for Australia’s SAS to stop its culture of cover-up and take accountability for possible war crimes">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago News that the “bad boys of Brexit” have been hired by New Zealand First to work on the party’s social media strategy is simultaneously amusing and ominous. Famous for the Leave.EU campaign in the UK, the duo ... <a title="When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/when-great-powers-fail-new-zealand-and-other-small-states-must-organise-to-protect-their-interests-142894/" aria-label="Read more about When great powers fail, New Zealand and other small states must organise to protect their interests">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Joseph Ibrahim, Professor, Health Law and Ageing Research Unit, Department of Forensic Medicine, Monash University As of July 22, the total number of COVID-19 infections nationally was 12,896, with 128 deaths. This figure includes 43 aged-care residents. In Victoria, at least 45 aged-care facilities have now reported ... <a title="4 steps to avert a full-blown coronavirus disaster in Victoria’s aged care homes" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/4-steps-to-avert-a-full-blown-coronavirus-disaster-in-victorias-aged-care-homes-143177/" aria-label="Read more about 4 steps to avert a full-blown coronavirus disaster in Victoria’s aged care homes">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Megan C Evans, Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW By the end of August, the Morrison government wants Parliament to consider changes to Australia’s flagship environment law to help arrest nature’s steady decline. The move follows the release this week of Professor Graeme Samuel’s preliminary review of ... <a title="Court action, confusion and a big escape clause: here’s why changes to environment law shouldn’t be rushed" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/court-action-confusion-and-a-big-escape-clause-heres-why-changes-to-environment-law-shouldnt-be-rushed-143136/" aria-label="Read more about Court action, confusion and a big escape clause: here’s why changes to environment law shouldn’t be rushed">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Helen Dickinson, Professor, Public Service Research, UNSW Only 22% of family members and carers of students with a disability agreed they had received adequate educational support during the pandemic. Many respondents in our new research, and survey, on behalf of Children and Young People with Disability Australia ... <a title="Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/only-one-fifth-of-school-students-with-disability-had-enough-support-during-the-remote-learning-period-143195/" aria-label="Read more about Only one fifth of school students with disability had enough support during the remote learning period">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sandra Carrasco, Teaching Assistant and Research Fellow, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne The toughest lockdown imposed on residents of public housing in Australia has been lifted, but their COVID-19 ordeal isn’t over – and recovering from their traumatic experience will take time. Recent events have ... <a title="Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/our-lives-matter-melbourne-public-housing-residents-talk-about-why-covid-19-hits-them-hard-142901/" aria-label="Read more about Our lives matter – Melbourne public housing residents talk about why COVID-19 hits them hard">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Warren Hogan, Industry Professor, University of Technology Sydney Thursday’s economic statement is the government’s first attempt to quantify the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on government finances and should be treated with caution. The near A$300 billion hit to government finances over two years is, as the ... <a title="Eye-wateringly bad, yet rosy: why these budget numbers will get worse" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/eye-wateringly-bad-yet-rosy-why-these-budget-numbers-will-get-worse-142840/" aria-label="Read more about Eye-wateringly bad, yet rosy: why these budget numbers will get worse">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW Most people agree there are services government should pay for. Primary and secondary education, a dignified level of health care, emergency services and the military come to mind. What is less clear is what services government should directly provide, and what ... <a title="Vital Signs: Victoria’s privatised quarantine arrangements were destined to fail" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/vital-signs-victorias-privatised-quarantine-arrangements-were-destined-to-fail-143169/" aria-label="Read more about Vital Signs: Victoria’s privatised quarantine arrangements were destined to fail">Read more</a>
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July 24, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Anna Haebich, Senior Research Professor, Curtin University It is not widely known that many Australian colonial natural history collections are represented in German museums and herbaria, nor that there are initiatives to transform these artefacts of colonial heritage and science back into objects from living cultures with ... <a title="Friday essay: the forgotten German botanist who took 200,000 Australian plants to Europe" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/24/friday-essay-the-forgotten-german-botanist-who-took-200-000-australian-plants-to-europe-143099/" aria-label="Read more about Friday essay: the forgotten German botanist who took 200,000 Australian plants to Europe">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Josh Frydenberg, a Victorian, wore a surgical mask as he walked from his parliament house office to a committee room to deliver the government’s economic statement. The treasurer had already had to obtain permission from the ACT government to be ... <a title="Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/grattan-on-friday-pandemic-has-blown-the-tyres-right-off-that-old-coalition-debt-truck-143275/" aria-label="Read more about Grattan on Friday: Pandemic has blown the tyres right off that old Coalition debt truck">Read more</a>
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July 23, 2020
By Len Garae in Port Vila Vanuatu Prime Minister Bob Loughman has rejected a claim that he had been invited by the Indonesian government to visit West Papua. In a courtesy call and meeting with the prime minister to check on the claim, Loughman Vanuatu West Papua Unification and Association Committee (VWPUAC) chair Pastor Alan ... <a title="‘We won’t drop our support for West Papua,’ pledges Vanuatu’s PM" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/23/we-wont-drop-our-support-for-west-papua-pledges-vanuatus-pm/" aria-label="Read more about ‘We won’t drop our support for West Papua,’ pledges Vanuatu’s PM">Read more</a>
