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July 7, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Robert Hassan, Professor, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne Spoiler alert: this story details how The War of the Worlds ends. The latest screen adaption of H. G. Wells’ 1898 modern masterwork The War of the Worlds will hit our screens this week. Continuously in ... <a title="Guide to the classics: The War of the Worlds" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/07/guide-to-the-classics-the-war-of-the-worlds-128453/" aria-label="Read more about Guide to the classics: The War of the Worlds">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra Scott Morrison has repeatedly and vociferously championed keeping state borders open. But on Monday, Morrison was forced to change course, agreeing, in a hook up with premiers Daniel Andrews and Gladys Berejiklian that the Victorian-NSW border should be closed. In ... <a title="View from The Hill: Morrison government accepts Victorian closure but won’t budge on High Court border challenges" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/view-from-the-hill-morrison-government-accepts-victorian-closure-but-wont-budge-on-high-court-border-challenges-142084/" aria-label="Read more about View from The Hill: Morrison government accepts Victorian closure but won’t budge on High Court border challenges">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk Papua New Guinea’s police and courts must work closely with media for transparency to inform the public on the daily investigation and court processes taken over the death of young mother Jenelyn Kennedy late last month, a men’s gender justice advocate says. Man Up group representative Ganjiki Wayne said Jenelyn’s death ... <a title="Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/call-for-png-police-and-courts-to-work-closely-with-media-on-violence-cases/" aria-label="Read more about Call for PNG police and courts to work closely with media on violence cases">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics, University of South Australia Victoria recorded its largest daily increase of 127 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, 16 more than the previous peak of 111 cases on March 28. As I recently wrote, there’s no formal definition of what constitutes a second ... <a title="Victoria is undeniably in a second wave of COVID-19. It’s time to plan for another statewide lockdown" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/victoria-is-undeniably-in-a-second-wave-of-covid-19-its-time-to-plan-for-another-statewide-lockdown-142047/" aria-label="Read more about Victoria is undeniably in a second wave of COVID-19. It’s time to plan for another statewide lockdown">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Nathan Kettlewell, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Economics Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney We live in a culture that values “experiences”. These are often promoted in the media, and by those selling them, as vital to enhancing our well-being. We all know big life events like marriage, ... <a title="Marriage and money help but don’t lead to long-lasting happiness" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/marriage-and-money-help-but-dont-lead-to-long-lasting-happiness-140431/" aria-label="Read more about Marriage and money help but don’t lead to long-lasting happiness">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jon Iredell, Professor, Medicine and Microbiology (conjoint), University of Sydney The NSW-Victorian border will be closed as of midnight Tuesday this week, the NSW and Victorian premiers have announced, in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19. The announcement comes amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases ... <a title="Can I cross the NSW-Victoria border? There are exemptions, but you’ll need a very good reason" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/can-i-cross-the-nsw-victoria-border-there-are-exemptions-but-youll-need-a-very-good-reason-142052/" aria-label="Read more about Can I cross the NSW-Victoria border? There are exemptions, but you’ll need a very good reason">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Andrew Burridge, Lecturer in Human Geography, Macquarie University Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has announced the border between his state and NSW will close after 11:59pm on Tuesday to prevent the coronavirus outbreak in Melbourne from spreading further. It will be the first border shutdown between the two ... <a title="Here’s how the Victoria-NSW border closure will work – and how residents might be affected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/heres-how-the-victoria-nsw-border-closure-will-work-and-how-residents-might-be-affected-142045/" aria-label="Read more about Here’s how the Victoria-NSW border closure will work – and how residents might be affected">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jim Salinger, Honorary Associate, Tasmanian Institute for Agriculture, University of Tasmania A major global update based on data from more than 36,000 weather stations around the world confirms that, as the planet continues to warm, extreme weather events such as heatwaves and heavy rainfall are now more ... <a title="Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/extreme-heat-and-rain-thousands-of-weather-stations-show-theres-now-more-of-both-for-longer-141869/" aria-label="Read more about Extreme heat and rain: thousands of weather stations show there’s now more of both, for longer">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Trevor Thornton, Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University The federal government today announced A$190 million in funding for new recycling infrastructure, as it seeks to divert more than ten million tonnes of waste from landfill and create 10,000 jobs. The plan, dubbed the Recycling ... <a title="Waste not, want not: Morrison government’s $1b recycling plan must include avoiding waste in the first place" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/waste-not-want-not-morrison-governments-1b-recycling-plan-must-include-avoiding-waste-in-the-first-place-142038/" aria-label="Read more about Waste not, want not: Morrison government’s $1b recycling plan must include avoiding waste in the first place">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Graeme Dunk, PhD Candidate, Australian National University Amid fanfare last week at the start of the new financial year the government promised to invest A$270 billion over a decade to upgrade the defence force. It said a side benefit would be a stronger local defence industry and ... <a title="It’s one thing to build war fighting capability, it’s another to build industrial capability" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/its-one-thing-to-build-war-fighting-capability-its-another-to-build-industrial-capability-135640/" aria-label="Read more about It’s one thing to build war fighting capability, it’s another to build industrial capability">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Sonya Teich, Lecturer in Design, Visual Effects Projects, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington When Star Wars was awarded the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1978 it marked the first time the visual component of effects was differentiated from sound. Yet, even in ... <a title="Auteur vs computer: the frightening complexity of visual effects" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/auteur-vs-computer-the-frightening-complexity-of-visual-effects-131458/" aria-label="Read more about Auteur vs computer: the frightening complexity of visual effects">Read more</a>
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July 6, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Kelly, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University This week, the Victorian government unilaterally placed the residents of nine public housing towers in inner Melbourne under “hard lockdown” due to the “explosive potential” of increasing COVID-19 cases. The lockdown requires all residents of these estates ... <a title="Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/06/melbourne-tower-lockdowns-unfairly-target-already-vulnerable-public-housing-residents-142041/" aria-label="Read more about Melbourne tower lockdowns unfairly target already vulnerable public housing residents">Read more</a>
