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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Jamie Ranse, Senior Research Fellow; Emergency Care, Griffith University The emergency response to Victoria’s COVID-19 crisis has been ramped up today with AUSMAT teams now working alongside defence force and hospital nurses in aged care homes. This comes as the total number of active COVID-19 cases linked ... <a title="AUSMAT teams start work in aged care homes today. But what does this ‘SAS of the medical world’ actually do?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/ausmat-teams-start-work-in-aged-care-homes-today-but-what-does-this-sas-of-the-medical-world-actually-do-143605/" aria-label="Read more about AUSMAT teams start work in aged care homes today. But what does this ‘SAS of the medical world’ actually do?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Philip Russo, Associate Professor, Director Cabrini Monash University Department of Nursing Research, Monash University Victoria has today achieved another grim record, with 723 new cases of COVID-19 and 13 deaths. This is more than double the 295 cases recorded yesterday, and flies in the face of suggestions ... <a title="723 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria could reflect more testing – but behaviour probably has something to do with it too" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/723-new-covid-19-cases-in-victoria-could-reflect-more-testing-but-behaviour-probably-has-something-to-do-with-it-too-143677/" aria-label="Read more about 723 new COVID-19 cases in Victoria could reflect more testing – but behaviour probably has something to do with it too">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Louise Richardson-Self, Lecturer in Philosophy & Gender Studies, University of Tasmania Another day, another woman being called a “whore” — and worse — on Twitter. In the wake of her recent interview with Prime Minister Scott Morrison, ABC 730 host Leigh Sales posted some of the sexualised ... <a title="Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/leigh-sales-showed-us-the-abuse-women-cop-online-when-are-we-going-to-stop-tolerating-misogyny-143543/" aria-label="Read more about Leigh Sales showed us the abuse women cop online. When are we going to stop tolerating misogyny?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Ian M. Mackay, Adjunct assistant professor, The University of Queensland Victorian premier Daniel Andrews said on Thursday the state had recorded 723 new COVID-19 cases, a huge jump from the 295 new daily cases announced the day before. There’s no denying 723 is a shocking number. It’s ... <a title="723 cases is a bad number for Victoria. But we can’t freak out over a single day’s figure" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/723-cases-is-a-bad-number-for-victoria-but-we-cant-freak-out-over-a-single-days-figure-143686/" aria-label="Read more about 723 cases is a bad number for Victoria. But we can’t freak out over a single day’s figure">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Meg Elkins, Senior Lecturer with School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, RMIT University What’s driving “Bunnings Karen” and others to film themselves arguing with shop assistants about face masks and human rights? And how should we respond? Victorian premier Daniel Andrews has called their behaviour “appalling” and ... <a title="What to do with anti-maskers? Punishment has its place, but can also entrench resistance" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/what-to-do-with-anti-maskers-punishment-has-its-place-but-can-also-entrench-resistance-143456/" aria-label="Read more about What to do with anti-maskers? Punishment has its place, but can also entrench resistance">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
EveningReport LIVE: In this week’s A View from Afar programme with political scientist and security intelligence expert, Paul G. Buchanan, we examine what’s going on in the latest rise in tensions between China and the USA. The Economist headlined this week’s antics as the US-China Cold War. Can nations like Australia and New Zealand escape ... <a title="VIDEO: Evening Report – Tensions Rise Between China and USA, IS This Cold War 2.0?" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/coming-up-on-evening-report-tensions-rise-between-china-and-usa-is-this-cold-war-2-0/" aria-label="Read more about VIDEO: Evening Report – Tensions Rise Between China and USA, IS This Cold War 2.0?">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Analysis by Keith Rankin. Rob Muldoon was a pugnacious and abrasive prime minister of New Zealand who was treated unkindly by commentators – and even historians – in the aftermath of his period in office (1975 to 1984). Hopefully, future historians will treat him in a much more objective way. It is important to note ... <a title="Keith Rankin Analysis – Rob Muldoon and Judith Collins" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/keith-rankin-analysis-rob-muldoon-and-judith-collins/" aria-label="Read more about Keith Rankin Analysis – Rob Muldoon and Judith Collins">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By James Chin, Professor of Asian Studies, University of Tasmania Malaysians are rejoicing the news this week that former Prime Minister Najib Razak has been found guilty on seven charges related to corruption and abuse of power, and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Many people want to ... <a title="Will the Najib Razak verdict be a watershed moment for Malaysia? Not in a system built on racial superiority" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/will-the-najib-razak-verdict-be-a-watershed-moment-for-malaysia-not-in-a-system-built-on-racial-superiority-143617/" aria-label="Read more about Will the Najib Razak verdict be a watershed moment for Malaysia? Not in a system built on racial superiority">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Lauren Kearney, Senior Lecturer, Nursing and Midwifery, University of the Sunshine Coast Amid the horrific stories of coronavirus deaths and disease around the world, researchers have reported a ray of light. Almost simultaneously, two independent groups in Europe noticed their neonatal intensive care units seemed quieter during ... <a title="It’s tempting to believe good news. But are there really fewer premature babies in lockdown? We’re likely clutching at straws" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/its-tempting-to-believe-good-news-but-are-there-really-fewer-premature-babies-in-lockdown-were-likely-clutching-at-straws-143353/" aria-label="Read more about It’s tempting to believe good news. But are there really fewer premature babies in lockdown? We’re likely clutching at straws">Read more</a>
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July 30, 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 Managed isolation charges, escapees, border Audrey Young (Herald): Govt misstep on user-charges for coronavirus Covid-19 isolation (paywalled) Laura Walters (Newsroom): Covid quarantine fees about emotion not economics ODT Editorial: Payment regime welcomed Heather du Plessis-Allan ... <a title="Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 30 2020" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/newsletter-new-zealand-politics-daily-july-30-2020/" aria-label="Read more about Newsletter: New Zealand Politics Daily – July 30 2020">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By David Flannery, Planetary Scientist, Queensland University of Technology Every two years or so, when Mars passes close to Earth in its orbit around the Sun, conditions are right to launch a spacecraft to the red planet. Launches during this period can complete the seven-month voyage using a ... <a title="Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/perseverance-the-mars-rover-searching-for-ancient-life-and-the-aussie-scientists-who-helped-build-it-141590/" aria-label="Read more about Perseverance: the Mars rover searching for ancient life, and the Aussie scientists who helped build it">Read more</a>
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July 30, 2020
Source: The Conversation (Au and NZ) – By Julian Teicher, Professor of Human Resources and Employment and Deputy Dean (Research), School of Business and Law, CQUniversity Australia There is nothing new about people turning up to work when they’re sick. During the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, many Melburnians had no option but to carry on ... <a title="‘Far too many’ Victorians are going to work while sick. Far too many have no choice" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2020/07/30/far-too-many-victorians-are-going-to-work-while-sick-far-too-many-have-no-choice-143600/" aria-label="Read more about ‘Far too many’ Victorians are going to work while sick. Far too many have no choice">Read more</a>
